This is why kicking out the scouts was dumb. Not because they would have changed anything about the pick, but their leaks about it would have been met with such disbelief that the whole thing would have been viewed as a smokescreen. The Raiders almost certainly would have got an offer or three for the pick because…

Eddie was a indeed a disaster as Prince of Wales, where among other things he brought back a medieval tradition of lengthy visits to the estates of various gentry and with his cronies routinely would nearly bankrupt them.

Yep, I’ve heard that one of Kim Ng’s main selling points is that she is widely regarded as the single best person in baseball when it comes to the whole Byzantine mess of roster and contract rules. It’s a shame no one has offered her a front office job.

The 5 year service rule applies to all minor league assignments for everything but those magical IT band rehab stays, when you don’t need that consent for up to 30 days.

Bit more of an explanation from a longer article by someone who is at the forefront of marine safety.

Cage match accepted.

Regarding the books and the struggle between the 3ER and Night King, GRRM has a whole lot more to work than the show. It’s never been his style to infodump even when he’s written much shorter work like Windhaven (incidentally a pretty decent read - it’s what got me to buy GoT when it originally came out), so I really d…

Here’s the actual pleading.

It looks - hopefully - like this may be more that the final DOD directive hasn’t actually been published and as result he’s currently caught in limbo. This fits with why the Navy Times article linked to the Coast Guard’s version for reference; the Coast Guard had a seat at the table while this thing was being forced…

Yeah, there are all sorts of interesting possibilities. If I had been the one who found it, I’d be as excited to try to track down which one it was as much as I was over the surprise jackpot.

I do hope that as part of the selling process they track down what’s far more interesting - was there any connection between FIL’s great-whatever and Bronte, or did whatever ancestor who attained this get it from one of the estate auctions, in which case who did it belong to?

Yep, I went sous vide a couple years ago and have never looked back. Being able to keep in the fridge for a month is a huge factor too.

it was Robinson’s immense talent (and good fortune at having that talent manifest immediately)

Yep, that’s been a problem with her writing since Dark Sansa emerged down the steps at the Eyrie.

Interesting, thanks. Also at 18 it wouldn’t be definitive anyway as you can certainly keep growing, but I’ve always thought it strange she was so adamant about not having had work done.

Good stories.  Regarding Hendricks, you may be able to answer something then that I’ve always wondered about - I’ve heard her proportions were rather different back in those days, but the sources have always been sketchy and whatever pics there are haven’t made it to the internet.

Ungreyed! That’s the nicest story out of the comments.

One related note: be very careful salting raw ground beef and then freezing it - aka premade burgers in vacuum sealed pouches.