Was hoping someone would point out that Loyola began as a Jesuit Academy, and it not considered a traditional “Catholic” school. They also fund a pretty good Anthropology department that has been host to some pretty renowned experts on Paleoanthropology and human evolution. I always thought Loyola was pretty cool…

Hold tight as long as you can. It’s so much worse than you are expecting.

Open secret, you’re correct. Chicago is that uncle everyone knows is racist but invites to Christmas anyway and never brings it up.

Hey, I live in the city and you can go fu......oh, racist? Yep. You are correct. We bought a house in the only neighborhood we could afford that is close to my wife’s school, and is also the whitest part of the city. I’m white, and even I feel like I don’t fit in. This city has seeeeecretss.......

Those numbers seems to include tuition as part of the stipend, which doesn’t make much sense. And there are maybe two people in each department with fully funded programs and stipends (I’m applying to be one of them and my hopes are not high.)

Right on. We upgraded to fake gold badges you can just stick on the back of your car for everyone to see. Discreet corruption is for wimps. We wear our on our sleeves (and trunks, evidently.)

I appreciate that the box actually says “The Defense of Crait.” Personally, I feel that entire sequence should be called “Hey, have you seen Kurosawa’s RAN!?!? I HAVE!!!!”

I appreciate that the box actually says “The Defense of Crait.” Personally, I feel that entire sequence should be…

I had no idea (and could have answered my own question with the most basic of Google-ing, so thank you for helping me.) That’s pretty cool.

Genuinely curious - how do you confirm a flu case? I recall that part of what was talked about in my class was the diagnosis procedure relying entirely on patient provided, subjective criteria which led to an inflated number of reported cases.

One class in college (paleoanthropology program) we had a guest speaker who was a “virologist” as we were working through possible causes of rapid Neandertal decline. Either way, one dipshit student decides to ask about flu vaccines and why they are dumb. It was an elegant ten minutes of watching this kid get his ass…

Here’s what I remember most about LA Noire, and it bugs me to this day:

Huh. I always say “nigh-kohr”.

Unfortunately, Nikon uses the “Nikkor” name on almost all of their lenses, build quality aside. They have yet to brand their professional build lenses with any wording, only by putting a gold ring (to mimic Canon’s red ring) around the front element.

And it’s pronounced “guac-a-mole-e.”

Also a photographer (but a male one) and I’ve had some clients, when we’re discussing what kind of look they want, pull up his work on their phone and say “like this” and it’s REALLY hard not to tell them to just get out. On the bright side I just have to hold a speedlight right under the lens and ignore checking my…

That is the best Woody Allen movie and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. And yes.

Yes! A friend posted this video on Facebook a few weeks ago and that was the first thing I noticed: that’s a camera on a tripod, not a security system.

They pay less in the burbs. And she’s ten years in CPS - she’d have to start from scratch (and the pension rollover doesn’t really work until your thirteen or fourteen years in, I think? It’s wonky.)

Yeah, I don’t know why I felt the need to argue that. My wife is a teacher so we HAVE to live in the city, otherwise I probably would have voted to go somewhere else by now.

Being a resident of the city, I was preparing a vicious type-o filled response to your subjective advice, but then I realized I hadn’t had my morning beer yet so I should probably hold off.