MattPie

This deserves to be cross-posted to the awesome thread too!

You can owe me a beer. :)

Is that Dynamics (motion stuff)? Blocks sliding down inclined planes and whatnot?

At least he's not saying "career" when meaning "careen" Yes, I know that's a somewhat accepted usage of "career", I just think it's stupid.

This might belong in the awesome thread. I looked up the beer cooler tech, it's something like a unti from Maxi-mix.com. I was hoping it was some sort of on-demand beer cooler and pump, but it's essentially a box of tubing that you either water-bath or dump ice into to make the beer cold. I had this vision of installing it in my basement and installing a tap on the corner of my kitchen sink.

Channelling NS: CLASSICSHELL! I've only used it a bit on Windows 2012, but it looks to make the Metro GUI far more bearable. http://classicshell.net/

Keep it hidden behind the house, I've heard your homeowners insurance will go up quite a bit if they find out you have it.

With a kid on the way (which I don't think I've actually mentioned in the awesome thread, IT IS!), I've been toying with getting rid of my bikes. I'd like to say I'd get a Caterham or MX-5 to replace them, but realistically I can't blow that kind of money on toys for awhile. Sure, the Caterham is dorky but it seems like *so* much fun. http://us.caterhamcars.com/ EDIT: There's a dealer in Clarence Center, do it! :)

Alekzzzzzzzander Sulzzzzer!

It's cliche, but you never see a motorcycle parked at a psychiatrist's office.

There's plenty of "That person made me look bad, I'll try to get back at them" in political and corporate circles as well. And sports, really, so it's far more likely a trait of competitive people, People at the bottom economically have to compete more since they're on the edge of failing and don't have much to fall back on other than reputation (that's my own supposition).

If you're Sulzer, you see the writing on the wall that you're not going to beat out Myers, Ehrhoff, Weber (?), Ruhwedel, Pysyk, Risto, Zadorov, McBain (??), or McCabe for a job.

Same here, I think after another 5 or so I was around 260. I wonder if there's some in-built issue with the test. I notice in their stats that the reaction times are creeping up month-by-month.

I heard on the radio that Tracy Morgan and Paul Rubens (Pee-Wee Herman) are lining up a bid. :)

I tend to agree. I know from my experience rec sports, even at that level I just don't see the ball (or whatever) move the as well as other people do. It's like the "frame rate" of my eyes isn't as quick as others. And that's just the literal vision, not the processing of where stuff is and where it's going. For instance, I just took this test and averaged 239ms for 5 clicks, which is slower than average. When taking a similar test with a bunch of my motorcycle friends, I was behind almost everyone despite many of my friends being 50 or 60+ years old (I'm 37). I'd be curious to see other people's results here. http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/

Surprisingly, my passenger and I walked away unscathed.

Failure to yield to an oncoming car. (I had a head-on collision that totalled my parents car). I want to say Talley was there for a speeding ticket, but that's a long time ago for me to remember. Brown sweater and a big gold chain though.

I'm 80% sure I saw Talley at Elma town court when I was a teenager pleading to a traffic offence of some kind. Real classy. :) :)

I'm trying to figure out what you're asking. Speaking as someone who's reasonably well educated (and paid), I wouldn't say I'm "offended" or trying to "support" anything, but I'll express my disagreement given the forum. I know that I have a tough time processing the reality that Stirling believes what he was saying (I'm not saying he doesn't, I just can't get my mind around how someone could think that way).

I give him a bit of a pass, it was a crappy season and next year looks like it too. I don't doubt that he'll put the effort in (at least when it looks like the games matter) next year. I know someone will start spouting about how good players blah, blah, blah, and they want him out of town. If you follow that logic, we'll see an entirely new USA Olympic Hockey team in 2018 since they entire team quit on the bronze medal game at Sochi.

Fixed that. :) It's like everything else, if there's a group of racially/gender/economic people some other people will assume that all the people in that group are alike. What I've figured out (in my short time on earth) is that for the most part people are people, and most of them are similar enough that we're arguing about fine points. Let's bring this around to hockey: most of the people I talk to around about the Flyers are reasonable, well-informed, and not the meatheads we like to make them out to be. They're much like the folks around here, they just like that ugly orange color instead.

I don't go to many games, but we usually sit around for a bit get up and take a leak, maybe walk a lap or two around the arena, etc. Bar would be a good idea, depending on the town.

Well, there is a certain inbuilt fear of people who don't look like you (or your family, really, since before mirrors you wouldn't know what you looked like). One of those natural selection things, I'd guess. But realistically after around age 5 in our society it's a learned behavior.

I'm just the opposite, in the grand scheme of things, NBA and NHL playoffs are a drop in the bucket. Human decency is perhaps a bit more important for the long-term survival of the species. Shipping slaves from England to Ireland was big business during the middle ages, but that's probably a little early (and from the sounds of it, not something your family partook in in). Slattern would be a good one (I bet it's not even caught by the filter here). Or calling someone "yellow" at one point would be "fightin' words", but now you'd probably just get a chuckle and asked, "are you 80 or something?".

It kind of reminds me of my boss: he's 100% behind his people and rarely has anything bad to say, but he has no issues getting into it with his peers or superiors and telling it like it is. I've only seen that side when I've been in a meeting with him and his peers and superiors, which I doubt the players would be. Apparently some of the west-coast folks in my org used to refer to him and "The Hammer" (although he's mellowed out a bit in the last couple years).