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jimmyjazz

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  1. I know he was going against the 2nd team, but that little shift into high gear on his 2nd TD was a thing of beauty. Couldn't have been more than 3-4 strides but woop! he was behind those dudes.
  2. Nobody said he sucks as a coach. We're saying he sucks as a human being and we don't want him here. This isn't difficult, except apparently for you.
  3. Reminds me of when my best friend got beat in a mixed cross country event by one of our girls. We gave him loads of shit, even though he was sick at the time. She ended up winning state in the 800m and cross country, was an All-American and 10-time all-state, and then won a conference title at Mizzou. OK, so it's not so bad getting beat by her.
  4. . . . and 5th grade baserunners, at least one of which had no idea of the rules and didn't even want to be out there.
  5. This you? Oh, KICKball.
  6. Oh hell no. Fuck that guy. I wouldn't watch a game if we hired that jackass.
  7. OK, the kissing booth and the ski goggles got me. Years ago I went to the Basset Hound Olympics in Oregon. Talk about heaven. The best event was "napping". It was a field full of Basset Hounds with their owners trying to get them to fall asleep. First dog to nod off won the gold.
  8. $2K for one of those ugly ass rings?
  9. Unfortunate, if true. We should be able to outspend just about any school, even for basketball.
  10. Wristwatch talk not going away.
  11. The thing I can appreciate as a math guy is the use of convolution processes to actually sample the sonic fingerprint of certain spaces, etc. My ability to stick a band in Abbey Road Studios -- not just approximately, but accurately in a mathematic sense -- it blows my mind, and I understand the science. It doesn't work in all worlds, it's not as good (yet) for say a guitar amp but it will get there. Still gotta play well, still have to put the mic in the right spots on the kit and avoid shitty room acoustics printing to "tape", etc. but I believe the world is almost wide open for those who want to honor the past in a modern way.
  12. Yeah, I got to work on one of those once. Not as the engineer, just an old band of mine. Holy shit that thing sounded great even when the "artist" didn't!
  13. Engineering and production techniques are just so different now. If you liked the sound of "back then" (whenever that was), then you might be turned off by what's going on now. If you like what's going on now, you might be turned off by what was going on "back then". There are certain differences that are almost inarguable, even if they don't necessarily imply a quality issue. Analog vs digital. A few tracks vs a near-infinite number of tracks. Personally, I think digital sounds fine when used properly. I think certain plugins sound fine. As far as the near-infinite number of tracks go, that's an interesting topic. "Back in the day" limited resources forced the artists and engineers and producers to make quick calls in the heat of the moment -- "should we erase this and try again or just keep it?". There is some beauty in that. It definitely unclogs the mixing process, BUT there is risk that the best take might have been erased. Artists understood this and learned to compromise. Now, it's almost impossible to mix some songs because there are just too many choices to weed through. (At least it's hard for me.) The other thing that I don't hear as much chatter about is signal chain choice along with things like mic placement. Multiple flavors abound. For awhile there was an obsession over a studio having a dozen or more fantastic mic preamps, EQs and compressors, multiple copies of a dozen great microphones, etc. Ironically, a huge number of great records have been made by using the console preamps almost exclusively, especially if they are classics like Neves and APIs and even SSLs (hey to Paul W). The same goes for relying on a couple of great compressors and maybe one or two great reverb units. Shit, we've all heard HUGE classic hits that used a Shure SM57 for almost everything, a mic that is still available for $90. That philosophy can be carried forward into the modern world, even in the mix regime. I rely almost exclusively on two EQs -- one that comes with my DAW (Reaper), and one that emulates a Neve 1073 extremely well. I use maybe two compressor plugins. Two reverbs. I just can't stand a shootout of a dozen plugins when I'm trying to mix a fucking song, AND I'm a nobody. Back to then vs now -- a huge number of classic records were recorded mostly live in the studio. There can be an organic vibe that results, and microphone bleed can actually help "glue" the sound. Plenty of current artists still try to work that way; for instance, Wilco. They are less concerned with "mistakes" making it to the mix than they are with art, and I think it works, at least for them. Last thing: we were listening to a Teddy Swims song in the car today. I pointed out to my wife the overreliance on autotune, and said I felt he is a good enough singer not to need it. THEN it hit part of the song where he started reaching up into his higher register and it was clearly NOT autotuned, and it sounded fantastic. Two lines later, he's back in his mid-voice and the pitches are not only perfect but robotic. Just fucking infuriating. So, a lot of words with probably very little insight. SOP for me.
  14. Flu A in the house. <sigh> Only one kid . . . so far.
  15. I've eaten at some places that used 12,000 year old cooks.
  16. I thought of Delp, but he had been out of the scene forever when he sadly died. He was apparently a super nice guy, too. You just never know.
  17. CDC would have to take a minute to stop laughing before answering that call.
  18. He can close the deal before the season is over and just keep it under wraps.
  19. Meanwhile, the United States is deporting people (checks notes) solely based on their race.
  20. Our younger two kids are currently at UT via CAP. Well, one is taking the semester off to play rock star. She got in through UTSA, but that was the covid year, so classes were all online from home. Not exactly a traditional freshman year. Her little brother did his freshman year at UT-Tyler. All three of his roommates were Austinites who were in the CAP program, and he had another very good friend in from K-12 in that "CAP wing", one hall over. A couple of those guys could have switched to UT-Austin but enjoyed Tyler enough to stay there. I think that happens fairly often. Choices abound, and as was said before, each kid is different. Our son actually considered staying at Tyler to play soccer, but common sense eventually prevailed.
  21. Pick from a hundred articles? Radio interview, I believe. No interest in digging it back up, this organization is fully fucked.
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