The Swamp

The library was very cool. They also had a first folio of Shakespeare's works, some hand-written notes of Byron and Farraday, along with the original hand-written version of Winnie The Pooh. We followed up that visit with lunch at The Eagle, a 350-year-old pub where Crick and Watson famously announc...

In a couple of hours, I'm going to walk across town and pay a visit to Wren Library at Trinity College. It looks like this: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/show.php?viid=11 http://archiveadventure.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/wren.jpg?w=455&h=303 What I'm most excited about though is that the library h...

Not really hip extension. It deals more with driving from the heels. I always have a tendency to go up on my toes which forces the bar forward and, by extension, me to go forward to catch the bar. Now the bar travels much for vertically, but I worry I won't have the ability to get power behind it. ...

Anywho, my point is that home improvement repairs are negotiable. Good lesson learned. I'm always wary of haggling much with anyone who afterward has to come work in my house on something I don't fully understand (or simply can't see if it's behind drywall). I want them doing the best job they can,...

In a comment to a post a conservative (non-white) college friend made saying the Zimmerman verdict was justice: This all gets avoided if the kid says, "sir I'm walking to my fathers house." But respect is lost just as America has been lost due to liberal racists and unaccountable scum in ...

In a comment to a post a conservative (non-white) college friend made saying the Zimmerman verdict was justice: This all gets avoided if the kid says, "sir I'm walking to my fathers house." But respect is lost just as America has been lost due to liberal racists and unaccountable scum in l...

I've had Chrome eat up my CPU a lot recently. In particular, my Google Calendar tab has gone nuts several times since I've been here in the UK. Not sure if it's Chrome's fault or Calendar's fault. Either way, I guess that something is wrong with their handling of my changing time zones.

Yeah, what a fucked up voice. I guess that's what happens when a Brit moves to Hollywood and plays guys with not Brit accents. And also maybe has a speech impediment?

How'd I miss this thread? I'm in Scotland right now! I'm looking out my window on a very summery Edinburgh morning. Great city. We toured the city castle and Royal Mile yesterday. Today we are headed to an island in the Forth of Firth (love that name) to check out an ancient abbey. If time allows, w...

Just caught up. Walt is the ultimate anti-hero. I'm thinking that he inadvertently causes Hank's death (or another key figure, maybe Walt jr.) and the series ends with him on top of the dog pile but having to wrestle with his conscience. He's proven that he can beat everyone else. Just not himself....

Any of you peeps, particularly the Denver ones, know a radio host and author named Dom Testa? Apparently he has a popular drive-time radio program in Denver. He seems like a pretty good guy. I met him and had dinner with him tonight here in Cambridge.

Yeah, our dryer sometimes leaves what looks like skid marks on white clothes. Very annoying. I didn't have the balls to try to replace the seal myself. I think I had a repair guy do it a few years back, but it seems to be happening again.

How much work was it?

I rode the London Underground quite a bit just a few days ago, but sadly saw no graffiti schlongs.

How much does it generally cost to have a car towed across the country? I am looking to buy a car and have seen some great deals out of state. Is it worth the hassle? (I am not moving but figure the question fits the topic) Last time I looked (a few years ago), it was something around $3-500. And i...

Or what about the beach volleyball pair of May and Walsh? They're a team, right? They won 100+ in a row, I think.

Major team sport? How many Swampers even knew this league existed?

We put a lot of Christians in prison too. And Americans! How can Barack Obama say God Bless America when we have millions of Americans in prison?

I came across those little rockers on YouTube a while back. They were busking in NYC. Awesome. I showed a couple videos to my kids and they loved them.

That was great. It was like ants crossing a river. Eventually enough bikes would fall in there that the later guys could ride across the bodies of their predecessors.

OK, I think I got the redirects working. sportsfrog.net and http://www.sportsfrog.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; should both redirect to the Swamp homepage.

Let me know if there are any issues.

I didn't get it. The chart he posted made an interesting point, but was very deceptive (gold and oil prices adjusted for inflation, against a dollar index that was not, but it is kinda impossible to make such an adjustment to the dollar index). But such an out of the blue post, w/o any link or othe...

So Shambrok might be a spammer. Or a plagiarist. Or named Jeff F? Yeah, I saw that and debated deleting it. Now that you show me the whole plagiarized line, I'm going to go ahead and do it. It's just Google bait, apparently. Update - he gone. That's the first spammer we've had to remove in nearly 2...

No posts in two months? Doesn't qualify as sticky anymore.

Balko has a regular "Raid of the Day" series, based on his book. Damn. I couldn't even make it through all of that, it was so depressing and rage-inducing (weird combo). I started to just skim and found sections of whole new flavors of ridiculousness. I hope this shit gets some media play...

Mexican police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was used in a “HOMICIDE – WILLFUL – KILL –PUB OFF –GUN” –ATF code for “Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun.” Good thing they deciphered that ...

That's the goal.

Yes, this is lame. Any Swampers play Clash of Clans? I started playing around with it on my ipad and it is pretty fun. I've gotten to the point now where I think I need to join a clan to be able to defend myself. I don't really want to join some random clan of Internet sock-fuckers, so anyone here w...

Death Defying POV Videos Show You the World Through a Parkour Athlete’s Eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwBT6QRUjA Oddly enough, I just watched that while sitting on a sofa in Cambridge. That's not exactly how we've been getting around town, but considering the twisty little streets and infreq...

Pretty sure that quote being attributed to Marley is total bullshit. Exhibit number one: It's all over every social media out there, by the millions, and if that doesn't tell you something is amiss, it should. Two: Marley simply did not speak like that in interview, in song, nor in written word. Th...

How is punching someone "attempted murder?" I understand that you CAN kill someone with a punch, but I don't think anyone's ever done that on purpose (unless they punched the guy repeatedly).

I get a charge of assault or something, but attempted murder?

In the 60's and 70's when this issue became a political/legal issue in the U.S. the science was much different than today. Back then a fetus could not survive outside the womb until it was quite mature. Today, that same fetus can survive outside the womb at a much earlier point in the pregnancy. I ...

Looks like a black guy in the black shirt there, right? Odd.

I found myself wanting to like Sex on the Moon more than I actually did like it. It's a cool story - I love a good heist story - but as others mentioned, the facts didn't all add up. Honestly, the story should have been good enough on its own. It didn't need to pretend that everyone involved was a g...

We have the same laws here. I can't remember what time it changes, but you can't buy alcohol on Sunday mornings. Praise Jesus.

Giff wrote:I've watched 34 episodes of this show since last Monday. The last episode I watched was Jessie and Walt's fight in Jessie's casa. I hate that this show is ever ending.

New to the show or are you rewatching?

George Zimmer and his smoker's voice out at Men's Warehouse http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-mens-wearhouse-george-zimmer-20130619,0,5026739.story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; That's a gutsy (or arrogant) call by the board. Like it or not, that dude was the...

We had a discussion on one of these Swamp versions about crazy John McAfee, creator of the eponymously named (and hated) antivirus software. If you recall, he had moved to Belize and gone batshit crazy (maybe in the other order) with drugs and sex and had likely killed his neighbor. Well, it turns o...

Man, the end of that episode still gets me when I think about it.

Speaking of "shit your pants"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIJGb8mLyOE What's sad for my survival skills is my immediate reaction when it put it's head up there like that was to want to pet it. It looked so much like the face my dogs make when they come to me and put their head in my...

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