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  1. All About Natural Disasters

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    OK, I had to laugh a little at all the references to "the Bob Evans," "the Wendy's," and "the Pizza Hut." I shouldn't; I know it must be difficult on the Hershey area, but sorry--that's really funny.

     

    Not the Pizza Hut!

     

    (I had the same thought when I saw the clip too.)

  2. Complaint Thursdays

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    2. There are several new traffic circles that have been constructed in WNY over the last few years, and people are clueless as to how something so simple works....the cars ENTERING the circle YIELD to cars IN the circle. Do you idiots not know what yield means?

     

    Maybe they're from New Jersey, they generally run the traffic circles backwards there (traffic in the circle yields to entering traffic). So messed up.

  3. Complaint Thursdays

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    Still in the friend zone, completely blew up my friendship with my ex-gf (which, yes, is a complaint since she's a great person), and it's been FN raining for days. Made the trip from Buffalo to Philly on the bike with the last 200 miles thru the remnants of Lee on Tuesday.

  7. All About Natural Disasters

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    The Philly area got hit pretty hard with flooding, too -- a friend of mine took the attached pic (the white line behind the brick building is a fence around an outdoor patio). My power was out for almost 30 hours but fortunately not much flooding around here.

     

    Manayunk got hit pretty bad. They were showing the rvier down main st on the news when my power came back on (20-ish hours). Took a short ride on the bike Sunday morning, nothing too crazy other than a house that became a penninsula in Brandywine Creek.

  10. All About Natural Disasters

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    Nope, I'm in the Harrisburg/Hershey area, which for some reason people around here refer to as "central PA" even though we are nowhere near the center of the state.

     

    if ( !Philly && !ThePitts ) then centralPA. Although the Harrisburg/York corridor could be call South Central, I suppose. :)

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  11. All About Natural Disasters

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    Only a sports board could be so close knit that this topic could exist. Hope everyone is ok though :)

     

    I'm not really arguing, but all the other forums I read are also talking about it. I tend to stumble onto the close-knit forums though, so maybe that's more of it. :)

  12. Complaint Thursdays

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    I've been down this road more than once - I have trouble with the "we're just friends" to "now we're dating" thing. I always err on the "friend" side and have lost out on a couple of potentially great relationships. That is MY complaint for the day....

     

    I tend to be a resolver, so I'll likely just bring it up and ideally not hose up the friendship.

  13. Complaint Thursdays

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    The line of thunderstorms that rolled thru Buffalo last night are at my house this morning. Broke my string of not driving the car since Saturday. And Irene is going to screw up my ride-eat-ride-swim-ride-bbq-ride plan for Sunday.

     

    One more:

    I'm going out to dinner with a friend that I happen to really dig and I can't read the situation at all.

  14. All About Natural Disasters

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    Normally there - I work in a research lab in the Cancer Institute. Haven't made it to the park yet this summer, but I'm planning to go in the next few weeks. You're right; this would have been a perfect day, weather-wise!

     

    Later in the fall is nice when they do the Haunted Park or whatnot. All the roller coasters are open but it's cheaper than normal and usually cool out.

  16. Complaint Thursdays

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    Broke up with my girlfriend. The team of four at work is down to two with no replacements in sight so I'm doing the work I've been avoiding for years (Windows Server stuff). Rainy day so no motorcycle. Corporate security policy basically say we can't build what the customer wants. "Party Down" is only 20 episodes.

     

    I'm not sure how much of that is feeding into each other, but things certainly seem to be crashing down.

  19. Good whisky/whiskey

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    Tried something a little different this weekend: Michael Collins 10-year, Single Malt, *IRISH* whiskey. Really good, although if I didn't know I'd have figured it was Scots Whisky. Certainly went down in well in the wee hours after baking in the sun all day Saturday.

  20. The Official Beer Appreciation Thread

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    A couple of you guys mentioned Victory....and I think it is a winner.

     

    I had a few Golden Monkeys the other day and was shocked at how smooth for 9%. I had a few and went to la-la land. It was $5 on tap for a pint and I guessed $10 because it was too smooth for the content.

     

    Just picked up a bunch of different 6-packs from Wegmans and am 3 deep on their 9% stout. Pretty good.

     

    It took me a while to realize that I'm really spoiled where I live. There are several good breweries within an hours drive from here, including places already mentioned here: Victory (15 minutes), Sly Fox (Pikeland Pils, 30 minutes), and Lancaster Brewing (30 minutes). I've gotten into a little bit of a rut with Victory being so close and not going out that ofter. Their food in the pub is spectacular I used to live across the street from Sly Fox in Royerford; too many nights stumbling across the street...

     

    For beer, I generally buy local. Besides the freshness factor, you're cutting down on transportation fuel use and contributing to your local economy. I used to do a lot of European beer, but you can get plenty of good beer and spend money here instead. I do tend towards seasonals, but I had a stout last weekend camping near the gates of hell (Bloomsburg PA on record-breaking heat day :)).

     

    Since there was a starter beer thread in the replies, the Michelob Craft mix pack isn't bad. None of the beers were the best I've had in a particular style, but all were serviceable and a decent intro to four styles for the price of a 12-pack. Another great way to try is to go down to a brew pub and get samples or a flight. They'll give you a little (3-5 oz) to try. Just remember to have a little water between. Changing beer gives odd tastes until your mouth recalibrates. As the song says, 'You cannot judge an ale 'til you have half the bottle down'.

     

    Some of my favorite all-time beers:

    - Victory Scarlet Sunrise and Sunrise: The Sunrise is a good hefe. The Scarlet uses smoked malts and makes it an amazingly unique and complex beer. I'm hoping they make it again, I'm a sucker for smoked beers (Rauchbier)

    - Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald: mentioned above, a fantastic porter

    - Left-hand Milk stout: brewed with some lactose, almost has a chocolate milk flavor

     

    Some of what's in my fridge right now:

    - Victory Yakima Twilight: Darker IPA. Goes down great, but at 8.7% it's easy to get out of hand. I had an entire growler of it one night and did some things I'm not proud of.

    - Sly Fox Rt 113 IPA (cans!): nice IPA, and being canned makes it great for camping

    - Sly Fox Royal Weiss (cans too!): OK wheat beer, towards a Bavarian Hefe, but not as strong citrus and spice flavors as other examples.[0] http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1853/7316

    - Victory Wild Devil: This was a short run beer. It's Hop Devil using Beligan wild yeast. Pretty good, worth a try if you see it. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/345/42546

    - Brooklyn Sorachi Ace: Good beer, bright and lots of carbonation. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/51480

    - Sly Fox Ichor: Really big quad. Almost sour like wine, and pretty much as strong.

     

    [0] Two notes: Bavarian-style hefe is way different than American style. The former is a great summer beer, the latter are almost always undrinkable (which is rare for me). And, I have the cans around for yard work and I was going to take them camping with me last weekend. Ran out of space on the bike.

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