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« on: February 04, 2011, 10:04:20 am »
I think it is an interesting commentary on priorities when we compare the lack of posting on a snow day with the frequent posting on a "work" day.
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 10:08:24 am »
I think it is an interesting commentary on priorities when we compare the lack of posting on a snow day with the frequent posting on a "work" day.

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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 10:10:26 am »
I don't have a snow day, what would you like me to post about? Not much going on with the Astros.
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 10:26:40 am »
I don't have a snow day, what would you like me to post about? Not much going on with the Astros.

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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 10:31:22 am »
Mescaline goes nicely
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 10:32:36 am »
I could have posted a detailed report on my drive to work this morning, but since I don't post much and no one would care....

I'm thinking that if I have to sit in front of a computer all day for my job, and I didn't go to work today/could stay home with the kids, I probably would avoid posting that, too.

But, if it helps:


Wow. Not much traffic this morning on the EasTex, but what there was seemed slower than normal. A couple of icy spots coming into town where I saw a one jack-knifed truck and a few vehicles that lost control and slid into the side of the highway.  Several idiots on the highway driving 10 mph mixed with the drivers doing 70. I slipped along at a nice 40-50 mph for the most part, but slowed down to slower speeds when it seemed called for. I saw no sliding glass doors to drive through. Jose Cruz waived me around the corner and I pulled up at second base. I'm hoping Ensberg gets the bat off his shoulder and does just enough to let me slide into home safely here in a little while.

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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 10:39:05 am »
I've been more productive during my snow day already than I would've been at work.

Step One: Wake up, call in, discover office is closed.

Step Two: Bundle up, go outside and admire the snow.

Step Three: Realize snow is cold, go inside and make a fire.

Step Four: Wait for roommate to wake up, pack a snowball on the back patio, wait for him to go out the front door, grab said snowball, AMBUSH! Sucker.

Step Five: Notice little kids having a snowball fight outside. Get involved.

Step Five: Realize I'm freezing to death and can't feel my hands anymore. Come back inside to enjoy the fire.

Step Six: Make pancakes.

Step Seven: Post on the internet about said activities.

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« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 10:44:40 am »
Do you have any beverage suggestions for pairing with homemade Shepherd's Pie?

Spitfire or Master Brew.

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« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 10:47:06 am »
I could post how warm and humid it is here but that would make me a dick.
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« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2011, 10:49:52 am »
I could post how warm and humid it is here but that would make me a dick.
or maybe just confirm it?

btw -- it is warmer here in Berlin than in Austin.
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« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2011, 10:54:04 am »
or maybe just confirm it?

btw -- it is warmer here in Berlin than in Austin.

Draw your own conclusions. I won't say though, how pissed off I was that I was sweating on the way to work.
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« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2011, 11:29:50 am »
After surgery on Monday, I've just been hanging out at the Slack Shack all week recuperating. I've been watching the Showtime series Weeds via Netflix and I'm on season 5 today. Man, what a fucking crazy TV show. Not as good or well done as Deadwood or the Wire but very entertaining, on par with Six Feet Under, especially in terms of dark comedy. I've never had Showtime, so I've missed all of their shows. Next I'm going to watch either Californication or Dexter. Any recs on which of the two is better, more interesting, more compelling...etc?
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« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2011, 11:43:11 am »
I would talk about the weather here in DC, but nobody give a fuck about 40. Nobody remember 40, and y'all niggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days! What the fuck?

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« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2011, 12:15:08 pm »
I would talk about the weather here in DC, but nobody give a fuck about 40. Nobody remember 40, and y'all niggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days! What the fuck?

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« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2011, 12:21:09 pm »
Next I'm going to watch either Californication or Dexter. Any recs on which of the two is better, more interesting, more compelling...etc?

Never got into watching Californication, but highly recommend Dexter.
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« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2011, 12:21:44 pm »
Spitfire or Master Brew.

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« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2011, 12:21:56 pm »
Wow.  Impressive threadkilling skills.

