Controlled Chaos

last week the "no gay talk" rule stopped me from making a post. I mean I was just gonna make a joke, but after I thought about it I didn't do it. I actually had it written out and then canceled it... then wrote it again then canceled it...I was torn. I hated that feeling of not being able to post what I want...especially since I know that if it was a joke about Italians, Irish, Mexicans, Religion or whatever, I wouldn't have had a second thought about posting it.

I also agree....I do it all the time...but I don't specifically NOT do it cause its valentines day.

We'll be married 6 months in a few days. I took her downtown Saturday night and we got a room at the Renaissance on State and Wacker. We went with one other couple. My friend works for marriott so he got me the hook up. We ate at Smith and Wollensky....then went to The Redhead Piano bar...I had never been there....it was a good time...but we were seated in the back so we couldnt see much. Our original plans consisted of just staying in, but then friday morning my buddy called and said he could get me the employee rate downtown....so I told her I was taking her out and thats all she needed to know...the rest was a surprise. As for gifts...I got her this sweatsuit thingie from NY&C and some perfume from victorias secret. Had Roses delivered to her work today. Used the ESPN deal on Proflowers.com. I don't really mind the "day" itself that much. I know she doesn't really expect anytyhing....like I said, originally, we were just staying in and she was gonna cook me dinner....but it's nice to make the person you love smile with a lil surprise. She made me smile with my gift....A SOX JERSEY.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Feb 14, 2005 -> 08:17 AM) Sweet These Rock.. Nice job to whoever spent their "free-time" making them.. And to think before these this was the only "baseball" one we had.. :fthecubs Thanks to whoever made them. You guys really do listen when people make requests.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 03:18 PM) When I am filled, I can point the way; When I am empty, Nothing moves me. I have two skins, One without and one within. What am I? I have hands that wave at you, Though I never say goodbye. It's cool for you to be with me, Especially when I say, "HI." What am I? Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown! What am I? Glove Ceiling Fan? Time

Is it possible to have a white sox smiley....either the logo or maybe smiley with a sox flag?? I mean we have sosa sucks and f*** the cubs...but nothing pro sox.... Thanks....if it's possible

Thanks Steff. I guess the main thing I'm worried about is that we don't get club level. We have had it ever year and it has come in pretty dam handy the last few. I'll be sure to meet up with some of you guys this year. Last year we were probably only 50 feet from each other, but never knew it.

Does anyone else here plan a opening day group outing? We do it every year and this year our contact is like...yes we have your seats put aside on the club level, but we'll work details out later. He still hasn't assigned them to us or given us our tickets....or even gotten a payment from us for that matter. We were concerned about this last month too and called before the individual game tickets went on sale and he told us no probelm they set aside a block for group outings on opening day. It just seems weird to me that everyone from season ticket holders to single game purchasers have received their tickets and we have nothing yet. We hate to keep calling and bothering the guy if this is standard policy, but a little reassurance would be nice....normally they book it right away cause they want the money. So I was wondering if anyone on here is in same situation?

When I was in high school we used to open all the windows and freeze, but act like we were hot, just so the french teachers nipples would get hard. I didn't even take french...but I ended up in her classroom on more than one occasion. not so relevant to the topic...but wanted to share Oh I miss high school...

