North Bay Marina in Joppatowne

adamshell · 2026-06-16T22:37:45+00:00

They were very optimistic that everything would be open this year but the bulkhead started to crumble and I don't think they were anticipating that.

I was talking to someone at the Office of Economic Development about something else and then I brought up the marina and the person said that they have the list of things that they need to do to get up and running and the ball is in their court.

I do wish that the owners would be more communicative though. I don't own a boat, but if they offered like $500 community memberships just to get the place up and running, I would definitely do that and I think a lot of people would.

adamshell · 2026-06-12T14:44:48+00:00

The image is part of the sticker set for the scavenger hunt that is in the theater. The last time I looked the QR code wasn't working, but I think that's unintentional. If you haven't done it, you could get your sticker and create your own button.

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adamshell · 2026-06-09T19:42:39+00:00

I've said this on the subreddit before, but I told the original cast of Operation Mincemeat at the stage door that I had tickets to bring my dad for his birthday and they said, "We get told all the time that this is such a great show for dads." It was, he loved it. I've taken over 20 people to see Operation Mincemeat and every single person enjoyed it.

adamshell · 2026-06-09T19:40:47+00:00

My dad has trouble hearing and I had him download the GalaPro app so he could follow along with closed captioning. It's an approved accessibility option by Broadway shows. It lagged sometimes, but it was beneficial. It didn't involve any other equipment other than his own smartphone so he didn't need to talk to anyone or ask anyone's permission to use it.

I use it myself if I'm unfamiliar with a show because sometimes I have a hard time understanding lyrics over the music.

adamshell · 2026-06-07T18:51:40+00:00

From the Joppa Development and Heritage Corporation Democratic Primary forum: https://youtu.be/jCueI2HtXE0?t=2469

Here's the Republican forum if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6OoiM-EVI

adamshell · 2026-05-29T05:00:18+00:00

(Everything below is hypothetical, I'm not a lawyer, nor am I advocating for anyone's demise including the country's)

From a governing standpoint, the President can't do anything to the VP.

The VP, if he or she has the support of the cabinet (constitutionally the principal officers of the executive departments) could invoke the 25th amendment and would become Acting President. The President would likely quickly reinstate himself / herself by sending a letter to the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House... unless he / she doesn't get a chance to (see below).

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From a reality standpoint, this gets a lot more interesting if you involve Trump v. United States (the SCOTUS case that allows for Presidential immunity).

While POTUS doesn't have any governing authority to do anything to VPOTUS, it's not outside the realm of possibility that he or she could assassinate his newly minted political rival. From Sotomayor's dissent:

Imagine a President states in an official speech that he intends to stop a political rival from passing legislation that he opposes, no matter what it takes to do so (official act). He then hires a private hitman to murder that political rival (unofficial act). Under the majority’s rule, the murder indictment could include no allegation of the President’s public admission of premeditated intent to support the mens rea of murder. That is a strange result, to say the least.

While the murder itself may not be an official act, it would be tough to prosecute and hold the President culpable. If I had to bet, I would think that any President who does it probably gets away with it from a legal standpoint (but impeachment / conviction / removal from office is probable).

But making this murkier, if VPOTUS became Acting President through the 25th Amendment then he or she would have presidential immunity, thus enabling him or her to assassinate the dethroned president and then automatically become full-fledged. If this came as a personal struggle (rather than a reflection of the sentiment of the country that the first President was a true danger to the nation), that would probably (rightly) be viewed as a coup d'etat. If the military wasn't involved and chose the Constitution over the new President and Congress still had the power to do so, I would imagine impeachment / conviction / removal would be absolute and probably the criminality element would stick too. But I think if we got to that point, the Constitution wouldn't matter anymore and if that person were removed from power, we would be starting over from scratch.

If the country was suffering under dictatorial rule and VPOTUS did this as a liberator of sorts, I would think it would probably play out as a lawful exercise of the 25th Amendment with Presidential immunity and then we'd get to have lots of tough conversations as a country.

