I first came across the term “Gen X” in a magazine in 1983. At the time Gen X was defined as starting in 1960, which I was cool with as I was born in 1962 and there was no way I was a boomer (my parents were born just before the war). By the end of the 80s it was redefined to start in 1965, which made me mad. I’m…

If you’re talking about the Chaosium version that came out in the late 80s, there wasn’t anything else in the way of Lovecraftian board games (Pagan Publishing’s Creatures and Cultists was about 5 years later, and that was a card game; Atlas Games’ Cults Across America was 5 years after that).

I worked at a McDonald’s 40 (yikes!) years ago, and that’s the same process we used, except that there was a stage where we disassembled the front of the machine (the part with the lever and the mixing blades) and sterilized those parts separately. Even still, it didn’t take 3 hours. The overnight shift had two…

You can stop with the yelling now, Justice Kavanaugh. 

Asthmatic, here. Ventolin is a bronchodilator. It opens up the bronchial passages to allow easier breathing. It’s also a stimulant that can increase your blood pressure and heart rate. That’s assuming, as other have pointed out, that it’s actually albuterol in the canister at the prescribed dosage.

Putting Journey ahead of Boston, The Cars ahead of Pink Floyd, and the Steve Miller Band ahead of anybody invalidates the list. 

“Upon further review, it was determined that the puck crossed the goal line on a rink in Minsk. In this game, no goal! But Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod has gone up 2 to 1 against Dinamo Minsk.”

True, though JW player seems to be particularly egregious about autoplaying. I blocked it well before Gizmodo started using it.

It’s that damned JW Player the Deadspin’s evil overlords changed the site to. That player’s autoplay is the reason I have a script blocker turning it off. 

Tobin Rote did not play professional football for 13 seasons. He played professional football for 16 seasons. You completely missed his three years playing for the Toronto Argonauts, the first of which (1960) saw him pass for over 4200 yards. His 38 touchdowns that year was a record in the CFL at the time.

“Hold your fire!”

I laughed! It was the grown-ass basketball player equivalent of booping the nose of a puppy!

Maybe Snyder is just a poet, and wanted to say, “Your long, dark night is over, Jay,” as the sun came up.

The problem with IT security is that if you do your job absolutely perfectly, no one thinks they need it. My company got hit with a ransomware attack this time last year. It took months to sort out, and that was with backups of our non-critical stuff that was about a month old, and nightly backups of our critical…

He likely has brain damage, but that’s a pre-existing condition.

Yeah, but crucially the Egyptians started at the bottom and worked up.

I live in northern Louisiana. We’ve only had 6 days below 90 since mid-June, and only 1 since the end of July, and that was in August. Usually we’re into the low 80s/high 70s by now. The a/c has been running non-stop since April. The problem is that when it’s hot here, it’s also dry. This can’t be good for farmers.

I live in West Monroe. My wife worked concessions a few times for the Monroe Moccasins (the awesome logo was a water moccasin). I feel your pain.  

Mr Comey, and I say this with all due respect to the service you performed for this country, fuck off.

Four-year-olds are fantastic. My son was 4 when we took him to his first hockey game, to see the (now defunct) Baton Rouge Kingfish of the ECHL. Part way through the first period, while players are scrambling for the puck along the boards, he jumps up, points at the ice, and yells, “There’s only one puck! You have to…