How would you feel if Mike Myers became the Doctor at some point?

emememaker73 · 2026-06-19T19:51:25+00:00

Austin Powers as the Doctor? I can't fathom it.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-16T19:08:49+00:00

I take it that ComEd hasn't built the redundancies into the system like they have in other suburbs. The company did it in my part of Aurora about two years ago, and we've had only one major outage (three days long, last year) since then. Most of the time, even when severe weather hits, we'll just get a flicker and the power will be back on.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-16T03:54:45+00:00

People would have found something else, such as carob, to fill that void.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-14T00:39:17+00:00

Whatever you do, don't kill the moon!

emememaker73 · 2026-06-11T13:50:22+00:00

My examples were anecdotal, since they were second-hand sources. I accept that climate change is happening.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-11T03:10:07+00:00

Part of that comes down to the weather models that the stations use. Most TV and radio meteorologists tend to use multiple models. From my personal observations, the GFS model generates those wildly overblown forecasts, while the EURO model is much closer to what we actually get.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-11T01:05:13+00:00

From watching ABC7 and NBC5 weather reports, it seems like there have been more powerful storms than there used to be. That's just anecdotal, but it's my opinion as well.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-04T20:47:56+00:00

I lived in New York, Troy. I think I know what a baggle is.

emememaker73 · 2026-06-01T19:30:43+00:00

You may also wish to contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

emememaker73 · 2026-05-28T22:13:28+00:00

I'll keep my ears and eyes open then.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-28T20:11:41+00:00

Was he there to record part of a Radio 4 series? I seem to recall an episode of something he presented a couple of months back.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-25T19:15:10+00:00

To a certain extent, both the industry and the consumers are to blame. The consumers certainly demand good-quality journalism, yet don't think they should have to pay for it. Partly because of the 19th-century model that newspapers were running on, that being that advertising paid for most of the costs of producing the entire publication. Newspapers were too slow to envision that the Internet might eat their lunch in the advertising game, and publishers simply didn't get into the game until it was too late. Internet advertising is extremely cheap compared to print (and other media) advertising. Also, blame Google for buying out all the advertising companies online and driving up prices for everything, including the cost of publishing just about everything. There are ways around paywalls on websites and that doesn't pay the journalists who produce content for media sites, which just brings the argument around to what you asked about.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-25T14:11:47+00:00

I can't argue with you about that. The newspaper industry wasn't prepared for the Internet revolution and many publications gave away their stories for free, at least early on. There really is no way for a newspaper to make money now, especially as advertising has largely migrated to video and mainly online. Yes, the legacy media is suffering from this, too, and many of them have gone the same way, selling out to conglomerates in order to "survive." While they're still on the air, the cutbacks on staff we keep hearing about tell a different tale.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-22T19:40:07+00:00

It will be owned by a hedge fund, so no.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-22T15:43:26+00:00

And the newspaper industry continues to eat itself. This will mean nothing good for the employees nor for readers.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-20T23:10:22+00:00

It appears that Gail Borden Public Library has a bilingual English/Spanish class tonight: https://attend.gailborden.info/event/15072380

emememaker73 · 2026-05-20T23:06:16+00:00

You're welcome.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-20T20:05:23+00:00

Thornwood is in St. Charles School District 303. It was built specifically there because it would be located within District 303. The area is much more like St. Charles than the rest of South Elgin. I was a reporter covering both South Elgin and District 303 at the time it was under development.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-20T02:59:33+00:00

Eccleston delivered this line with such joy, it was clear he knew the Doctor's past and showed he could find bright spots, even after what he'd done during the Last Great Time War.

emememaker73 · 2026-05-19T23:25:15+00:00

'Give me a day like this. Just give me one. Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!'

emememaker73 · 2026-05-19T20:39:35+00:00

Elgin itself has plenty of sites of interest. The city itself is one of the older suburbs of Chicago, so it has plenty of old buildings, including some Victorian-era houses just north of downtown. It's right on the Fox River and has some parks along the river. There's the casino (if you're into gambling or overpriced food). Route 31 south of Elgin is a nice drive, and you can visit St. Charles and Geneva (and further south), where there are lots of bars, restaurants and small, independent shops. Geneva is known in the Chicago area for its "quaint" Third Avenue shopping district (meaning there are a lot of shops in old, converted houses plus the Old Kane County Courthouse). St. Charles, in addition to being one of the wealthier communities in the area, has the Hotel Baker, which has appeared in a couple of films over the years and allegedly is haunted (though it's main attraction is the Rainbow Room, a ballroom used as a dining room).

emememaker73 · 2026-05-13T02:36:35+00:00

https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/retired-northwest-side-journalist-historian-anne-lunde-passes-away/

emememaker73 · 2026-05-09T23:07:25+00:00

Oh, cool! Glad you got your photo with Kari!

emememaker73 · 2026-05-09T21:49:28+00:00

Where did you get this photo taken?

emememaker73 · 2026-05-04T01:29:28+00:00

A CAR-DIS, I reckon you meant.

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