MattPie

Ruby is really weird. Give Python a shot, I found it remarkably easy to pick up (spoilers, I have a CS degree) because the syntax is light on extraneous structure and more like writing English directions than many other languages.

Philly, Minnesota, I know Southern Maryland, the KKK in the south, I think you're underestimating how widespread this is. Also, "gay families burn in hell": https://t.co/bWL8FFpTEX EDIT: Oops, wrong tweet, that's just a black man having his life threatened by a white man with a gun. https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/796542537255239681

Re: racism. I have Latino family members that have already seen racist BS since Trump started campaigning in the Buffalo area. They've been told to leave restaurants. The school age kids have been told the Trump was going to send them to Mexico. All but one is a US citizen. You may try to wave it away, but this ###### is happening to people. I haven't seen them posted here, but there's an article in the Buffalo News regarding a swastica and "Make America White Again" and a black baby doll with a noose around it's neck at Canisius. In Philly, there's "Sieg Heil Trump" graffiti. You can say what you want, but Trump has enabled those people. Tell me again how his his fears are hyperbolic and shaped by social media? http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/philadelphia/98767-police-investigate-trump-swastika-graffiti-as-possible-hate-crime http://buffalonews.com/2016/11/09/disturbing-acts-in-wellsville-at-canisius-college-follow-election-day/

Complaint: Gen Xers that whine about Millennials when they are oblivious to how boomers whined the same things about Gen Xers. I'd rather hang out with the Millennials I know; they seem to have a sense of community and non-materialistic way about them that I never saw in my GenX peers.

I assume that's Svenska for "oh well".

??? Last practice before the season opener.

NHL maybe, but I'd bet the tenant agreements give the NBA priority over AHL.

Agreed, that's gold.

Right, if ROR is playing but not practicing they're not going to juggle the lines; they put someone in as a body. I wonder if Fasching is a scratch.

at 1795 Two on the Sabres. +110

Reinhart hasn't played LW other than one or two games this season. He's been at RW or C.

I'm honestly surprised a collection of hockey fans are voting in a landslide. I'd have thought blue and white collar white men (which I think most of us fall) would be fairly even.

If Kane's a bust, that mean he busts a move in said nightclub?

My polling place is pretty busy. It's in an urban neighborhood so that's the be expected. I think I waited at least 30 minutes in each of the last two Presidential elections; absentee this time around.

I'm an engineer that isn't all that great at higher-level math. I feel you.

MattPie to RosePie this morning: Guten tag, mein frauline. RosePie to MattPie: Those aren't real words. (I should be noted I speak almost no German and I'm sure that phrase sounds as weird as "Good daylight my young woman" does in English)

And penalties going Buffalo's way? Also, an 11+% stout helps a lot. http://www.weyerbacher.com/beers/special-release/sunday-mole-stout/

Yeah, in hindsight my numbers are off.

DB whacks at the ball while Woods is getting up, Woods does the first-down holding the ball up towards the DB's face, DB whacks the ball again, Woods walks away. It's probably taunting, but with the whacks at the ball I'd have let it go if I were the ref.

Yep. Where's the coolant leak? I'm guessing by the cost it's external to the engine, so maybe not that hard to fix. It may be worth trying some Stop Leak on it for a Stop-gap. Read this, though: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516862

Nice! :) My WRX meets that criteria. My bike is questionable; I removed the muffler entirely but left the cat on. It still meets noise reqs (I think, it's not as loud as a stock Harley) and still meets emissions regs with the cat. It's been inspected a few times so it must be OK. :)

Thanks for the informative article; I was going to ask if the name "Pakistan" followed the naming scheme of that area, and it apparently does not.

Yep, I'm not going to quote, but I agree with all of this. If you tally up the Islanders, Devils, and Rangers fans you probably have the same number of hockey fans as all of Canada. Maybe not the same level of fandom, but there just aren't that many people in the GWN.

Romo from what I understand is a pretty good to great QB (better than anyone the Bills have had in years), but it does seem like he's choke-prone. I'm not sure what I'd prefer; hopes dashed or no hope at all.

Well, you didn't say which Kennedy and President of what.