Fuck it, I'm sad too, but somehow still winning my office bracket through mostly copying 538's analysis. Huzzah!

I like my coffee like I like my women: black, bitter, preferably fair trade.

Support your local bakery, yo. The SO is a bread baker (and I work retail PT) at a bakery where the vast majority of our breads have less than 5 ingredients. Honey is used in one or two.

hear hear

also a great idea for conferences. I had one particularly impressively sad bingo on my fridge for a year where we had bingo 10 minutes into the opening remarks so just started tallying each box instead.

this is worth a read:

Your shoelace is untied.

I have a relative who is safely in the 8 figures (I help with his bookkeeping so I'm not sure how many other folks in the family know), who still lives in a two bedroom one bathroom house. But he grew up crazy poor 2nd of 6 child of immigrants and didn't get his money all at once, so maybe that has something to do…

But of course. Just lame my Dad got hit with them after my Mom finally convinced him to go to Detroit area tryouts. :)

I'm currently addicted to QI, a British trivia show (VPN to England for episodes on Netflix, but some kind soul has also uploaded many episodes to Youtube). Jeopardy isn't as entertaining, but if they uploaded episodes for next day watching I'd add it to my Daily Show / formerly Colbert (sniff) after work chill out…

is there any good organization to donate (plastic) chess sets or books to prisoners? I'm sure there are, I suppose, but any recommendations?

I mentioned this upthread, but totally agree. The .2, .3 channels I used to get (I just Neflix/stream now) were way more entertaining consistantly than what shows up on my parents' cable when I'm stuck there for a long visit.

My Dad is fucking amazing at Jeopardy. More often than not he would answer everything on the board before the contestants. Often before Trebeck stopped talking. He went to a try out once, but he's shaky on the bible unless it's something referenced in literature (atheist raised by an agnostic) and 2/10 questions he…

he totally is. That said, I watched Jeopardy the most often when I was in BFE with a digital antennae but no internet and certainly no cable. Jeopardy was *definitely* "appointed viewing" (partly to keep the 3 of us living there sane). Unless they had a similar message and managed to run Jeopardy on a 2nd tier same…

By can i mean bag. Kingdom for edit on mobile.

Eh... No, you should. I found a can of frozen cranberries and it took me all of 20 minutes to throw some water, honey, lemon (because that's what I had), water, and berries into a pan. I also spent 10 of those minutes having a cigarette, and 5 describing the process on the phone to my Mom who also found a solo…

yeah, if you live in BFE Michigan, don't hunt or fish, and don't speak Spanish*, food sucks. Everywhere else, not so much. Even the blandest suburbs (hello, Canton) have kickass international food in random strip malls.

I make phyllo spinach pie for every family holiday. I can't not anymore. Anyhow, I always have phyllo left over so turkey + raw veggies from the app tray + gravy + haphazard phyllo layers on top with quick brushes of butter/olive oil between = quick phyllo pot pie. I never have THAT much turkey I'm taking home but…

Not OK if a tired employee gets fired for not doing due diligence price matching checks, even if the site pulled up independently matches. Some managers are gonna pass on the slap down they get,I wager.

Staples *really* scrutinized the listing I had up, had to check.ISBN match and that it was a reputable Amazon seller, etc. But in the end I got $10 off a Moleskine. Anyway, that's what Walmart *probably* has in place, but good luck getting employees to give a damn about it as long as they have plausible deniability.