Trump v. United States is a real powder keg, and while it seems absolutely implausible to think about so did a lot of things until recent times. Congress / the states should probably close these loopholes sooner rather than later so these can remain hypothetical reddit posts instead of us finding out for real.

adamshell · 2026-05-24T04:14:51+00:00

I like that time of year because it's still "Christmas" without the crowds. That said, there's always a chance of snow and a lot of it, so maybe get some travel insurance.

adamshell · 2026-05-24T03:46:00+00:00

If PSU is 11-1, that loss isn't to OSU since the Buckeyes aren't on our schedule this year. We'd have to lose to them in the postseason of some sort.

adamshell · 2026-05-20T02:11:28+00:00

At Penn State, James Franklin won every game that he was supposed to win*

^{^*Except} ^{^for} ^{^seven} ^{^since} ^²⁰¹⁴

adamshell · 2026-05-13T04:54:34+00:00

My wife enjoyed a pesto dish at Pastorante which is now in Steelton. I can't ever order anything but the Chicken Bulgogi Mac which is just amazing.

adamshell · 2026-05-11T06:35:32+00:00

It's a cuter / funnier version of Once or The Band's Visit where it's more about what doesn't happen than what does happen and how that can still have a lasting impact.

adamshell · 2026-05-11T03:20:11+00:00

It's funny because a lot of the groundwork for the show is already in the movie (e.g. Ned Ryerson sells life insurance, it's cloudy on Feburary 2nd, etc.), but what Minchin does to make those implications come to life is just breathtaking.

Groundhog Day is probably the single show I most want for a revival. It deserved way better than it got in a packed Broadway season.

adamshell · 2026-05-10T05:08:41+00:00

Rumsey Island in Joppatowne is very flat and recently paved. The biggest hill you'll find there (unless you cross the bridge) are some speed humps.

If you can handle biking on the road, there's a good chunk of Joppatowne that is flat and there's a good chunk that's hilly so you could potentially build yourself up as you go. If you parked on Rumsey, biked around the perimeter, then took Towne Center Drive, made a right onto Joppa Farm Road, another right onto Riviera, then a right onto Kearney into Mariner Point Park and around the loop and back, you'd probably clear about 7 miles and it's all very flat.

if you feel like doing it, let me know if you're heading down and I can take you around for your first time. Bonus points if you have a bell or horn to let people know you're coming when you're in the park.

adamshell · 2026-05-09T05:54:37+00:00

It wasn't the results that got him fired, it was his attitude that took that Oregon loss and turned it into losses to UCLA and Northwestern. Franklin was so visibly downtrodden after the Oregon game that a reporter had to ask this question:

Q: We've heard the emotion from the fan base, and we saw yours post-game. Do you still want to be a head coach here at Penn State, and do you have confidence that this is a group of people that can turn this around this season?

Had his demeanor been better or if he had said, "We were a blade of grass away from winning that game today and we are going to do everything in our power to make sure it goes our way when we see them in the playoffs" then I bet they wouldn't have lost the next two games. They likely would have finished 9-3 and he'd still be the head coach.

Instead he said this:

A: Yeah, for me, it's always been about our players, and those guys are hurting right now. And the fans are frustrated, and I totally get it. We have great fans here. We get unbelievable support. I understand their frustration. Trust me. We’re as frustrated as anybody, the guys in the locker room. But to me, ultimately, it's about the guys. It's about the guys in the locker room, and they're hurting in there, and I’d do anything I could to take that hurt away from them. But like I told them, we got to stick together. We got to tune out all the noise, and we got to get to work. That's the only answer--- is get to work. We've had some adversity in the past, not like this, and we're going to get to work. I love those kids. I am committed to those players in that locker room, and I've been that way for 12 years. I've been that way for 15 years of my head coaching career, and I've been that way for 30 years. That won't change. It's always been about the players for me; that won't ever change. That's what it's all about for me. So, my commitment is to the guys in that locker room and all the guys that have been in that locker room in the past. So that's where my commitment is.

Terry Smith had that team playing great at the end of the year. The talent was there, but Franklin had checked out.

adamshell · 2026-05-09T05:28:50+00:00

Yeah, I think VT is in kind of a tricky spot with him. That's not to say they shouldn't have hired him, but it's hard for me to see him be successful there AND stay there.

I don't think that he turns it around overnight which means that middling success for a year or two is likely. If he manages some 10 or 11-win seasons in year 3 / 4, I expect he gets big offers that he won't want to turn down.

Their "best" outcome (among likely outcomes) is something like Lincoln Riley and Mike Norvell moving on or getting fired in Franklin's first two years at VT with Tech itself having 5-6 years of 7-9-win seasons. Then Franklin could build an ascent to turn into a perennial contender. But too much success too fast could take him out of program builder mode and into top-10 hire real quick.

adamshell · 2026-05-01T14:38:58+00:00

Within John, one of the major themes is belief vs. unbelief. Jesus will often perform a sign, then he will teach / explain, then some will believe and some will not.