Some what relevant...well it's about google anyway...s*** I try to contribute the best I can. Google better bag 'beta' labels and proclaim new products February 1, 2005 BY ANY IHNATKO The folks at Google have done a lot of good things for our society. Most of these are definitely associated with streamlining the world's access to smut, but look, there've been many other upsides as well. Still, as a respected technology pundit, I feel obligated to say that the Google people are doing the industry a crippling disservice by cheapening the adjective "beta." Ordinarily, beta software lives in a pampered purgatory. It's a pre-release edition: It may be mature, functional, and stable enough that you can actually start showing it off, but it's not yet ready to ship as a "real" product yet. But Google abuses betas the same way that novice chess players abuse the contact rule. They'll release something to the general public that's fully stable and awesomely cool, but they'll keep a finger pressed firmly against the top of it, muttering, "OK, OK, I haven't gone yet, all right? Hang on." The end-result is that they get to put this software out there without taking on any responsibility for supporting it. If it falls short, it doesn't count. It's just a beta, you know? I mean, it's laughable that they're still describing Google News and Google Groups -- the first, a potent news aggregator and the second, the only Usenet message board reader worth your time -- as being beta apps, given that these features have been working and highly stable since, what? Reagan's second term? But at least those two features are available to anybody who clicks at the top of a Google search page. Some of Google's niftiest beta offerings are hidden deep underneath. I use Google's beta text-messaging search service all the time. If you SMS a specialized message to Google ("46645," if you're not fluent in keypad), Google will text-message you some info in reply. Text "comic books, chicago il" and it'll respond with a list of shops in the city. Text "prices toro power curve" while you're at a home center, and a minute later you'll see whether you're about to pay way too much for a snow thrower. "24 ounces in quarts" generates the response ".75 quarts," for heaven's sake. Tune in to www. google.com/sms/ for the full demo. Sometimes, your searches are geographical in nature: You're in Huntsville, Ala., for the first time, say, and you want to visit some of Dixie's legendary sushi bars. Google has upped the ante for its city searches with Local.google.com. This specialized engine is geared toward products and services in a specific region. You're rewarded with a compact list of restaurant names, addresses and phone numbers, embroidered with a road map comparing their locations and tools for narrowing or broadening the search. (It's similar in function to Yahoo's local.yahoo.com service, except you don't have to remember a different five-letter word.) Not all of Google's beta services are so obviously and frabjously useful. Its most recent beta, Google Video, is not only cool. It's very, very, very cool. A majority of television programs are transcripted with invisible closed-captioned text. Someone at Google thought, "Well, why, why don't we capture all that text, and make it searchable?" Result: type "pancakes" into Video.google.com, and you're rewarded with a list of 130 incidences in which that word was spoken (or at least captioned) in a TV show watched by Google's hardware. Clicking on a link brings up an abbreviated transcript, illustrated with screen captures taken at 30-second intervals and accompanied by more information about the show. You can limit your search to specific channels or specific programs. Typing in "channel:fnc liberals" is an amusing way to kill a morning, for instance: "fnc" stands for Fox News Channel. I can't wait to see what happens when they actually include video with this, as Google seems to intend. Lots of lawsuits, I'm guessing. And then there's Google's GMail service (gmail.google.com) which I can't really write about yet even though I've been using it for nearly a year, now. It's a "true" beta: You can't use Google's free mail service unless you've been invited in by an existing user (but try googling "gmail invitations" for some help on that front). Hit labs.google.com for info about other beta services. Even though, as I say, none of them counts, because Google's too chicken to release them for real. OK, maybe shoveling snow for the past 10 days has left me cranky. But I like Google. I want the company and service to succeed. And despite Google's popularity and runaway financial success, it won't become a bona-fide titan of the tech industry until management embraces the ugly, arrogant and unbreakable conviction that any product they create is, by simple virtue of its authorship, ready to release as-is. Andy Ihnatko writes on technical and computer issues for the Sun-Times.

It's actually kinda old...I had to go dig it up after I saw this thread. I originally had the pic embedded in my post...but didn't know if that was inappropriate for some peeps.

It doesn't even have to be a slutty dress though..if ya went with me...you could have been wearing a ski suit...it still would have been on the floor later that night. Some guys got it, some guys don't... Fathers beware of the kid that exudes confidence for he shall be the one that takes your daughters fruit.

INFORMATION FOR DADS... It's not the dress...it's the guy...take this sly lil stallion for example.... http://www.cameroncole.net/humor/prom.jpg

Pig male comment ahead.... They all look the same crumpled up on the floor the next morning.

