The Swamp

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Thanks! Need her to find out the deal with major. I'm sure they'll tell her this weekend but does she still have to apply for her major within the engineering school? A couple programs seem to have admitted her directly into a major. I'd feel like it's a set up to flush kids. I could never but she ...

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This weekend. Engineering admissions event. Think we'll be ok Friday night but 6am sunday looking hairy. Definitely reply with any to do's for a 18yr old and dad... or really any info at all. Know nothing about the school or the region so it's all new to me. Saturday program is better part of the ...

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Anyone driven from Harrisburg to state college pa? Looking like weather and not quite sure what I'll be driving or whether I'll be routed over mountains. Looks like the road follows a river so Im guessing valleys but yuk. At least she won't want to attend

I've driven this a few hundred times at ...

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This is an updated version of crop circles with social media. Now everyone with a drone, a flashlight and a phone can get on the news. Some videos are simply airplanes lining up to land at an airport.

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Tickets for PSU/SMU are reasonable, but I expect the stadium to be relatively empty. It's after final exams and most students are gone. Graduation is the following day. Hotel prices are obscene. $1K+/night with a 2 night minimum if there are any available. Single family homes in our neighborhood are ...

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Collected my last Blanton Letter over the weekend. Now I just need to drink it so I can send in for my stave mounting.

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$100+ for a pair of pants that don't even cover my ankles? Damn. Is that really the going rate nowadays? I haven't bought clothes to wear outside the house in years.

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Full court MAGA around here. In the past few weeks we've have Vivek, some MAGA bus tour, Trump rally on Saturday and Now Trump is coming to the OSU/PSU game. I'm pretty sure he will get cheers at the game, but the rally will be relatively empty in the arena. AOC was here last week, but not much else ...

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Dropping off my ballot tonight. They ran 5 political ads in a row last night during Jeopardy. I get a phone call or text every day. What pisses me off the most is the in-person canvassers. Ready for this all to be over.

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We border some state game lands and I was able to position them to the north and get a dark picture. It looks much better in the photo's, but you could still see the light red and the green was a white haze.

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We had Rusted Root play in our fraternity house in college. I"m not sure of the year, but it was around '95. Saw them a few years later at the local ski resort. Still a great live band.

While looking for the date I ran across the live music archive. https://archive.org/details/etree

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Bought my first grill a few months ago. I had an old hand-me-down that I frequently used with a cast iron flat top and decided to make the switch. Four burner Blackstone.

Cheesesteaks, hibachi, fried rice, smash burgers,and having the ability to cook veggies easily along with everything else has ...

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Completely agree that there may be more behind the scenes, but money wasn't one of those things. It just shows the deck is stacked towards those with money.

My brother in-law was sandwiched between Taylor and John Gosselin. Didn't really know either of them.

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For reference: that's a lyric from a new Taylor Swift song. It led people to Google her childhood home. It's a really nice home. Shocker.

https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/where-did-the-catchphrase-you-wouldnt-last-an-hour-in-the-asylum-where-they-raised-me-come-from-the ...

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They are really trying to push freshman to the other campuses. I don't know much about Harrisburg, but if he's trying to get in to UP you may be able to get them to reconsider by switching to summer enrollment or say he's only interested in UP. Summer is a great option to slowly get acclimated and ...

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Neighbor had a tree fall on the road and the township cut it in large chunks/pushed it into his yard. He wrote free on a piece of cardboard. It was gone within 24 hours. People just showed up with chainsaws and took it. Jersey isn't Pennsyltucky. So it may take a day or two for you...

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Read that just after I got back from HD $60+ lighter, and was very careful installing the new one to stop as soon as the one component (ring) that gets screwed on wouldn’t budge to the slightest of hand tightening. Still a dribble.

I’m clearly such a dumbass that I can’t even figure out what I’m ...

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Hmm. No. I've had a bad carburetor that has to be cleaned out but that doesn't down exactly like what you're dealing with. And not to be an asshole, but there is gas in it right? Cause I have definitely made that stupid mistake before and kicked myself. Hopefully you're not a total doofus like me ...

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Applications are all in over here for TU2 jr. Carnegie Mellon, Penn State and Pitt. Penn State is probably first choice for him. He doesn't want a city school and with the 75% tuition break he wouldn't have any loans to deal with. The kid works his ass off at school. Completely unlike his parents.

