MattPie

It's been around for quite awhile (created 2003, according to whois). And yes, it's awesome.

Yes, Buffalonians. The geek in me loves that the people from Candor, NY (near Binghamton) are Candorians.

Put him in touch with Soupy.

It's fundamental.

Which door are you nailing them to?

Well, that's a pretty eerie parallel. I wonder it Mitt will recycle "Read my lips".

Curses! You caught me. I clicked on the thread without looking.

I think we're really gonna have to break up the lockout threads so the front page has more than those same 3-4 threads with new posts. But on the plus side, no one is posting in the Fantasy Hockey thread so I don't have to remember to ignore it. :)

That being said: http://www.amazon.com/GE-15154-Random-7-Day-Digital/dp/B0035GAXA8/ref=pd_sim_hi_2 I set one up for my girlfriend awhile back. There's a window (15 minutes either way, I think) of on/off, so it's not 7:15PM every night. I wonder if people with Aspergers or severe OCD are vicitims of more home break-ins due to turning the light on and off the exact same time every day. </joke>

For some reason I haven't tried the Chesterfield, I'll have to. In any case, the primary reason I don't drink Yuenling is it's almost all bottom-fermenting yeast based and I prefer the taste of top-fermenting (ales). Plus, if I have more than three lagers over the course of an evening (no matter if that's in 2 hours or 5), I wake up a vicious headache the next day. Sam Adams Boston Lager does the same thing, I think I see a pattern there. I just saw the other day that Yuenling is now the largest American-owned brewery, just passing Boston Beer Co. (Sam Adams). Although that apparently happened in January, I'm just behind.

It's *smooth*. I wonder if you can easily do it remotely, now that would be nice. Both when I'm not at home so it looks like someone is there, and to get that poltergiest feel by changing the lights when someone else is in the house.

FWIW, that's generally how I hear it too. But, a friend was in the 82nd Airborne and he said that many in his unit weren't fond of GWB. So much so that they didn't show up to see him speak at some point. I'd guess it was just a small pocket of people, or perhaps they never particularly like the 'brass' just some brass more or less than others. I don't suppose there's actual statistics on military voters, are there?

For a second there, I wasn't sure if you meant 2001 or 2012. :)

http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/celebrate-spocktoberfest-year.html Happy Spocktoberfest.

Yeah, noted up-thread. It just amuses me that the current-Republicans still claim him. BTW, the MVP of this thread for me has been TrueBluePhD. Thanks for the insights, it's fantastic to hear from someone that actually knows how this stuff works.

Speaking of Lincoln, this quote has been bouncing around the intertubes lately: http://dig.lib.niu.e...n1-lincoln.html That doesn't sound all that current-Republican to me.

Is this the zombie one or something else?

Install Linux for free! :) Check it out. There's a fair number of efforts out there that are trying to glean good data from sources like Twitter, Facebook, etc.

That was my thought too. Maybe they're playing the "we need our salary in quarters so we can do laundry" angle. At least Miller is somewhat dressed.

Just from the computer standpoint, what languages has she been trying to learn? C++ and Java, for instance, are very different than COBOL. Not just on the syntax, but the entire model and through process is different. I don't know COBOL, but some of the more script type languages might be something to try (Python and PHP are the first that come to mind). My complaint: I was in Buffalo from Saturday until last night, I got used to seeing my girlfriend and family on a regular basis. Ever done anything with Crowdsourcing? I know a few research groups in my company that are working with the concept. It seems like it'd be a parallel discipline to what you're talking about.

Irony because the rattlesnake originally signified British criminals sent to the colonies?

Stop fighting, today is Doan Deadline Day, is it not?

Yeah, you can tweak it to make the effect less pronounced, but the smart GMs are going to align the stars (no pun intended) to put together a super-team every few years. I'd rather see most teams trying to win every year and a fair amount of parity.

Not to be blunt, but that seems like a horrible idea. I'll use the Pens as an example. Let's say they sign Crosby, Malkin, and three of their other top guys for 10, 10, 10, 1, 1, 1. The first three years, they fill the rest in with scrubs and suck. Then in year 4, they have 5 superstars for peanuts and the entire cap space to woo Free Agents, say 10 guys at an average of 5M/yr. They've just built an all-star team, not even counting the likely high picks they drafted in years 1-3.