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by Steve of phpBB
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 1966
Views: 42278

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

But wait. I thought he was rich… I don't know if this counts as formal irony, but damn, it's funny ... 1. Person claims to be a billionaire. 2. Person accused in court of lying about his assets. 3. Person denies, is found liable. 4. Person unable to come up with less than half a billion to secure h...
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ball of Confusion
Replies: 556
Views: 35649

Re: Ball of Confusion

Fair. Im sure theres a diversity of thought. I havent heard it but shouldnt generalize. Perhaps buy a bigger bullhorn? There are PLENTY of Jewish people in this country with that type of reach. Yet Mr. Schumer is the first to come within my sphere. There are those on this board who are silent despi...
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9192
Views: 460265

Re: Random Politics

When you take everything in context, the US Government going full bore into bipartisanship over this makes me do what every other person with a thinking brain does: "Oh, so we can pass legislation if we wanted to on things that could actually be good for people. Instead, we'll focus on an app ...
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ball of Confusion
Replies: 556
Views: 35649

Re: Ball of Confusion

Oct 7 to March 14. So about 150-160 days is the required time before jewish americans people speak up about the israeli government. 30,000+ is apparently the number of dead required. Well, it was the length of time that it took Chuck Schumer to say anything. Plenty of other Jewish Americans have be...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Visits
Replies: 575
Views: 16113

Re: College Visits

A_B wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:17 pmRun kid run!
Her name isn't Lola, is it?
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Visits
Replies: 575
Views: 16113

Re: College Visits

Holy shit, that's great Rass.
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Getting the spins
Replies: 3277
Views: 192011

Re: Getting the spins

It's so funny how those tastes change. When my son was in his early-mid teens, he was a big metal fan. Even Norwegian Death Metal. By the time he's 22, when we were driving to the Rose Bowl, he was playing more Boring Old Man music than I was. "Casey, do we have to listen to Closer to Fine *aga...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6190
Views: 339242

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

We got caught up on Masters of the Air last night. How realistic is it that the Germans would have so much information about downed pilots? I'm thinking both of Bucky (Buck?) and the Tuskegee Airmen. When the interrogator says that Bucky's name isn't on the lists of pilots and crews on the mission w...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9192
Views: 460265

Re: Random Politics

https://twitter.com/malsaafin/status/1767595431423299584?s=46&t=kdPrYCXX_0ddBVc4CeNcXA How can this be read any other way than a US Senator saying an ally will stop intentionally starving civilians if they get what they want? Yeah, this is nuts. So many people have lost their minds over October...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Getting the spins
Replies: 3277
Views: 192011

Re: Getting the spins

When I'm driving with my daughter, she picks the music. When she's driving, she picks the music. Because there's no way in hell I'm going to argue with her (and also I'm just happy to have the time in the car with her - that works so much better than trying to "hang out" together). Luckily...
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Replies: 2506
Views: 126319

Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread

That is so great to hear.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8788
Views: 407973

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Even looking at this tweet, the only other name I recall from the Challenger astronauts is Judith Resnik.

by Steve of phpBB
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 200
Views: 2412

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

Gunpowder wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:29 pm One of the best Bears passing seasaons ever was a random year of Erik Kramer.
Jim Miller is probably in the top 5 in my lifetime.
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8788
Views: 407973

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

The only astronauts I can name come from the Apollo missions/lunar landing era. So, my 88 and 83-year-old parents have pre-written their own obituaries. I was helping my mom with hers. She asked me, “Should I mention that I was on the Senatorial campaign staff for [former astronaut who died just be...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3849
Views: 212568

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

"If I'da known Paul was going to throw a no-hitter, I'da thrown one too"?
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Curling Thread
Replies: 169
Views: 9117

Re: The Curling Thread

Is this watchable in the US?
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Mush, Mush (Dog Sled and other "Manly" Sports)
Replies: 27
Views: 396

Re: Mush, Mush (Dog Sled and other "Manly" Sports)

!!! yeah echoing Sybian here - tell more! what do you mean by "we" - your family? school? club? this is so cool and unique - Rush you've got a story here! We as in family. my mom's partner has always been fascinated with the Arctic, etc. When I was 7 or 8 we got two Husky-Malamute puppies...
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3849
Views: 212568

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

This thread pulled out a memory of watching Ivan de Jesus have one of the worst years ever. Because my grandparents lived in Highland Park, and then because WGN was one of two "cable" channels (TBS being the other) I watched a lot of really bad baseball. Just looked it up. 1981. Batted .1...
by Steve of phpBB
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:15 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Replies: 875
Views: 62208

Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two

Shirley wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:39 am
Steve of phpBB wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:41 pm
I'm curious what new think you learned from this story. That calling in bomb threats is a crime?
That I fucked up and thought it was the Twitter thread.
by Steve of phpBB
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024
Replies: 14
Views: 233

Re: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024

The forecast is for 50 mph winds here tomorrow at noon, with pouring rain and temps dropping from 47 to 32. Should be a great time in the standing section. Well, that was something. I’ve never gotten to experience a lightning delay and make snow angels on the field in the same game. https://twitter...
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024
Replies: 14
Views: 233

Re: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024

The forecast is for 50 mph winds here tomorrow at noon, with pouring rain and temps dropping from 47 to 32.

Should be a great time in the standing section.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away
Replies: 105
Views: 2367

Re: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away

Pruitt IV wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:49 pm We're getting 99% in Toronto.

Fucking Trudeau.
I forgot the exchange rate had gone up so much.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8788
Views: 407973

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Real Salt Lake is celebrating their "twentieth anniversary" at their home opener Saturday.

This annoys me way too much. It's not their twentieth anniversary, it's the beginning of their twentieth season.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Sciatica! Sciatica!
Replies: 27
Views: 321

Re: Sciatica! Sciatica!

Shirley wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:49 am [Thread topic to be read aloud like Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon]
My mind went with Elvis Costello's Veronica.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:00 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 1966
Views: 42278

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

mister d wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:55 pm I have absolute confidence he'll be there for the people who installed him when they need him most.
Oh, sure. He'll be a solid vote to find the NLRB unconstitutional.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 1966
Views: 42278

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

And yet, (at least) four justices voted to grant cert.

I hate to say this, but Brett Kavanaugh is our only hope.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 1966
Views: 42278

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

Yeah, this is really shitty. Somehow these guys managed to put Bush in the White House in only three days - but this new case has to take months? WTF.
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 487
Views: 11531

Re: Presidential Election 2024

by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Tim Wakefield
Replies: 8
Views: 198

Re: Tim Wakefield

Ugh that's so terrible.
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1982
Views: 197443

Re: Random Videos

But if the default assumption becomes something is fake, what's real? Essentially, a decade from now, how can you trust anything you didn't personally witness? Right. It's only a silver lining in the case of fake porn of students. It's a fucking disaster for news. On the other hand, think how great...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1982
Views: 197443

Re: Random Videos

Yeah, that's not how AI technology is progressing. We are in the stage RIGHT NOW where we can (mostly) tell. Particularly with video. With still images, I think we're pretty much past the threshold. But we're probably 12-24 months away from it being almost impossible to tell. Shit needs to get regu...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1982
Views: 197443

Re: Random Videos

I say this without any sarcasm at all: Videos like that are the only way AI is going to be regulated before it becomes impossible to decipher what’s real. Sure hope they hurry up. Students at school in Beverly Hills reportedly created and shared nude AI-generated images An investigation is underway...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury
Replies: 169
Views: 7016

Re: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury

They can't object if they don't know about it. What steve is saying, as a law expert guy, is that it’s always better to ask for forgiveness of a judge than to ask for permission. As a law expert guy, I can tell you that it's better not to have to ask for either. So just don't get caught. Edit: That...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury
Replies: 169
Views: 7016

Re: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury

They can't object if they don't know about it.
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
Replies: 468
Views: 3782

Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET

brian wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:07 am (For anyone confused bc you’re not on Facebook and/or not friends with me on FB, I delivered 21 tons of Hawaiian Punch yesterday.)
Hopefully you said "How'd you like a nice Hawaiiian Punch" when you delivered them.
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines! What a great place it’s a great place to start!
Replies: 199
Views: 5657

Re: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines! What a great place it’s a great place to start!

It just dawned on me that about one year ago, when we were in Bern, Switzerland, we were staying two houses down from the Israeli Embassy. The walk to the tram stop took us right past the embassy. It was so calm and quiet. There were gates at either end of the street and a security kiosk out front, ...
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2711
Views: 88391

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:52 pm Also, you can also just say "that's just the way it is" and avoid using the "it is what it is" nonsense.
Six syllables instead of five.

Even more if you keep going with the "Do-do-doo do-do-doo, do-do-doo" in your head.