madopal

@madopal.bsky.social

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Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Midway, et al), cat lover, data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox, Gen X, music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶

Special Events Management has also put on the Windy City Hot Dog Fest in nearby Portage Park for five years.
The Woodsman from Twin Peaks: The Return. He's just about to ask the man in the car if he has a light.
Picture of the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972. It's a mostly white plastic console, with a black top and brown wooden trim. The controller has a button on top and two dials, one on each side.
X-ray of a broken elbow
Medina has prior arrests in connection with allegations of deadly conduct by discharging a firearm, assault causing bodily injury and reckless driving, among other purported offenses.
Laura Rivera, an attorney at Just Futures Law, told 404 Media "Most people are shocked to learn that anytime they open a credit card or phone account, their home address and other personal information is exposed to anyone willing to pay for it on the data broker market. Anytime we update our home address on these accounts, credit bureaus get updates within 24 hours and share it broadly with other data brokers, thanks to legal loopholes that leave our personal information open to misuse and abuse."
Tyler Durden from Fight Club saying "[In the world I see] You'll climb the [wrist] thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower."
Picture of the novelizations for the first three Mad Max movies, sitting on a desk.
Screenshot from Se7en, with Brad Pitt as Detective Mills, struggling to read the Cliff's Notes for Dante's Inferno, saying "Goddamn poetry-writing faggot piece of shit."
Picture of the 1981 Milton Bradley game Dark Tower. The tower itself is shown, with the image lighting up "Bazaar Closed." The artwork for this was famously done by Bob Pepper. The board is also shown. It's round and has 4 quadrants, each with buildings of a matching color. A game piece of a player is shown, as well as the dragon piece.
Bag of Old Dutch Ripples potato chips, All Dressed flavor. A purple and blue swoosh has the text/logo above it with a cutting board showing a tomato, some scallions, garlic, a red spice, and a version of the chips shown as round, ridged chips. The tagline is "Sweet & savory blend of spices"
In 1979, Alpha Baking Co. bought Mary Ann Baking; two years later, it merged with S.Rosen’s. Because Mary Ann and S.Rosen’s were beloved local companies, Alpha Baking decided to use both names for the buns, creating the brand name we know today. (Oh, and there is no space after the period. That was how it was written early on, and the company still likes the way it looks.)
Homer Simpson, showing signs of sickness after eating expired cheap meat
Shot of the Dairy Star truck, with the catch phrase "Let us make your event legen-dairy"
Graph showing the results of an impromptu poll on which state is the worst. Indiana and Florida are tied for the most hated (at 20), then Texas (15), Ohio (9) and Oklahoma (7). Many more states at 4 or fewer votes. It must be noted that the one for Illinois was by someone from Wisconsin (they called IL folks "FIBs"), so that's expected.
Dr. Manhattan sitting on Mars
Airnow quality showing 723
Airnow screenshot of Mayfair with air quality at 723 (hazardous). Instructions say "stay inside"
Björk explaining how a TV works
Page from the story "What Was I Scared Of?" From The Sneetches and Other Stories, where the character is scared of a disembodied pair of green pants.
Screenshot from airnow of the air quality at the lakefront just north of Bryn Mawr, close to the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Air quality is 364 (hazardous), with advice to "stay indoors."
Screenshot of the fire/smoke airnow air quality map, showing a sensor just north and across the street from Mr. Beef with an air quality of 289 (very unhealthy). It's near hazardous.
Dan Ackroid as Irwin Mainway from the Saturday Night Live sketch about a seedy toy company selling dangerous toys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMiNQifZcM
Spiny Norman from Monty Python saying "Dinsdale"
Cover of Dynamite magazine with Robin Williams and Pam Dawber as Mork & Mindy
Picture of a bunch of spiderwort with all of its purple flowers in bloom
A screenshot from the Napalm Death Tiny Desk Concert. Closed captioning is on, and one word is showing, "your"
Screenshot of scene between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in True Romance. Walken is saying 'You know, Sicilians are great liars.'
