There are so many tiers to chess. I’m a poor recreational player, who’s played in spurts at various times, with roommates and coworkers. I was variously untouchable by some beginner-level players, just because I understood the various basic principles like time and the value of the pieces and controlling the middle,…

Caruana’s coming chronometrical catastrophe created a calamitous climate.

I grew up in Edina and hated every second of it....have all my stars for that comment. 

Haven’t most of the cake-eaters moved to Eden Prairie?

Came here for a cake eater reference 

Might be the first time Edina couldn’t have their cake and eat it too.

I used to live in middle NE and had the same heating situation. Splitting wood was pretty fun back in the day, although using that stupid leather sling to bring the wood from the pile back into the house was a pain in the dick.

Oh yeah, I forgot the point of my story:

Oh, I’m sure. I grew up in North Dakota, so I hated shoveling snow as a kid. I went back to visit for Christmas a couple of years ago, and helped my parents dig out of a big blizzard. That was incredibly satisfying, too. But, I know very well that if I were to move back there and have to wake up an hour or two early…

Liking chopping wood is like all the people that dream about retiring to a farm.

Chopping firewood is awesome...until you have to do it for 2 1/2 hours every day after school for about 3 months. I think I still have the calluses on my hands. And my god....the chainsaw my father had used to scare the hell out of me. The thing (a Husqvarna) was a motorcycle with a blade.

~300 years is about the minimum travel time remaining to get the theoretical inner edge of the oort cloud. But it’s such a huge and dispersed structure it will take Voyager more than 30,000 years to get the outer theoretical edge. So saying it’ll “reach” the Oort Cloud in 300 years is like putting your face in the…

Honestly, that's a little depressing. Not fun at all.

Based on the graphic above, where Voyager is today, and assuming the Oort Cloud actually starts around 1000 AU, roughly 50x the craft’s current flight time.

I can appreciate a journalist who’s dedicated to their beat, but the election has been pretty thoroughly covered.

The inertia of the fluid in the canals is what changes when its specific gravity is altered. The fluid flows differently, which which confuses the brain. What is felt in the balance organ no longer matches the changes in the visual field and sensations from physical contact with, for example, the floor. (Fun fact:…

Well, there is this from Wiki and it generally goes along with what I learned in my ENT rotation a well:

Blues Fan here. Shattenkirk is top 5 overrated players in the NHL.

Goalie here. After each game, my gear goes in a closet. I have a little metal rack that stands in the middle. On the rack, i have my skates, then my gloves. On hooks on the side walls i have my breezers and chest/arms. Helmet on top shelf. On the floot, I have a fan. On the top shelf, I have one of those ozone…