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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Tech Support
- Replies: 903
- Views: 86128
Re: Tech Support
I've bought a webcam to use with my work laptop...and it works great in Zoom, but it won't work in Teams. Any ideas?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Grant Nelson is having an out-of-body experience.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1031
- Views: 52735
Re: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
Stuffed sopapillas are god's gift to us mere humans. You're lucky you made the Blake's post because normally I would not tolerate this sacrilege. Is this a safe space? I've never had a stuffed sopapilla. I'm sure they are delicious, but I've always just had them as a side with the entree. The ones ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Videos
- Replies: 1987
- Views: 198847
Re: Random Videos
Sometimes the YouTube algorithm fucking nails it. This is amazing. https://youtu.be/W8vzP3miXZI Local hero. And yeah, she's fantastic. We've seen her 3 times now, and each one has been great. Right before Covid we saw her play with the Seattle Symphony, and they did a crazy amazing version of Elton...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9211
- Views: 463210
Re: Random Politics
MI GOP Launches 'Migrant Invader Bus' Hoax on Gonzaga Hoops Team Republican paranoia over migrants has reached a new level of absurdity, as a State Representative and the State GOP Chair launched a conspiracy that buses of migrants were invading Michigan. It turns out it was the Gonzaga basketball ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1031
- Views: 52735
Re: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
Stuffed sopapillas are god's gift to us mere humans. You're lucky you made the Blake's post because normally I would not tolerate this sacrilege. Is this a safe space? I've never had a stuffed sopapilla. I'm sure they are delicious, but I've always just had them as a side with the entree. The ones ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1031
- Views: 52735
Re: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
I need to check out Pericio’s. I know have a strong craving for a sopapilla... My kids wouldn't try them (I didn't really push them either.) What? My kids LOVED sopapillas when they were younger. They would always ask my mom to make them when we'd visit...and then they'd eat so many they didn't wan...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
zoom link? Oh man, I would LOVE to watch this. Hah...it was not that exciting. Just my manager and the HR guy, going through stuff that he already knew about mostly. He had already talked with the guys manager, and a few other people as well. And my manager totally backed me up, and had a few incid...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Welp...have my meeting with the HR Rep starting in 15 minutes...regarding the troublesome co-worker.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1031
- Views: 52735
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9211
- Views: 463210
Re: Random Politics
MI GOP Launches 'Migrant Invader Bus' Hoax on Gonzaga Hoops Team Republican paranoia over migrants has reached a new level of absurdity, as a State Representative and the State GOP Chair launched a conspiracy that buses of migrants were invading Michigan. It turns out it was the Gonzaga basketball ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Joe Lieberman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 164
Re: Joe Lieberman
I also remember how after he got primaried, and beaten, in 2006 by Ned Lamont (current CT gov), he had a temper tantrum about the voters taking "his seat" and ran as an independent, focusing on getting Republican votes and winning.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Joe Lieberman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 164
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82 Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died Marc...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
- Replies: 91
- Views: 891
Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Interesting interview with about the role/responsibilities of a Harbor Pilot:
I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is how captains like me work with harbor pilots to avoid deadly collisions
I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is how captains like me work with harbor pilots to avoid deadly collisions
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Le Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 257
- Views: 12268
Re: Le Pro Cycling Thread
Update on van Aert: Update on Wout van Aert from Team Visma | Lease a Bike: "Unfortunately, Wout van Aert suffered several fractures in the crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen today. A broken collarbone and several broken ribs were diagnosed in hospital. It is unclear how long his recovery will take...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
- Replies: 6196
- Views: 341244
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Finally finished "Masters of the Air". I thought it was really good, and it was great to see what happened to those guys post-war. Did Croz ever mention to his wife about his thing with the Subaltern? Or did he wait to write his memoir until she died? And Rosie's story was wild...ending u...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Meet Me in St. Louis?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 311
Re: Meet Me in St. Louis?
The Art Museum was cool...and free.
And the Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour made me damn proud to be a beer drinking American.
That's all I got...its been a long time since I was in St Louis.
And the Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour made me damn proud to be a beer drinking American.
