MattPie

I would suggest that if you like Indian, try so Thai curry. Sweeter and less heavy than Indian, and the vegetables tend to be more crisp (I'm not sure that's a plus for you). Wegmans has a bunch of premade jars of sauce in the foreign section and if you want really-easy pick up the pre-sliced vegetables over in produce. I'd start with red curry, then yellow (if they have it) and then green. I like green the best, but I think it's the least like Indian curries in spices. If you end up digging it, picking up curry paste and coconut milk is cheaper and not that much more work, as is slicing up some peppers and onions to toss in.

Seems like there was a stretch where Ovechkin was *not* among the best in the league, but I can't put a finger on when that was...

Yeah, the planned parenthood thing is distasteful. I've heard the full tapes (which to the investigating group's credit have bee released) aren't as slanted as the clips your news source of choice are playing. I suppose it's petty but I'm wary of any group that uses a name like "The Center for Medical Progress" to be unbiased though; that's a name that just screams "We're crusading for something but we want to sound legitimate". I can't get to their site right now, anyone know that medical progress they advocate? Being a racist is a choice, being black (or any other genetic makeup) isn't. The term exists because the "default" racism in the US is white towards someone else, usually black (or Irish, in the past), which in itself is pretty telling. It's a ridiculous term and I've only heard it used white people to point out "they do it too", as if that makes it OK. It's not that "All Lives Matter" is a bad sentiment, it's that it may have been co-opted by people that have a very strong political agenda. On a similar note, I suspect in a few years I'll be able to say, "I'm a big fan of the tea party", meaning playing tea with my daughter. If I say that in public, I better know the current connotation of those words or bear the brunt of public opinion. "All Lives Matter" (from what I gather) is a tag line for racism-deniers in the US right now. Maybe O'Malley should have known, maybe he doesn't spend his life on Twitter. I don't care either way. -- I lost the post but someone brought up education and affirmative action. In reality, we're talking in hockey terms "bubble students". If they'd been tops in academics they'd be admitted regardless of race. Those white kids should have worked harder and done better in school so they'd be top of their class. (please note the sarcasm)

I hear ClassicShell works with 10 now too (it was fantastic on 8/2012).

I finished "A Princess of Mars" (Edgar Rice Borroughs) the other day. Short read, old sci-fi, definitely of the "monsters and fighting" side of sci-fi (unlike "The Martian", my last read). It was fun, but other than a few details it's almost "Cowboys and Indians on Mars". I'm not sad I read it, but I'm not sure if I'd continue on to the other seven books in the series. It was free on Google Books, and being written in 1917 may be public domain and available via lots of sources.

Man, this is a blow to the front office. I'm not sure how the Sabres will fill the void in the areas of... ... ... of ... (???).... ....

I'm lapsed. I even played in a metal band for like 3 gigs in 96. I did, however, listen to Kill Em All the other day for probably the first time in 10 years. Also, Green Jell[o/y] for the first time in even longer than that.

8 really is vista 2. No one upgraded from 7 to 8, and everyone wants to upgrade from 8 to 10. People on 7 are going to stay there until their systems are cold and lifeless (or 2020, when support runs out).

With so many young kids on the Sabres, I want to see an effective 4th line that can eat up some minutes and if things get chippy be a deterrent to the other team. Danny B doesn't fill that role. Now, if you said he can play RW, I could see him on a different line as that mentor, but the 4th line needs to be grinders and deterrents next year. There are already a few vets on the team (Gionta, Legwand, and to a degree O'Reilly, not to mention Ennis), so I'm not sure how much Briere adds to that mix.

I've already seen a bit of that out of Ennis. Mostly that he'll throw the body a little here and there to make a play. That bodes well for him.

Reinhart, the #2 overall pick and first forward selected last year will probably be in the mix over the long haul. Look around for roster threads, but Ennis has been playing well on RW, and Larrsson played well in a small set of games. Girgensons may end up on the wing too. So centers long term should shake out as some combination of Eichel, Reinhart, O'Reilly, with some tough SOB on the 4th line that's essentially "interchangable" year to year. If the Sabres have enough good centers that they're playing a talented center on the 4th line, they should be trading one for something else the team needs (right now, RW and maybe D).

Can he play RW? :nana:

I haven't seen a guide yet, but I'm sure they're coming. I read some stuff on Windows 8 when it came out, but I never ran it so forgot. Windows 10 may be even worse, since it'll do all the same stuff as 8 (sync settings and other data to THE CLOUD) but it also sends (from what read) most of what you do on the computer is sent up to Microsoft via Cortana to improve your "search" (read: ad profile). Every user on a Windows 10 system is assigned a unique advertising ID and by default it's all linked to a Microsoft Live! Account. Frankly, I don't think it's much worse than what your smartphone is doing with voice recognition and whatnot, but just seems wrong with a computer.

