The Last Bass Outpost

Nice to see this place back online. Been ages since I've been active but I'd still check in from time to time and got worried when I saw it go down in August and stay down.

Quote from: gearHed289 on July 08, 2024, 10:19:59 AM
I love this. We are living in a very scary time here in the US. I would assume other countries as well. I'm pretty sure the "put religion in government and schools" crowd is in the minority, but they're still making some headway thanks to some seriously sh*t-headed elected officials. End of rant.

Definitely a a scary time in the states. Saw this quote the other day on this subject:

"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries,"

—James Madison in 1803.

Quote from: lowend1 on June 07, 2020, 07:36:17 AM
I think that we might see a resurgence with all the "social non-distancing" of late.

I'm expecting that fairly soon so my patterns of keeping distant from people and washing/sanitizing my hands so much they crack won't be changing. While I may be a healthy 31 y/o, my mom is right in the high risk area of 60+ in addition to breathing issues that already have her doctor suggesting she be on oxygen 24/7. She's lucky if her O2 levels reach 95% so yeah. She's been in lock down and I've become even more hyper aware of what I touch than before all this.

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The worst thing I deal with now is intermittent shortness of breath and random severe fatigue

That should get better with time. This is one of those virus' that can just shock the system in a way that slows recovery a lot.

I hope everyone here is keeping as well as one can these days!

Quote from: Dave W on April 03, 2018, 09:21:07 PM
Darrol! Where have you been?

I like that tune.

Hey Dave. I was wondering if my resurfacing would be noticed. I kind of just fell off the grid in terms of visiting here as I haven't played in years.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qM7iLbFXQF8

The doors were welded shut so the way in is through the sunroof. I think it could work if they cut the bottom off the doors and made them into either gull wing or lambo style doors.

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If there is anything from this year's Oscars that you need to know, it is this. Nearly 500 visual effects artists were just blocks away protesting while the stars arrived and walked down the red carpet yet it wasn't mentioned. Then they introduced the Best Visual Effects category in a disrespectful manner before cutting off the winner just as he tried to bring attention to the situation.

I am a little late to the discussion but had never seen this clip from Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader before now. I really wouldn't be surprised if she is just putting on an act similar to Daniel Whitney with Larry the Cable Guy. Either way, there are plenty of people out there that are at this level in reality. For example, it is rare but I actually come across people my age from time to time that believe that the Earth is bigger than the Sun.

There is definitely a problem with ignorance on varying levels. Personally, school felt like a waste of time to me so I did the minimum even though I could have easily done well. It was a mistake on my part and there are plenty of others that have fallen into that same trap but I think a bigger part of the problem may be technology in a way. I will be 24 next week which puts me at the start of this generation where computers and the internet has readily been available to us. There is all this information at our fingertips and what do we do with it? Push it aside to watch cat videos on Youtube. Youtube is one of those things that is great for was it was made for but has been used for the wrong reason. There are some good examples there with all the cat videos, the guy jumping onto the frozen pool, and

The video of the guy and the frozen pool opens up a whole different problem with common sense. I could probably go on but it is best that I stop there.

Quote from: uwe on November 09, 2012, 02:48:11 PM
I excel at being a bad influence.  Nothing is more gratifying than tarnished virtue.

One reason why I had to vanish for the most part these past couple years.

Quote from: HERBIE on July 02, 2012, 03:27:22 PM
Oh yeah, someone else has noted (probably not that new news) that they've found some more Mayan tablets that note the 22nd December being the start of a new era - maybe not Armageddon after all...

I hadn't heard about the new tablets being discovered but I am not surprised. The Mayan calendar is based on cycles and one person got the wrong idea from what it said before spreading it to anyone who would listen.

Quote from: Dave W on May 31, 2012, 09:46:28 PM
Funny how that works. I remember how old my grandparents seemed when I was growing up, and that's when they were younger than I am now.

I have heard my mom and her sisters say the exact same thing when looking at old photos. I think it just comes down to the styles between then and now.

Sounds like marketing for the film cost them a hefty $442.6 million...

Quote from: drbassman on February 16, 2012, 03:19:47 PM

Seriously???  Looks like an SNL skit!!!

It is very real. It is based on a book that came out a couple of years ago.

The Asylum, the company that makes a lot of those low budget monster films found on Syfy, is making a film called Nazis at the Center of the Earth. I visited the studio in October and it was on the list of films in the visual effects office of their warehouse.

Quote from: Dave W on January 12, 2012, 08:56:55 PM
Growing up in the 50s we didn't have 30s nostalgia shows or acts. OTOH if your parents or grandparents loved music, you got exposed to a lot of older music. I know I did.

Similarly, I get up listening to oldies since my dad took control of the radio and always had it set to K-EARTH 101. It was a time before iPods and MP3s and while I did have a portable CD player, I rarely used it since I didn't have a lot of CDs.

Edit: I just thought of something I want to add to this thread. I have gotten into the habit of watching TED talks on my iPad instead of finding meaningless TV shows on. This talk by Sir  Ken Robinson came up for me this time about a learning revolution. In it, he makes a point to ask the audience how many of them are over 25 and how many of them are wearing wrist watches. His point behind that is that people under 25 don't mainly because they don't see a reason to since this is the digital age now.