That's all I got...its been a long time since I was in St Louis.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Le Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 257
- Views: 12268
Re: Le Pro Cycling Thread
https://twitter.com/nbcscycling/status/1766849300758204729?s=61&t=gZTZDOBjToLF3SU951QdDg Everything’s coming up USA these days. Two guys on the podium in a major race? I don’t remember that ever happening. And he just won again... "Matteo Jorgenson alleviated Visma-Lease a Bike's despair o...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
- Replies: 6196
- Views: 341244
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Finally finished "Masters of the Air". I thought it was really good, and it was great to see what happened to those guys post-war. Did Croz ever mention to his wife about his thing with the Subaltern? Or did he wait to write his memoir until she died? And Rosie's story was wild...ending up...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
- Replies: 91
- Views: 891
Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
3 million pounds of force. The boat is like a 1000 foot skyscraper turned on its side. There is one thing that can probably stop that with certainty and with minimal yielding. It's called land. Yes...this. Seeing the people trying to say that the bridge was poorly constructed, or should have had &q...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Good luck, DiS! Yeah, my dad also loves it when somebody, especially a younger relative, asks him for advice. Nothing he likes better than that. (And, I think he would have responded exactly like your father did.) I've had times where I save something up and ask my father for advice for his birthda...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
I sent a teams message to my manager, and my senior level manager this message, saying that after long consideration (*didn't mention I'd asked for advice here) over the weekend, I thought this needed to be escalated to HR. Both of them were totally on my side, and my senior level manager said he'd ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Mutherfucking free throws. Extra annoying to lose that way. Go Coogs or Aggies. Whatever. Back when most of you were in diapers I saw NC State win a national championship over Univ of Houston, because Houston couldn’t make free throws. I was 12. Thurl Bailey! And Phi-Slamma-Jamma was fun to watch. ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
So uh…Why is there a half hour layover between the first and second games today? I hate the way they always schedule games on the first Saturday and Sunday. I really don't understand the way they stagger them such that it's a slow start, a gap, and then a bunch of games all overlapping. Or why was ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Thanks for all the good feedback on my situation. I've decided I'm going to tell my boss on Monday that we need to escalate the situation to HR and get them involved. This has gotta stop.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Commercials
- Replies: 919
- Views: 54279
Re: Commercials
I know it shouldn't, but the "Lets go SportsBar" from the currently running BW3 makes me chuckle every time.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
I've watched just about every Gonzaga game this year...they are NOT this good. Curious if Spokane (1843’) being an extra several hundred feet above sea level compared to Lawrence (991’) mattered, cuz Kansas looked like they were tired in the 2nd half. Driving home just now I heard Self saying his p...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Seemed pretty even to me.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:12 pm I had the sound off - was the crowd supporting one team over another?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
I've watched just about every Gonzaga game this year...they are NOT this good.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
That was 20 minutes of really high level basketball, by both teams. Fun to watch.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
- Replies: 1590
- Views: 106012
Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
I think I need this one explained to me … 100 miles in 60 hours is (not accounting for sleep) well below walking pace. It isn't a regular road or trail run. From Wikipedia: The course itself, which has changed distance, route, and elevation many times since its inaugural run, currently consists of ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Serious question: At what point does it become appropriate to report someone to HR about creating a toxic workplace? I'm asking because of that one co-worker that I've been dealing with for months. He's gotten so bad that absolutely no one wants to work with him. He's pissed off all of the CX people...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2757
- Views: 90139
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
I finally snapped with the problem developer. He was yelling at me for asking for something to be put at the top of his priority list in the ADO ticket, not changed in the stack rank list (no one uses that). I finally said "I don't work for you. You aren't my boss. You don't get to tell me what...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Coach Cal....Hot Seat?
1 tourney win in the last 4 years is not a good look for Kentucky.
1 tourney win in the last 4 years is not a good look for Kentucky.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Someone check on AB!
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 458
- Views: 6900
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Rocket Watts is a pretty bad-ass name.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
- Replies: 1521
- Views: 63612
Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
I was among that large viewing audience. (Of course, there were a lot fewer viewing options back then!) Yup. That’s the Final Four that got me into college hoops. Because DePaul was one of the other semi-finalists. And the 4th team in that final four? UPenn! An Ivy League school in the Final Four!
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
- Replies: 1521
- Views: 63612
Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
While discussing brackets, I mentioned “that Bird-Magic Final Four” at my partner meeting yesterday. No one knew what I was talking about. Only one of my partners had even been born yet. Still the most watched Championship game: image.png And one of the last final fours to be played on an actual co...
Re: MLB Spring Training 2024
Reading the comments (I know, always a mistake) on the WaPost story this morning, the two main takeaways were:
andThis isn't a crime!
Why doesn't he learn English?