With the presidential camping ramping up it may not be the right time, but maybe this thread should be called "all the things you're not supposed to talk about in polite society".

Mr Robot is pretty good, I saw an episode last time I was in Buffalo. Whoever is writing it knows a fair bit about computer security because most (but not all) of it rings true. It's not CSI/NCIS "I'm going to hack into the traffic camera mainframe as long as I can get past their RPC calls and firewall proxy"; which are all valid terms but mashed together like, "I think the Sabres can score with the puck as long as the defensemen play the cycle and the forwards avoid icing before making two-line passes."

The cargo area in my Sienna appears to be 4x8' when you remove/fold all the seats. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll take an enclosed space that can also haul people over a truck bed most days. Prior to this, at least one of my cars has had a hitch. I can rent a 4x8' trailer for like $15/day (at most!) and haul a half a ton for the few times a year I need to. The Sienna will tow 3500lbs, so I could bring a lot of drywall home if I need to.

I just bought laptop a couple weeks ago that my wife hasn't really put time into So I'm going to go for it. I dislike Windows 8 as well, although I expect to spend a fair amount of time turning off all the Microsoft Spyware that's included in 10 (even more than 8!). I'm rather annoyed with the laptop purchase; as my wife put it, "I doesn't feel like much of an upgrade" and I have to agree. That's pretty damning considering the upgrade is from a 7 year old Sony running hand-installed Windows 7. It seems like the drive is really slow, so I'd be upgrading the disk to SSD if we were keeping it. I tried to warn my wife that buying low-end hardware would be a disappointment, but...

Double standards are a fact of life. As a white male I'm already ahead in the game so it's easy to shrug off the ones that are negative to me; I just let it go.

Ha, nice! For some reason, I *never* cook burgers in a pan. I have started to use fattier beef for burgers though (down from 93/7) and that's made a big difference in how much they shrink up. I have done the cast-iron skillet steak method, which did turn out well.

You are correct, from the numbers posted above, blacks are arrested for more crime per population. But you're missing the real point: once you get to arrested you're far more likely to to be convicted and incarcerated if you're black than if you're white. Unless you believe that there's a grand scheme to arrest white people on weak evidence and not convict them, you have to admit it's fishy. And this doesn't even go into whether blacks are arrested more often on the same strength of evidence.

Exactly. Fishing just muddies up the experience on relaxing in nature. It's like golf as a walk outside or a hike. Maybe, but you can better appreciate your surroundings when you're not distracted.

It's interesting that everyone considers Jack Eichel to be better than Reinhart *today*. I think long term that'll prove to be true, but today there's no reason Reinhart with the extra year of experience shouldn't be #2 (O'Reilly #1) and Eichel starting at #3 or wing to ease into the NHL.

Fox news headline: Obama coming to take away your Pickup http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/business/Fiat-Chrysler-to-Buy-Back-300000-Pickups-Source-318586841.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_PHBrand (I kid, I kid) The anti-PC crowd seems to lose two common concepts: being polite in society is a positive thing; you're free to antagonize people all you like but don't start crying when someone calls you on it. The other is "taking the high road"; how often do you hear "but they do it too!" as an argument? That didn't fly when you wanted to go jump off a bridge with the neighborhood kids and it doesn't fly now. (Please note this isn't direct at you personally, Mr. 5-0, just in general)

http://www.bonappetit.com/drinks/beer/article/beer-drinking-kids My wife just posted this on my Facebook thingy, Other than the travel aspect, this is very much MrsPie and I's style when it comes to beer and baby. I'd never take RosePie to some place like the Continental (RIP) or Coles, but in the afternoon or early evening for food I see no issue. Also, Asheville Brewing is mentioned as being particularly kid-friendly. We've been jokingly doing "Wes' Virtual Baby Pub Crawl" for a few months now. Wes and I once walked into a very divey-towny bar and saw a baby to which he said, "Who brings a baby to a bar?" We post pictures of RosePie at finer bars on a regular basis with that caption. We take Rose on pub crawls because she can't pub walk yet. Divey bar in question, Toots, the home of Bluegrass: http://www.yelp.com/biz/toots-bar-hollywood

To be fair, Murray and Brandon aren't very popular first names these days so maybe it's time that people accept them as legitimate last names.