Regional sites announced for NCAA Baseball Championship https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/55010/ #Alabama #Arkansas #athens #Auburn #Austin #Baseball #BatonRouge #California #ChapelHill #clemson #CoastalCarolina #Conway #Corvallis #Cowboys #Eugene #Fayetteville #Florida #Georgia #Hattiesburg #Knoxville #LosAngeles #Louisiana #lsu #Mississippi #Nashville #NorthCarolina #OleMiss #Oregon #OregonState #OSU #Oxford #SECTournament #SouthCarolina #SouthernMississippi #Tallahassee #Tennessee #Texas #UCLA #Vanderbilt
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Pulling together the #shownotes in preparation for Monday’s posting of e515 in #ChapelHill for @gamesatwork_biz with @andypiper and @michaelrowe01 . Stories and discussion on #DarthVader #NPC, #GoogleI/O, #OpenAI #IO, #VisionPro, #infrared #ContactLenses, #Warhammer typing game and more! Check out earlier episodes, chock full of #AI #metaverse #AR #VR #gamification and so much more on https://www.gamesatwork.biz
Sooners and Cowboys await NCAA Baseball fate after conference quarterfinal exits https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/49852/ #AlexConover #atlanta #Baseball #BraydenSmith #CadeCrossland #ChapelHill #CollegeBaseball #Cowboys #D1Baseball #GabeDavis #GeorgiaTech #GlobeLifeField #HarryBodendorf #Hoover #JasonWalk #Kansas #Kentucky #N.C. #NCAA #NCAABaseball #NorthCarolina #Oklahoma #OklahomaState #OU #SECTournament
Sooners and Cowboys await NCAA Baseball fate after conference quarterfinal exits https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/49787/ #AlexConover #atlanta #Baseball #BraydenSmith #CadeCrossland #ChapelHill #CollegeBaseball #Cowboys #D1Baseball #GabeDavis #GeorgiaTech #GlobeLifeField #HarryBodendorf #Hoover #JasonWalk #Kansas #Kentucky #N.C. #NCAA #NCAABaseball #NorthCarolina #Oklahoma #OklahomaState #OU #SECTournament
Baseball Downs UNCG Behind Strong Pitching https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/45436/ #AP #ApImages #AssociatedPress #Baseball #ChapelHill #lsu #NCAA #wofford
Out for a walk on a warm #spring day with Linus and my best girl. We’re lucky here in rural #chapelhill #nc to have a lot of walking trails within 5-10 minutes of our place.
Watch Rebecca L. Walker six minutes on risk assessment and "moral status": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQi2uNqwxk
#ethics #grievability #grievable #values #science #Parr #ChapelHill
#NowPlaying the new Superchunk single from March I'm surprised I didn't talk about here already. Man, their one from before this ripped, too. I fuckin love Superchunk. So cool that in 2025 there's SO MANY bands out there still making great music. This is "Bruised Lung". Play it fuckin LOUD.
https://superchunk.bandcamp.com/track/bruised-lung
#Superchunk #indie #IndieRock #ChapelHill #NorthCarolina #NorthCarolinaBands
Carolina celebrates Class of 2025 with rousing Mia Hamm speech – UNC
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A graduate holds his cap in the air as fireworks go off behind him at Kenan Stadium during 2025 Spring Commencement. (Johnny Andrews / UNC-Chapel Hill)
Carolina celebrates Class of 2025 with rousing Mia Hamm speechBy Michael Lananna, University Communications, Saturday, May 10th, 2025
The soccer legend and 1994 Carolina graduate addressed 6,800-plus Tar Heel graduates in a ceremony presided over by Chancellor Lee H. Roberts.
“And always and forever, you’ll be a part of this team. Our team. Graduates of the University of North Carolina,” Mia Hamm told graduates at Spring Commencement. (Jon Gardiner /UNC-Chapel HillThough Mia Hamm ’94 is widely considered the greatest women’s soccer player of all time, she couldn’t have won four NCAA titles, two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals all by herself.
As Hamm told Carolina’s Class of 2025 under the Kenan Stadium lights Saturday night, it takes a team working in sync to truly succeed.
“A team with 11 Mia Hamms will not win the World Cup or Olympic Gold,” Hamm said. “You need people with different skills, different strengths, different approaches to solving problems.”
The 2025 Spring Commencement ceremony honored 6,829 graduates – 4,358 undergraduates, 1,487 master’s degrees candidates and 962 students receiving doctoral degrees. And, as Hamm reminded the graduates, none of them made it to this day on their own.
“Each of you will receive a diploma with your name on it,” Hamm said. “But written in invisible ink all over that piece of paper are the names of everyone who helped you along the way.”
