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[Choop]

Today I'm gonna get my master's from A-CAP. Eat shit!

No one said it could be done

[pmcd9]

Is A-Cap a filter for A-CAP?

Edit: Yep!

[theinevitable]

Biked around East St Louis. Someone waved us over to ask if we were lost. It is pretty bad over there.

And, once again, I remember why I don't like doing physical activity with friends. Being the guy who everyone keeps having to slow down and wait for is not fun.
also, since these guys are in better shape than me, they are also much more assertive bikers. Climbing a long hill is bad enough when I'm not on a one-lane (in each direction) bridge with cars.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Saturday is Rugby day.. Crushed the Manhattan tourney- Another day Another ring - Another olympic trial. Another day

[theinevitable]

My friend just posted a link to a PDF of the student magazine at my alma mater (and Aug's) in 1969. This was the year students burned down the ROTC building and attempted to stage a rent strike in their dorms. Man, that school has changed.

Also constant discussion of "the quad." August, when you were at WashU, is that where kids hung out? I think I sat on the grass there once in the four years I was there. I guess there are always people sitting around there, but it didn't strike me as important to student life in any way. Maybe the quad was their Facebook.

Were dogs a thing when you were there? I know from a friend's dad that that was a Thing at least through the early 70s. You would bring your cute dog to the quad to pick up girls.

[AugustWest]

My friend just posted a link to a PDF of the student magazine at my alma mater (and Aug's) in 1969. This was the year students burned down the ROTC building and attempted to stage a rent strike in their dorms. Man, that school has changed.

Also constant discussion of "the quad." August, when you were at WashU, is that where kids hung out? I think I sat on the grass there once in the four years I was there. I guess there are always people sitting around there, but it didn't strike me as important to student life in any way. Maybe the quad was their Facebook.

Were dogs a thing when you were there? I know from a friend's dad that that was a Thing at least through the early 70s. You would bring your cute dog to the quad to pick up girls.

Yeah, we hung around at the quad some.  Like on the steps in front of Holmes Lounge or around the stage in front of the building I can't remember the name of anymore.

I worked at the Rat/Gargoyle so I spent a lot of time there on that end of campus.  Later, a lot of time around KWUR.  Also a fair amount of time (but probably not nearly enough) around the library.

My friend Robin had a campus dog -- a big golden retriever with a bandana.  Her dad was a big shot math professor who wrote the calculus book we used and lived in a big house right across from Mallinckrodt.  She also got me the job delivering pizzas in Clayton where I met Mrs. West.

[wombat]

...play in a taiko concert. I thought my folk festival days were long behind me.

(Actually that was yesterday, I swore I posted then but apparently not.)

[doomglobe]

I picked up a pair of these this winter, and while they are pretty good sunglasses in general, the soft stems make them impossible to put on if you are wearing a balaclava under a helmet, so if you remove them because they fog up and then want them back on and it is -20degrees and windy you're fucked. They do look wicked steampunk cool with the perepheral vision blockers on though, and they filter out all the types of light that cause snow-blindness. Also they stay on on upside-down roller coasters. Too dark for poker games.

[doomglobe]

Wait, we were still talking about sunglasses right?


dude...

[doomglobe]

Spent a good part of yesterday 'hanging' around here with the youngest boy. I bet Doomie could have showed us some moves but when I climbed a true V1 I was happy.

Sick! V1 is pretty hard! I don't boulder too much, I probably wouldn't be able to show you too many moves. Maybe heel hooking or toe-pulling, but nothing too fancy.

[wombat]

...see my first and hopefully last 3D movie.  3d and Imax which I guess is even worse. It was the Star Trek movie. Lots of stuff crashing and blowing up. I don't understand why this sort of sensory overload is supposed to be pleasurable. Also maybe it was a bad idea to agree to this when I've been having tinnitus lately, even though I did wear earplugs.

The movie itself wouldn't have been too bad if it had been 45 minutes shorter and I'd been watching it at home on my TV.

[miles]

The movie itself wouldn't have been too bad if it had been 45 minutes shorter

Christ, this is true of like at least 75% of the movies I've seen in the last 20 years.

[wombat]

Christ, this is true of like at least 75% of the movies I've seen in the last 20 years.

More like 90% if you ask me.

And it's not like it would be hard to edit any of them down. It's not because there's too much plot they're trying to cram in or anything. It's that every single scene goes on for slightly longer than it needs to to make its point and it all adds up to a whole lot of extra nothing.

[doomglobe]

The institution of the feature length film is oppressive. I only have the attention span for five minute shorts at best. I can sometimes last through the shorter adult swim shows, if the commercials are cut out.

[Choop]

TIG art based on this week's episode of mad men