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Damor

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  1. I absolutely love Long Ride Home.

    I found this EP on the back wall at Waterloo years ago, and it's sadly likely relegated to the dustbin of history (no youtube), but Median States by Quinimine is one of the most haunting tunes I've ever heard.

    Spoiler

    We're 5 misfits like a pile of mis-matched socks hobbling into H2T later in the day of 9/11 drunk with despair and disbelief to record our first record. In between the news on TV and weeping we lay down this frail and flawed Drone country toon. 

    Taken from the Filaments EP, released by Grey Flat Records of Chicago. Recorded at Thee Mighty Hotel2Tango 2001 by Howard Bilerman

    lyrics

    When pontius spoke out loud, 
    we'll run this ship aground 
    and kiss you under crosses & nails 
    forget about Mary's thunder 

    we're mired in the torpor and bitter in the spring. 
    Mary I feel weaker than just about everything 

    Mary I feel so young 
    as ambulance lights flash above me.... 

    When Judas takes a lover 
    we'll marry in the spring 
    the scarlet whore of babylon 
    and just about everything
    credits
    released January 1, 2002 
    Words & Music by Gary Jansz

    Likewise, it's hard to find, but Milton Mapes put out an album with two great farewell songs, Bowie AZ and Craters of the Moon, if you can find them out there.  Kinda strange to find one album with two songs I want played at my funeral.

     

    And there's this.

  2. 18 hours ago, Bone3421 said:
    On 8/22/2019 at 3:36 PM, Damor said:
    Awesome thread.

    I have a chunk of about 3 weeks off next July, and I'm trying to get started on planning a family trip with our boys (will be 15 and 12).  I'm really tempted by the Germany/Alps stuff above (been there and loved it), but I think I'm going to save that for when they're a little older and can appreciate the finer points of Bavarian/Czech brewing.  The other idea I'm throwing around is the British Isles.  This would be our first overseas trip as a family, and neither my wife nor I have been there.

    I'm sure I'll pester the board in detail when I get to serious planning, but at this point I'm just trying to get a general framework.  I have a Griswoldian tendency to overdo/overplan, but at the same time, I'd like to get the most out of the trip since it's an investment getting over there, and we don't have a lot of summers left with them under our roof.

    Here are the nebulous ideas I have floating around in my head, without a lot of specific research (beyond what I've read on Shaggy/Surly) yet:

    Ireland:
    -- Probably fly into Dublin and spend a couple days to adjust, but planning to spend more time out of the city.
    -- A few days in Galway (sounds like our speed)
    -- Doolin/Cliffs of Insanity Moher
    -- Ring of Kerry/Gap of Dunloe area

    Scotland:
    --Edinburgh
    -- Glasgow
    -- Isle of Skye (hiking and Talisker)
    -- Islay vs. Inverness/Highlands/Spey?

    London:
    -- 3 or so days to hit some high points, eat good food, let my wife see royal shit, fly back
      
    Is this too ambitious to try to cover in one trip?  

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    I would say thats doable if your using the most of your 3 weeks off...lets say 19 days total with day 20/21 as rest days when you return....that leaves you with 2 full weeks for ireland/scotland with you only doing 3 days in london. Which leaves you with 2 "travel days" as wiggle room. If you fly in between then you could possibly squeeze in another location or rent car and ferry across for slower/more scenery trip

    Thanks.  As far as getting from Ireland to Scotland, I'm guessing flying is the better bet rather than going out of the way to do a train to Belfast, then the ferry?

    I've always heard the nightmare stories about Ryanair, is it really that awful?  On the one hand, it's only an hour flight, but on the other hand, it sounds like the flight is the least painful part of the process.  But for 1/3 the cost...

  3. Quote

    The man was identified as Samuel Char

     

                                                                           les Waisbren

    4 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

    Sam I am, green eggs and SLAM! 

    FIFElevator

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  4. Awesome thread.

    I have a chunk of about 3 weeks off next July, and I'm trying to get started on planning a family trip with our boys (will be 15 and 12).  I'm really tempted by the Germany/Alps stuff above (been there and loved it), but I think I'm going to save that for when they're a little older and can appreciate the finer points of Bavarian/Czech brewing.  The other idea I'm throwing around is the British Isles.  This would be our first overseas trip as a family, and neither my wife nor I have been there.

    I'm sure I'll pester the board in detail when I get to serious planning, but at this point I'm just trying to get a general framework.  I have a Griswoldian tendency to overdo/overplan, but at the same time, I'd like to get the most out of the trip since it's an investment getting over there, and we don't have a lot of summers left with them under our roof.

    Here are the nebulous ideas I have floating around in my head, without a lot of specific research (beyond what I've read on Shaggy/Surly) yet:

    Ireland:
    -- Probably fly into Dublin and spend a couple days to adjust, but planning to spend more time out of the city.
    -- A few days in Galway (sounds like our speed)
    -- Doolin/Cliffs of Insanity Moher
    -- Ring of Kerry/Gap of Dunloe area

    Scotland:
    --Edinburgh
    -- Glasgow
    -- Isle of Skye (hiking and Talisker)
    -- Islay vs. Inverness/Highlands/Spey?

    London:
    -- 3 or so days to hit some high points, eat good food, let my wife see royal shit, fly back
      
    Is this too ambitious to try to cover in one trip?  

  5. You make a good point, and I salute you for it.

    But I have to admit I am much more amused by goofing off at work playing with my smart home shit than I am by opening 19 tabs of inscrutable electric plans, setting up accounts, and other stuff that's not as fun as turning the AC off on my lazy teenager.  And this is the first week I've had to pay much attention to it, otherwise I've just set it and forget it.

