some people couldn’t make out the garbled audio though. only thing i heard was “trigger point”, which I assumed was referring to the pitcher’s release point, not a specific product name that I’ve never heard of before.

A) that’s a very long bat weight and B) that’s a rather wide bat weight. Widest part of the standard college bat is less than 3 inches. The diameter of a baseball is 2.9 inches. So, the weight is on the widest part of the bat yet stays on? And the ball passes right through with about 10% extra space on all sides? I’m…

someone run that lot number!

Compression of the lavaflow after formation was my first thought. I suppose the temperature of the lava (and the ambient temperature at the time?) could have also played a role. What other explainations were you thinking of? However, it’s possible the authors addressed these concerns - I don’t know as I’m only…

As I am too lazy and/or busy to read the source article, how did they rule out the possibility that compression of layers of earth on top of the lava didn’t compress the sediment, resulting in the air “pouring out” of the pores containing air and leaving the sediment more air-poor than otherwise expected?

geophysics is how physics affects geology. Essentially it’s a hybrid of the traditional fields of geology and physics. Yes, perhaps if geology is mentioned, so should physics, but saying that this is geological news is not an untruth.

doh! -1 Fossey and -a bazillion Stewarts and Harcourts for me.

gotta love how they tried to get you drunk when you wouldn’t sign the disclaimer right away. They were looking to lower your inhibitions to the point where you probably wouldn’t have been legally competent to sign such a disclaimer even if you had. What they did has got to be against some law, right?

if this scenario was in Asia perhaps...

it makes me think that the show was looking to portray Tom as an actor and an informed participant. They were probably looking for the date to go further and see the reactions of people seeing the two of them together or something.

Probably a thing since Animal House? The scene where one of the main characters meets Dean Wormer’s wife for the first time.

maybe, but the current crop of morons are useless morons unworthy of public monetary support at levels that allow for their comfortable lifestyles.

nor does her not having recollection of the conversation state that a) she didn’t have the conversation or b) that the conversation, if made up, would be in opposition to her views and understanding.

so, they have lawyers on their staff do the actual verbiage.

clearly the FBI should just give her the phone. she’s got magic fingers

I’m a bit confused as to why Youtube doesn’t allow WMG/BMG to display ads from 10:05-10:36 in his video? If the claim for IP is only for that time span and there’s no competing IP claim for that time block, you’d think their code would default to allowing the IP claimant to display ads at their discretion. Or if…

alternately, should I succumb to Fitz or have some Tantrums?

doh. not Marcus Augustus. Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius, so I guess it makes SOME sense that he took the 8th month). The Marcus-of-the-time (or rather 100 years later) was Aurelius

doh! Pent. never occurred to me. Now I’ll go back to looking at a calendar and cursing Julius Caesar and Marcus Augustus for screwing up the late months.

The right side of the bar counter (from non-naked customer perspective) is going to be packed with lookie lous