Read more: Carolina celebrates Class of 2025 with rousing Mia Hamm speech – UNCSource Links: Carolina celebrates Class of 2025 with rousing Mia Hamm speech | UNC-Chapel Hill
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2025/05/10/carolina-celebrates-class-of-2025-with-rousing-mia-hamm-speech
#2025 #ChapelHill #GraduationSpeaker #MiaHamm #NorthCarolina #Soccer #SpringCommencement #UNCGraduation #UniversityOfNorthCarolina
Pulling together the #shownotes in preparation for Monday’s posting of e512 in #ChapelHill for @gamesatwork_biz with @andypiper while @michaelrowe01 is away. Stories and discussion on #EInk #monitors, #Agent run companies & towns, winning arguments with #AIAssistants, #pixellating reality and more! Check out earlier episodes, chock full of #AI #metaverse #AR #VR #gamification and so much more on https://www.gamesatwork.biz
TL;DR: If you live in the #Triangle area of NC and you are interested in live music:
So: For ~22 years or so I ran a website called trianglerock.com which aggregated show listings for venues around central NC (primarily #Raleigh, #Durham, #ChapelHill).
It started out entirely manually assembled, and I gradually automated portions of it. But for ~reasons~, namely:
- I intentionally wanted each band/artist, and each venue, to be an entity in a database, so that it could be searchable later (via a search interface I never finished building)
- I was a completist & that meant seeking out show listings in social media & other non-scrape-able places
- I didn’t list everything, and for shows I personally cared about, I included some preview verbiage I wrote myself
it always required a few hours a week of manual labor.
When the pandemic hit & all the venues shut down, I sort of belatedly reached the conclusion that I was tired of spending a few hours a week on it . . . so I never started it back up again after venues started re-opening.
(I also don’t go out to many rockclub shows anymore, because too many of the rockclubs around here (with a handful of exceptions, thank you, you know who you are) are depressing black-painted concrete-floored boxes with zero character, disgusting bathrooms, and noplace to sit.)
A few times over the past few years, people have mentioned to me that they missed the site (including multiple venue owners / bookers / promoters) but my careabout number remained super-low.
A couple of weeks ago, though, I was at a show, seeing an amazing band from Toronto called The Weather Station, and chatting with a few old friends. Two topics came up multiple times:
- our mutual surprise that there weren’t more people there
- my old friends’ characterization of me, when introducing me to their kids / partners, as “umm, how do I explain Ross? Well, he used to run this website . . . “
Partly I was like “dude I am standing RIGHT HERE you don’t have to past-tense me like that” but also in talking to them they did genuinely bemoan the difficulty in keeping track of shows since I quit.
I still don’t want to spend any significant amount of time collating show listings.
But nearly all the venue websites these days are using some kind of WordPress plugin or other framework that generates predictably-structured HTML. I had already written parsers for a few of them back in ~2018 or so . . . so it wasn’t much effort at all to expand my parser collection.
The result is a minimal static site that is just a date-sorted aggregation of all the listings I can scrape: http://roks.me
(Yeah, http – I don’t feel like doing even the minimal LetsEncrypt dance here, and if ppl are worried that a static html site is too risky to load via http then they probably aren’t leaving their houses to go to rock clubs either.)
One thing that amused me & also made me feel old was realizing that ~5 years off the local-music beat also means that I couldn’t write blurbs about most of these shows even if I wanted to, not without doing a LOT of research . . . and I’m not particularly interested in diving back into the world of one million indie-rock and garage bands who are all great people and write decent songs but are also, ahem, very similar to 7000 other indie-rock and garage bands I have personally seen over the past 40 years of going to shows.
We are open regular business hours tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday (10-6), but will be closed on Sunday. Normal hours also Monday (10-7).
#chapelhill
The sun will rise in #Durham-#ChapelHill #NorthCarolina tomorrow. And it will set. And rise and set the day after, and the day after that, for more days than you or I will have the chance to watch. But this account will not be noting them all.
Let's all hope—and work—for a brighter future.
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The sun will rise in #Durham-#ChapelHill #NorthCarolina tomorrow. And it will set. And rise and set the day after, and the day after that, for more days than you or I will have the chance to watch. But this account will not be noting them all.
Let's all hope—and work—for a brighter future.
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Ticket request: I was a dumbass and waited too long to buy a ticket for #Fust at #CatsCradle Backroom in #ChapelHill on Saturday 4/19 and now it’s sold out. Anyone got an extra, know of one, or can otherwise hook me up? Thanks!
Today, Saturday, April 5th, 11am to 3pm, we'll host local author Bill Maier for a "Brain Boosting Book Signing" of his word scramble series! Buy a book and get it signed. #chapelhill #books #puzzles
It's fun seeing all the #ChapelHill families coming in to pick up activities for the kids to do on their Spring Break trips! We have coloring books, fascinating fidgets, paint by sticker books, playing cards, sketchbooks, and many other great options.
Chapelboro: Chapel Hill Restores LGBTQ History, Diversity Pages After Brief Removal During Website Audit. “After a brief — but fervent — controversy online Wednesday, the Town of Chapel Hill restored several of its website’s pages, including ones about the town’s history of support for the LGBTQ+ community and its diversity, equity and inclusion office.”
I won't even try to explain the new timings here since I've only watched it for a few minutes and I suspect it's still in an experimental phase. But if you're local to #ChapelHill, check it out. Even if you don't like it, gotta give props to the town for being willing to get creative here.
The #puzzle book event with local #ChapelHill author Bill Maier is happening now! Until 1pm.
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