Last Call: i-Booze Edition
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Sad news to report out of the Seattle area. i-Booze, a company which provided the wonderful service of taking online orders for delivery of sweet, sweet alcohol, have recently seen there ability to sell booze severely handicapped by government bureaucrats due to one little, measly technicality:
They never secured a liquor license. D’oh!
For Techflash has delivered the information that not only has i-Booze failed to secure a license to sell liquor but that its enterprising founder, Karim Varela, uncorked a plea bargain on two misdemeanor charges of selling alcohol without a license and illegal possession of alcohol with intent to sell.
Yeah, that’s not good. So there you have it: a wonderful idea squelched due to negligence and flat-out stupidity. i-Booze has since changed its name to Dilky and if you go to their website, you will see that they are working diligently on getting that liquor license. Not too diligently, though, as the last update was posted on August 22nd. D’oh, indeed.
Blogetizers
- Food Court Lunch Interview Part 2 [The Phoenix Pub]
- Who Is Bruce Gradkowski? [Second-String Fullback]
- Football Cup Primers: Copa do Brasil [Avoiding the Drop]
- MYFO on Location: Addicted [Melt Your Face Off]
- How Fitting. Logic Seems to be #11 [The Gally Blog]
The Entree
- Kids in the Hall: “Headcrusher vs. Facepincher”
Sorbet
- Community‘s Alison Brie
And for the ladies…
Oooh…sexy AND tasty!
Alright, do what you do. All three of ya.
Evening Weed and all you other fuckstains. Been a while since I’ve been here.
Oh, and that girl from community is WAY better than the Britta character
!!!
\rubs eyes, looks again at McCheese
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Fuuuck. I need to get dinner. That sumbitch lookin’ GOOOOOOOOD. I think it’s the spats.
@Sculptor?!?, Nothing wrong with a little occasional McDonalds
@gally, Personally I partook today, may or may not have had to do with not eating for the past 48 hours.
@Trojanbrand, haha.
@Sculptor?!?, I think it’s flashbacks to Wyshynski’s stint at the old homeland.
Speaking of the Mayor, whereabouts is Yostal these days?
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, Married, ergo absent. I think I’m the exception to that rule.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, He’s @cdbarker on Twitter if you’d like to say hi.
And those twits at i-Booze blew it. All they needed to do was be a delivery service, not the purveyor. Dummies.
So, fuckers. I’m actually not as dumb as I thought. I’m escaping this semester with a 4.0.
@James Brown, congrats
@James Brown, That’s excellent, right? I don’t know that system. Is that all >90%?
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, That it is. 4.0 is an A. Which how the system works is also quite hackneyed.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, the UofA(Alberta) has also moved to that system. So has UofCalgary
@gally, I forget that Canuckistan is transitioning to the Quality Points system aka GPA system.
@James Brown, shit son, I’ve been part of the 9 point GPA system, the 4 pt GPA system and now the Letter Grade System
@gally, 9 point system? You’re old.
@jayhawkmarley, not that old. That pic of me is recent
@James Brown, I think most of the universities do different things here. I think the University of Toronto tries to be as much like American schools as possible, and the others usually follow its lead at some later date. I had a 12 point and 10 point system at my two previous universities. I don’t know what my current one has.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, That does seem to be a general trend for Toronto and Queen’s University.
@James Brown, One of my friends was in Queens law. They voted themselves doctors (Doctor of Law or something like that). He wasn’t impressed.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, 12-points? McMaster?
@James Brown, So you could have spent less time studying, and more time sleeping and drinking and got a 3.0. You damn striving overacheivers give us “do enough to get by types” a headache. Congrats though, you earned it.
@Martin, Not to worry. Next semester is a semester that’ll kill under and over achievers alike. It’s my capstone, which means I get to apply all the shit I had to learn.
@James Brown, That or you slept with all the professors. Either way, congrats!
Yeah, I’ve been doing a lot of wondering about the old ‘spinners (and bumming out over sites like SP leaving). Changes and all that…sigh…Luckily there’s Food Court Lunch, thanks Pubbers for the interview. I am not worthy to even read their friggin’ junkmail. Great stuff.
Also good to hear about John Daly. Here’s hoping he’s somehow finally gotten his shit together. I can’t help but root for the big guy.
And how are all my tasty little gingerbreads men (and wimmin) doing???
@Chicago Sometimes, Back on the internets again which is good, back in a shitty town for school, which isn’t so good.
Re: SP. I’m curious, but I’m willing to wait, since if I remember right, it’s not to be talked aboooot by those in the know for legal reasons.
@Chicago Sometimes, I should also ask how you have been.
I have been good, thanks.
