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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4569
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34421
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The post your radio presets thread
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2073
Re: The post your radio presets thread
I always enjoyed WXRT when I lived in Chicago. The movie reviews "Going to the Show with the Regular Guy" were always great, delivered with the perfect thick Chicago accent.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:32 pm I'm still a fan of WXRT but it gets difficult listening to commercials.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The post your radio presets thread
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2073
Re: The post your radio presets thread
For those in the Bay Area...put 92.7 FM on your presets. KEXP bought the station and is now broadcasting live.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2118
- Views: 182596
Re: The Live Music thread...
Adrian Belew to play King Crimson shows centered around Discipline , Beat , & Three of a Perfect Pair LPs with Tony Levin, Danny Carey & Steve Vai. Apparently the first date is Sept 17 in San Diego. Rumors it will be a substantial tour. GIMME Adrien Belew is FANTASTIC to see live. Saw him p...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4569
Re: Everyone OK?
I've been busy dealing with the fallout of one of our customers having trouble with their instrument last week, and deciding the best way to handle things was to start calling/emailing our CEO over the weekend.
So that's been fun...
So that's been fun...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 59511
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
About the only way I can imagine intentionally watching Trump on television is if the Saudis threw a massive soccer contract at him as a humiliating bailout. I remember four years ago watching him give his "Covid is no big deal" speech just as the world was shutting down (NBA being cancel...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Movie Club: The Coen Brothers, O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU, 4/1, 9:30 pm ET
- Replies: 94
- Views: 3598
Re: Swamp Movie Club: The Coen Brothers, FARGO, 3/18, 9:30 pm ET
The dinner scene with her high school classmate is so well done. So creepy...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34421
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 59511
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Reading 2023
- Replies: 153
- Views: 3421
Re: Reading 2023
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+Ox2BoLrL._SY425_.jpg Wonderfully written book that just sticks with me. I finished it a few weeks ago and I'm still thinking about different parts of it. I've never read a Murakami book(and I've just about all of them) that I wasn't totally blown away by. That...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Netflix Suggestions?
- Replies: 1392
- Views: 89427
Re: Netflix Suggestions?
We watched the doc about the making of "We Are The World" last night, and its fun.
Still can't figure out how the hell Dan Ackroyd was included, though.
Still can't figure out how the hell Dan Ackroyd was included, though.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 108186
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
My manager just stuck his head into my office and said "you're still here? Its sunny and 60 degrees, go home"...
Re: MLB Spring Training 2024
Bummer news...my friend's kid, who is a reliever for the Guardians, is having Tommy John surgery.. Guardians reliever Stephan to undergo elbow surgery Stephan reported elbow discomfort at the beginning of camp. What was first reported as a deep bone bruise that shouldn't be of much concern turned in...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
Yeah, that dude is being prosecuted now under what seem like incredibly bullshit pretenses. He "hacked" fox news by searching up pages that they didn't delete or encrypt or something like that. Defector had a story about this case a couple of weeks ago... Tim Burke’s Indictment Is A Polit...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 108186
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
A couple of our Software Testers that were laid off back in November were hired back as contractors, starting yesterday. One of the guys, who'd been with the company for about 7 years, came in fully decked out in company SWAG...hat, polo shirt, hoodie, jacket. It was pretty funny. I was talking to h...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34421
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Am I missing something about Kelvin Sampson? I know he’d blow up phones of his recruits, but I don’t see that as anything egregious. That’s not Penn State/Larry Nasser/Baylor players murdering their teammate bad. Yes, his violations seem quaint on that scale. But he got busted doing that at Oklahom...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34421
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
I’d be fine with them winning it. They were the funnest team around when I started following, and seeing The Dream and The Glyde at the Final Four would be boss as hell. Bust out the red and white polka dot towels while they’re at it. Houston is still coached by Kelvin Sampson, right? Fuck that guy...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:49 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
Now that its a big story, NBC has discovered that Britt has been telling this same story for a while. Sen. Katie Britt has told her misleading anecdote about sex trafficking multiple times Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has come under fire in recent days over allegations that she misrepresented the story...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: EPL 2023-24
- Replies: 414
- Views: 16527
Re: EPL 2023-24
Oooooof....poor Luton.
