MattPie

And a ^4 too! (2^4)

How about Drumpflund?

https://untappd.com/b/anderson-valley-brewing-company-salted-caramel-bourbon-aged-porter/1223753 Anderson Valley Brewing Company Salted Caramel Bourbon Aged Porter. One of those beers that sounds a lot more interesting than it is. I find this is more often the case than not; maybe living somewhat near Dogfish Head has messed with my expectations on this; they make some fine beers (the minutes, Brew, World-wide Stout), but several of their experiments are underwhelming. Interesting on the label, just kind of "eh" while drinking so I tend to think and beer with more than 4-5 words in the name is going disappoint. This beer smells a bunch like caramel and fizzed like pop when pouring (so much I thought it might be a hard root beer or something terrible). Upon drinking, you get a bit of that pop feel with the hard carbonation but otherwise it's a kind of thin porter. I get a bit of the bourbon and roasted malt, but that's it. I'd have it again if I were out, but after I tried all the other interesting beers.

Yep (as am I). I have friends on FB that are friends of his and keep tagging him in stuff. To you point, seems like an over-the-off-shoulder angle would be awesome.

I'm sure the folks over at battsplash.org don't like your examples, either. :) No one wants to be told what to do, but part of living in society is that sometimes you have to accept that you can't always have your own way. I feel that I can drive or ride well above the posted speed limit in some situations safely but that doesn't mean I get to because I'm special.

Over-regulate is a point-of-view. Democrats often regulate more than Republicans (unless it's someone's bedroom). I wish there wasn't a need for regulations, but humans have pretty much shown that if they get away with something they'll try to even if it hurts others in the process.

Or Obama in 2004?

From this link. It's NASA though, you know those guys are a bunch of hippies. http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYut8kBqBMw

Star Trek Beyond: eh. It's fun and loud and all, but I don't think it's a great movie. I might watch it again if it shows up on Netflix, but I won't go out of my way for it.

Most recent thing (other than technical stuff) has been Game of Thrones, first 3 books. I'm taking a break from it since I can't fall into that much time again right now. I've been getting them from the library in ebook format which means I have 2 weeks to read a book. That takes a lot of me free time for most of the two weeks, and I just can't with work. Ugh. The books are OK, but I don't think I'm getting what the massive appeal is.

Stocking a local department store Quality Control at a large cereal producer Network Administrator (small company, included pretty much any SMB IT work you can think of) (graduated from college) One job with a large company, three locations, covering a large hunk of IT (firewalls, networks, auth, LInux, Windows, mobile devices, some software, etc)

I don't remember the Nixon thing (wasn't born), and I don't remember the prices of stuff. Everything else was still around in the early 80s though. A friend of mine had one in the early 90s in Marilla. No kidding.

Paint some trees on the walls and.. .Rain Forest!

I agree with the first; there are benefits to society that marriage provides. I'm having a very difficult time thinking of reasons that excluding people has anything to do with that benefit. Can someone help me with a reason that "this man and woman working together in love towards common goals" is superior to "these two people working together in love towards common goals"? I honestly can't get there.

To be fair, Maryland's borders are pretty gerrymandered to start with. What a strangely shaped little state; that one section in the panhandle is all of 3-4 miles thick. I think d4rk's point here is marriage is also defined as "A combination or mixture of elements" (OED) in addition to the two people sense. If I can say, "the marriage of water, hops, barley, and yeast makes a delightful elixir" then marriage doesn't have one, strictly religious meaning.

Red, White, and Blue in NYC is close enough to the Rangers that I'm going with it even if the blue isn't quite right and RWB is pretty ubiquitous. :)

I don't get why the other teams get to ape NHL team colors but Buffalo get monochrome and then the Winnepeg Jets. I don't think it's a bad design, but royal blue and gold, thanks.

As far as I can tell, you either don't know your faults (of which you probably have many) or you feel like an imposter. The primary difference between people is how well you deal with it or not let on that you feel like an imposter. Don't worry about it too much, you're probably fine.

Some states are proportional, most aren't. If you go proportional, it makes even less sense in a way. Due to rounding errors, each EC vote doesn't represent the same number people in each state. At times it's a fairly big huge difference, but it does favor smaller population states. The really small states (Wyoming, Dakotas, etc.) a person's vote there counts 2 or 3 times as much since the EC mirrors Congress. Here's some data. Wyoming's 3 votes represent 530,000 people (177,000 each or so), where Tennessee (which happens to be right at the national average) EACH EC vote represents 560,000 people. Worst off is Florida, where each EC vote represents 679,000 people. I'm sure someone has done the math, it'd be interesting to see if any significant change happens is all states were proportional or if the popular vote was used directly. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/fairvote/pages/199/attachments/original/1450119297/2008votersperelector.pdf?1450119297

I watched the first episode awhile back; I think it might be on Netflix or something now but I haven't made the effort to seek it out. I will say at least for the first episode they're employing someone who does have a clue on how network security works.

I read a story somewhere about how the Olympic Village is pretty steamy with Olympic-level sex. Makes sense, people training for years with a pretty sharp focus now have all the pressure off and are surrounded by similarly-aged young people in the same state. Like post-finals at college on steroids. Whoops, that's the Russians.

Well, I was like riding along and then, bam, I felt a shudder. I pedaled my butt out of there and when I turned around it looked like this:

When I've traveled abroad for work they provide travel insurance cards like the above mentioned. I got pretty sick while I was in England a bunch of years ago and ended up going to a GP there to make sure it wasn't anything terrible. I had a mild panic when they didn't know what to do with the insurance card (it's either NHS or cash over there), but the GP visit was 30 quid ($55) so I just paid it out of pocket. I'm pretty sure my local doctor charges a little more than that. ;)

I'd like to put the Olympics on, but if the last couple are any example NBC will push most of the coverage onto its cable hench-networks so I can only catch the summary show at night that doesn't have all the less common sports. I don't really dig gymnastics or basketball, but those will be what's constantly on at night. "We cut away from the finish of the 50m meter handwalk to go to gymnastitorium where America "Amy" Smith has just taken a drink of water and is listening to her iPhone". :wallbash: