109 thoughts on “March 4th, 2015: Re-Load”

  1. I had Re-Load stolen from my freshman dorm room. I had bought it within the week. It and the empty case* of Blow It Out Your Ass... It's Veruca Salt were the only items taken.
    Roommate and I typically kept our door open**, and those CDs were near the door on a dresser. Probably was a quick lift from someone on the floor. It could have been worse, it could have been something difficult to replace***, like Coil.

    *Or was it that the Veruca Salt disc was in the case of Re-Load? No, I remember thinking how excited they must be to get an empty case.
    **Winter thermostat in the building was fixed on "Make your pillar candles sag". We eventually switched to keeping our window open as far as possible.
    ***I did not replace Re-Load. Was it any good?

        1. I listened to Re-Load a few times.
          Definitely better than my one aborted listen to Lulu.

          1. I had no idea something like Lulu even existed. I listened to a couple songs. I think that was more than enough.

        2. I have never listened to all of St. Anger so I can't really say. I am guessing it isn't quite as bad, though.

          1. The production on St. Anger is the most unintentionally hilarious music related thing I've ever had the (mis?)fortune of listening to.

              1. Everything sounds like it was recorded on a $10 budget. Lars' drums sound like he was slapping a plastic bag full of ground beef with his palm. All the cymbals sound tinny. I was blown away the album was released in that state. Add to that James singing nuggets like "MY LIFE STYLE DETERMINES MY DEATH STYLE" and you have an all time terrible record that ends up being hilarious.

                1. OK, I need to hear some of it. Any song I should focus on? That sample lyric sounds promising.

                  1. I guess "Frantic" is probably the way to go. That's the first song on the album, and it also has a tremendously bad chorus.

    2. **Winter thermostat in the building was fixed on "Make your pillar candles sag". We eventually switched to keeping our window open as far as possible.

      Heh.

      Greekhouse may appreciate -- I was in the first year of males to live in Nourse Hall at the Alma Mater (as a freshman). Our temperature control mechanism during winter quarter was, likewise, to open windows. Gotta love old-timey steam-register heating.

  2. I just wanted to say that I've been reading baseball news every day the last few days. Even mundane bits like "no, Pelfry probably won't be in the bullpen" are exciting me.

    Also, I've accepted an offer to be an assistant county attorney in a small, western part of the state (not horribly far from Wilmar or Morris or even Alex).

      1. Relocation to the in-laws' for a less awful (but still unreasonably long) commute until we find something to relocate to in or around the town.

        1. Congrats on that.

          My current commute is 45-50 minutes long, if it makes you feel any better in terms of long-ish commutes.

            1. tell it to the Boss. 🙂

              but seriously, that may be a long commute (uh, it is), but wouldn't be so unusual in an urban setting. Enjoy some podcasts. Maybe Magoo will get the series going again!

      1. I do still need to officially pass the background check, but I've signed the offer sheet and I have a start date, so I'm feeling pretty good.

        1. I was going to guess by your CdL moderating that the date was out there a ways...not that you'd let a new job and commute stop you...

          1. I full intend to let my new job and commute stop me. At least for a while. Last hurrah, and all that.

            Which reminds me, people should sign up for werewolf over at the CdL.

    4. Hooray! I hope the job turns out to be everything you want it to be. And if not, I hope it's at least a lot better than where you've been!

          1. I'm seriously considering foregoing rugby and/or footy in favor of curling when I move.

    7. Congrats on the job. Small towns have their pluses and minuses. You may really fall in love with it!

      One thing I miss about a small town is that there is little to do. That may sound ridiculous, but it is much easier to get a group of people together in a small town than it is in a metro area. If you tell people you're having a bbq, you'll get about 90% to show up in a small town.

        1. Went to a fish fry on Friday in SBGville. Placed was packed. PACKED! Saw all kinds of folks I hadn't seen in a while.

    10. Congratulations, dingus! I almost let the cat out of the bag, having forgotten you hadn't done so here.

      So, you've got the job...halfway there. Now let's hope you don't hate this one, eh? Seriously, well done, and all my best.

      1. I expect to write a post or two for the site in the near future following up on this, but, based on the interview, and the people I know who know the people I'll be working with, I think it's going to be a very enjoyable environment for working. I'll work hard, and learn a lot, and there will be challenges, but the environment appears to be legitimately supportive. I'm excited.

    13. I have experience in all three of those example cities...all I can say is, Good Luck!

      I'm only joaking - this is outstanding news. Congratulations buddy, I know it's been a long time coming.

    18. Congrats sir! We will definitely have to have a gathering of locals. I am guessing you will be south of Alex?

  3. Last call for cribbage players! I have 14 now, which is fine because I could give brianS and Beau (last year's finalists) byes into the second round. Still, I'll keep it open until 8pm Central tonight and keep the cap at sixteen.

    2. FYI, if you have an android phone and want a pretty good free app, I'd suggest Cribbage Club. I play it at the highest level and still win > 3/4 of the time, which may be my only complaint.