  6. Yeah, I'm new to it, but I can deal with the volatility if it overall balances out.  I've had good fixed rate plans that ran out, and because I was distracted with other shit at the time, probably gave back any savings in the next month on whatever shit plan they defaulted me to (Or like when Breeze went under, and TXU tried to annex me like the Sudetenland for over 20c/kwh). 

    Like Vegas, the guys who put those plans together aren't in the business of giving away money, and I simply don't have the time or desire to try to beat the house.

  7. we are going to die harrison ford GIF

    Thanks to you assholes I pre-cooled the casa this morning and turned everything off when it started to spike.  I'll still get slammed, but hopefully that will help.  This will be an expensive, shitty month, but June and July were cheap enough for me that I'm OK riding it out. 

    Thanks to my camera, I can see that my 14yo is too distracted playing Fortnite to notice that it's 78 degrees.

  8. Absolutely. HUGE gash. A torrent just gushing through it (and smelled fishy, too).

    Learn from my mistake, fellas. Flip it over before you put it in.

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  9. 1 hour ago, zork said:

    One interesting quirk is the way PSUVue treats local stations on the level I was on, it was Core level, and will be on again here just before 8-31.  Local stations you need to be sure to have your HD antenna set up because certain games will only be shown via that and are blacked out via PSUVue.    My HD Antenna was unplugged the night Texas played OSU(the horrible game where the DB's were suspended for the first half I think)   By the time I figured out the game was blacked out and got the antenna figured out, with WTF, WTF minutes going by troubleshooting first PSUVue then antenna, I missed almost the whole shitshow first quarter.

    Point is, be ready.  PSUVue overall is worth it.  

    Edit: signed back in on the Core level.  Price has gone up but is still decent.

    Whoa, would never have thought of that.  Is it like that at all levels?  Do you think that in situations like that you could pull the game up on an app (ESPN, FOX, whatever) and cast it to the TV?

    This had not occurred to us, dude.  I don't have an HD antenna, and honestly have no idea how I'd integrate one into the system.

  10. Well, furk.  JSB may yet end up better off than me -- I stupidly took it out without giving it a thorough inspection (hey, the dog was all excited, too), and discovered a huge gash after taking on a bunch of water after about 5 min.  Guess I'll be putting Austin Canoe and Kayak customer service to the test.

    It was fun while it lasted, though.
     

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  11. My new ride finally came in.  Hoping to take it out this evening -- got home too late last night, so I just idly festooned it with stickers.

     

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  12. OK, I finally looked at my Grande bill and realized that I'm pissing away over $150/mo on cable that nobody has watched in months, so I need to get this done before football season.  While I'd prefer how Youtube TV would integrate with my other Google shit, unless anyone knows about any impending inclusion of LHN, I guess it'll be PSVue.

    Just to be sure it'll do what I want it to do, for football season I'd like to be able to watch 3-4 different games concurrently (via Chromecasts).  I understand that I can have up to 5 streams once I set a home device, so that seems like it should work, correct?  Can all of those streams be from one user profile, or would different users have to cast to each TV?  Also, if I understand correctly, Youtube TV doesn't count apps (WatchESPN, etc) as a stream - is that the same for PSVue?

  13. It's my understanding that you should be able to claim monies spent on credit monitoring since 7/2017.  It only took a minute for me to search my credit card statements and PDF those to upload, so that's something to think about.

    I won't be shocked if I only get $0.32 out of this in the end, but it's managed to satisfyingly stoke my righteous indignation.

  14. OK, trying this Kviek stuff out for the first time on an AHS Norwegian farmhouse ale.  Never had a starter krauesen this much.  Kviek evidently responds well to the brewing soundtrack of Viking Death Metal.

    What fermentation temp have y'all been using?  I was thinking somewhere between 85-95 just because I can and it's summer.

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  15. How the fuck Equifax is allowed to continue as a going concern instead of being liquidated to fucking oblivion is beyond me.  I had seven fucking fraudulent accounts I had to disentangle thanks to these cockmonglers.  Fortunately, I kept all my email correspondence , police reports, and notes labeled, so all I had to do was send them as PDFs (with a generously conservative effort of 40 hours of my life down the shitter), as well as documentation of over $600 I've spent on credit monitoring since then.

    We'll see what comes of it.  I've been wanting to add an extra TV to the game room for football season, I guess that's better than nothing.

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  16. Took the boys last Spring Break, a few changes but not a whole lot that I noticed.

    They did gut and totally re-do Farley's, it's more updated and upscale.  Food is still good if not exceptional, but had bumped up some in quality.  Large beer selection.

    Hidden Tap was a new place along the main shopping street, and is a good spot.  Thoughtful beer selection and the food is good.  It's bar food, but it's 'local' or 'craft' or whatever you want to call it, so it's not Sysco burgers and fries.  We liked it enough to go a couple times, and I'd recommend it for lunch or dinner if you get dragged out shopping.

    Log Cabin was awesome again for breakfast, and still probably the best and most reliable place in town that I've found.

  17. 1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

    It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

    In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

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  18. Yeah, unless they have changed manufacturing, I'd be hesitant to drop that much on a Pelican.

    If you're OK spending that, here's a 12' Pescador on Backcountry.com for under $600.  I bought my first yak from them and it was a good experience.  They also run steepandcheap.com, and between the two of them you can get some good deals if you're not in a hurry.

  19. I can't say I'm at all aligned with her policies either, but I can say with confidence I won't be voting for Carter.  His greatest accomplishment is being the reason the word 'feckless' was coined.  A man of destiny, there.

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