MattPie

Celsius makes sense for weather if you look at it this way (as told to me by a Brit): Anything negative: rather cold 0-10: Cold 10-20: Chilly to sweaters 20-30: warm 30-40: hot 40-50: miserably hot

I think TYLER ENNIS WILL BE FINE.

Good point. The graphic I saw was "Virginia" with the picture of the Commonwealth, but you know, Facebook. EDIT: Nope, Virigina: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_bdbee22c-1aef-5c1b-a859-f4e5063a0f00.html

I think you're talking about Fried Doug.

One did permanently, much to my surprise.

Let me preface this: I'm not anti-military, anti-people, or anti-anything, just asking a question. I just saw that Virginia has offered a home to any homeless Vet in the Commonwealth. I think that's a great move on the surface, but it brings up a few questions in my mind. Mostly, how long does it last? Part of it boils down to how "vet" defined? Any service? Been deployed overseas? How long in the service? It would seem like a pretty sweet deal if I joined up, did 6 years stationed in North Carolina, and then could claim to be homeless after I got out and got a free ride forever.

:) "Highway not found" always pops into my head when I drive past Delaware Rt 404. Similar thing with PA 443 (https:// normally uses port 443 by default to communicate), the "Secure Web Highway".

I'm not sure it would, unless the forwards start hanging outside the blue line. I suppose that D would be closer than the defending wingers, so getting caught flat-footed would be more dangerous.

The US struck a convoy of tanker trucks within the last week. Whilie looking for link to that, this came up from Sept 2014, so it's been going on for awhile. http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-led-planes-strike-isis-oil-facilities-syria/story?id=25739334

Some serious first-world problems here: Organization Announcement - Robinson. Someone accidentally copied the entire company (I work for a large company, 5-figure number of employees) on a mundane announcement, to which a hundred people Replied All that they shouldn't be on this distro. Email servers have been chugging all morning. Actually, I'm kind of amused by the whole thing; but PSA: use Bcc on anything that shouldn't be a discussion. It's the smart thing to do. Double Lunch. I forgot that I had a "graduation" lunch for an internal class today and bought lunch ahead of time, which turned out to be "thanksgiving dinner". Then I went to the grad lunch and got another plate of the same thing. I suppose that's apropos though considering you never eat one plate of thanksgiving dinner.

That joke is the wurst.

That's crazy talk. I don't like turning my computers off, never mind my phone! (I think it comes from my server admin day job, a computer that's turned off is broken)

You could do fire the puck into a down D now, but most of the time the player taking the shot is trying to avoid hitting the player. Now, you're intentionally shooting for the player to draw a penalty.

I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or not, but I'll play it straight. Defending player on the ice for whatever reason, attacking player fires the puck into him to draw a penalty. Bonus style points if your teammate "encourages" the defending player with a check, cross check, or subtle trip, or you injure the defending player by drilling a slapper into a lightly-protected area.

"Airplane mode" (whee, I'm a phone that can FLY!) probably will give you a safe, stress free phone cleaning experience.

The British have a few too, many of them actually have planes! http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100278745/an-aircraft-carrier-without-planes-is-the-perfect-metaphor-for-britains-diminished-global-status/ My only comment is the FBI takes several months to clear US individuals for even basic security clearances, how are they going to vet thousands of people with sketchy documentation in any sort of timely manner in addition to their normal background check workload? Maybe I'm a cynic, but I wouldn't be surprised if the controlling Republicans in the house are setting this up as a ploy and quietly hoping something mildly bad happens so they can hang it on the current administration.

That's ridiculous, it'll be 2019-2020.

I had heard that Russia's previous attacks on ISIS weren't very choosy about ISIS vs. anti-Assad forces. I wonder if that'll change now. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-syria-kremlin-admits-air-123818165.html#IeXT6Mc

I've contacted Rambo. And not that football guy.

I didn't really see the one last night, I was cleaning up and listening. The other Ennis one, however, was way off. His skate was a foot off the ice and his other skate was 3 ft into the zone. Even live, I said to myself that it looked off-sides, and that's not something I usually notice. EDIT: and last night, didn't the review take all of 30 seconds? The first game of the season it took forever, but it seems like they're getting the kinks worked out.

OK, so if the player is 6" offsides, I shouldn't have put the dimension in there. Ennis has been offside by roughly 6" on both called-back goals.

Ha! Nicely done.

I don't think that solves the issue, really. Scenario: LW is 4 ft offsides when C enters the zone. C sees LW behind the D, passes it to him, and he skates in a scores. Legal in your proposal, but exactly what the review is supposed to catch. Update on my previous proposal: booth can call down an immediate Delayed Off-sides (either with a buzzer or in the linesman's ear, the mechanism is TBD). Attacking team must immediately leave the puck and tag up. If the attacking team touches the puck, it results in a normal or deliberate offsides on the judgement of the linesman.

For all the talk of "there should be a time limit" and Liger's post of 10 seconds, the play last night was only 6 seconds, so even by those standards it would have been reviewable. And the people that are complaining would still be complaining. I'm coming around to not liking the review, not because it's hosed the Sabres but because of the "sinking feeling" that people have mentioned that they're waiting for the other shoe to drop when a goal is scored. I brought this up somewhere (either this thread or another), what would people say to the "booth" being able to blow a play offsides? The trick there is if they're doing it before a goal is scored, essentially they've eliminated the linesman.