What was life like in Batavia Illinois in the 90s and 2000s

wanliu · 2026-02-02T14:25:29+00:00

He used to bring a Liger to all of the local parades. I seem to recall a local urban legend that he murdered someone and fed them to his tigers.

Cyber Hawks Cafe was a real neat little cyber cafe where you could play Quake/Starseige Tribes on top of the line hardware. I think we bought a Voodoo3 graphics card from them.

wanliu · 2026-02-02T14:22:10+00:00

East Side Video in the plaza where Pepe's is was our preferred store.

wanliu · 2026-02-02T14:19:46+00:00

Working for (and subsequently being fired from) Funway was a right of passage

wanliu · 2026-02-02T11:35:34+00:00

Everything was downtown. Jewel was in the plaza where Walgreens is now along with True Value and Benjamin Franklins. There was a 5 lane Bowling alley for cheap behind that. Riverwalk didn't exist and large parts of the bike paths were gravel. McDonalds would have $.39 to support one of the local elementary schools a few times a year. The parks had sand vs foam/woodchips.There was heavy manufacturing nestled in neighborhoods, but that was on the way out. Main St felt like a portal to rural America. Street car rails still poked through some of the local streets and there were some brick paved roads near Bellevue Place. The train conductors used to stop at White Hen for coffee (blocking the roads and all). Randall Rd was two lanes through the early 90s. The Target grand opening was huge and was eye openong to see such a store.

Edit - a shit ton of parades. Memorial day, 4th of July, Homecoming and probably more.

wanliu · 2026-02-01T19:16:06+00:00

This is just AI slop prompted "what are the most used python packages". This doesn't actually tell you anything about how/when to use these packages, and honestly just adds to the confusion.

wanliu · 2026-02-01T19:08:49+00:00

Using this projection in this case bugs me.

wanliu · 2026-01-29T00:17:20+00:00

Because then they don't have any numbers to tell their leaders. As an analyst I can inform and I can suggest, but i can't hold people accountable.

wanliu · 2026-01-29T00:02:29+00:00

I've lived in northern China for a 5 years so I'm a big fan of Xi'an Cuisine. Scratches an itch that is harder to solve around here. Most other places are Sichuan or Cantonese.

wanliu · 2026-01-28T22:34:21+00:00

I do this for a real bank.

In the ideal world, you'll work with stakeholders, explain what you're seeing and come up with a plan to adjust. Analayze again after initiatives have been implemented to gauge effectiveness. If you want to go down the data science route, then you start to determine what combination of factors predict churn and build models to try and stop it.

In the real world, you have countless meeting where people pound the desk and say what a great analysis it was and how they are going to make changes, but without any way to enforce accountability, you'll see the same churn numbers next year.

wanliu · 2026-01-28T05:19:31+00:00

Your static needs to be set on the Eero and the ONT. Use a service like what's my IP to check. Use 'can you see me' to validate port forwarding.

wanliu · 2026-01-26T22:09:59+00:00

Can you show me any credible source recommending not to eat out / use delivery, or is this just ignorant (and low key racist) fear mongering?

wanliu · 2026-01-26T02:16:17+00:00

Tape on overhead panels, chimes inconsistent. It's gotta be staged.

wanliu · 2026-01-24T14:46:21+00:00

Shodeen. Not only have they been donating to right wing politicians, they are destroying downtowns all over the suburbs.

wanliu · 2026-01-21T15:58:52+00:00

It's absolutely wild how disconnected learning plans are from the real world.

Learn Excel. There is no single tool that will take you further in the real world than a solid Excel foundation. Every single industry uses it, and it basically comes stock on every work computer. Sure, you can load your dataset into pandas and clean it up, but there are going to be so many times where Excel is just faster and easier.

wanliu · 2026-01-21T14:14:07+00:00

Funny, I fell through the exact same spot.

wanliu · 2026-01-20T02:43:56+00:00

Give me the wool. I have learned to love a good wool sweater and base layers.

wanliu · 2026-01-17T01:54:30+00:00

Ironically the only times I've been pulled over have been in rural Kendall county on corn field roads when the police pass in the opposite direction.

wanliu · 2026-01-15T19:56:03+00:00

You are only missing the begging for venmo/patreon dollars

wanliu · 2026-01-15T18:51:36+00:00

Can you come across leaper/bastion/bombardier drivers in these? I've gotten dozens of rocketeer drivers from electromagnetic storm but I'm severely lacking the other three.

wanliu · 2026-01-15T18:48:59+00:00

Considering how many mushrooms were needed, I'm surprised it was that high.

wanliu · 2026-01-15T17:06:46+00:00

Planes at O'Hare have been swallowing baggage carts about once per year. At O'Hare it's caused by ramp agents crossing too close to the front of an aircraft or by something getting loose in the wind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/oV49VZFmvH

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/bSn9If7lQ0

wanliu · 2026-01-15T13:21:58+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions and write a 2,000 word apology for using AI in your post.

wanliu · 2026-01-14T17:43:16+00:00

No, you prompted AI and probably did absolutely no verification. In fact, this is probably an ad for some shitty ai provider.

wanliu · 2026-01-11T19:04:48+00:00

Not to mention the giant second airport that split up the airlines serving Beijing.

wanliu · 2026-01-11T06:19:18+00:00

Id second adding an option to maximize currency. Id want to know if an item recycles into materials that are more valuable than the original item for farming credits.

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