I love this line "Two teenage girls decided one summer's evening to skip a dance where there might be cursing and drinking to stay home and bake cookies for their neighbors" This sounds like the start of some fricken fairy tale. But in reagards to the lady that sued... BOO!!!

QUOTE(JimH @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 10:30 AM) I empathize with this, and it is one reason why I don't put a players name and number on the back of a jersey. There is nowhere near as much loyalty from either the team or the player these days, but that is another subject totally. I do have two Maggs Ordonez Bobble Heads up for grabs though, both in the box I agree 100%. I either leave it blank, go with my last name or I go with an all star sox from the past...that never goes out of style. Players leave to dam easy. I always did that with the Bears too. No matter how much I liked a player...I wouldn't get their name and number. I stuck with Payton or Butkus. Although my wife got me an Urlacher jersey and since he signed a long contract, I'm hoping he's around for awhile, but who knows As for your dilemma...I would keep it...Mags could be a hall of famer if he ever gets healthy.

Yep winodj...NE would have been fine. I just found this.... One of the subparagraphs of rule 1.04 of the Official Rules of Major League Baseball says that it is "desirable that the line from home base through the pitchers plate to second base shall run East-Northeast." Note that it doesn't say that it *has to* run that way, just that it is desirable. The reason for this is obvious: to reduce the problem of the sun being in players' - particularly the batter - eyes. Most pro ballparks do follow this directive, or come pretty close. The one current MLB park that doesn't even come close is (I'm sure you can figure out why they didn't bother to have the field face East-Northeast) the dreadful Metrodome in Minneapolis. If you want to see the variance in the way the parks of the Majors point, go to this site, and then click on Facts & Figures and go to the Ballpark Orientations page: http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/index.htm . Note how many actually face southeast. The one that really bugs me is Enron, because the setting sun is blinding if you're sitting on the firstbase side.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 12:17 PM) I thought they faced it towards the projects because the wind would have been even worse for the upper deck. I thought they face stadiums east so the sun isnt setting in the batters eyes

Phishing is becoming very popular and a lot more advanced. It used to be that you could spot a bogus link, but not anymore. Just be wary of any email from a bank. Don't follow the links in the email. Go to your account separtely and log in. Here's an article I gave to the employees here. It just gives you a little insight. Internet "phishing" scams are becoming more difficult to detect as criminals develop new ways to trick consumers into revealing passwords, bank account numbers and other sensitive information, security experts say. Scam artists posed as banks and other legitimate businesses in thousands of phishing attacks last year, sending out millions of "spam" e-mails with subject lines like "account update needed" that pointed to fraudulent Web sites. These attacks now increasingly use worms and spyware to divert consumers to fraudulent sites without their knowledge, experts say. "If you think of phishers initially as petty thieves, now they're more like an organized crime unit," said Paris Trudeau, senior product manager for Internet-security firm SurfControl. Phishing attacks have reached 57 million U.S. adults and compromised at least 122 well-known brands so far, according to several estimates. At the end of 2004 nearly half of these attacks contained some sort of spyware or other malicious code, Trudeau said. One attack, first documented last month by the Danish security firm Secunia, misdirects Web surfers by modifying a little-known directory in Microsoft Windows machines called a host file. When an Internet user types a Web address into a browser, he is directed instead to a fraudulent site. This technique has shown up in attacks spoofing several South American banks, said Scott Chasin, chief technical officer of the security firm MX Logic. The convergence of all of these threats means "we can expect to see some large attacks in the near term," he said. Another more ambitious attack targets the domain-name servers that serve as virtual telephone books, matching domain names with numerical addresses given to each computer on the Internet. IDENTITY THIEVES If one of those computers is compromised, Internet users who type in "www.bankofamerica.com" could be directed to a look-alike site run by identity thieves. Domain-name servers are tougher to crack, as they are typically run by businesses rather than home users, but hackers can find a way in by posing as a company's tech-support department and asking new employees for their passwords, Trudeau said. Domain-name hijacking is suspected in incidents involving Google.com, Amazon.com, eBay Germany and HSBC Bank of Brazil, Chasin said. Even straightforward phishing attacks are getting more sophisticated. Spelling errors and mangled Web addresses made early scams easy to spot, but scam artists now commonly include legitimate-looking links within their Web addresses, said Kate Trower, associate product manager of protection software for EarthLink Inc. Consumers who click on links like www.citibank.com in these messages are directed to a fraudulent Web address buried in the message's technical code, she said. MasterCard International has caught at least 10 phishing scams involving www.mastercard.com over the past two months, said Sergio Pinon, senior vice president of security and risk services. Consumers can protect themselves with software that screens out viruses, spyware and spam. But online businesses will have to take steps as well, perhaps by issuing customers a physical token containing a changing password, Chasin said. Internet engineers should also figure out a way to authenticate Web addresses, much as they are currently figuring out how to make sure e-mail addresses are legitimate, he said.

