MattPie

+/- is like saying saying "I rode my bicycle 5 miles today" (I didn't, don't worry). Useful information in some ways, but if start using it to compare myself to other people without taking other factors into effect it gives a distorted picture. The guy in Kansas on a 60 degree day has it easier (no hills) than the guy riding around Tahoe (altitude and all hills) or the person where it's been pouring rain or snowing all day.

Spartanpede?

I generally like it, it fits the way we want to use TV for the most part. The only issue is some apps are somewhat limited when using it. For instance, the NHL app can't FF or Rewind when playing an archive game. You do have the ability to seek using the phone, but advancing 2 minutes past a commercial or past an intermission is finicky. Also, it'll randomly advance the game to a place which ruins the suspense (it started the Rangers game yesterday at 5:00 left in the third). I knew the score so NBD, but if I didn't I'd be "mad". Also Amazon doesn't want to play ball so Prime video is annoying. This is Amazon's fault. I'll have to see how well my Raspberry Pi does, or get a Roku stick down the road.

I'm still waiting for top shelf to concede.

- PS3 gave up on life suddenly the other day. I don't game any more and I have other solutions for it's primary functions (Netflix, Prime Video, NHL, and the occasional disc), but the interface on it was a bit smoother than Chromecast. I'm debating attempting the oven fix which is both terrifying and intriguing. I have nothing to lose, I guess. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-fix-a-YLOD-PS3-with-an-oven/ - Sabrespace apparently blew up while I was on semi-hiatus over the holidays. - The Sabres apparently blew up while I was on semi-hiatus over the holidays. It's a weird paradox that I pay less attention to the Sabres when I'm in Buffalo; it has to be that I'm busy with other things and don't have my comfortable routine of watching the games late at night by myself.

Ugh, I haven't been paying attention lately, I can't believe it's been that long since I bet. @$2385, I'll bet once I learn the gt.

Rich was pretty rare even in my time (born mid-70s). A few Ricks, though.

No way, she's Stella. :) I loved the way they handled that recast on Roseanne and apparently the weird 8th season. I forget the exact sequence her and Roseanne were joking about Dick Sargent / Dick York and "how did they expect us not to notice".

I watch too much Scrubs, I like Eliot as a girl's name.

Au contraire, if there had been a car-tender tree it would have ended up square in the crest.

I think the voting is tighter than it looks; the Saberlectoral College has a way of distorting the vote.

Unintentional goalie equipment size restriction, I like it!

I know even less about nanotubes than kelvar and CF, but if it pans out I'm sure we'll see it in sports equipment. Interestingly, GT gear is an odd case, there aren't many sports where a player is subject to repeated impacts from a hard object. It changes the equation. For that matter, you don't really want hard armor there either or rebound control would be impossible. Marner is playing on a team that focuses more on offence. I don't think this is a case where you can compare purely on points.

Good point, I never see carbon fiber other than in resin so I didn't put together the similarities.

I know that's a joke, but I think they sold out most (if not all) of that year, and only didn't this game as they were beat badly by those same Oilers the week before in week 16 of the regular season.

In a universe that's colliding with another and about to pop us all out of existence.

That's ironic. ;)

I'm going to go all meta: Kevlar is over-used as "ultimate protective material". It is very resistant to puncture, abrasion, and slicing, only one of those properties is useful in hockey. A kelvar balacava would essentially eliminate neck injuries and wouldn't seem to affect the players' abilities. Kevlar itself is nearly useless for blunt impact; the stuff I've seen feels like thick cotton. For goalie equipment, we should be talking about more carbon fiber. Light, hard, and spreads out impacts. I'd be shocked if it wasn't already heavily used, but with the same thick backing that the older plastic used that's somewhat unnecessary now. I bet d4rk and other people who play will argue though.

It was. My dad and I were in the basement workshop doing something or other and listening to the game. We started just staring at each other from time to time as the second half progressed.

This is brilliant. I'm now going enunciate Canadian domains (such as Google.ca) as "Google see, eh?". In my day, women just did that for fun.

FWIW, the NHL average for goals scored per game this year is 2.68 and ranges between 3.46 (CBJ) and 2.05 (COL) (BUF is 2.14). I'm not surprised that the Sabres are pretty good when scoring more than 2, as there are only 5 teams that average 3 or more goals. https://www.sportingcharts.com/nhl/stats/team-goals-per-game/2016/

Congrats d4rk! Get West Herr to put some winter tires on it now and get a set of 20s with summer tires for June. :)

Japanese does it, I think. You soften a statement with "day sun a" (long a sound) which translates to "is it not". This just in: How about we stop at Panera's in Williamsport for lunch? -- MrsPie

I think my mom does that, I'll have to keep an ear out for it while I'm in town.

Entente II: World War Bugaloo I think this is well known: The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot when his car happened to stall in front a cafe where the assassin was sitting after the first attack earlier that day failed. Dumb luck ended up killing millions. (Note, I said dumb luck, not the President-Elect with a very similar-sounding description. ;))