The Swamp

garyclark

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:43 pm
garyclark wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:40 pm Saw a dude waterskiing at dawn right off Lakeshore Drive in Chicago this morning.

I got a pretty cool photo of it, and I'd share here, but all my pics from my phone seem too big for The Swamp. Any tips on that?
Link to your IG post. It was nice, BTW.

Thanks!

garyclark

Saw a dude waterskiing at dawn right off Lakeshore Drive in Chicago this morning.

I got a pretty cool photo of it, and I'd share here, but all my pics from my phone seem too big for The Swamp. Any tips on that?

garyclark

Caught the Diamondbacks game at Chase Field. Pretty great atmosphere, and a packed stadium. The stadium itself is good. Though I didn't partake, they had excellent food and beer options. My pro tip is that if you are willing to walk 10 minutes, you can park for $20 instead of $60. This is active ML...

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I set a dangerous precedent. I was so frustrated by Newcastle's play and lack of effort, which resulted in them going down 1-0 at Wolves. So I turned off the TV to go on a rage-walk to calm down instead of letting these guys ruin my Sunday. When I got back, they had come back to win 2-1. So now when...

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Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 10:53 am
garyclark wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 11:21 pm Arizona "2 GENDS"

Sigh.
Maybe the driver is proudly claiming they’re bi-gender?

Always look on the bright side of life!

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Just found out Delta SkyClubs are switching their NA beer from Bud to Heineken starting tomorrow, which is a wonderful surprise. I used to spend loads of time at various Delta SkyClubs around the country. Used to love eating breakfast in SFO before a dawn flight. My favorite was one at the end of t...

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A_B wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 5:34 pmMan U is bAck baby!

Will be interesting to see how they play moving forward. In soccer, a moment can really swing the momentum of a season.

And Onana's double penalty save (even though it was a soft penalty Brererton-Diaz's follow-up header was weak as sh*t) might just be that moment.

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Just found out Delta SkyClubs are switching their NA beer from Bud to Heineken starting tomorrow, which is a wonderful surprise.

garyclark

Caught the Diamondbacks game at Chase Field. Pretty great atmosphere, and a packed stadium. The stadium itself is good. Though I didn't partake, they had excellent food and beer options. My pro tip is that if you are willing to walk 10 minutes, you can park for $20 instead of $60. This is active MLB...

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Arizona "2 GENDS"

Sigh.

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Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 10:36 am
This is so great. Congratulations!

Thanks!

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I see you, Nottingham.

Manchester United looked so lost for the first 30. Southampton should have been up at least 2-0. Onana bailed them out.

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govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:19 am Congratulations!

Thanks!

garyclark

That's great! I had success with meal logging in MyFitnessPal, too (really helped during the spring/summer of Covid when there was nothing to do but eat and drink), but have had a difficult time restarting the habit after I let it drop at some point. Yeah. This is all so much about habits. My new m...

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govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:20 am Bought their Oktoberfest yesterday. Also, Whole Foods had a hop water variety pack. Grabbed it as well.

The Radler and the Oktoberfest are the two I like from them so far.

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This is the type of math I like ... 0 alcohol + >5 miles a day walking/light jogging = -10.5 pounds (n=32 days). I've also been entering my daily calories into MyFitnessPal. The mere fact that I have to enter food there has stopped me on a number of occasions from unhealthy snacking, which just goes...

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Had my new favorite Athletic product last night ...

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:36 am That reminds me. I have a photo of a Swamp meetup in New York on an external hard drive somewhere.

I gotta find it. It has him, Ed Zipper, Howard, that young'n Red Sox fan that got confused for BSF a couple times, and several others.

Would love to see it.

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The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:50 pm Look like 1960s Montreal Canadians

... wearing khakis.

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NY Giants uniforms in week 1 were disgusting. Looked even worse live.

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I know they were missing a few key guys, but... Holy shit were the US bad yesterday. Canada, very easily, could've been up 4-0 at HT. They missed 2 or 3 sitters AND our goal stole at least 2 standing on his head. I get that the program is in flux, but these guys are professionals and Canada isn't T...

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A number of my friends in NOLA have evacuated off for the next few days with Francine now officially a hurricane.

