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by Steve of phpBB
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9332
Views: 503452

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: 3330
Views: 222465

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: 2619
Views: 159394

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: 8967
Views: 448077

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: 320
Views: 21026

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: 8967
Views: 448077

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: 3893
Views: 241902

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: 170
Views: 10685

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: 29
Views: 1930

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: 3893
Views: 241902

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: 902
Views: 72726

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: 18
Views: 986

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: 18
Views: 986

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: 159
Views: 6736

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: 8967
Views: 448077

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: 1266

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: 2059
Views: 59879

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: 2059
Views: 59879

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: 2059
Views: 59879

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: 541
Views: 16246

Re: Presidential Election 2024

by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Tim Wakefield
Replies: 8
Views: 231

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: 1993
Views: 208224

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: 1993
Views: 208224

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: 1993
Views: 208224

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: 173
Views: 7559

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: 173
Views: 7559

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: 485
Views: 6146

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: 203
Views: 6844

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: 2809
Views: 108840

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.
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Official balls and cock thread
Replies: 264
Views: 22310

Re: Official balls and cock thread

And they say American ingenuity is dead.
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 257
Views: 23036

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

There was an explosion of euphoria yesterday in Cub world when they re-signed Bellinger.

At our local Greek breakfast place, a guy was wearing both a Cubs jacket and a Cubs hat. (Not a ballcap, but a driving cap - it looked really cool actually.) He had me beat because I just had a Cubs sweatshirt.
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2809
Views: 108840

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Aren’t those more efficient than “there’s nothing we can do about that” and “even though that’s the case”?
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:25 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2809
Views: 108840

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Or "What is the ask?" grrr In my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth. Didn’t Calvin and Hobbes have a thing about Calvin nouning verbs? Or was that verbing nouns? Anyway, “what’s the ask” is muc...
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6282
Views: 377017

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

Watching Masters of the Air Episode 5. Fuck. Every one of these 8th AF guys was a redshirt. Wife basically went upstairs a couple weeks ago tired of a similar sentiment. We haven't watched it since, but I'll finish it up soon enough. (This really is a mild spoiler for Episode Six.) Episode 6 was le...
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2059
Views: 59879

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

And if he doesn’t? Still doesn’t matter if not enforced by…anyone. Whatever criticism you want to level at the various enforcement bodies and legal jurisdictions I don't think you can accuse them of not going after Trump. He's looking at two civil trials and four criminal trials in a 12-month span....
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6282
Views: 377017

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

Watching Masters of the Air Episode 5.
[+] spoiler
Fuck. Every one of these 8th AF guys was a redshirt.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2059
Views: 59879

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

tennbengal wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:27 pm And if he doesn’t?

Still doesn’t matter if not enforced by…anyone.
Yeah, but he's always being audited. That's why he can't publicly release his tax filings.