MattPie

I was rushed last night, but I'll clarify: I don't have an issue with people flying the Confederate Flag (even if I think they're morons for doing it), that's their right. What I disagree with is trying to draw parallels to Kapernick's protest. Maybe I'm clouded by my bias, but it seems like the Patriotic Correctness brigade grasping at straws to justify their anger at someone expressing their views because they disagree with them.

While both have a free speech angle, they're not in the same league. On one side, you have a person protesting issues with the society that is symbolized by the flag. On the other, you have the symbol of a movement to preserve the legal institution of subjugating other human beings.

I said screw work (on my day off and vacation) for an hour today and got beef and wings from Bar Bill. I'm working again now though, so the fantastic was short-lived.

You buying the beer? :) (I remember sitting at a bar one night and for some reason I started drawing states in relation to a story. By time I got done, I think I had everything east of the Mississippi done. It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't terrible either. I can name all the states and almost all the capitals without visual aids. I spend a lot of time looking at maps for fun.)

If they can be re-purposed into creating electricity, you're sitting on a growth industry.

I didn't immediately know the name when it came up. After a little more context, I deduced that it's the city where Islamic State is destroying stuff which I did read about previously.

Raise a Gose for the Goose.

Backup GT indeed.

From what I understand, those countries hate each other.

Now I get the hoop training. Hanging out of the rafters upside-down sniping people is bad-ass.

I'm already over 40 hours working this week. On my vacation in Buffalo.

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!