Add for KangaROOS shoes with Walter Payton running in his Bears uniform
The original 7-legged spider PNG, with a transparent background. Look at that 'lil thing. Just look at it.
Picture of the email from the David Thorne meme where he tried to pay his bill for $233.95 with an image of a 7 legged spider.
The Interstel Security Code Access wheel from the computer game Starflight. You had to turn the wheel to two matching points and read the numeric code from one of the words on the front
Lindsey Graham headshot
A picture of a cement barrier with metal sections in, mostly likely to prevent skateboarders from using it, but also prevents anyone from lying down on it
A picture of the Museum of Science and Industry taken from the 8th floor observation lounge of the Obama Center
Water of life from Dune
A picture of a man wearing a fez. He is not bald, but AI sucks and makes searches impossible. I refuse to use AI to prove a point. So I wound up with this picture, which also has a fake mustache, which has nothing to do with anything.
Disclosure: I did not get into the Florida and West Virginia booths, which attracted the only lines on the entire fair complex. I'm still not sure what drew the crowds (and I'm not alone). I asked people at the back of the lines for both states what they were waiting for and they said they only got in line because there was a line. A woman guarding the Florida booth's door from linebreakers told me she didn't know either, but guessed it was "because we have little giveaways." An usher at the West Virginia outpost said she believed the draw was a "driving simulator" inside. If anybody can explain what the hell the hubbub was about, please do.
Kent Brockman from The Simpsons looking intently at the camera, saying "It's in Revelations, people!'
Picture of 5 large mushrooms in the front yard of a two flat. The yard is shown at a distance to give the sense of scale. The mushrooms are white and umbrella-like
The main cause is that improvements in computing power had outpaced the ability of programmers to effectively use those capabilities. Various processes and methodologies have been developed over the last few decades to improve software quality management such as procedural programming and object-oriented programming. However, software projects that are large, complicated, poorly specified, or involve unfamiliar aspects, are still vulnerable to large, unanticipated problems.
Empty lot on Elston just south of Belmont, next to California
“This is a very early and unusual salvage,” said Eric Nordstrom, the owner of Urban Remains in West Town who began photographing and documenting the remnants in summer 2025.
A ghostly InfoWars elf float's over Nick's shoulder while he's singing in the pool
Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon from Crusade
Jane Wiedlin from the video for her single "Rush Hour," dancing and winking at the camera
The InfoWars Elf
Roger Meyer Jr telling Krusty that the InfoWars chain of command goes "elf, dwarf, hobbit"
Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer, exasperatedly cleaning up the mess he himself made.
Geddy Lee talking with Bob & Doug Mackenzie, explaining why he came on their song.
Nearly one-third of Illinois’ counties have voted to potentially explore creating a new state separate from Cook County, and seven more counties could join them this November.
4 posts in a row about the first Tuesday at 10am siren tests in Chicago: ‪Carrie Sage‬ ‪@carriethesage.bsky.social‬ sirens work ‪ Steven Lucy‬ ‪@slucy.bsky.social‬ *BLAAAAAAAAAAAARE* ‪ Logical Frank‬ ‪@logicalfrank.com‬ It's just a drill, folks. ‪ Lakeshore Drive Slut‬ ‪@shredded-teat.bsky.social‬ wooooooop
Homer Simpson, telling the writers of Itchy and Scratchy, "Whenever I'm not on the canoe trip, I should be thinking 'When's the canoe trip?'"
German alternate jersey from 2014. Has large, vertical alternating red & black stripes, 3 white stripes across the shoulders & down the sleeves
Cover for The Quest for the Rings for they Odyssey 2. Dragon, wizard, warrior, monsters...the art had everything
David Thorne's seven legged spider. It's good for legal tender worth up to $233.95
Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer, putting on his sunglasses and shrugging in barely committed approval
Always the same meme, with astronaut looking at Earth with another astronaut pointing a gun at the first astronaut
Screenshot from airnow.gov showing the air quality in Portage Park on 7/4/26 as 75 (moderate)
A historic building housing a Small Cheval in Wilmette, IL. A sign for public parking is visible in front of the building.