It looks like I’ll be spending the next few days shoveling my way to work in the morning and back again, and this Michigan Ave. restaurant holiday money hasn’t yet materilaized, but other than that I’m good.
/go…b-hawks?
/sorry that’s bandwagoning, i know, but it’s about all we got around these parts
What’s up everybody, its finals team here, which means you will probably be seeing much more of me while I refuse to start studying for my game theory final.
@Trojanbrand, that sounds like an interesting class, jokes aside
@gally, Oh it is. What makes it less interesting is when half the class got below 65% because our professor is one of those dicks who likes to “really challenge” everyone with the material. Granted he curves the grades, but with the amount of grade whoring being taught these days, it’s a feeling that just doesn’t sit well with me. I’m convinced we are all just subjects of one of his sick experiments.
@Trojanbrand, shitty
@Trojanbrand, Is that like how to win at Twister & Monopoly?
/comic drum sound
I’ve actually looked it up before on wikipedia but couldn’t make neither head nor tail of it.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, You could summerize game theory as a study of how and why people work with and against each other in a specific scenario. Perhaps the easiest case to understand (and most famous) is the prisoners dilemma scenario if you want to wikipedia that.
@Trojanbrand, Ah. THat’s the same dealy that they used that in ‘The Dark Knight’ on the car-boats.
I actually didn’t like the movie that much.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, and the tragedy of the commons? (ie. I’ll graze an extra cow on the common grass because it’s only one more cow for the town – but everyone else does the same thing and the pasture erodes away).
Are those are both simple examples that game theory could be applied to?
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, on tragedy of the commons, yep these were all ideas that game theory helps explain.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, Haha thats right it is. Funny thing is though, if you set that scenario up like a prisoner’s dilemma game, the end result would have totally been both sides blowing each other up at the same time. I think I would have liked to see that.
@Trojanbrand, actually, that DOES sound intriguing. Provided the class isn’t (as you postulated) an example.
@Sculptor?!?, Ya the class has some great moments, especially when we do class experiments that prove other economic ideas such as adverse selection and moral hazard. But damn the grading in that class is bejezus hard.
@Trojanbrand, I had Game Theory like 2 years ago. Got a 67 on one test, a 62 on the second one and had something like that for the homework. Somehow i got like a 95 on the final. I still have no idea how. Good luck.
Oh and may I say, as an Oakland A’s fan, if the Pirates were to actually sign Bobby Crosby, I’m pretty sure I would simultaneously pity Pirates fans, and laugh my ass off at their ownership.
@Trojanbrand, Heh, the Pirates’ owners are about the only thing making the Indians’ owners look GOOD.
@Trojanbrand, I’m a Braves fan, but i go to a shitton of pirates game and they piss me off. Why are they shopping Doumit when Sanchez is 3 years away. Makes even less sense than the stupid shit Frank Wren does to the Braves.
Okay, so quick show of hands. Who here HASN’T fucked Tiger?
@2 Yellows, trick question, right?
@2 Yellows, Hey, grad school didn’t pay for itself.
Shiiiit, sure did, are you kiddin’? I could’ve done without the cute furry stuffed animal perched on the end of his club though, knowhutimean?
/let’s just say he really does have problems w/ his ‘crooked strokes’ and his ‘short game’ amirite???
//SELF-BAN
@Chicago Sometimes, \un-bans
\\gives free beer
Bless you, Mr. Master of Ceremonies. My impure thoughts about Allison Brie is pretty much 80% of why I watch that show. If Joel McHale’s character got hit by a train, the show would improve 30-fold.
@Old King Clancy, Ack… I like Joel’s character. Actually, Chevy is the one who annoys me the most.
@Old King Clancy,
I like Winger as well. Actually, none of the characters annoys me that much. And Alison Brie is fantastic as Trudy and as Annie.
Charlie Brown in 5 minutes, East Coasters. ABC.
Good call 2Y… switched over just in time for the weatherman to tell me it’s snowing (me: No shit dumbass)…
the only holiday tradition I uphold.
@jayhawkmarley, 12 = Carleton
10 = Ottawa
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, McMaster could very wwell be 12 as well.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, Mac was 12 points for the undergrads but regular letter grades for grad students.
Hello, everyone. Is this the time I don’t jinx the Hoyas by watching them live on TV? God, I hope so.
@Craig Esherick’s Mustache, So far, so good. But I’m not impressed by Butler either.
@Craig Esherick’s Mustache, I’m not watching them. Repeated exposure to “The Human Turnover Machine” Chris Wright usually drives me to drink.
@Old King Clancy, I though Paulus has a copyright on that name.