  4. From the October 5, 1987 Sporting News:

    Marge Schott, in a thinly veiled attempt to fill the stands for the Cincinnati Reds' final weekend home series, asked Manager Pete Rose to activate himself and play "for all the young fans and kids" who had never seen him in action. Pete Rose gave the majority owner a polite "No thanks" saying he didn't have enough time to prepare.

    Rose and Schott were meant for each other.

  5. So I use a British woman's voice on the GPS because she sounds more intelligent. It doesn't work. btw, when she says, "Bear right" and I think, "bears are cool" is someone getting to me?

        1. I'll accept both responses and guess that Jeff A hasn't seen the movie for a long, long time.

          1. Yes, it has been a long, long time. I really should remedy that if I ever get the time.

    1. I'll drop a link for other scattered WGOMers who hadn't heard. This is very interesting. I think it's probably past the point where we should be allowing this. I'm not buying that there's a slippery slope here. That's as far as I'd go without cover of Spoiler, but that pretty well sums it up anyway.

      Very interesting to see this pop up in the heartland. It strikes me as surprisingly progressive for the Dakotas.

      1. I think he means this story. I heard rumors of this years ago, but I knew Hamline had to get its finances in order to make it work. I think it's a good thing, and the schools have a decent enough synergy (SBG Schools's strengths like IP law pair nicely with Hamline's like ADR).

        1. I remember hearing of it as a possibility some time ago too. It seems a good move, and hopefully cuts back a little on the flood of law school grads in the area.

          1. The flood of law school grads has been slowed by the precipitous drop in applicants, which led to the merger.

          2. The flood of law school grads coupled with the economic downturn, resulting in major reductions in new associate positions (and commensurate increase in contract & staff attorney positions) and the ensuing drop in recent law school grad wages, led to the precipitous drop in applicants, which led to the merger.

            1. I mean, there's a Twitter bot that responds to people tweeting about considering law school to not do it. That was hilariously sobering when I was on one of my late night thought overload dumps.

              I'm considering taking the LSAT to see if I can luck into a full ride somewhere, but I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't happen.

              1. I'm considering taking the LSAT to see if I can luck into a full ride somewhere

                That's pretty much exactly what happened to me. Then I turned it down in order to go to a much more expensive law school. Proof, I suppose, that my intelligence is outweighed by my stupidity.

                1. It'd have to be the right situation for me to accept it; i.e., almost no cost out of my pocket and hopefully something I could do while I continued to work. But I mean, I have a pretty mediocre GPA (though pretty good when you consider I came back from something in the mid 1s when I originally returned to school!) and the idea of more school is daunting. I just... want to do something good for the world. I can do small scale good/help in my current job but I'd rather do a hell of a lot more.

                  Who knows what'll happen I guess.

                  1. Zack - DON'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL. Get your MBA or a graduate degree in public policy or somesuch. Despite vocal protests to the contrary, most non-legal employers have no idea how to quantify a JD. So, unless you're passionate about practicing law, you can do something good for the world via other (more practical) means.

                    1. most non-legal employers have no idea how to quantify a JD.

                      Oy. I found this out, and then some, over the past six months.

                    2. While I generally agree with Corny's advice, JDs are pretty common in gubmint. Staff counsel jobs, legislative staff jobs (particularly committee staff), legislative offices in departments/agencies, yadda yadda.

                    3. bS - you must have some deep connections in MN political circles. Either that, or you're stalking me. Or perhaps it's just serendipity.

                      I'm waiting on a response to my counter-offer for a position in, you guessed it, my state gubmint department's legislative office.

                      My statement holds true in these circumstances as well - the offer from HR was low due in no small part to their inability to quantify my JD.

                2. More like your intelligence was outweighed by your hubris.*

                  *the much more expensive law school came attached to a prominent name.

                    3. I don't think you could give an owl a bris.
                      Few birds have even the basic equipment. Waterfowl do, so I guess it's not impossible owls do.
                      Crows, being passerines only have "cloacal openings" for both sexes. One more reason they don't over-breed and can be really bored. (See that article I linked to.)

                    4. I don't think you could give an owl a bris.

                      which, of course, is why the term fits!

        2. 90! first years at Hamline. Like COC, I don't have much of a connection to my law school, maybe because I sometimes wish I hadn't gone. Frankly, my first thought was about the annual hockey game between the schools coming to an end. If you can't beat em, join em!

    2. Not until now.
      I don't feel enough connection to that place to have an opinion about the move ... other than that I don't care for the new name.

            1. I want to play SelectShow

    1. “I ain’t tripping half of them don’t even know me,” Marcum wrote. It’s not clear what that means.

  10. Tonight’s Twins lineup

    Buxton CF

    Nunez SS

    Herrmann DH

    Vargas 1B

    Sano 3B

    Rosario LF

    Fryer C

    Beresford 2B

    Robinson RF

    Berrios RHP

    Game time 6 p.m. CT and it's on FSN.

  12. OK, now that Ive seen the new uniforms on the players, I change my mind. They look all right.

  13. Anybody else see Hamburger pitch tonight? I sure hope he has a wife or sister named Patty.

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