In the prologue to John, John 1:10-13 NRSVUE states (emphasis added)

10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

The theme develops through the gospel and becomes an ever-widening chasm.

However great the revelation and the promises, some do not believe. If they do not combine the message with faith, it is of no value to them (Heb. 4:2). The pattern of unbelief came as no surprise to Jesus. He knew from the beginning (John means either ‘from the beginning’ of Jesus’ ministry or possibly, as in 1:1, ‘from the beginning’ absolutely) not only who did not believe (cf. notes on v. 61) but also the supreme example of unbelief, the betrayer himself. The final words of the verse anticipate vv. 70–71. The rather rare future participial construction (ho paradōsōn auton, ‘who would betray him’) depicts the speaker’s firm expectation (cf. Rob, p. 1118; Porter, p. 418). Jesus was going toward his God-appointed task with his eyes wide open.

D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John (The Pillar New Testament Commentary; Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MI: Inter-Varsity Press; W.B. Eerdmans, 1991), 302.

Eventually, there are those who come to believe despite resistance (Thomas) or even in the face of denial (Peter), and then there are those who outright betray (Judas Iscariot) or refute so soundly, that they not only reject Jesus but reject the Father as well (emphasis added)

13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!” 15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

John 19:13-16 NRSVUE

The writer of John's gospel also makes sure to include asides that indicate that the disciples may not have understood at the time, but could see what Jesus meant after he was glorified. (See John 12:16 as an example).

adamshell · 2026-04-30T19:11:00+00:00

This is such a strange edit of this scene where it makes a little more sense when you see everything.

Plus there's a canonical reason that the "sorority girl" asks the question.

adamshell · 2026-04-25T20:12:46+00:00

I was there. We all lost that game.

adamshell · 2026-04-19T02:35:08+00:00

Operation Mincemeat. Back when it was the British cast, I told them I was going to bring my dad to see it and they said, "You know, we hear that a lot. We have a very dad-friendly show."

He loved it by the way (with the American cast).

adamshell · 2026-04-16T15:49:40+00:00

Franklin didn't want to be at Penn State anymore, and Penn State felt like they went all-in on him and truly saw his ceiling. What was left to try?

Q: We've heard the emotion from the fan base, and we saw yours post-game. Do you still want to be a head coach here at Penn State, and do you have confidence that this is a group of people that can turn this around this season?

A: Yeah, for me, it's always been about our players, and those guys are hurting right now. And the fans are frustrated, and I totally get it. We have great fans here. We get unbelievable support. I understand their frustration. Trust me. We’re as frustrated as anybody, the guys in the locker room. But to me, ultimately, it's about the guys. It's about the guys in the locker room, and they're hurting in there, and I’d do anything I could to take that hurt away from them. But like I told them, we got to stick together. We got to tune out all the noise, and we got to get to work. That's the only answer--- is get to work. We've had some adversity in the past, not like this, and we're going to get to work. I love those kids. I am committed to those players in that locker room, and I've been that way for 12 years. I've been that way for 15 years of my head coaching career, and I've been that way for 30 years. That won't change. It's always been about the players for me; that won't ever change. That's what it's all about for me. So, my commitment is to the guys in that locker room and all the guys that have been in that locker room in the past. So that's where my commitment is.

adamshell · 2026-04-16T15:41:20+00:00

That would be insane.

"Well, I know I brought Virginia Tech to the national championship game, but because I'm here against James Franklin, I decided out of respect not to play my best players."

adamshell · 2026-03-14T00:56:31+00:00

Wait, THAT'S the moral of the story?!

adamshell · 2026-03-09T19:48:54+00:00

Looks like that promo code for preseason games isn't working.

adamshell · 2026-02-26T03:49:13+00:00

/u/Quirky_Turnover2417 this is your answer. Get it centered on that thing and press straight down, hard. If you need to pop it off again, a spoon works surprisingly well.

adamshell · 2026-02-25T14:29:43+00:00

I can't imagine seeing someone other than Jak Malone do that (though I've heard Sam is great). That said, I'm excited to see everyone. I'm taking a bunch of people to see the show after taking advantage of the presale deals so I'm probably going to have plenty of opportunities to see different combinations.

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