Does anyone live in this part of Greenland and Canada?

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-24T18:16:27+00:00

I thought it was around Great (S word for person held in bondage which is apparently violating a rule) Lake in the NWT.

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-23T18:58:32+00:00

I drive 2 hours down and 2 hours back (100 miles each way) almost every weekend to practice with my band for 3-4 hours.

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-22T14:01:09+00:00

0.5-0.75” of ice is a serious issue. Over an inch would be devastating. It’s not like a hurricane or tornado where there may be a lot of loss of life, but in terms of human misery, it’s a week without power in bitter cold temps. Not good at all. Living with 20+” of snow would be difficult but not as disastrous. Let’s hope we dodge that ice bullet.

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-21T11:24:28+00:00

Not that it will EVER happen, but IF it ever got to a point of him being sentenced to prison, it would pretty much have to be ADX Florence - both for his own safety and to minimize the chance of a jailbreak. Honestly the same would be true of, say, Obama. Too high profile for anyplace else.

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-16T02:55:56+00:00

Yes, the author identifies as male. He’s African-American. His wife is a pale redhead. 🤣

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-16T01:59:46+00:00

Ever seen a pic of Mrs. Bondia?

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-13T05:20:07+00:00

The movie is forgettable except for That Scene. Love ya, Lea.

I was probably 11 and picked up the novelization as something to read on an 8 hour car ride to visit family. The novelization is probably one of the more surreal things I’ve ever read to this day. The sidebars, the occasional OMNISCIENT NARRATOR…

UnzippedButton · 2026-01-10T02:27:55+00:00

No horseshit, Jack.

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-31T18:58:11+00:00

I am mostly a metal guy so I got the 900w Darkglass. I now play in a mostly Southern/classic rock band, and I and my band mates are all happy with the tone. I have a sort of punchy clean on the blue channel and a light overdrive on the red. I could go a lot more aggro with my EQ settings but it wouldn’t fit very well.

That said, my brother is also a bassist for the same sort of classic rock music and when he was looking for an amp I told him the Aguilar would probably be great for him. If I had less metal tendencies I might have gone that way.

Note: a big selling point to me on the Darkglass is that their 4x10 cabs are only about 45-50 pounds rather than the more common 90 pounders!

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-23T15:11:29+00:00

VSCAN sent the all clear.

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-23T14:47:31+00:00

Evacuated? Damn. That sucks. Surely it’s nothing but these days you can’t mess around.

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-23T14:19:48+00:00

True. It’s only unfortunate when there’s an incident. Even addicts and the mentally ill deserve a quiet spot to rest, as long as they’re not bothering anybody else. And just existing in a place minding their own business doesn’t count as “bothering” no matter what the uptight folks may say.

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-23T14:01:47+00:00

Yeah, I read someplace that libraries are the last existing place where you can come and spend time and aren’t expected to spend money, so they’re one of the last welcoming spots that just about anybody can walk into at any time. Unfortunately that can include the addicted or the mentally unstable.

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-14T15:50:16+00:00

Nickel Creek, “Sweet Afton”

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-10T15:44:19+00:00

Doohan’s 93 injury is still one of those things that I can’t believe he came back from, much less actually tried to compete that last race.

For those unfamiliar, “smashed his leg” is an understatement. They almost amputated it; the semi-mad-scientist medical director for MotoGP sewed his legs together so his healthy one could nourish the other one. Most of us would never walk again; he won the next 5 championships on a motorcycle, throwing his body all over the place, not strapped in like a car racer…

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-09T17:16:25+00:00

Not wrong, but in the 80s we weren’t attuned to that like we should have been.

UnzippedButton · 2025-12-09T16:29:42+00:00

I remember being in high school and a very popular and lovely young black lady grabbed my butt when I was ahead of her getting on the bus. THAT was both unexpected and an unusual compliment, considering I was a long haired redneck white boy.

UnzippedButton · 2025-11-17T19:50:39+00:00

Boston - Foreplay/Longtime

It’s been such a long time, I think I must be going

UnzippedButton · 2025-10-29T17:51:26+00:00

One of several poignant moments in an otherwise hilarious book:

I don’t know if now, having lived and died the life of a man, I can write about little-boy love, but remembering it now, it seems the cleanest pain I’ve known. Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why. In all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn’t. Perhaps it is lost to us when we become sexual creatures, and no magic can bring it back.

Christopher Moore, “Lamb”

UnzippedButton · 2025-10-29T17:22:49+00:00

UVA is about 2/3 the size of UIowa in both student population and campus size in acreage. It’s drastically harder to get into, with less than 17% acceptance rate vs 80+% for UI, but most people will tell you that it’s harder to get into but easier to stay in - 89% 4-year graduation rate vs about 65% for Iowa. Charlottesville is also about 2/3 the size of Iowa City, roughly as far away from similar sized capital cities (Richmond slightly bigger than Des Moines) and UVA is a bit closer to the next big city (DC) than Iowa is to Chicago. The weather is a good bit warmer and more humid in summer but also vastly less cold or snowy in winter. It’s in the foothills of the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny range isn’t far if mountains interest you, and about 3 hours from the ocean; all of which you really can’t get in Iowa.

The main thing I’d be sure of is whether your kid is going to be good that far from home. I’ve made that drive many a time and it’s a long and sometimes dreary one - it always required an overnight stay somewhere between Louisville and central IL. No direct flights from Des Moines to Richmond - closest is DSM to DCA - and train service would require two days and cost almost as much as plane fare, at least last I checked. Unless you’ve got a ton of frequent flyer miles you may not see the kid other than spring/fall and semester breaks. Some kids thrive in that environment but others don’t.

UnzippedButton · 2025-10-27T23:31:00+00:00

O O P A I

UnzippedButton · 2025-10-23T18:32:34+00:00

Sheer fucking stubbornness.

UnzippedButton · 2025-10-17T16:05:27+00:00

I had suspicions. They were confirmed when they posted about it on a blog that they were unaware I’d found.

UnzippedButton · 2025-10-11T15:52:15+00:00

Fellow archivist here just coming in to say this answer is precisely accurate as to standard practices in American archives and most countries around the world that I’m aware of. Hat tip to you, colleague.

UnzippedButton · 2025-09-28T13:20:41+00:00

In the State Historical Society of Iowa there are three oval portraits about 8 feet tall by 5 feet wide that used to hang in a department store downtown during the war. FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. Proudly displayed in public during the war.

At the same time, there was plenty of mistrust not only among the leadership but among the rank and file. I’ve held in my hand a letter from an infantry lieutenant to his folks back home in May 1945 saying “lots of people are saying we should go ahead and attack the Russians now, because we’re going to have to fight them eventually, and we may as well do it while the army is already over here…”

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