MattPie

At least it wasn't a tweet. Complaint: everything I've touched at work in the last 2 days has turned to ######.

Someone could make up some conspiracy theories about ESPN being mad at the NHL or something, but odds are there's a market. There's no top-level hockey right now, putting that game on gives all hockey fans *something* to watch. Eyeballs on the set to sell ad spots.

I'm not sure about that, at least in my experience. I'd be hard pressed to think of the last time I thought to myself and said, "I wonder what the priest at my church* would do?". It just doesn't register to me. I'm sure there's some general concepts lurking around back there, but what I've taken from religion is A> be excellent to everyone B> everyone has an agenda. But has his record as president really panned out that way? It doesn't seem like it to me, but I don't follow as closely as others here. Maybe he's one of those (rare) people that can see the difference between what's good for him and what's good for the country and how those might not be the same thing.

League or Union?

Friend of mine just got moved to business development, so I sent him this for some suit ideas:

Fedora optional. :) Men's Warehouse last year. Make sure you try it on after they alter it, mine were way too big around the waist.

I haven't done enough to warrant a biography yet, WTF? :)

Open up a terminal, and run: > cd / > du -sh | sort -h :)

Cool!

Looks like the weather is going to hold for my motorcycle camping trip this weekend. Riding up to Ole Bull State Park in PA. Not too far from Buffalo (or the listed home of Grand Master PA).

The more expensive the hotel, the less they include. :) I know I saw this in the UK at either the Reading Rennaissance or the Marriot-chain near Portsmouth. In the us, I think the Holiday Inn in Baltimore Inner Harbor charged for wireless, although looking at the hotel web site it now lists that as "Initial Charge: $0.00 USD", so that may have changed.

I'm not crazy worried about it, but with the amount of stuff that comes into the US in shipping containers, cars, boats etc., do you really think it'd be that hard to smuggle a nuclear device in? We can't stop people, drugs, or fake purses, how would we resonably stop this? http://en.wikipedia....nuclear_device) As for missle defense, that's also a pretty difficult problem. Modern missle systems are effectively in 'space' at the peak of their flight, and come down at many times the speed of sound. Hit-to-kill is just barely starting to work, and even then you just send up some decoys. Not to mention blowing up a warhead on the way down is going to spread stuff all over the place. If you remember, the US used Aegis to blow up a defunct satellite a couple years ago on some pretext. That was really saying "we can shoot down your satellites or missles while they're in space, don't F with us." That kinda covers a rogue small attack, but there's no way they're going to shoot down a full out nation-state attack. It's a hard problem. The "law of technology" would seem to say that eventually everyone will be able to launch missles that far (just like everyone can build a tank or airplane now if they want to, but that was once really difficult). You really need to approach it by stopping the launch before it happens (via intel) or MAD.

Personal reason: I'm sick of this team. :) Depends on which way the coin tosses go.

WW2 also reduced the post-war labor pool although not by that much. The ~500,000 US dead was well less than 1% of the population. But most of those were men that would be looking for a job right at that time (18-25). Less supply, better wages, which drives the multiplier again.

Yeah, we all wish the PP was better, but top half of the league more seasons than not since the lockout isn't anything to scoff at. I'd also mention that pre-lockout, you had three years of dregs and then 4 years of lower talent teams with the best goaltender in a generation. I'm not shocked the PP sucked those years.

I'm 6'2" 235 and *am* resistant to the cold. :)

Come to think of it, use honey dijon mustard to glue the panko to salmon. I think I need to make that again soon, or it could easily be adapted to chicken.

If it's the same thing I made once upon a time, you make a nice mustard sauce, spread it on a chicken breast, and bake. I rememeber it being pretty good, but I haven't thought about it in years.

I'm curious, you see this as bad thing? A certain amount of introspection is a good thing, both for people and a nation. If all your friends are questioning your actions and shying away from you, you might want to look in the mirror to try to see what they're seeing. I'm not saying you succumb to peer pressure, but just think a bit.

Anyone have youtube links for this stuff?

They're just being greedy. :)

Give them a shot, they're only 43% more difficult than regular mashed potatoes. The article I found them in was a "deathmatch" of post-pub food (think Jim's Steakout) up against pierogi. Later, they tried using the patatas as filling for the pierogi, which might be my next trick. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/pierogi_patatas/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/paprika_potato_pierogi/ The other articles in the deathmatch series bring up some really interesting and relatively unknown dishes from the other side of the pond. I'm rather interested in the Haggis Pakora, too. http://www.theregister.co.uk/Tag/deathmatch

I followed up the paella Saturday by making some Patatas Revolconas (mashed potatoes with smoked paprika and garlic) and Spicy Pork Meatballs Sunday. I have enough leftovers for the week now. This was the first time for the patatas. I went with half dulce paprika (sweet smoked) and half picante (spicy smoked). Probably a little too much spicy unless you really dig that.

Paella Night 3: Valencia Drift is tomorrow. And it's almost time to pick up friends from the train station and see my fiancée a bit later.

So is Ehrhoff playing for the billboards or the other team? It's not a technical problem, that's for sure. Heh, "zwei on eine!"