For Northwestern baseball fans, this was about the only highlight from the weekend with Rutgers, who swept us in the three game series!
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Michigan this morning. April 25. C'mon Man !!!
No **** man, this weather is stupid. We had a pretty serious freeze yesterday morning and it zapped anything that was green. Got down to 24 degrees in balmy central IL.
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Anybody break any of the windows in the flats?For Northwestern baseball fans, this was about the only highlight from the weekend with Rutgers, who swept us in the three game series!
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If they did, the were from New Jersey! I'll ask some of the old-timers next game if such a feat has ever been accomplished . . . and how far a shot that would be!Anybody break any of the windows in the flats?
3 cool things I learned about the Prism 2003 SACD reissues today!
1. The tapes were recorded with dbx when everyone was using Dolby at the time.
2. All 4 SACD reissues were meant to be surround, but the complete multitracks could not be found.
3. The mixing engineer didn't have access to a 5.1 console because there were only 3 in Japan at the time of mixing (2002) so he decided to mix it manually! Insane!
1. The tapes were recorded with dbx when everyone was using Dolby at the time.
2. All 4 SACD reissues were meant to be surround, but the complete multitracks could not be found.
3. The mixing engineer didn't have access to a 5.1 console because there were only 3 in Japan at the time of mixing (2002) so he decided to mix it manually! Insane!
Florida.
Everyone likes to piss on Florida. It's a joke, right? I mean it is. Why do you think that is, present Governor aside?
When I was young, you might drive up A1A along the Atlantic coast, from Vero Beach north toward St. Augustine, viewing the sand dunes and the sea AND NEVER SEE ANOTHER CAR for an hour at a time.
Now, you can't see the dunes or the sea for the buildings.
Florida, My Florida, of huge Oak and immense Loblolly Pine trees and moss gently whipping in the wind, deer and other wildlife all about, is pretty much gone. Sacrificed by the developers and even the damned Army Corps of Engineers who had a freaking brilliant plan to straighten out the Kissimmee River. (It wasn't, it caused massive flooding)
Whole communities of people from out of state have sprung up, like The Villages, which encompasses I believe some 35 square miles of almost solid Republican voting block derived of former citizens from states beginning with a vowel further north, among others.
Central Florida, where I grew up, land destroyed by phosphate mining. Rivers, tributaries, creeks, wiped out of existence or forever changed. In their place dams and holding ponds full of gypsum and other byproducts of chemical production such as phosphoric acid. Not unusual for a large sinkhole to open up and dump all that crap in the aquifer such as happened at Royster Chemical near Mulberry some years ago. I grew up in a mining "company town" myself. Even a company appointed Sheriff. Pollution from the chemical plants...some days the chemical fog was so thick you could hardly breathe. Decades before there was an EPA.
But mining is one thing that brought people to Florida, searching for work. Not retirement on the beach in a high rise condo, with a "residents only" sign posted on the friggin' beach.
People flocked to Florida from all over for different reasons. I myself am 6th generation, which makes 8 generations of us native Floridians. Doesn't make us better, does mean we have a history in Florida and hate seeing what has happened to our once unspoiled state. Skin in the game, so to speak.
We've always welcomed visitors. Come and stay a few weeks! Hell stay a few months. Just don't build another damned condo on the beach and put up a "no trespassing" sign to keep us off our beaches.
Then get the hell out until next year, Okay?
Everyone likes to piss on Florida. It's a joke, right? I mean it is. Why do you think that is, present Governor aside?
When I was young, you might drive up A1A along the Atlantic coast, from Vero Beach north toward St. Augustine, viewing the sand dunes and the sea AND NEVER SEE ANOTHER CAR for an hour at a time.
Now, you can't see the dunes or the sea for the buildings.
Florida, My Florida, of huge Oak and immense Loblolly Pine trees and moss gently whipping in the wind, deer and other wildlife all about, is pretty much gone. Sacrificed by the developers and even the damned Army Corps of Engineers who had a freaking brilliant plan to straighten out the Kissimmee River. (It wasn't, it caused massive flooding)
Whole communities of people from out of state have sprung up, like The Villages, which encompasses I believe some 35 square miles of almost solid Republican voting block derived of former citizens from states beginning with a vowel further north, among others.
Central Florida, where I grew up, land destroyed by phosphate mining. Rivers, tributaries, creeks, wiped out of existence or forever changed. In their place dams and holding ponds full of gypsum and other byproducts of chemical production such as phosphoric acid. Not unusual for a large sinkhole to open up and dump all that crap in the aquifer such as happened at Royster Chemical near Mulberry some years ago. I grew up in a mining "company town" myself. Even a company appointed Sheriff. Pollution from the chemical plants...some days the chemical fog was so thick you could hardly breathe. Decades before there was an EPA.
But mining is one thing that brought people to Florida, searching for work. Not retirement on the beach in a high rise condo, with a "residents only" sign posted on the friggin' beach.
People flocked to Florida from all over for different reasons. I myself am 6th generation, which makes 8 generations of us native Floridians. Doesn't make us better, does mean we have a history in Florida and hate seeing what has happened to our once unspoiled state. Skin in the game, so to speak.
We've always welcomed visitors. Come and stay a few weeks! Hell stay a few months. Just don't build another damned condo on the beach and put up a "no trespassing" sign to keep us off our beaches.
Then get the hell out until next year, Okay?
I've only been to Florida for the Daytona 500. My overall opinion was positive. However this always makes me laugh....
Ive been to Orlando many times and Port Canaveral to depart for cruises. and even more recently to Destin. That's all I know and as a tourist I've had a very good time each time. Oh, then there was that one July in Orlando... Good Lord just as you step out the plane door it's like getting slapped in the face with a steaming hot towel.
John Oliver seems to take great glee in bashing Florida. I'd like to introduce him to a remote area of the Everglades. 
You should step off a plane in Crete. Talk about a 115* slap in the face.....
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I recently watched Netflix's FLORIDA MAN with Edgar Ramirez and it really did a number on the Sunshine State
My wife and I absolutely LOVE Florida. Yeah, we gravitate to the beach areas, but always prefer to find the not so crowded beaches.....hard to do I guess. Believe it or not, my first trip to Florida was for business. Where did it take me? Homestead, Florida. My little dumpy hotel was just south of Homestead in Florida City. Talk about an eye opener. LOL! My hotel had a pretty tall metal fence surrounding it all. I'm like, what's this for...... hahaha...ahem.
Why there you ask? Being a plant breeder, I was using Homestead as a "winter nursery" to produce our crop while it was winter at home. Of course, being the adventurous guy I am, I took my rental car down across the Everglades. Just awesome. Loved it.
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Not to mention stepping off the plane in Papeete, Tahiti ....... with 'pollution' to boot!
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