I'm also in Seattle (non native, moved here ~2 years ago), and on a few occasions, after asking about a beer, I've said something to the effect of "Yeah, I'll try that", meaning "Just give me a pint of it" and gotten a taster instead. I've since changed how I phrase that response.

Yup. Shattered the collarbone on my dominant arm the Saturday immediately before finals week one year. (Mountain biking accident, not a deliberate attempt to get out of anything). As I recall I was given a bit of extra time to take a couple of my tests, but took them all on time.

I'm a professional engineer, and I definitely work less hard now than I did as an undergrad. College served me well in that regard.

Yup, same here.

I entered my first mountain bike race when I was about 11 or 12. As is pretty typical for grassroots level mountain bike racing, the entrants were broken up into three classes, beginner/sport/expert, with different age groups within each. Since it was my first race, I figured racing beginner was reasonable, and given…

Also, my S4 is an Avant, for extra sleeper.

I've owned an M3 and an S4, both debadged. You're not alone.

Yeah, but is that for just the rolling chassis, or does it include the hypothetical go bits from the garage next door too?

-Seattle

I've been called a hipster before, and drive an S4 Avant.

I'm not offended at Porsche making other cars, but that doesn't change the fact that the Panamera is fucking ugly.

Is it though? There's a hell of a lot of opposition to gay marriage coming from that camp. That's not exactly refusing to exclude someone.

I took that the same way Samer did. He admits that he's not entirely comfortable with gay men, but makes it very clear that he recognizes that it's not his right to exclude anyone he's not 100% comfortable with. I have nothing but respect for him for using his platform to say that.

Makes sense. Regular skaters can slap skate guards on and walk around, but walking in goalie gear blows.

Lifetime hockey player here.

Injecting himself with morphine to deal with the pain of his dislocated hip.

So much yes. A base model, manual 850 wagon was my first car. That thing was awesome.

Yup, stage 2 6MT Avant.

I too have a tuned B5 S4 ("only" about 375hp in my case) and the fact that I haven't seen more than 1" of snow in the time that I've owned it is hugely disappointing.

I love the Tatra-like windowless rear, but it wouldn't kill them to stick a camera back there and another video screen where your eye normally expects an inside rear-view mirror. I know the weight-and-drag-obsessed engineer told me that there was no way in cream-filled hell they could do that

And I've got Jackson and McCoy. Ugh.