MattPie

No kidding, thanks! youtube has a cool "Watch later" button now, and I have my PS3 tethered to my phone (and laptop, I think). Find stuff on the phone, tell it to play on the big-screen.

Hey, that almost makes the National Championship respectable! :) It's tough to imagine there's more than 3-4 teams each year that can legitimately claim to be the best in the nation, and this should sort them out.

Wait, what? College is going to a play-off format? I like it, frankly. You could easily go with 4 or 8 teams and it wouldn't be a huge deal. There can be all those other bowls for fun, of course.

Deductable forgiveness paid in semi-soft cheese FTW!

Word I heard was the funding wasn't going to cut immediately, so they'd be able to employ people long enough to send out the notices. As for the political angle, the one defense PAC I looked at leaned red other than 2008 and 2010. I'm guessing once they saw which way the wind was blowing, they donated to some Democrats in 2008. Can't figure out 2010, unless they were donating anti-Tea Party figuing the TP would try to cut everything. 2012 returned to Republican-heavy form. I was talking about this with the GF this weekend. She's taking a remote class in Media Studies (for lack of a better term). When asked to suggest a movie that "portrays contemporary American culture", one of her classmates replied with, "I think we should watch Tokyo Drift. It has lots of action and explosions. I think it's a good movie." (paraphrased, but the writing style is spot-on). Sadly this isn't a glaring outlier from the rest of the responses. These are people that will likely get a college degree and then be counted as 'underemployed'.

FWIW, I just switched to Dairyland for my bikes. It was significantly cheaper than my previous bike insurance, which was significantly cheaper than Nationwide before that. I'll be investigating them for my home and car soon.

Maybe they'll start a tire fire.

When I was in college, I didn't watch all that much TV. I haven't had cable for a year now, and watch very little broadcast TV, so it's a similar situation. You'd be surprised how much stuff you just lose track of once you turn off the feed. People are talking about movies and stars and whatnot and I have no idea what they're talking about. I decided I needed to follow CNN on twitter just to have some clue about current events. I don't blame those kids at all. Most people (not just college kids) aren't going to spend hours of their free time reading up on current events (especially politics), they have other things to do (like living life). You're going to have to spell this one out, I have no idea who any of those people are. Agreed. While Lybia is important, it's not the only factor in the calculus. It's being hammered because it's the seen as having the best chance to siphon off enough votes. It's all conflicting reports now.

That's fantastic. Great stuff! No home damage from the storm, woot.

There's no Buffalo Vs. Phoenix GDT, so the only two active threads today are Politics and Weather.

It says absolutely nothing about the regulations. For example, if there's a hole in my roof, I'm going to put a tarp over it before it rains because that's the fastest way to get it done even if it won't pass code. It's certainly not a solution I'm going to use in a non-emergency. As for the contractors, everyone with a pickup truck and a hammer will be a "Contractor" since there's a lot of money to be made. Sure, you'd like to think people would be honest and not rip people off with shoddy builds or just running with the money, but you know there are going to be people that do. Permits help sort those people out (somewhat).

Yeah, the trucks are really the only ones that do that. I picked it up when I lived in Binghamton and used to drive to Buffalo a lot. On the bike, I give a 1-second high beam, since I can't turn the headlight off. I don't use it that much, since I'm generally the one doing the passing. :devil:

This is the code as I know it: Flashing High Beams: Danger/cop ahead of you. Lights off and on to oncoming car: Your lights aren't on. Lights off and on when a large vehicle is passing you: You're clear to move back to the right. Blink of the flashers/lights off and on after a pass: thanks (in the dark)

Looks like the Weather Modification Network was well worth the money.

http://themoscownews.com/local/20101207/188261951.html Ooops, you're kinda right. Not quite $20-25k, but I midread the original article I used.

While I have one of those too, I personally think this is the best flashlight you can buy for this kind of situation: http://www.amazon.com/American-CLIPRAY-ARCCR100R_SNG-Charger-Flashlight/dp/B003BYROUQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1351696252&sr=8-2&keywords=red+cross+crank+usb+flashlight Note that the USB charger isn't very powerful. Probably best to use the charger to charge a USB battery pack (it'll take a long time) and then charge the phone from that.

No issues here. Power stayed on all night, basement is dry (it always is, the sump pump is decorative for my lot), and nothing came off the house. There's even a fuzzy bright spot in the sky to the South.

You're more than OK then. :) Everything is cool here, storm passed to the south of me for the most part. Hopefully wjag is good, he was in the path earlier.

That's cool. I'm not surprised though, parts of Newark are right at sea-level so the subways are below. The Path train in Jersey City has to be 100 ft below the Hudson. Yeah, it seems like the storm has mostly broken up without dumping a ton of rain here in SE PA, so it'll probably be dumping a lot of that water further North and West.

The average salary in Moscow is something like $1500/yr. I'm not sure you can really compare ticket prices in that environment.

Hang tight. I feel slightly bad now about doing a happy dance that the storm moved south since the Sunday 11AM prediction that had it going over my house.

The storm has moved a bit further South than expected as today has gone on, I don't think Philly is getting it too bad. Mid-day Sunday, the track was over Philly, straight out thru Harrisburg. It's 30-40 moiles south of that now. So trees and whatnot are going down, but the news hasn't been showing major flooding in the city yet.

How do you really feel, Chris? http://www.nbcphilad...lters/176329871

I'm sure you guys aren't getting it up there, but Chris Christie, NJ governor is awesome. I know nothing about his politics, but all day when he's had a press conference he's been ornery. A little while ago he basically called the governor of Atlantic City a tool. Paraphrasing: "For some reason, Mayor Lankford decided to tell people to stay in shelters in the city, after I ordered them out. One of those shelters is a block from the bay. We cannot rescue anyone until 7AM."

I'm planning an audience with the Storm King later. Hopefully my appeals will meet with Victory. The second is the new Victory Midlands Stout. It's fan-freaking-tastic. It's "mid-way" between Storm King (Imperial) and Donneybrook (very Guinness-like). It's mid-strength at 5.2% , with a ton of roasted malt and some chocolate and almost a coffee taste.