MattPie

I really wish I agreed with more of Johnson's policies. It's quite the conundrum, vote for someone who is somewhat more slimy than the average politician but shares your views on a number of things or vote from someone who's of average sliminess but shares far fewer views.

I like Bulleit and Dad's Hat, but I'm no expert.

One perspective on the outlawing of pot in the 1930s was that it was pushed by the alcohol industry. You don't sell as much booze if you can get high from the field behind your house.

Last I looked, Android didn't have a way to start at the beginning while the game was on, but my PS3 did. I like NHL.tv but in a lot of ways it is amateur hour.

College freshman would have been 3 at the time, so they might remember it as just an image or something. Most kids' brains usually prune a bunch of stuff around the age of 3 and somewhat start fresh, so this would be the last class that will have any memory of the actual event.

Considering how much of the NHL revenue stream cable networks make up (NBC (US$200M per year) and Rogers (CDN$500M per year)), that's not going to happen any time soon.

It's gotten better this last year in terms of stability, but the platform lost some features (like replays cut out all the commercials and intermissions). The quality is just under actual 1080 HD. The motion isn't quite as smooth and it's not quite as clear, but it's worlds better than the SD games I was getting on Center Ice.

If you have a fairly connected house, I can't imagine a rationale for getting Center Ice over NHL.tv. If you have broadband internet, and some way to play on a TV (instead of your phone or computer), it seems to be the decision is easy. (cheap TV solution if you don't have a PS3, xbox, etc: Google Chromecast; $35 streams NHL pretty well). Actually, the one argument for Center Ice is when you get the feed in HD, it probably is a little better quality than streaming. I'm not sure that's true with the new streaming platform though.

The value decision is up to you. :) I always thought of it this way: once you get to the performance level you require for whatever you're doing (games, video, whatevers) that's the base. Buy more performance than that, and you're buying time before the software takes more and more CPU and/or GPU until the hardware you bought can no longer cope. The other way to look at it is stuff gets expensive fast when you get up to the high end. I'll put it in car terms: you can buy a car that's 50% faster than Honda Fit relatively easily. You have to spend a lot more to find something that's 50% faster than that car. There's logic in buying the (hopefully) inexpensive card that does what you need now and then upgrading when needed with another inexpensive card that due to time has much better performance. If we're talking $200 and $300 cards, it's probably a wash; I'd buy the $300 card just so I don't have to mess with it for longer. If you were debating a $200 vs. a $750 card, I'd say $200. You could upgrade that card 3 times in the next 5 years and still be ahead on cash, and probably have a faster card at the end than the $750 card bought now and never upgraded.

Good. Even if you buy "mistakenly posted as public, I meant to send privately" it's still stupid.

THE SABRES MAY OR MAY NOT MAKE THE PLAYOFFS.

I'm a fan of Newegg, but that goes back years. Mostly because they have a great search filter to narrow down to what you want (other sites may have caught up) and they often ship out of a warehouse in NJ that means whatever shipping option I choose it shows up the next day (or 2 at most).

No kidding. I think I can stream the football game on my phone (thanks Verizon) but not to my TV (thanks Verizon). If the game is on ESPN2, I doubt I'll be able to find a legitimate stream. I'll have to watch the highlights whenever they show up.

Complete with eye patch!

Are they a contender with whomever Bradford is replacing? If they figure their collection of players won't be together much longer, they're shooting for the moon.

NO IDEA. :)

Ask if they'll add wing sauce to the red sauce on the pizza. :)

I have so much work that I need to do next week that it's not a purely holiday weekend for me.

Hahaha. I've gotten the opposite take: I cannot start watching this as I do not have time to binge watch anything.

How about Las Vegas Nom Muet for their eventual move to Quebec.

I'd think he's on track to be UFA at 25, he's been pro (in Rochester) since 18. Right?

I'm partial to Wegmans Lump Charcoal, primary because I walk past it at the grocery store. :)

I have to yell at kids to get off my lawn all summer, I'm not sure your anecdote holds up. :) The thing that surprised me the most is they'll be out playing football while the Eagles game is on TV. (Disclaimer: both my neighbors with young kids (5-10 years old) moved away, so the kids are fewer now)

Make sense, thanks. That makes my interest even more irrational as I almost never do long cooks. The only thing I cook that's more than "make it hot" is paella, and that's done with the lid open all the time so I can't imagine it'd matter.

Oh come on, if we're talking about layers the discussion begins and ends with Smith Island cake.