I needed to get some work done.

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« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2011, 12:23:28 pm »
Never got into watching Californication, but highly recommend Dexter.

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« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2011, 12:44:45 pm »
After surgery on Monday, I've just been hanging out at the Slack Shack all week recuperating. I've been watching the Showtime series Weeds via Netflix and I'm on season 5 today. Man, what a fucking crazy TV show. Not as good or well done as Deadwood or the Wire but very entertaining, on par with Six Feet Under, especially in terms of dark comedy. I've never had Showtime, so I've missed all of their shows. Next I'm going to watch either Californication or Dexter. Any recs on which of the two is better, more interesting, more compelling...etc?

I'm on Season 2 of Weeds myself.  Californication was good, but I was pissed to discover after watching Season 1 that Netflix doesnt stream the rest.

We're also watching Nip/Tuck.  First two seasons have been good
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« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2011, 12:45:59 pm »
I would talk about the weather here in DC, but nobody give a fuck about 40. Nobody remember 40, and y'all niggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days! What the fuck?

Just saw that episode!  Another one Netflix doesnt stream... fuckers
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« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2011, 12:57:35 pm »
Recently viewed the first season of "Deadwood" yet again.  A resounding "Fuck You" to anyone associated with HBO who had a hand in not mandating its return.
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« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2011, 12:58:57 pm »
Recently viewed the first season of "Deadwood" yet again.  A resounding "Fuck You" to anyone associated with HBO who had a hand in not mandating its return.

Just to cheer you up, I will remind you that it was cancelled to make way for "John from Cincinnati".  Did anyone ever find out why that bloke levitated?  Did anyone even care?
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« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2011, 12:59:55 pm »
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« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2011, 01:27:00 pm »
Just to cheer you up, I will remind you that it was cancelled to make way for "John from Cincinnati".  Did anyone ever find out why that bloke levitated?  Did anyone even care?

I cared.  That was a brilliant show though it didnt lend itself to casual viewing.
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« Reply #24 on: February 04, 2011, 01:50:13 pm »
After surgery on Monday, I've just been hanging out at the Slack Shack all week recuperating. I've been watching the Showtime series Weeds via Netflix and I'm on season 5 today. Man, what a fucking crazy TV show. Not as good or well done as Deadwood or the Wire but very entertaining, on par with Six Feet Under, especially in terms of dark comedy. I've never had Showtime, so I've missed all of their shows. Next I'm going to watch either Californication or Dexter. Any recs on which of the two is better, more interesting, more compelling...etc?
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« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2011, 02:14:28 pm »
I cared.  That was a brilliant show though it didnt lend itself to casual viewing.

Agreed. Finally I can admit that in public.
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« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2011, 04:33:52 pm »
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« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2011, 06:44:41 pm »
Just to cheer you up, I will remind you that it was cancelled to make way for "John from Cincinnati".  Did anyone ever find out why that bloke levitated?  Did anyone even care?

I just started watching Deadwood on demand the last few weeks. I didn't realize it was halted for that terrible show.

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« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2011, 07:27:34 pm »
I just started watching Deadwood on demand the last few weeks. I didn't realize it was halted for that terrible show.

It wasnt.  And, it wasnt.
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« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2011, 10:20:52 pm »
Okay, I went with Dexter. Looks very promising. Another well done quirky dark comedy but I knew that just from the press I had read. I quite enjoyed the first three episodes.
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« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2011, 10:21:58 pm »
Okay, I went with Dexter. Looks very promising. Another well done quirky dark comedy but I knew that just from the press I had read. I quite enjoyed the first three episodes.

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« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2011, 07:09:36 am »
Draw your own conclusions. I won't say though, how pissed off I was that I was sweating on the way to work.

We are roughly on the same longitude.  Well, no we're not, I'm more like on a level with Tallahassee . . . but anyway, it is cold as fuck here, and precipitating off and on.  But I am betting we'll see no snow.  That's about right.

