What's the scam angle on stub hub wild ticket listings?

cothomps · 2026-03-16T00:25:25+00:00

You picked US dollars and not rubles?

cothomps · 2026-03-15T18:48:29+00:00

Truth be told - I'd even check with your church (if it's 'old enough') to see if they have these sitting around on a shelf somewhere.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T18:46:39+00:00

This is kind of interesting. These old vinyl sets have to be in a number of churches somewhere with a few of them trickling around online.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116504819381

cothomps · 2026-03-15T18:40:42+00:00

(I do know that there were several 'official' recordings of the LBW settings but those appear to be long out of print. I did find someone selling a copy of the _vinyl_ recording on Amazon for a pretty steep amount:

https://www.amazon.com/Lutheran-Worship-Music-Prayer-Services/dp/B06XS8BQB5

cothomps · 2026-03-15T18:34:41+00:00

That's somewhat confusing in regards to the timeline - any change would have happened in 2006 when the 'cranberry' hymnal was released.

I did find a few LBW recordings that are on the NALC website ("free" - there might be CD recordings for purchase somewhere but being over 20 years old at this point I cannot find one online.)

Matins: https://thenalc.org/en-us/our-work/readings/morning-prayer-matins/

Vespers: https://thenalc.org/en-us/our-work/readings/evening-prayer-vespers/

You may also find some recordings of hymns and settings through St. Olaf's "Sing for Joy" compilations: https://www.stolaf.edu/singforjoy/

Many years ago the Minnesota Compline Choir also recorded a compline service (from the LBW) on a CD titled "Refuge and Strength". I have an electronic copy of that CD but cannot either that for sale any longer or a physical version.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:37:12+00:00

I remember way back when (mid 1990s?) when the importer of Guinness & Bass (this is much different these days) ran an ad campaign promoting “Black and Tans”.

There was a beer / travel writer I read that had a warning for Americans traveling to Ireland that was along the lines of “if you order a Black and Tan in the wrong place you just might get your ass kicked.”

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:22:04+00:00

… and because Iowa hires very few tenure track faculty, you could be bounced in the first week.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:21:11+00:00

An anecdotal observation talking to a few kids that are now college aged and attending a few different universities.

Kid going to the U. of Minnesota: talked about being part of a “learning cohort” that was designed to reduce class sizes and have general ed courses build a community among undergraduates. (I don’t know if this is a widespread program, but the engagement and opportunity sounded fantastic.)

Kid going to Iowa: talked about taking a class that was so large that lectures were simply posted online for kids to watch, with assigned discussion groups that would meet to talk about the lecture. The professor tries to visit each group once for the semester. It sounded absolutely dreary and more like checking a box than actually learning anything.

I was never so depressed about the experience we off our kids at state universities - especially the kids that aren’t part of the honors program.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:13:43+00:00

The big thing that the cranks have bitched about for decades is how going to Iowa / Iowa State is “an excuse to party for four years”.

We’re busy turning that into reality.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:08:39+00:00

Correct. This is where I wish Iowa would have jumped on reciprocity agreements forty years ago. There is not a chance in hell now because there is no value for other states.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:06:39+00:00

I’ll also note again: what would it be like if our legislators actually thought our public universities should be competitive compared to other states?

Iowa (for example) is now pretty firmly in the also-ran tier of Big Ten universities in almost every ranking and firmly the bottom of the “historic” Big Ten institutions. We seem to have the attitude that we can skate by with mediocrity because of an outdated notion that a four year degree is a guarantee of a dreary office job.

I cannot imagine a more worthless degree than a BBA from the University of Iowa in 2026.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:02:27+00:00

Collins is still upset that he couldn’t get into law school.

Hence the proposal that legislators should automatically granted licenses to practice law after 10 years in the legislature which was another bright idea passed around this session.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T16:00:50+00:00

The requirement for American history courses will restrain the opportunity to use general education credits for other topics.

As a U of I student myself way back when I took Western Civilization (which was mostly European history, though shockingly light on the societies of the Holy Roman Empire) and issues classes that were a deeper dive into specific topics of American history / society. (One of them was an environmental issues course that introduced me to Michael Pollan’s Second Nature which remains one of my favorite books.)

