MattPie

I was there two week agos (not by choice). It wasn't much fun outside until like 10PM, and then it was too late. I was up in Buffalo over the weekend, and tried out the Clarence/Newstead/Akron rail trail network. Nice enough trails, although there were only a few "interesting" parts. Most of it an 8 ft paved lane with the trees cut back fairly far so limited shade. The part between Wherle and Clarence Park on the West Shore Line was probably the nicest, although I didn't do the Western-most part of the Peanut Line from Transit to Goodrich Rd. If you're looking for a nice, flat, paved place to ride a bike, this is your jam. https://www2.erie.gov/clarence/sites/www2.erie.gov.clarence/files/uploads/pdfs/BikePathBrochure.pdf https://www2.erie.gov/newstead/sites/www2.erie.gov.newstead/files/uploads/SKMBT_C28420071511470.pdf

Let's not be greedy. 🙂

Whose should the Sabres be looking at for their pick in the late-20s? 😉

Things are trending back to our grandparents, so might be prophetic.

Forget that, teach him to shoot right and the Sabres RHD woes are over!

It's pretty good, and it is "frell" in that universe.

Understatement.

Wasn't that Farscape too, or was that frelling?

Linky: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/dolphins-owner-tampering-tom-brady-nfl-1.6538739

Ouch, Miami fined their 2023 1st round and 2024 3rd pick for tampering with Tom Brady trying to lure while playing for the Pats. I'd think they should suspend Brady too for entertaining it.

1st: Maaaybbeeee. That bike was wide. I think it was something like 37-38 inches from cylinder-head to cylinder-head (BMW R1150R). I often had the BMW hard bags on it, which I think were even wider (but held plenty of stuff for 9-day camping trips). 3rd: I always liked Aprillas, cool stuff. The BMW certainly wasn't fast, but it would certainly corner past my risk-tolerance on the street. Even on track days I could hang in the corners; I remember one at Summit Point where the guys on fast bikes would fly away on the straights, but I'd reel them back in after a few corners and have to slow down. Never quite managed to pass them. 😞

My guess is the IT work (bias lens engaged) is part of it. Financial services often have a lot of compliance requirements to handle peoples money. Paychex is a very good analog in payrool; instead of have Mike and Molly the IT people, this company runs your IT in a safe-ish manner and handles all the nitty-gritty stuff you're required to do. MsPie kinda researched this (sociology is kinda a hobby for her). A lot of people who are from really wealthy families do not flaunt it. Having really fancy stuff on display is more for moderately-wealthy people that have to prove how rich they are to everyone. In my limited experience, it can go either way with the person who first makes the money, they can either keep their moderate ways (like apparently Sam Walton) or be flashy (TG and TP). The kids are often the ones that flaunt unless the parent strongly instills that same minimal approach to life.

Index funds with extremely low fees. Advisors sometimes beat the market, but less often beat the market when you knock a couple percent off for the fees.

First bold: +1. I'd regularly travel on the bike 100s of miles in a day and only do like 25 miles of highway when I couldn't avoid it. Second bold: Lane splitting is not what the jackwads on US highways are doing. In Europe and Asia they're doing it at low road and low closing speeds (like the cars are moving 10mph and they're moving 15mph). No one (except the jackwads) think blasting down an expressway at +30-40mph to traffic is a good idea. I never did any lane splitting on the bike, partly because I knew US drivers aren't very tolerant of it (stems from our whole "me first you last" mentality), partly because my BMW was on the wide side.

I mean, people say things like this, but Anakin became a powerful and famous person in the Empire.

OMG, I scooped Brawndo! LOL

I was going to say that the Bogosian situation could apply, where the team and player decided to part ways. At that point the team and player could then sign whatever they want. But IIRC he had to pass waivers for that to happen which is... "unlikely" to work with Dahlin.

It's been fascinating to see people reinvent the motorcycle and moped 120 years later like it's this magical new thing. In a fantasy world, I'd build a steam-powered bike and see if people complained about using on the (few) bike trails around here. https://hackaday.com/2020/01/08/the-ruscombe-gentlemans-steam-bicycle/

What road, out or curiosity? I grew up on the Elma/EA line (literally, across the street the zipcode was Elma). It's possible the rates are up to cover maintenance. The maintenance costs would be fairly static, but far fewer trips this year to pay for them.

Injury, or unexpected drop off. NHL is guaranteed, so lock up your money now. Someone might crush your head or knee in your next game (or you just lose "IT"), and you're scraping for 1-2M$ a year or out of the league.

Yeah, Thompson. My gut says he won't repeat this year, so locking him up in case he proves that he can would be ideal. I don't know the going rate, but whatever a 25-goal, 75-point center makes would make sense to me if he'll take it.

Crosby has been the captain since day one IIRC. Also, I think Centers and Defence tend to be viewed as the heart of a team more than wingers. I can only think of OV as a Winger that must always be a Cap. I don't know why this is, other than maybe wingers are considered my 1-dimentional vs centers.

I'm betting you're thinking of Dell; he went to San Jose.

There's this, Peters often has some dirt. And it makes sense, why give anything up. Maybe, MAYBE, if the Sabres are playing so well that they could go somewhere in the playoffs, but otherwise no.

I'd think it'd be faster to 3D print tables now.