Those sick mother f***ers!!!!!!!!!!

I would have went to a lot more games during the week...but man 60% sounds inflated. I mean the majority of the people I grew up with on the southside that moved ended up moving further south..(Orland, Tinley, Palos etc.) I can't imagine 60% of the fan base being in the west/Northwest burbs, but I could be wrong.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 09:18 AM) Cock-blocked? If he had really been making any progress with this chick, getting kicked out of the bar would seem like a good excuse to have to head over to his or her place. Seems like the cops almost did him a favor.....unless of course his 'game' is not as tight as he might have hoped.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 08:43 AM) I had it much, much worse when I was a yout. I was leaving a party, heading home when I walked across the street to my car carrying a cooler, still fairly full. A police officer was driving the side street (complaints of noise from the party) and saw me. He made me pour every beer in my cooler out into the sewer drain right in front of him. Then told me to go home and if he didn't see my car in my driveway within 15 minutes, he would knock on the door ans wake my parents. Needless to say, I got over the pain of having to watch beer go to waste and I went straight home not wanting anything to do with an officer waking my parents at 1 am. Oh I can top that. Drinking at campground in Indiana beach. We were very orderly for being 17&18 yr old kids. We made friends right away with the old couple parked next to us. Then a cop drove by and saw one of the girls with a beer in her hand. Apparently they were investigating some unruly kids down the block from us and once they spotted her with a beer they stopped by us. The old couple immediately came to our defense saying we weren't causing any trouble and to leave us alone. Cops didn't care. They made us take down all our stuff...We had 2 tents up and a big tarp over the picnic table. We had to pack everything in the cars. My one friend screamed "this is such bulls***" and they handcuffed him and put him in the squad. After we packed everything up they made us dump out our whopping 2 cases of beer between the 8 of us. Then they handcuffed all of us and brought us to police station, leaving the cars at the campground. When this happened I couldn't believe it. I just kept saying "You're not suppose to do this...you're just suppose to take our beer" "Why are you arresting us" "they just take the beer away in Chicago" the cop was like...this ain't chicago son, you're going to jail. The girls started crying and they ended up letting them go....but us 5 guys all got taken to the station. 3 of my friends were 18 so they actually got arrested and put in jail. Me and my other friend were 17 so they had to call my parents. CALL MY PARENTS AT 11:30 AND TELL THEM TO COME PICK ME UP AT POLICE STATION IN INDIf***INGANA. I won't go into details on how that ride home went...but I'm sure you can visualize. Till this day I'm still kinda pissed the cops did that. We weren't causing trouble. We didn't have hard liquor. Didn't have drugs. Didn't even have a lot of beer. Nobody was driving. They easily could have just taken our beer and slapped us on the wrist. We were basically a good group of kids just hanging out. I know underage drinking is against the law, but it's basically because kids are irresponsible. I just think the cops could have used some judgemet here. It amounted to a speeding ticket for going 5 miles over. Yes it's against the law....but gimmie a fricken break.

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