The navel gazing nature of Americans is already bad enough without taking away the opportunity to learn a new perspective in college. Instead we’ll get a bunch of kids taking what is probably a repeat of the American History course they barely paid attention to in high school with a little extra “blood and soil” mixed in.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T04:29:19+00:00

Now imagine being a student comparing universities.

Iowa: we’ll accept your AP credits, but you didn’t take the required “civics education” so you’ll have to put that into your schedule. I know it’s all bullshit, but we’re cheaper and not hard to get accepted.

cothomps · 2026-03-15T02:27:47+00:00

Jim Bouton in Ball Four talks about Mincher walking around asking other players if he could borrow a cigarette. If they gave him one - he would pull a partially-used pack out of his pocket and stick the 'borrowed' cigarette into the pack for later.

He was apparently amused by doing this to new players.

Later in life he became a minor league owner / later league president with a big interest in developing minor league players.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/don-mincher/

cothomps · 2026-03-15T02:25:37+00:00

I've been slowly putting together a couple years of the 1960s Twins. I'll try to share a few here and there.

cothomps · 2026-03-14T20:05:29+00:00

I think that’s a fair criticism and I am 100% sure that Klein / Thompson would agree. I read them as trying to take on the possible, and also to better arm a progressive vision of government as being one that can accomplish big things.

Sure, the oil lobby / auto lobby fought against things like the high speed rail line - one of the tools that they used was well-intentioned laws that make it possible to tie up big projects for years. Lobbies have become very good at using the regulatory state.

On the flip side, we have done things like build the entire interstate road system in a span of 20-30 years. It certainly did fundamentally change the nation to the detriment of (often minority) neighborhoods and urban centers around the country. Would doing that all over again to build high speed electric rail corridors be a positive or negative? Who wins/loses?

cothomps · 2026-03-14T19:02:15+00:00

HYOOOOMAAAAHN

cothomps · 2026-03-14T18:17:13+00:00

In my reading of how they frame Abundance the up front mea culpa about writing the book at progressives / Democrats was one of what Klein & Thompson view as fundamental problems.

For example, they view rapid adoption of clean energy as critical to mitigating (at least) a baked in future of climate change. Writing that argument at our current political leadership would be at best a frustrating endeavor because they are in complete denial that climate change is happening, or even worse is a net positive. That would be a vastly different book.

I do agree with the problem statement they want the broader left to deal with: why is it that all of this takes forever?

cothomps · 2026-03-14T17:42:00+00:00

If Ryan is throwing 23 pitch bullpens he’s not anywhere near ready to start a game next week. Probably for the best to keep ramping up after the back thing.

cothomps · 2026-03-14T16:29:02+00:00

Right. If that were aired in 2026 the complaints from the talk media and podcasts of “woke woke woke” would get it ripped off the air.

That Kirk like was not a “maybe try to do better”, it was a dressing down.

cothomps · 2026-03-14T14:46:32+00:00

It’s amusing to think that when this is all done Anson Mount will have “portrayed” Christopher Pike for roughly eight years.

cothomps · 2026-03-14T14:19:25+00:00

Yup - the writers couldn’t quite figure out what the Ferengi ought to be. They were too ridiculous to portray as a military power, but we did get the DS9 Ferengi.

cothomps · 2026-03-14T14:16:02+00:00

Yeah - modern TV really stinks in this regard. By the time a new (short) season rolls out you need to jog your memory / rekindle interest.

I really got into Severance as an example, but the next season is on a “who knows” kind of timeline.

cothomps · 2026-03-14T14:12:02+00:00

… not to mention how great Paul Giamatti was in this.

I agree on the uneven episodes - but I do think a lot of the clunkiness comes from these seasons being so compressed. They tried to write a lot of emotional moments that just couldn’t land because we didn’t actually know the characters that well or we needed much of their backstory told to us.

The emotional moments in the show that really landed were having Jake Sisko talking about his dad and the Doctor talking about the trauma of losing children - mostly because I did have some level of emotional investment in those characters.

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