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MattPie

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  1. I did, but that was before I knew Duke had spy cameras in the backboards of their practice gym.
  2. In untied skates.
  3. I dunno man, Double-dub wants it bad this year.
  4. I have to think Ren is in the sights of upper management; she may do the right thing but her employees are running wild. Shows a lack of leadership, they need a new core.
  5. Maybe HHDCRGDDB finally implemented the D scheme on the 9th and final whiteboard 3 weeks ago and the team is trying to learn it.
  6. What multinational bank is in W-B?
  7. This will be the year we don't match up well against the Rangers.
  8. Normally, that's "done!" for our street. Yesterday they came by a few times, I was surprised.
  9. I'm with you on writing basic HTML, but I can't imagine writing a modern web site in HTML < 5.There was a reason people used flash back in the day, it was way easier and had more features than what you could do with HTML.
  10. The raspy low vocal register, commonly associated with young women in the past bunch of years. It's probably something you're completely used to but didn't know it had a name. Google up "faith salie vocal fry" for an informative look.
  11. Mapping this to "real world" workplaces, I think most people have seen A> managers that haven't kept up with the times, and B> employees that do their own thing regardless of what management says. How you feel about that depends on your perspective, I suppose. In my industry, Bylsma would be the manager that sticks to mandating that the company's web presence be Adobe Flash-based because the hardest thing for a web developer to do (10 years ago) is write good HTML code. All the data showing that mobile is huge and doesn't play well with Flash would be ignored. Jack is the new hire with all these crazy HTML5 on continuous development Cloud systems ideas that can't get his head around doing the way it was done 15 years ago because it doesn't seem to work on today's web. Just saw this, apropos: 75% of people leave a job due to conflicts with bosses. http://www.peoplefluent.com/blog/people-don%E2%80%99t-quit-jobs-they-quit-bosses
  12. Max points possible: 92. Who had the Ides of March in the pool?
  13. Oh, I see how you read that. Neither: it would be interesting to have the only Latvian and the only Kazakh players in the NHL.
  14. At one point, the company ran some contest where you could be in one of the episodes. If I happened to be in one, I'd so want to be the bad guy. "No, it's OK to charge the wrong customer for this; I still get paid the same either way." or "Just get it out the door before the deadline, we can fix the problems later."
  15. Are their any other Latvians in the NHL right now?
  16. I'm still at Hodgson/Kassian being pretty close to a wash, although he's still playing (6G, 19Pis in 65 games) so I guess Vancouver won that trade. That being said, Kassian and a 5th turned into Prust for Vancouver, who is in the AHL this year. Wash, unless that 5th does something. Roy for Ott was an OK trade. Ott brought some swagger to the Sabres, and Roy hasn't done much since as far as I know. You could argue Grigorenko may have been BPA (at least based on scouting). He was projected to go higher and fell to Buffalo. I'm not sure you could say Girgensons wasn't BPA too; maybe not 5 years later, but at the time they weren't bad picks.
  17. They're not much better, so I'm not sure you'd want that. Keith Jones is intolerable and Steve Coates is a slight downgrade to Rob Ray in analysis and homerism.
  18. The theme music for the "Stuff You Should Know" podcast is the same as a long-running ethics video series my company makes us watch.
  19. I think you guys are on the edge, so it looks routine compared to the normal lake effect the Southtowns get every few days. Down here, we've gotten probably 8-9" and it's been oscillating between rain, sleet, and those little balls of hard snow all morning. I could get out, but I have no idea when the next time the plow is coming (and if it does, it'll leave a 1-2 foot ridge of ice I have to chip out before I can park my car). I saw a car on the road behind my house spinning wheels on the white road as far as I could watch. Sure, that person probably doesn't have a clue, but that's the normal here, so I'm not going out unless I absolutely have to (like if I run out of beer). I do agree that the panic is driven by the news, but it's not a terrible idea to have some extra supplies around the house and stay in unless you have to go out. I'm with you, I have at least a week or two of food here (if nothing else, pasta and rice) and the means to cook it (gas stove). I was out for something (prescription?) a couple years ago, and the clueless people were blocking everything. I passed at least 10 cars stuck on the hill up to my house, including a Tacoma furiously spinning all four wheels. (Side note: WRX with snow tires is the bomb.) Better to panic everyone to stay inside than have them stuck for days on the thruway.
  20. Phone: I've never tried doing pre-paid in the US, but I know what you mean having done it in the UK. It's not as common here as most people do locked phones and switch phones when they switch carriers. It's not as nice as the Europe model where you can bounce between carriers and phones easily. There is this, which I can't vouch for but it seems like what you'd need: https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-international-tourist-plan Make sure to give him some Vernor's too.
  21. In terms of budget, that's not a terrible move there. It's cold enough it won't melt for awhile here. I don't think the plows have been down my street this year, and there have been years that I haven't had to shovel at all. There's little reason to spend a ton of money on a once a year issue.
  22. Wegmans was really busy yesterday afternoon, but being Wegmans, they had every single cash register open (no wait for me) and tons of bread, milk, and eggs left. Right now, Weather Underground (I think they use accuweather as their source) has Coatesville at 10" tomorrow, which is like 3 ft in Buffalo and 4 ft in the Southtowns in terms of impact. The 20+ mph winds will drift this miserable, heavy, ice block-link snow deep enough that I won't get out of my driveway for a few days because the town only has a few pickup truck plows. I'll see that plow once when there's about 3" of snow and not again for 3 days because it's trying to plow out dozens of streets. This might surprise the people of WNY, but the municipalities around here don't burn a ton of budget on maintaining a fleet of highway plows for the two or three times a year they need them.
  23. Regier? I'm having a hard time getting from the guy that kinda shafted Nolan (twice!) who doesn't work for the Sabres any more to the point where a prospective coach is thinking, "well, I can either go with Buffalo or cool my heels/go back to juniors/AHL/college coaching." and coming out with, "nah, I'll get a shot at the NHL somewhere else eventually".
  24. Woah there, I don't recall anyone talking rebuild back then. G + G were desperate moves to make the team good by drafting in Centers since the Sabres had nothing after the Leino debacle. The rebuild, in my mind, starts on April 3, 2013 when they traded Pominville away, who at the time was in Buffalo's top-3 forwards.
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