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  1. I've only lived here for 18 years, so I still haven't gotten a compliment yet. We've had a couple of Blackstacks at recent happy hours, although I can't recall what they were without looking them up on Untappd. But I didn't find any of them particularly memorable, which is mostly a clue that I may taste beers too indiscriminately at times. Furious is one I do favor -- the whole group does -- along with pretty much anything I've had from Toppling Goliath. That's much more helpful than what the AI gave me -- thanks for both posts of insight. Apparently the bot only visited the Great Lakes website and left it at that.
  2. That was Faulknerian. Except the part about the Colgate.
  3. Who's Tent? Why are you all up in Tent's shit? All this was not my intent.
  4. When shit's getting intense, it's probably de' railing by d' shits that makes it that way. Judy's confirmed this.
  5. Shits, getting intense, amiright?
  6. Damnit, I already fell for that once.
  7. I love IPAs but haven't really reached the point of being able to properly distinguish among/articulate the points of different sub-styles. So what's your understanding of what a Midwest IPA is -- more malt, perhaps, or different malt? The AI gives me a superficial and perhaps incorrect summary and I don't feel like talking to it any more. You seem to know your stuff (and not just username checks out and all). I'm trying to get a little further down that road but am not too far yet. I'm not even sure the photo does the beer justice in the first place. It was in my neighbor's man cave during our Sunday happy hour, a proper midwestern basement on a snowy and ill-lit day. Think I'll go see what Karben⁴ says about it, if anything.
  8. What @Derka said. He knows. Hell, we all know. Not just all these Surly folks, but every iteration of every poster who's ever been on all the Texas boards that led to this one ... sometimes flawed, but always funny, profane, human, smart as hell, accomplished, tough. Longhorns. Hook 'em, @ztejas.
  9. Shows up right away for me on ESPN app on my desktop. Also on the ESPN app on the NVIDIA Pro on my living room TV -- first time in a couple of weeks that it's worked that way (meaning properly). Still puzzled that it doesn't show up on YouTube TV on the NVIDIA, even though when I stream through ESPN, it shows the YTTV logo on the screen. Apparently SECN+ or somebody is starting to work out some of the necessary coordination. Just happy to see the game without having to work at it for 15 minutes. Chained to the desktop for now but nice to see the game when I walk from the office to the kitchen, too.
  10. That's tragic. Very sorry to hear that. My wife is a Tica and part of our honeymoon, long ago, was spent at Sí Como No in Quepos. Another portion was at Villa Caletas outside Jacó, where we had stopped for ceviche before proceeding to the hotel. The ceviche apparently was what kept me looking at a spectacular view of the Gulf of Nicoya from bed for far too long and for all the wrong reasons.
  11. The Bowie association is a little less clear, based on what that article says, but I'm going to look into it a little more -- partly because one of my students just chose "Space Oddity" as a song to analyze for relationships to some of the textbook principles in our communication class, and we're going to talk about it. Coincidentally, I was in a music studio in Australia with another class the day after Bowie died, and the studio director played "Space Oddity" on high volume with studio-quality speakers as a tribute to open our session. That was powerful. (Another aside: it was the studio where "Under the Milky Way," another '80s great, was recorded, and hearing that at the same volume, in the place where it was mixed by the guys who mixed it, was an incredible experience.) But yeah, "Major Tom" and the side story are badass. Even in German, the song is more than catchy for non-German speakers. The English version falls only a touch short and apparently it was peaking on the charts around the time Rick McIvor was taking the Aggies apart in 1983 (a game I listened to on AFN).
  12. You probably knew this, @Mittens, but I did not know that "Major Tom" had become the unofficial goal-scoring anthem for the German national team (learned this watching a replay of Sunday's Italy matchup in the Nations League quarterfinal), nor that there was a really strong Stuttgart tie. (from The Athletic -- if anyone wants the whole thing, I can post.) No idea that Peter Schilling was offered a contract by VfB Stuttgart and turned it down to follow his musical dream. Nor this from 2024: And there's a further Stuttgart tie in that Mittelstädt scored the goal when they first played it. Adidas apparently had as much to do with this as anything. The company's "Typisch Deutsch" campaign is a blast. The song was a hit when I was a student in Mainz. It's part of my German playlist, and the football tie and the story behind that make it so much more cool. Man, what a great song.
  13. Well, just to be clear, I was attempting (regardless of how successful I may not have been) to make a Big Balls joke to lower the intensity level rather than raise it. And to help establish my nonpartisan bona fides, I hereby nominate CDC as King of the World. He will provide both excellent entertainment value and economic boom times for all -- meanwhile maintaining a relatively low-key and dignified example for everyone to live by. Also, fuck OU. The King would probably let them stay in our orbit, but if he said "no," I'd be OK with that, too.
  14. True. And maybe they'll even let him take over all the research grants, which would be tremendous for graduate transfers and probably help us get rid of some cockroaches both in and outside of the state.
  15. Well, to be fair, the unfortunate coincidence with the Centers for Disease Control acronym does bring back painful memories of what his job had to be when he got here ... and maybe still is on occasion. But, yeah, as long as we are able to keep him safe from Big Balls and the other carried-away-with-slashing-and-burning DOGE boys -- no Cloak Room -- we should stick with CDC.
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