@Craig Esherick’s Mustache, I’m still convinced Georgetown/Uconn/St Johns aren’t that good. Granted we’re not really that good either. I just hope they get better by the time our hell stretch starts (5 straight top 20 teams, 3 away). Ashton and Brad are going to have to kick it up a bunch more if their going to carry us in BE play.
Re: 2Y’s helpful comment on Yostal.
I’m not on twitter. Figure I waste enough time on the internets as it is. It would be the best way to follow the diaspora, but I will hold out for a little bit.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, Yeah, once I got past the whole “wtf IS this thing” bit, I spend waaay too much time being amused by twitter.
@Sculptor?!?, Agreed. It’s become my time-wasting go-to site.
Whew. And RATL, at least they didn’t choke this game away like they would’ve last year.
@Craig Esherick’s Mustache, Yeah, this game wasn’t indicative of what they are. All Butler’s big guys are perimeter guys. Not that Gary’s that great of a center, but i think he’d have a chance. I wish Jamie would start playing Dante more. One of the writers told me that he has a terrible plus/minus. I have no idea how true that is but i assume that’s why he’s not playing much. I hope it’s being done so he sticks around three year.
Anybody watch the reimagining of Alice?? I’m an hour in and so far it’s entertaining.
@gally, Oh, I really rather liked it. watched it on sun/mon. I’ll not spoil it, but i liked the oblique references and there are some really great visuals too.
@Sculptor?!?, yeah so far it’s quite the concept. It’s interesting how they made some of the stuff work as references as opposed to the original source materials
@Sculptor?!?, Plus, there’s something about the lady playing Alice
It’s a Wil Smith movie fest lately. The other night, MIB. Tonight, I Robot. It’s crap, and Asimov is rolling in his grave (generating electricity), but I’m amused.
@Sculptor?!?, Can’t go wrong with the Bad Boys, or ID4
I’m debating Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince now that I own the DVD. I might save that for tomorrow night though.
I love Harry Potter. Yeah.
@Rob in WI, s’ok, i do too. not such a great fan of the movies, since the 4 i’ve seen have left out some really important stuff, but hey. they were entertaining in their own right, even if they didn’t really tell the whole story.
@Rob in WI, Overall it was good, but as I said in my review, it’s way too short. It’s the same amount of words as half of the Lord of the Rings series, and yet is just about 1/4 of the movie length.
@gally, yeah, that’s my beef with them all, particularly goblet. the entire movie was really only about 1/4 of the whole book – really only the last few chapters or so.
@gally, I probably liked it better than you did, but remember, they cut a LOT out of LotR too.
@Rob in WI, Oh, I’ve seen it already. Just planned to watch it again.
Agree on the skipping stuff, though. It’s gonna be tough to do the last two movies with all the shit they skipped in the movies.
I think I need to reread the books again, too.
@Rob in WI, at least for the last book, they’re splitting it into two movies. They should have done it for the 6th book though.
/nerding out
@gally, Yep, that’s what I meant by last 2 movies. I think the problem is the 5th movie/book. The 5th book needed another edit, and therefore teh 5th movie had to chop a ton of shit out (that was also left out from 1-4 movies).
@Rob in WI, I do that once or twice a year. and somewhat surprisingly, each time i read the series, i ‘see’ something i didn’t before. i’m starting to give her credit for being able to bury subtleties and pre-planning the story arc.
@Sculptor?!?, I came to the series late, and I’m just amazed at the things she had the foresight to preplan, map out, etc.
That said, I would LOVE to see what the first 3 books were like originally. I bet there would be a “director’s cut” of each that would have added 200 pages to each book. Probably for the better in Sorcerer’s Stone and Azkaban.
@Sculptor?!?, so did she actually bury Dumbledore being gay in there, or she make that up after?
@gally, You can read it either way. There are some passages that make you say “yeah, I see what she means now whe she says ‘I always wrote him as gay’”
And now I remember that I actually need to buy a new copy of Prisoner of Azkaban, because my copy is actually falling apart.
Dear Santa,…
OK dudes, I’m calling it. While tonight was pretty quiet, it did feature some of the reasons why I like last call. There was a hint of academic discussion (Game Theory, which I learned something from – although it was quite basic), there’s the nerd stuff, and the sports.
On another note, Last Call seems like it is chock full of Canadians (is jayhawkmarley Canadian too?). You Americans need to represent more. Rob double counts since I’m sure it’s freezing where he is and he probably has to deal with half a foot of snow by now.
@semper_ubi_sub_ubi, I’d say 4″ right now, with 8-10″ total by morning. But don’t ever compare me to a Canadian. I’ve killed men for less. And Canadians.
For the two of you here, you might find this, slightly amusing. It’s my booze fueled review of the latest Harry Potter movie.
Pitt must be really, really, really bad if they’re losing to Indiana.