Oddly enough, that’s how I ended up getting pulled into reading a lot of the Gawker media group. I was reading the WSJ pretty exclusively and it was refreshing to get a different take on some of the same stories, whether or not I agreed on the conclusions. And now I’m on Kinja, because it’s much more fun to argue…

I saw a roughneck woman once....I mean, I didn’t know it at the time, but I found out later.

Well, I just Wolfram’d my estimated BAC from Saturday night, and it does a fair job of explaining why everything was all fuzzy.

I wish I could double-star this.

I will take hellfire in August to shoveling snow in October any day.

This, my God, this. When I applied at my current company, they had massaged the paperwork order around so that you filled out a minimal application for the job in question, and then between the 1st and 2nd round interviews you filled out the full application manually.

So, normally I am a huge BB fan. However, when it comes to memory cards, I found their selection to be lacking in the extreme. Serious bummer, since I walked in fully expecting to bankrupt myself in the name of flash memory.

So, normally I am a huge BB fan. However, when it comes to memory cards, I found their selection to be lacking in…

Literally just went through this picking up 3 cards for my GoPro. Ended up with 1 PNY Turbo Performance, and 2 Samsung Evo cards. I ordered the PNY off of Amazon and purchased the 2 Samsung cards through MicroCenter. If you have an MC in your town, it’s well worth the trip. Excellent selection and the prices were on…

Literally just went through this picking up 3 cards for my GoPro. Ended up with 1 PNY Turbo Performance, and 2…

Interesting, I knew that job traffic in the Anadarko Basin and Woodford shale as a whole had dropped off, but was unaware that it had had such an effect on the state budget.

I’m with you there. Made the switch from upstream to midstream (which helped to weed out some of the doom and gloom) but it’s not perfect over here either. Paying double at the pump is still cheaper than not receiving a paycheck.

Well that’s what I get for not clicking on the links, haha. Thanks! Hope your dad weathers this downturn. My parents are in the same predicament .

Good article that gives a decent layman view of how the shifting oil and gas prices affect our economy on a larger scale (rather than the tired argument that low pump prices = people travel more). It would have been prudent to call out a few regions where the local economy is primarily oil driven, making the direct…

Getting up early for work.

“You are my Everest” - Joey Tribbiani

That’s my morning maintenance routine. Keeps my swearing in peak condition

Follow up article: How to Keep Swearing So Damn Much. Answer: Work in the oilfield for longer than 3 days.

That looks like it turned out pretty well. How long ago was that? How does it hold up? That large swath of them looks good; we made the mistake of thinking we could use them in a swampy side yard. Bad concrete + bad placement = bad results.

That is probably true, looking back. If I’m being honest, I should probably file it away in my “projects with half-assed research” folder.

Agreed, I remember helping my parents with these when I was a kid. They dry to a dingy grey color and broke apart within a couple years.

Once I started thinking about it, I really have 2 nested morning routines. Routine 1 is my home routine: Lay clothes out the night before, wake up, get dress, get to car 15 minutes after wakeup.