MattPie

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

Do be honest, it only seems to come up for me when the surface is chunky or bumpy, and even then all it feels like is bike mildly lurches forward a bit mid-stop. I've only noticed it a handful of times in the 73,000 miles I have on the bike. On dry or wet pavement, the tires these days are so good it doesn't even activate. This will throw you for a loop: my bike as servo-assist power brakes. Most people seem to hate them, but as this is my first street bike I don't mind them because I'm not used to anything else. And man, my bike may be under-powered and overweight (like me), but BMW didn't skimp at all on the brakes; they're *so* good and with ABS you can just grab all it without worrying. Forgot to post this earlier this week: My house went from snow to 32 and rain on Saturday, to 55 and rain on Sunday, and back to 22 Monday morning.

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. ;))

This wouldn't surprise me; the team has enough to worry about outside of the "maybe we'll see this every 5 games" drill.

Last one, I promise: if [ git checkout yourself == false ] ; then rec yourself ; fi

Somehow, I think this isn't the venue for code humor, pal. git rm yourself!

Oh myyyyy... http://www.victorybeer.com/beers/java-cask/ Hint: it's a 750ml, and as strong as wine. Under no circumstances drink a couple Storm Kings on either side of it.

Interesting point there: at what point does Sammy decide to not sign with the TT-led Bills and go to a team that has a throwing QB? It's gotta creep in that Tyrod isn't going to make him a star and you only get one ot two chances in the NFL to do that.

That one too, although it's not one I immediately think of.

The only way I change that is given the two centers we have now (not then), *maybe* a natural winger would be my pick, but that has nothing to do with Samson's play. Having three solid true centers is never a bad thing.

Must be, because it's either the American Medical Association or American Motorcycle Association.

There are certainly people that have the ability to outperform ABS. I think Doohickie is on the right path though that the set of people that are better than ABS, in a situation that they can significantly outperform ABS, and (this is the big one) they're prepared and focused to perform maximum effort braking is vanishingly small. It's one thing to beat ABS in tests where the driver is ready to perform the maximum for each test, it's another to be that vigilant on your entire 40-minute commute home on a Wednesday night. I consider myself a student of the driving arts (ha), but I know that in panic braking situations I'm not that good. A motorcycle magazine ran ABS vs. not tests awhile back and for that test, the best humans could do bested the ABS by 2 ft in stopping distance on dry pavement. On wet, only one guy could beat ABS consistently and when asked, he was using tricks like, "well, the manhole is only 2 ft wide so I can just let the front tire slide over that and it'll be fine, where the ABS detected the lock-up but didn't recover immediately when it got back onto pavement. My bike has ABS; I know that in an emergency it'll be better than me.

Man, how can you tell what shoes they're wearing? (hey, o.)

I feel I should say something about tires. Modern snow tires are the bomb. If I lived where it snowed a lot I would have them on all my cars. I narrowly made the decision to put all-seasons on Van-dor a couple weeks ago. If not for it requiring run-flat tires, I would have seriously considered putting snows on and then getting new rims and tires in the spring. What do yo think?

Ouch Kane, 4th line on the wrong wing?

Year? The early stuff was OK, but not great. The newer stuff is a lot better. For instance, the computer doesn't just see the wheel locked up, it notices if one wheel is slowing down faster than the rest or if the wheels are slowing down faster than the car should be able to (i. e., it knows the car can't go from 60-0 in 1 second) and adjusts. I should look up some studies to see. Now, there are situations where ABS doesn't make sense. Gravel is one, where apparently the vehicle will stop better with a locked up tire as it will plow a small hill in front of the tire which has more friction to push than a rolling wheel. I could see the same thing applying to snow, although I'm more skeptical as to how often that happens.

Y'all are crazy if you don't like ABS. It's way better at minimum stopping distance than any person (other than a pro in controlled conditions).