“Fred, if you’re here, stand up and take a bow.”

+1 “boring civil engineering”

But, but, but... the offense made a ton of mistakes in the Washington-Alabama game, right? I mean, basic, dumb, simple, delay of game mistakes, which cost them a lot. I don’t comment on football, because I know others know more than I do. But I watched that game (Go Huskies) and even I was surprised at the basic…

Did you want to sit *with* your kids? If so, there will be a charge for choosing seats — or you can wait until the day-of, and try to find five seats together. So if you all want to sit together, you’ll need to buy “Economy”, instead of “Basic Economy” — so you’ll be paying more. Just so you know.

I hear Chelsea’s considering a move into politics. So we got that going for us...

This one actually deserves all the stars on the Interwebs. “Simultaneously win and lose all of Trump’s voters” with Obama as a foreign leader is brilliant.

Why do we see so many sparks flying from NASCAR vehicles so quickly? From 1:43 in the video, nearly everyone has sparks flying from underneath or from the sides of the car. What’s scraping on the ground so soon after contact?

Yes. This is my second question, exactly.

My 30+ years with Type 1, wearing a pump constantly since 1993, and using CMG off and on since around 2005 or so (not sure, but definitely before I moved in 2007), have given me the experience to know that bg strips aren’t free, and also that there is absolutely no relationship between how many times you test and what…

Thanks; I’m pretty sure that’s what either of my cats would do.

This is my question, too. Actually, I wrote it out and everything, but I don’t know how I get out of the greys, so don’t know how I’d get anyone to answer. CGMS is superior to dogs and is cheaper, too. Why do people still train dogs to do this?

I haven’t been able to figure out why diabetes dogs exist. Continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) exist, and are widely available. I can’t imagine that training a diabetes dog costs less than buying a CGMS, nor can I imagine that the continued maintenance costs for a dog are less than CGMS. CGMS is more useful…

I found a 5-year-old congratulatory message from a distant colleague, after I won an industry award. I suppose it would have been nice to have seen that back then.

Does anyone know (or has Tesla published) stats on how many people who submitted reservations for the S or the X actually bought them in the end? I assume there must be a dropoff rate of at least 20% or 30%, but I wonder what it is.

Question, since I don’t know my baseball rules well enough. Couldn’t that be called an error? I mean, Cespedes clearly erred on a play where Reed could easily have been held at 2nd. Asking out of ignorance.

Tony Martin, being pushed by his teammates across the finish line of Stage 6 of Tour de France, in Le Havre, last July. Of course, he did drop out of the race and head back to Germany for surgery that evening. Photo by me.

The Heels are, like, 523rd in the nation in 3-point shots, and they make this one?? (Yes, I know there are only 347 D-I men’s teams, but really, they’re mostly that terrible on 3-pointers - could they please have made MORE THAN JUST ONE against Dook?!?)

Watch the video, man. It’s clear that Yellow crushed Red, 16 to 4.

I lived down the block from them, and occasionally babysat the boys. (They’d sometimes speak French to each other, since their mother was French; I needed assurance that they wouldn’t do that to me!) I remember that the newspapers agreed not to publish anything about the attacks on Christmas Day (since there were only…