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January 30, 2010

 Hi, short update again.  This week was a hectic one.  We had a lot of people in town that usually work remotely, and it was some long hours at work.  I also managed to have some fun over the past week or so, I guess I'll just list off some random stuff.  I will keep this short as I am about to do a power-hour with some friends so we can re-live our glory days of 5ish years ago.

 
-Andrew, Brystmar, Nutedawg, Duckslayer2k and I went out for dinner and drinks on Thursday.  We went to some random Persian place and then to HopLeaf for some snobby Belgium beers.  Thomas (Brystmar) is a pretty big beer snob so he was in heaven there.  I was also made fun of a few times for my non-baller timex watch and my 3,000 word essay blogging about it.  Duckslayer really taught me something about being a pick-up artist, I always thought it was sort of a sham but honestly I was pretty impressed with his skillz.  Bonus:  watch CTZ tomorrow and you can hear the story of him trying to pick up my girlfriend (brag: unsuccessful).
 
-Last weekend my friend Dawson's gf and her friends were at Old Town Social, a fairly popular place in Old Town.  We got there way too late and there was a probably 30 minute line.  As a rule I don't grease doormen in Chicago because there really is no place worth going paying to get into when there is rarely cover and a million places to go to.  We were leaving to walk to another bar when I got a text from a poker player (tommyboy83, mix game player) who said he saw me leaving.  He said he could get us in, which I later found out meant he'd grease the door guy for us, so the three of us went into the bar.  We had a pretty mediocre night actually, everyone in the place was super drunk, we weren't, so we went home by like midnight.
 
-The Jersey Shore people were in Chicago for some events.  I vowed to go to a Jersey Shore event and have been growing my hair out for Jersey blowout purposes, but I missed the events.  I hope to have The Situation at a party sometime in the future, maybe for next year's Christmas party. 
 
-Hmm..what else.  I'm going to Champaign next week for the Illinois/Michigan State game, next weekend I'll be in Vegas, the following week I'll be in Miami with some of the CR guys for a camp/hangout thing we're doing.  I should have some good stories, and I still have a freaking long blog post from winter break that I haven't posted.
 
gl at the tables.

Taylor
 
PS - Just ordered the new Dominos pizza.  I recommend trying their ordering system, it's badass.  You can literally see all the steps as your pizza is being made, and supposedly it doesn't taste like cardboard anymore. We'll see about that.

***UPDATE***

The Pizza was fantastic, I have to admit. I HIGHLY recommend getting the BBQ Sauce with chicken, for your standard BBQ Chicken Pizza.  Please refer to that as the "tay," btw.  Funny story, the Pizza took way too long to get here (like an hour when it said it would be 30 minutes), so on the page where it gives you detailed information of where your pizza is you can also leave comments.  I left the following comment:

"Pizza supposedly left the store 30 minutes ago and is still not here.  I will be blogging about this experience, blogs.cardrunners.com/taylor, please let me know if you can do something for me."  

I'd say 10% chance someone gets in touch with me and gives me a coupon, I know I do things like that when I see people saying nice things about CR.  I hope I get some Dominos coupons....I'll let you guys know if I do.
 

Seriously though, get that pizza, it's really good.  Unanimously agreed upon by all eaters that for 12 bucks for 2 pizzas was a very good deal.  I also recommend the sandwiches if you are looking for a sandwich that sort of tastes like Pizza.

 

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the situation

Jan 30, 10 19:36:51

update on the pizza????

chardukian





Jan 31, 10 00:52:57

yes please update on the pizza.

zackmorrisfive





Jan 31, 10 08:26:58

the dominos pizza here is some of the best around. i also love ordering online, it's very well made.

Stake Monster





Jan 31, 10 09:06:22

i remember your rants on how bad domino's pizza was last year. i look forward to hearing the update.

SlevinKalevra





Jan 31, 10 10:14:26

I miss Domios, my university campus is out of town and they wont deliver here.

GuitarmanUK





Jan 31, 10 10:14:56

lol, lamest response to a blog post ever.

