I mean, really this stuff goes in cycles. 10 years ago no one would shut up about how terrible people were with their normal cell phones. "I don't want to hear your conversation! You are so self-centered, how about some awareness of your surroundings! Et cetera!" Also, SUVs were somehow waaaaaaay worse than…

Heh. Another thing that's funny about this story is all the people (including Pinkham) who say "oh, well, it does sound like the person is making it up, but the basic message of the story is TRUE!" It's like OH REALLY, the fact that some dope was so motivated by their hatred of smartphones to concoct a bunch of…

I just don't see the point about worrying about how the patrons at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. are behaving.

Well, *maybe* this happens in the suburbs and maybe in a restaurant that only caters to tourists, but New Yorkers go out all the time, and are used to truly random seating situations (communal tables, the last table by the door / bathroom / kitchen, eating at the bar etc.) in full or nearly-full restaurants. The idea…

This detail is interesting, as well: "Out of 45 customers 18 requested to be seated elsewhere." Really? Almost half? If true, it would suggest the place has a serious problem with their seating arrangement. There shouldn't be so many locations that are obviously more desirable than others, and people certainly…

Racer 5 was my "gateway" IPA — before that I couldn't understand why people would want an aggressively hoppy beer, but the "booze whallop" you refer to went a long way towards convincing me. Now I like a dozen different IPAs, but I am particularly grateful to the folks at Bear Republic for expanding my range.

Nah, you and Dogfather should both kill yourselves. A murder-suicide pact would also be acceptable.

Yep. What you do is glue the blades to every component, spaced about a half-inch apart. Each one acts as a miniature heatsink. Sure, they are a dollar each, but you can shave with them first. This is lifehacking at its best.

"put words in my mouth"

To be fair, he could also mean the 4-year-old.

And also, don't forget that he was alleged to have home-invaded the house right next door to his — how likely is that.

I live at the end of a line, so I experience this all the time. I guess its kinda fun, but I have to ride for an hour to get there, so...

I believe you are allowed to enter the intersection on a yellow, and if it changes while you are in you are OK. At least the red cam tickets I've gotten here in NYC clearly documented that I had entered in the split second after it turned red.

Heh, once you get one of those tickets you will see exactly what they do. They tend to show you a printout of you entering the intersection on the red, and then continuing through. Heck, I got a stupid ticket for driving in a restricted bus lane and it included a link to a video of the whole thing.

Well, I love the idea, have recently been dreaming about creating something similar to this. However, based on the initial questionnaire (a dozen checkboxes for mile-wide genre categories), I'm pretty skeptical that it's going to serve up much stuff that I'm actually interested in. The real hook, IMO, would be that…

Well, there's funny satire (like Colbert's) and then there's pointless obnoxiousness.

Yeah, living in South Brooklyn I've certainly seen plenty of drivers who deserve time in gitmo for the shit they pull. However, I'm still going to be mad when I get dinged for going 35 on a major avenue. The one thing NYPD doesn't do is discretion.

Yeah I've always figured that chocolate is emphasized so strongly as a no-no because it is something that people would intentionally feed their dogs all the time, thinking that it is a nice treat.

If only everyone was smart and compitent they wouldn't be in dept.

"I work for an arts organization, so we can see the customer's entire history: "