Holy shit I thought you were taking some liberties with the last reader's price.

That reads extremely similarly to how he normally informs negative contestants that they won't be returning for Final Jeopardy!, which I figure is nicer than them simply not appearing when they return from commercial break.

The wife and I are seriously considering staying on the no-kids route. Disposable income! Far less worry about the future! Vacations! More vacations! 100% less human shit to deal with, at least until the much later years!

I just can't... justify buying new. I can afford it, but then I realize what all I can buy if I just go a bit older. I just bought the wife a used 2011 X5. 30,000 miles, 3 years of warranty left (CPO), and $36,450, down from a sales price of $57,000. Premium package/tech package/climate package, so pretty loaded,…

I was just telling someone that this would be a fantastic strategy if I ever had kids. Expose them to basically ALL of the games that were available 20 years prior. They'll be vaporware or emulatable or essentially free, so there's no cost, there's tons of selection, enough that he or she would be unlikely to get…

Seriously credit for going 19 years back to make a reference work so well. Damn.

Yep. I watch Jeopardy! with my friends. I watch it with my parents. I watch it with my in-law. It's a great show, but I'll admit I usually time-shift it. This is still a shitty way of managing a relationship and Sony had every right to be livid. It didn't help that this year's TNF schedule was unequivocally horrible…

It's perverse-sounding, but it's like how a gas expands to the space available to it. You hear the metaphor used in project management: work expands to take up the time allotted. Similarly, people spend to use up the money available to them, especially if they lack basic self control but otherwise have found…

I still believe no one has died in a Tesla S, right?

I can't recommend the LectroFan highly enough. I had a Marpac DOHM before (and then realized that it wasn't auto-switching 220v on a trip to Europe, whoops), but it could only get so loud. The LectroFan is extremely configurable and even smaller, and the different noise options are great.

You post this but not the Sesame Street version we all grew up on?

Thanks for the writeup on this cake! (And for properly linking to Threadcakes!) Just a heads up that your final link hotlinks to an image further in the album from the primary cake photo. Just remove the #16 from the end.

Andrew Bird is my favorite artist. There's so much depth to each of his pieces and his live performances are nothing short of transcendental.

Not only it produces me great pleasure to watch this bartender preparing an awesome Rum Martínez—complete with atingling in my spine from listening to the sounds— but it whets my thirst to now end.

You know what? I have seen some trolls in my time but I believe it. I believe there are socially awkward people (not penguins) out there who are awkward enough that their fallback position is memes. That it's "funny" and "safe" to them to communicate like that. I don't think it's a troll, even though it sounds…

To be fair, this is the only way we're likely to see a Marlins jersey in a World Series game anytime soon.

Your selfie response with the Marlins car is pretty epic. And I'm sorry that some people think it's a "giant screw you" for a baseball fan to be a baseball fan even if their team isn't in the running, but that's your prerogative, Marlins Man. And the only way we're likely to see a Marlins jersey in a World Series game…

It depends on the voltage of the connector. The 120v household "mobile" connector from Tesla can take up to 8 hours. You go down to 4 hours with a 240v charging system in your house, and you get a bit faster still if you include the "dual charger" option on the car, which essentially gives the car two endpoints to…

An entire site exists dedicated to this: http://www.419eater.com/

You all are decided getting the music choice wrong. It's O Fortuna. It has to be!