GuitarmanUK





Jan 31, 10 15:53:23

hey maybe they didn't fart on your sandwich or stick the cheese up their noses.

gymclasshero





Jan 31, 10 16:02:27

lol wtf

Taylor





Jan 31, 10 19:03:10

Pick up artist skillz? Don't u have a gf? She has to read this blog lol...

cpar1





Jan 31, 10 20:06:22

We got a cpl Dominoes pizzas yesterday to watch Kansas-Kansas St. game. Took over an hour when they said 30-40 minutes as well ... but we thought it was really good. Much better than it used to be. HOOK ME UP TOO, DOMINOES

HomeRow





Jan 31, 10 20:42:10

During the same year, they also introduced the Pizza Tracker, an online application that allows customers to view the status of their order in a simulated "real time" progress bar.

Playitlikeaset





Feb 1, 10 00:18:47

jersey shore

i went to a pauly d dj event. hilarious. totally worth it. the pics are priceless.

the man





Feb 1, 10 00:21:47

Oh my God dude.....so I had about 12 friends over on Friday afternoon and everyone was really hungry so we ordered Domino's. Was supposed to take 30-40 mins. After an hour I called them and said that my order was late and this had happened last week as well (it did). They put me on with a manager and he was not apologetic in any way and just kept making excuses. He also told me that the food was on the way. I hung up after that.

40 minutes later, the pizza still wasn't there! I called back and asked the manager how it's taking over 40 more min when my house is 5 min away and the pizza was 'on the way', he just keeps making up complete bs excuses. I told him to cancel the order. 10 mins later after we already ordered something else, the delivery driver shows up. I tell her that I cancelled the order and to just send it back, then 5 min later she comes back and says the pizza is just going to get thrown away anyway so my roommate offers her \$5 and she gives it to us. This was 3 XL pizzas so solid bargain, but man what an awful experience. The manager has no business being in the service industry. Never ordering from Ithaca Domino's again.

Stinger885





Feb 1, 10 09:34:06

Stinger, there were pubes in the sauce, fact.

Big_Scobie





Feb 1, 10 14:41:36

FYI - Joes on Weed is having a couple Jersey Shore events in the next month. I know youre a fellow Illinois guy, so I'm assuming youre familiar with the place!

danno924





Feb 1, 10 23:20:35

Dominos changed their recipe but it is yet to be seen if they will change their slogan from "If you don't get diarrhea in 30 minutes or less, then your pizza is free" Time will tell.
-Matt

philandmatt





Feb 2, 10 16:05:32

wow taylor your like a multi millionaire and your looking for free dominoes coupons??? What kind of tightass are you and how is that a funny story lol loser. you obviously got bullied at school!

smccr04





Feb 3, 10 05:44:38

90% of Pick up artists are fags.

MarkWahlberg





Feb 3, 10 15:15:50

smc,

yes, i was bullied a lot as a kid. i think your assessment is accurate -- i am a loser and i like to use coupons, two qualities that bullies love to hate.

gl

Taylor





Feb 7, 10 14:23:34

Haters gonna hate. Go get em Tay.

Clearly the WSOP CR party NEEDS to have Jwowww slutting it up... that is all.

Hokulea





Feb 8, 10 12:38:13

Picked the right game to go to.

I-L-L

illiniwek15





Feb 17, 10 07:13:07

pizza

ordered a pizza from chicago dominoes, after waiting 2.5 hours for arrival and doing some very mean commenting on our pizza status, we walked down to the store upon which we saw about 200 pizza stacked in dissaray, apparently the football playoffs created an overload (this was game b4 superbowl) and about 10 dominoes employees stood basically in aw of the mess they hand in front of them. I proceeded to walk up and tell one of the employees to give me 3 pizzas.
He asked which ones were mine, where upon i looked at him and told him to pick any 3 he wanted, he did so and without asking if I had paid or had any proof of me ordering. We recieved a phone call an hour later (3.5 hours now) asking if we still wanted our pizzas which we told them no ty we got pizza somewhere else....result: dont order from dominoes there so many good za places in chi, try chili mac's five way chili thin crust its chronic!

rapaskir





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