Many have already lost power. Hope it moves quickly when it hits.

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This is my least favorite international break because it is so soon into the season.

Jonesing for the weekend.

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MOONLIGHT GRAHAM.

What a legend. If you haven't watched Bingo Long's Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, now's a good time. An imperfect, but important, movie. Great article about it here if you aren't familiar.

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Some of my recent reads: City of Falling Angels - read it because I'm heading to Venice. First half of the book was fantastic. Second half, which mostly focuses on a bunch of rich American board members bickering and the death of an erotic poet, was pretty awful in my opinion. Bone in the Throat by ...

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Finally watched The Bikeriders tonight. It’s a good movie and worth seeing but it’s like the actors are in different movies. Tom Hardy is doing a two-hour Brando impression. Austin Butler is beautiful but doing some kind of James Dean thing. Jodie Comer’s Midwestern accent is almost offensive to th...

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Fast Charlie with Pierce Brosnan (and a really old and sick-looking James Caan) is on The Hulu.

Solid action thriller.

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Rewatched Road to Perdition . Good gracious, is that a well-made movie. Incredible cast: Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ciarán Hinds Plot, acting, writing, set, costume, cinematography, score. It has some incredible lines and scenes. The wake, th...

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I mean, Gretzky, right?

Secretariat.

I'm not a boxing expert, but don't people consider Ali the goat?

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I won't remember the details exactly. But one other thing I learned about OKC is that there used to be many areas - where people built homes and business and I think this includes most of downtown - where tornadoes touching down were really rare. It's one of the reasons people built there. But in or...

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We had our annual 10-team PPR auction (bengal and Jpops co-commish).

We have 11 bench spots, so I grabbed Brooks with one. My team will likely be midpack unless Bijan and Etienne really go off.

Need to decide on my Week 1 flex (Keon Coleman, Khalil Shakir, Jerry Jeudy, Chase Brown).

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Maybe I should dip back in there, but it felt like a bunch of milquetoast white dudes trying to sound smart. Which is probably most of the content on the internet, and in podcasts. But at bluesky there wasn't anything else to distract me from the sadness of that.

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Sorry! garyclark...you are hereby eliminated! NEXT... While the World Cup, the Jason Grimsley story and, to a lesser extent, the death of Al-Zarqawi have probably held you guys over, I assume most have been waiting anxiously for resolution to my dilemma. Here it is ... a well timed sale at Brooks B...

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I always wanted to visit Tulsa. Haven't made it yet. But I visited Oklahoma City a couple years ago. My org co-planned a small convening that was hosted there with a local organization. They have some really good restaurants and bars. Lots of different cuisines. Public art and murals celebrating div...

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Just dropping in to say I spend less and less time there. It feels increasingly toxic and irrelevant. I follow mostly baseball accounts, and yet like 50% of the posts are people I follow posting sad/angry things that have nothing to do with baseball, 25% of them are posting content that is redundant...

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Sorry! garyclark...you are hereby eliminated! NEXT... While the World Cup, the Jason Grimsley story and, to a lesser extent, the death of Al-Zarqawi have probably held you guys over, I assume most have been waiting anxiously for resolution to my dilemma. Here it is ... a well timed sale at Brooks B...

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Manchester United looked absolutely lost out there today. Poor Casemiro is ready for either the Saudi league or MLS. And Gravenberch is a revelation as the defensive mid for Liverpool. As a Newcastle fan, I was thrilled that they kept Erik ten Hag. He has never seemed to have that clubhouse. And he...

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Baloney wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:00 pm 2-0 and you fucked it up,
2-0 and you fucked it up,
2-0 and you fucked it up,

Well done.

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Manchester United looked absolutely lost out there today. Poor Casemiro is ready for either the Saudi league or MLS. And Gravenberch is a revelation as the defensive mid for Liverpool. As a Newcastle fan, I was thrilled that they kept Erik ten Hag. He has never seemed to have that clubhouse. And he...

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govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:28 pm Love a Negroni. Feel free to use that bourbon or rye instead of gin and have a Boulevardier.

Negronis have been my favorite cocktail for over a decade now. The complexity of flavors is so nice.

Boulevadier is a nice alternative as well. Not quite as balanced as a proper Negroni though.

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