I have the old File Cabinet Box Set that my sister bought during bonus season back in the day. It felt incredibly extravagant to buy.

One of the biggest shocks of my life, after I'd been laid off from the Swiss Bank and moved onto working at the Hedge Fund Manager was that they gave us soda. For free. Coke *and* Pepsi. It was shocking.

I thought for sure that was Coke Life (or green label), but I find out now it's sweetened with cane sugar and stevia.

I don't do well with carbonation on the whole, but we usually stock ginger ale in the house for stomach upset and as a mixer with honey whiskey. Otherwise, we primarily drink water. We always had Pepsi in the house when I was a kid, but that was mainly for my father, who was a recovering alcoholic and perpetually…

So I'm at my neighbor's last weekend for a cook out and it starts raining. I offered to carry something down to his basement and he declined, and then said to me, "Hey, Lemur, have I ever told you own an 8 foot python?". Which no, he hadn't. He's lived next to me for a year and a half, is a helluva nice guy even if…

Working my way through Season 1 of Animal Kingdom, which makes me feel infinitely better about my own screwed up family. I'm switching off episodes of that with Hannibal, but I think it's a bit too weird for me. I'm on episode 3 or 4, so someone people let me know if it's worth sticking with. I still haven't…

Dumb question … is it streaming?

Paul Molitor! I remember him and his glorious Magnum P.I. mustache from the old Rock-N-Jock Softball games on MTV!

Yeah, my brother played tight head prop for his college VX and tried for years to get me to play. I just wasn't down for it though.

And a commercial pilot's license.

Mellie Wilkes, y'all. A true steel magnolia.

Except there are no Diet Cheetos so it's a no-go.

Right? It's not like it was a Fantastic Four movie.

I would be equally careful with doing that. Some kids feed off of the competition and that's great. Other, especially girls, have a good bit of their social world tied up in sports and removing them from the circle can be difficult. I wouldn't discourage any kid from taking up any physical activity that's…

I played soccer from the time I was 5 until I was 18. The point was that I "loved the sport" (hated it by the time I was a senior in high school), "went to battle with my team" (ugh, it was girls' soccer and I hated my teams because they were uniformly terrible and hung me out to dry in goal), and "it's the best way…

Janakowski?

More teams will adopt rugby-style tackling techniques and NHL style monitoring ("quiet room protocol").

Doctors also didn't understand the nature of brain injury as well as they do now or think they do now. They don't even treat it like they used to, there's no "wake them up every hour" bullshit. It's all high tech, constant monitoring and even one bad one and you're done now.

Except that they're finding CTE in the brains of men who didn't play beyond the high school level.

I was just pondering what a similar study of ruggers' brains would look like, considering the lack of helmet and different tackling style/less emphasis on taking guys out.