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MattPie

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    Furthering the point, If you look back through the drafts from 2006-2010 or so, you'll see some familiar names picking the top 5 (or at least 10). Tampa Bay, LA, Chicago, St Loius, Boston, etc.. You'll also see some other familar names, like the Coyotes and Atlanta popping up too, so it's not a sure-fire thing, but the teams that have been bad usually had other issues with budgets and funding.
  2. I was really excited about safe places until RosePie went mobile. Now the lock screen is an essential part of her not messing up my phone. Also, turning off "brick phone after X attempts". :) The safe places when the phone sees a Bluetooth device is really nice for the car, though.
  3. I did a PB pie last PI Day, it was good enough to make again (and easy).
  4. I'm some bad luck, I flipped it on and 10 seconds later...
  5. I heard the news will be talking about Supreme Court Justice Smell any day now.
  6. Western PA people, think Sheetz but I think the food is a little better.
  7. That day and Pi day are the same day. Coincidence? I think not!
  8. Wawa was founded in Wawa, PA as a bottled milk concern and has expanded a lot in recent years. Wawa is a Native American work for "goose", which you see in the logo. I know they're as far south as Norfolk, VA, but I don't know if they're gone further than that. They make a decent sub and have cheap gas and free ATMs.
  9. Shoofly is an Amish thing around here, it's OK but sickly sweet to my taste buds. I'd describe it as pecan pie without the pecans (so moslty a gooey molassass-like pie) with some sort of powder topping. If I had to guess the topping is flour and maybe a little light brown sugar.
  10. The convenience store chain? Decent subs, although if there's a Primo Sub wherever you are, you owe it do yourself to go get a Sharp Italian Sub.
  11. What's weirder is they needed to add the little line on the bottom of the 7 to make it work. It's clever but I'd guess it's something someone noticed when looking at the numbers and not the other way around.
  12. So Pi day is Monday, and even though PA has told everyone, "let them eat cake", I think I'm going to bake this weekend. What is everyone else making? I'm debating making my "usual" Maple Sweet Potato Pie, Key Lime, or something new.
  13. A few notes to add: - If my Nexus 6 is anything to go by, you won't need as many cables around the house. It's rare that I run the thing out over the course of a day, unlike my old phone which I had to keep plugged in unless it was in my pocket. I keep a cord next to my bed and at work (even if I don't really need to keep it charged at work, it'll last the day), and rarely use others. This is even with doing things like having it stream Netflix or NHL for a couple hours while I'm working. I keep the fast charger in the living room in a box and plug it in in the kitchen in case I need it. - I've read the fast charger may (big "may") wear out the battery faster. I don't know if I believe it entirely, but since I had a bunch of normal chargers I use those for daily and overnight charging. - The fast charger is a Qualcomm standard (I'm assuming LG uses the same one as Samsung and Motorola), so there are a number of chargers that should work. Caveat emptor, but my Motorola charger works on my wife's Samsung and vice versa. It also works with various MicroUSB cables I already had. As I understand it, the trick is instead of sending just 5V (normal USB voltage) the phone can negotiate with the charger to send 9V (or maybe 12V) so there's more power available. It should work with any cable as long as the cable is wired right. - I have a Supcase Unicorn Beetle Hybrid (the really thin one that's essentially a strip of TPU and a clear plastic back) that's pretty nice, I've dropped the phone a couple times (most recently in the garage yesterday) with no issues. Plus my phone is gigantic so the slimmest case is good. - Enjoy the new phone!
  14. I think once you get into the later second and third rounds on the NHL draft those picks aren't even that likely to stick in the AHL long-term.
  15. FWIW, you're right that this is the example of when personal gun ownership works, even if it took the criminal a bone-head move (letting the wife go do something) for it to work out. I don't think most people advocating gun control would even argue. The counter argument, however, is that the handful of times per year something like this happens doesn't offset the thousands of people per year that are killed by guns even if you only look at the suicides and accidental deaths. That's why there's debate about the 2nd amendment. For example, gun activist mom shot by her 4-year-old son this week. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/09/us/gun-activist-shot-florida/index.html
  16. From the article: I'm always confused by this. There's "committed to the check" as in not being able to turn or stop, but watching the video somehow moving towards the player, crouching, and pushing the shoulder up into the player doesn't seem like "there's nothing I could do".
  17. Can we use "Le Toronto Francais" for them? Or "L'est Toronto"?
  18. I picked up a nice double bicycle trailer for the kiddo last weekend at a consignment sale. With the nice weather this week, I'm hoping to get her out in it tonight for a little to see how it goes. Hopefully everyone involved will be happy!
  19. Yep. Aldi , Wegmans, the local place that makes horseradish and mustard (and horseradish mustard; move over Webers), everyone.
  20. Obligatory.
  21. You'd think with the PhD he'd know to put the Exec Summary or Abstract at the top! :) :)
  22. The turdburger fits Rex.
  23. s/Pommen/Pommin/ gets the stein.
  24. Yep, that one.
  25. At that point, why not just popular vote. A proportional EC just ends up being a bit more "power" for small states and adding a bunch of rounding error.
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