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Trying to get one last cut in before snow starts, but I can't get the mower started. Push mower. Only a year old. It stalled after it started initially, but now the cord is really hard to pull. I followed youtube and I think it's hydrolocked. When I take out the spark plug the cod pulls fine ...

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Bosch wall oven has started with errors and shutting off. We've been throwing the breaker on it to reset over the past week or two.

Last night it had the error, but this time it locked the door and put itself in cleaning mode with a few minutes left on a frozen pizza. Luckily we caught it in 5 ...

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Oldest is going in to his senior year. He hasn't had much interest in going anywhere than Penn State. We took him to Va Tech and UVA just so he can see other places. Trying to be good parents and make the choice his own. He didn't like either of them. Might do a few other tours, but it seems his ...

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You should be careful around the sink until the new one is connected. Sometimes the dishwasher is plumbed directly into the garbage disposal and there is a loop that will prevent the drain from just running out the dishwasher hose. Make sure you have that upward loop.

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Welcome, Tank! I think Reaper joined after a long period of lurkerdom.

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The researcher that generated the underlying data set from ice cores in Greenland is fantastic. I've worked with him a few times and he's currently teaching a Geology of the National Parks Course. The content is OER if you're curious.

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Charlottesville and the surrounding area is REALLY good for breweries. Devil's Backbone has one of the coolest breweries/restaurants I've been to in many years. There's even a campsite on property. My son and BIL want to stay there this summer.

That area is crazy with all the wineries and ...

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The wife got my a beer advent calendar from a place near the in-laws in Charlottesville. Numbered slots in a case for each day that had hand-picked beers from VA/local breweries. It had a few of the Hardywood stouts with the additives. They were well made, but not my thing. I generally dislike ...

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P.D.X. wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:45 pm These are the best non-jeans pants I've ever had.

Joggers are intriguing, but I think I've hit the age where unless I get in better shape I'll look like this...

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We use the harness and clip to the bottom front. So when the dog pulls it redirects their head. It works much better than the dog sled clip on the back.

What we can't figure out is how to get the dog to stop barking in the house/backyard at everything. She also runs around and won't come in at ...

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It's a pretty low expectation for an adult to control themselves enough to avoid violence. Get up and walk out. Talk to Chris later. Complain about it in an interview. Even get your agent to do it. He has so many options that many of us don't and I'm disappointed that is what he did.

Don't they ...

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Why do you have to do anything any morning? I may be out of the loop here but this seems like a lot of hand holding for professionals.

I have several conflicting standups with different project teams every morning. With any type of IT work you need to do some type of coordination and planning ...

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I really wouldn't care about this, but the power and resources usage is an incredible waste. Not only to create, but exchange and verify. Pyramid scheme that hurts everyone and everything around it.

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I’m not ready for any of this shit yet!

It will be great having it all the way you want it. No repairs/renovations to deal with.

After its built make sure you have them back out to fix whatever doesn't work perfectly. Otherwise you pay for it later. We had them come out a year later and ...

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Getting ready to plop down some serious coin (for us) to buy a brand new house. It will take about a year to build and I’m freaking out. We have been looking at houses in our areas of interest and every house we look at would cost the same as the new house once we bought it and sunk a bunch of ...

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Yeah, it's about a four-mile move. We were definitely pigeon-holing ourselves because we like the school district and wanted the kids to have consistency. I never moved as a kid, but my wife did ... a lot. Like, six times before sixth grade, and she hated it and didn't want to put ours through ...

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I had some many years ago to connect the kids gaming chairs with built in speakers to an old tv. It's been 5+ years and I don't seem them on monoprice anymore. They were cheap. Maybe $20 and worked well. If I was doing it again and with a wall mount. I'd get something like this . It would connect to ...

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It's really fucking exhausting. Being "on" is brutal and I'm not sure how some people can do it all day.

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Zoom or otherwise, 9 meetings!!! Like WTF.

Its bananas. I'm a scrum-master for 2 teams, on two different projects now and my meeting load has exploded. By the end of the day I was babbling incoherently.

I also had nine Zoom/Teams/Webex meetings today. Which tied for the fewest meetings ...

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Not even going to quote the jackass, but I guess he forgot about Chris Christie. Go troll elsewhere.

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bapo! wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:50 pm Too late for that. I wake up early these days. Maybe half of a macro. Yuengling 4 Lyfe!

I appreciate Bapo! going PA strong. Yuengling is great for what it is. The new brews are all pretty terrible(Summer, Oktoberfest). The Chocolate porter isn't bad.

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