Lots of snow days back in the early eighties, IIRC.



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The first thing we do when it snows here, and actually stays on the ground long enough to play in it (three times in my life, so far), is get some people together and play football.  Fun as hell.  And, if one is old enough to remember, it reminds one of December games back in Chicago and Green Bay and especially Minnesota in the pre-dome, pre-synthetic turf days; when the snow would fall throughout the game and obscure the field and pile up on the sidelines.  It seemed surreal, like the players were moving in slow motion.

There is little better in life for someone who grew up in a sub-tropical temperate zone than getting wiped out along the sideline or (better yet) in the end zone, and then sliding along for it seems like forever on a sheet of ice and mud.

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« Reply #32 on: February 05, 2011, 09:16:18 am »
We are roughly on the same longitude.  Well, no we're not, I'm more like on a level with Tallahassee . . .


I had no idea that College Station was due north of Tallahassee.  Wow.
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« Reply #33 on: February 05, 2011, 09:47:12 am »
I had no idea that College Station was due north of Tallahassee.  Wow.

He lives in the Big Money, not College Station, but yeah, either way his GPS needs some recalibration.
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« Reply #34 on: February 05, 2011, 02:04:42 pm »
He lives in the Big Money, not College Station, but yeah, either way his GPS needs some recalibration.
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« Reply #35 on: February 05, 2011, 02:52:26 pm »
He lives in the Big Money, not College Station, but yeah, either way his GPS needs some recalibration.

It's cool, as long as it can take me back to south Tallahassee
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« Reply #36 on: February 05, 2011, 06:58:33 pm »
So does your sarc meter.

You know, my apologies, I normally don't plumb the depths of subtlety looking for Aggie humor. Sheep fucking, repressed homosexuality among the buzz cut set, white unitards, that's pretty much my stock in trade as far as Aggie humor goes.
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« Reply #37 on: February 06, 2011, 07:40:29 am »
You know, my apologies, I normally don't plumb the depths of subtlety looking for Aggie humor. Sheep fucking, repressed homosexuality among the buzz cut set, white unitards, that's pretty much my stock in trade as far as Aggie humor goes.

it escaped me too.
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« Reply #38 on: February 06, 2011, 08:49:35 am »
it escaped me too.
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Original use of "longitude" in a context where "latitude" was clearly intended struck me as reflecting poorly on the author's education.

Jumping quickly to the stereotype (even while freely admitting that that stereotype no longer applies even if it ever did) I thought of Texas A&M.

Since the author had referenced Tallahassee in the original post, I carried that through (along with the erroneous north/south orientation) in my follow-up ... substituting the locale (College Station) for the institution.
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« Reply #39 on: February 06, 2011, 12:10:58 pm »
Hey, look, I understand what you were doing and I appreciate your attempt to elevate the conversation around here. But as you imply, I think if you kept it to queer sheep fucking we'd all be a lot more comfortable.
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« Reply #40 on: February 06, 2011, 01:22:10 pm »
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Original use of "longitude" in a context where "latitude" was clearly intended struck me as reflecting poorly on the author's education.

Jumping quickly to the stereotype (even while freely admitting that that stereotype no longer applies even if it ever did) I thought of Texas A&M.

Since the author had referenced Tallahassee in the original post, I carried that through (along with the erroneous north/south orientation) in my follow-up ... substituting the locale (College Station) for the institution.
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well, if your audience is to consist of folks who are smart enough to follow all that, just speak to your mirror.
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« Reply #41 on: February 06, 2011, 01:52:49 pm »

well, if your audience is to consist of folks who are smart enough to follow all that, just speak to your mirror.
It would be too boring for the audience if I did that.
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« Reply #42 on: February 06, 2011, 03:54:10 pm »
Hey, look, I understand what you were doing and I appreciate your attempt to elevate the conversation around here. But as you imply, I think if you kept it to queer sheep fucking we'd all be a lot more comfortable.

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