MattPie

FWIW, RosePie absolutely hated eating with a blanket on her head. I can't blame her, I'd hate it too. I'm not sure I'd get to the point of screaming and biting like she did, though. TL;DR: feed your kid. If it requires popping a boobie out to do it and you don't care, objections are someone else's hang-up.

1: My guess is there was a schedule conflict where TP couldn't be at the station during the football show, so they crammed it into the hockey show. He's a busy guy; drilling wells, running the BuffaloIlluminati, looking at colleges for his kids, etc. 2: not a great answer, but realistically we're parsing language. He gave a generally positive answer that could have been worded better. 3: Q: What are you up to tonight, MattPie? A: I have to go to my motorcycle club dinner. Nothing to see here.

I made pork and sauerkraut (and apples) in the pressure cooker yesterday. Turned out good, but pork tenderloin turned into more of a pulled-pork than something I could slice up. Pretty good nonetheless! My mom (and grandma) make it in a roaster and it's a lot better than mine.

The Bills, after starting 5-1, went 4-6 for the rest of the season. I think that's called "coasting in", where the, for instance, Chargers are a better team right now if you're going by recent records.

That was already taking over when I was in college in the 90s. I have no issue with it, being inclusive is a good thing.

Exchanging glances acrost a crowded room?

Besides Redhat's "Openstack Cloud Administration II Coursebook", I'm reading Beowulf (JRR Tolkien's translation) as a step to reading "Grendel", which is Grendel's side of the story. Beowulf is tough sledding, since it rambles. So far I've gotten "guy builds hall, Grendel tears it up, Beowulf shows up and want to wrastle Grendel" out of like 100 pages.

I never went there, but friends of mine did. The one house I remember in particular was 79 Eagle St, around 1997 or so. Fun times; one friend used to DJ at BJs a lot so we hung out there most of the time.

So we could swap Lehner and Petersen and not notice the difference?

So, not really a Sabres fan then. :) It's cool man, gotta do what feels best, but "we" is reserved for the Bills and Sabres around here (even if I don't use it). Gotta know your audience. At this point, I'd consider giving up on the Sabres too but I will NOT root for my local team. Maybe I can engineer a move to Seattle in time for the NHL to show up there. :)

If Jack keeps this pace up, he'll have like 250 goals at the end of the season, right?

M-x old-mode Just you wait, up until a few years ago I'd drink an entire pot of tea after 8PM so I could stay up and manage Rose/get some work done. Now if I do that, I'll sleep like crap and feel terrible the next day.

IIRC, the 2004 Redsox were all chummy. On the flip side, Bickering Bills. While the Bickering Bills didn't win is all, they were pretty successful.

FWIW, this logic means that as an NHL fan you cannot be disappointed in any season that doesn't result in making the conference finals. 87% of teams don't make the finals, yet people are visibly upset if they lose in the second round.

I think Bill Hoppe is saavy enough to put out something like this as a hit piece but have it not look that way. Compare and contrast to the B-News guys who'd be hysterically whining about millennials and work and woe are the yutes of today. This seems way more effective based on the replies here. Don't tell people how to feel, present the facts in such a way that the reader feels it naturally.

I'm posting this again since it's such a great version of the song:

Cedric (naturally), Garth Brooks, Wayne Newton, and Scott Joplin.

Many thanks!

I've seen 'stat' thrown around in regards to Canadian holidays. What's the etymology of "stat" in this context? Static Holiday (as in the same day each year)?

I get it, although it's a pretty thick accent. If someone speaking English as a second language said, "ten-cue" to me, I'd understand what they said.

Seriously, that's harder to type than Thanks on a screen keyboard. Or "Tanks", as I kinda picked up the last couple years.

If anything, I wish stats like this would discourage the people that say things like "Sit the entire Sabres and let the Amerks play in their place". There's a world of difference between the AHL and NHL, even taking MM's (likely) motivation to play out of his mind and prove something into account.

That thing where Elmo repeats the word of the day over and over to the tune of Jingle Bells in every episode. :death: Seriously, I was in my late teens when Elmo came around. I knew Elmo was hated, but it hasn't been until RosePie has started watching SS regularly that I realized how vapid and ridiculous it is, and how anyone making the show would devote like 20 minutes of each hour to it is beyond me.

I'm not sure I can get used to the scoreboard being over center ice in the Islanders barn.

Considering how much time the Sabres have played with an Empty net, they're doing pretty well. Figure two minutes for every loss, that's like 40 minutes of EN play, and before last night only 6 goals against.