(up 3-0 at halftime....end up losing 4-3 to Bournemouth)
(up 3-0 at halftime....end up losing 4-3 to Bournemouth)
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9310
- Views: 502040
Re: Random Politics
Instead, he stuck around, died after the cutoff date for a special election, allowed the Republican governor Doug Ducey to appoint John Kyl to serve out his term, and kept the Republicans from ceding control of the Senate. And then when Kyl stepped aside, Ducey appointed Martha McSally, who had pre...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9310
- Views: 502040
Re: Random Politics
Gotta love how Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) dropped a huge giant "Fuck You" to Boebert on his way out the door. Boebert slams Buck’s decision as ‘weak sauce,’ says she won’t run in special election Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) called Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) decision to resign early “weak sauce”...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
https://twitter.com/earlywormnews/status/1767264854031650825?s=46&t=EE1Ye28Yvhgf1Mr4AtYGWQ Similar question...why did it take a blogger/reporter out of Alabama to figure out that Katie Britt was lying about the trafficking story she told in her SOTU rebuttal? Don't the NYTimes/WaPost or any of ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: College Visits
- Replies: 588
- Views: 22901
Re: College Visits
That's awesome. Very cool.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
The Onion can't keep up these days... Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura Top R.F.K. Jr.’s List for Running Mate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recently approached the N.F.L. quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura about serving as his running mate ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
Perfectly normal stuff here... Biden effigy beaten at GOP event in Kansas; ex-official calls for resignations Attendees at a Kansas county Republican Party event punched, kicked and took a baseball bat to an effigy of President Biden on Friday, sparking backlash from former party officials. The John...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
- Replies: 319
- Views: 20746
Re: NFL 2024 Offseason
"Let's put french fries on sandwiches!"sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:53 amIn Denver, he said, “Let’s ride.” What will it be in Pittsburgh? “Let’s steel”?tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:35 am Watching Russ try and suck up to Steelers fans in his genuinely weird way is gonna be so fun.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 108186
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
A white knight! Patient Square Capital, a Leading Health Care-Focused Investment Firm, Agrees to Acquire NanoString Technologies NanoString Technologies, Inc. (OTC: NSTGQ) ("NanoString" or the "Company"), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational re...
Re: Movies
We went and saw Dune 2 this afternoon....and while it was good, and incredibly well made (Javier Bardem was a bad ass)...I got a big question: How the fuck did the Sand Worms go from a terrifying creature, to being able to be used a freakin' GreyHound bus? Complete with the wicker basket carriage fo...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
So you know the horrific story that Sen Britt told about a woman being sex trafficked? Turns out it happened 20 years ago...in Mexico. Not while Biden was President, but while GW Bush was President. https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/7344090454985624862 https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/vid...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 34421
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
UW Huskies fire men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins Shortly after Thursday’s 74-68 win over No. 18 Washington State, which was one of the biggest wins in his career and only the second time he’d beaten a ranked team on the road, Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins talked with optimism ab...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: All threads are temporary. This one's about soccer.
- Replies: 3085
- Views: 276137
Re: All threads are temporary. This one's about soccer.
Yes, he is.
His book "The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet" is a great book.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Reading 2023
- Replies: 153
- Views: 3421
Re: Reading 2023
Finished this a couple of days ago... https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81FS3wyevDL._AC_UL232_SR232,232_.jpg And its fantastic. About 1/2 way through I was think "Ok...where is this going?", but it totally came together in the end. Very highly recommended. I read this a few...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Reading 2023
- Replies: 153
- Views: 3421
Re: Reading 2023
Finished this a couple of days ago...
And its fantastic. About 1/2 way through I was think "Ok...where is this going?", but it totally came together in the end. Very highly recommended.
And its fantastic. About 1/2 way through I was think "Ok...where is this going?", but it totally came together in the end. Very highly recommended.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Long Reads
- Replies: 286
- Views: 23087
Re: Long Reads
Heart-breaking story about a mom in Colorado Springs who fell down the FoxNews/QAnon rabbit hole, and moved "off the grid" with her sister and her 13 year old son... “Please I Will Give Anything for You to Come Back” Talon Vance, 13, lived in an apartment complex in suburban Colorado Sprin...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: All threads are temporary. This one's about soccer.
- Replies: 3085
- Views: 276137
Re: All threads are temporary. This one's about soccer.
This was shared in the MIB "Raven" newsletter this morning...author John Green's trip to AFC Wimbledon (he's a part owner) for their match against Milton Keynes. Great stuff...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 16148
Re: Presidential Election 2024
As I saw someone online saying last night...having a Republican woman give the rebuttal from her kitchen is way too on-the-nose.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 108186