MattPie

I'm eating it in a cube instead of my previous Fortress-of-solitude office! They closed the building I was in, now I'm in another building that's a lot more sensitive about who gets doors and who doesn't rate.

I'm going to go out and have a BEER with people after work today. It's a brave, new world.

As I sat today eating my spinach, fresh fruit, and brie salad from the cafe, all I could think was, my life can't get any worse!

The pants of the person to their right. Rowr.

I guess my point is, do you see Pysyk or Myers coming in gloves flying when someone takes a run at Reinhart? I don't know that I see that happening. Weber, Stewart, maybe Stafford, but I don't see that. I don't think Gionta or Hodgson are going to give anyone pause either.

But squares ARE rectangles! The house is burning!

I'd prefer 30th of course. 20th would be a disaster. I like Hodgson and all, but he was a 10th-overall pick in 2008. The Sabres need someone significant in this draft, seems like most years by time you get to 5-6th pick guys already have flaws and more risk.

I think it's pretty easy to see the point of: - watching a game, want the team to play well and win - after they lose, not being upset with it - realizing that one more crappy season may be worth it in the long run RU sure?

Oh, how is it possible that you just became even cooler than before!

One of the best fights in recent memory.

http://www.tunersgroup.com/Products/KAPS_R4.html Doesn't have a price tag, but somewhere else mentioned $10k.

I'll echo someone else that there's not much size and grit on that line, it better get paired up with the tougher D pairing.

Hey, if you're hanging around in rural PA a lot, Verizon seems to have better coverage.

Rally-style would imply a sequential shifter (just gear up and gear down, like a motorcycle) to me. I'd have to reconsider a Civic if that's an option. Like this, pull to go up a gear, push forward to go down a gear.

Byron's name came up a lot in the game when I was listening. I listened to the end for the 1st on, and didn't hear Kassian's name until the second. I don't remember hearing it much after the goal (in the 2nd) either (the the Canuck feed).

They showed that feed a few times ont he TV feed. At first I thought it was a gimmick (well, it is) and the helmet looks ridiculous, but it actually produced some really cool video of hits and a goal or two. This clip isn't that good, but hopefully some more will show up today:

Paul Byron (yes, that Paul Byron) scored on Miller to break his season shut out. :) Also, Kassian on an 82-goal (and point) pace!

It'll be worth it either way, if nothing else because it's a change and being on the bubble every year wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Maybe I'm not a real fan but the Bills have shown me the way of how to be a fan a team without expecting much. That's what this season is to me: like the Bills, but with hope that it's the beginning of the upswing. I can see 2015-16 being a bubble team on the high end, back where we where before the last two years but with a lot more hope. I'll take that.

Never seen one. I'm always a bit surprised/ashamed that I haven't had half the stuff from BuffaloFoods.com.

I'm curious, does it still have a clutch for stop/start and then you shift using the paddles without a clutch? (I let my Car and Driver subscription lapse awhile back).

Oh, the irony if that person actually has the flu and dies from it.

The reason this outbreak is worse than other years is Ebola usually kills 90% of infected and pretty quickly. This one is less potent, which means people have more time to spread it. I really like Western NC, and Eastern TN looks similar from the little bit of time I've spent there.

In college someone I knew had an old Ford with a 3 on the tree. He'd offer to let people drive it if they could figure out how it worked.

That being said, you should have to mash it anyways. the cars I've had you could always get the clutch to the friction point and hold it there while you switch from brake to gas.

I've been driving standard for 20 years and I still stall every once in awhile; you're correct it does happen. What's weird is my 2011 WRX has a hill-holder programmed in. If the car is on a hill, it'll hold the brakes for a second after you release them so the car doesn't roll back. I stalled the car a number of times when I first got it because I was trying to start-off normally but the car wouldn't move until the brakes released. As for bragging, maybe at one point I was pretty adamant about stick, although I'd like to think that kept it to car-people and not the general population. I will say that I was pretty impressed with how my wife handled stick when I first met her (heh, heh... heh heh heh), but she was rear-ended (at the ramp from Delaware Ave to the 198, mind the stop-sign) that car and has autos since. I drive in traffic all the time with a stick (and a manual bike, the clutch hand can get tired). It's not that bad if you're MAN (or WOMAN) enough. (I kid, it's not the most enjoyable thing but the benefits outweigh the one scenario where it's annoying). I generally use two methods to deal with stick in traffic: workaround, as in take side roads (the side roads may be just as traffic-y, but at least I don't have to worry about someone cutting me off if I leave 3 extra feet); and pulsed-thrust propulsion (give the car a burst of speed and then back to neutral to you don't have to hold the clutch in all the time). It also helps to practice starting the car off without touching the gas pedal, since you can just add a little speed when traffic is rolling slower than first-gear idle.