Facebook = The Party

With Facebook on its seemingly endless quest of world (aka Internet) domination, it's no surprise to see people wanting out of the machine that it has become. It seems as though Google searches show that this is true, people do want out. The number of times people search for "how do i delete my facebook account" is on the rise according to Google's Insights for Search.

French Market in Ogilvie

I learned today that the Ogilvie transportation center has an "open air French market" in it. After doing some searches on Google, I finally found the website: Chicago French Market.

I hope to check it out this week or next week at the latest.

In The 80's

I was doing some research for 80's food products that no longer exist and found this site:

http://inthe80s.com/

I love all things 80's so this site is getting added as a blog post.

It has a section dedicated to cereal:
http://www.inthe80s.com/cereal/

And toys from the 80s!
http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/index.shtml

What a great site.

Free Geek Chicago

I saw a flyer for this website and thought it was a good idea so I'm posting and sharing.

http://freegeekchicago.org/

From the website:

"FreeGeek Chicago is a not-for-profit community organization that recycles used computers and parts to provide functional computers, education, internet access and job skills training to the underserved communities of Chicago in exchange for community service."

How did we, as a

How did we, as a country, come to think of timeframes in chunks of ten years aka decades?

Chicago Bulls Get Their Name From A Kid

According to this article, the Chicago Bulls were named by then owner Richard Klein's son exclaming, "That's bull!".

Interesting.

Samsung Rogue

I'm staying with Verizon because of the discount I get through work. Otherwise, I would have switched to T-Mobile to get the myTouch. Since the carrier choice was made for me, I chose the phone: the Samsung Rogue. I have to admit, it's much better than I thought it would be. I swore I would never get a candy bar phone with the argument that I always wanted something to talk into that the flip phones provided. I also thought I would never get a touchscreen because fingerprints on a screen annoy the hell out of me. Well the phone is great. The microphone is crap in windy situations but so are most phones. I did find though that the LG flip I had did better in the wind tunnel that is the corner I live on.

The touchscreen takes a bit of getting used to but once you do, it's very accurate and responsive. I only had one slip up when I sent a text to the wrong person.

A few notes:
The button sounds in the browser are controlled completely separately from the phone sounds. If you set the phone to All Sounds Off, the browser still beeps when you click on items.

The games only have a few uses before they expire. So while they're nice to have, they're not much use.

My favorite feature: When a call comes in, you can "Ignore and Text". This is great. When you're in a meeting, you can click ignore and text so the phone quiets, then gives you a list of pre-written text messages. "In a meeting, call you back in a bit." Such a great concept.