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* Be nice to each other.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 1:50 am

Comments

Yeah, I can’t sleep either.

Comment by Weeping Angel Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 2:04 am
How about those Boilers beating the Illini in double overtime.

Comment by very old soil Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 2:14 am
Was slammed with work yesterday. Anything relevant happen?

Comment by Candle Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 3:29 am
Another day closer to Spring. Enjoy your he day and be happy

Comment by DuPage Saint Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 6:40 am
Richard Porter set to join the race for U.S. Senate.

Comment by James McCann Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 8:13 am
Seems like most state of IL websites are down this morning. Anyone heard of a lot landed outage today?

Comment by Fixer Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 8:19 am
Planned outages, sorry.

Comment by Fixer Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 8:19 am
Seems as though illinois.gov DNS servers are down.

Comment by bhartbanjo Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 8:30 am
So, Bailey has a good chance of winning the primary. If he does win the primary, does Griffin support him with the same resources that he will have supported Irvin with?

Comment by moving forward Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 8:37 am
Was just reading that two compounds contained in cannabis helped prevent COVID-19 infection in a lab study by binding spike proteins on the virus. I try not to get too excited about one study, but couldn’t help thinking Illinois is well positioned to scale up production capacity for a new humanitarian purpose whether cultivars for human consumption or industrial uses (hemp) end up being useful in combating the scourge.

Comment by yinn Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 8:43 am
It would’ve helped when I opened comments to have actually opened comments. Oops. Sorry. Fixed now.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:00 am
DoIT network outage has been resolved. For now.

Comment by Sangamo Girl Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:00 am
Yep — Illinois.gov sites are back up.

Not sure if was a DNS issue or what — but everything illinois.gov was down earlier this morning.

Comment by Mr K Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:02 am
=does Griffin support him with the same resources that he will have supported Irvin with?=

lol. no

Comment by MaddyMoon Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:04 am
Interesting read about a Illinois based COVID testing operator.

https://news.yahoo.com/wedding-photographer-failed-donut-shop-200720432.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:05 am
Update: DoIT outage earlier this morning was an AC power issue.

It impacted everything illinois.gov.

Fixed now.

Comment by Mr K Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:07 am
=but couldn’t help thinking Illinois is well positioned to scale up production capacity for a new humanitarian purpose whether cultivars for human consumption or industrial uses (hemp)=

IL lags so far on cannabis. I was in Michigan over the weekend and the local dispensary was running a promo - Three 1g vape cartridges for $100 total, with five pre-rolls thrown in. For reference, a single 1g cart here starts at about $110. The IL program, while well intentioned, is probably keeping the black market very much alive and well

Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:20 am
RIP Les Grobstein. Recall standing in a room of lots of people in an office, one of whom had a copy of the tape the Grobber made. yes, THE tape. Classic bit of keeping things and sharing with others. somewhere Les is getting an award for his hard work.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 9:43 am
Be nice? But, but…I wanted to be evil and vicious.
*Sigh*
As for Rich’s forgetting to open comments–I HATE when that happens. Nothing like thinking everything is all set to go and then…oops.

Comment by thisjustinagain Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 10:03 am
check out the wolf moon that is a”round” this week.

Comment by flea Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 10:08 am
More football isn’t better football.

Comment by Lurker Tuesday, Jan 18, 22 @ 12:03 pm