I know this makes me an asshole but a significant part of me hopes this is awful.

I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I’m done…and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I’ll add them

Former bartender here. One hack I picked up in my years: order a soda water in a short glass with a lemon- it looks just like a vodka soda and no one will be able to tell. If you are feeling fancy, ask them to add a splash of cranberry. Boom. Now you have a “vodka” cranberry.

Since this person presumably works in downtown San Francisco there really are no cheap options unles you can convince your coworkers to travel to a different neighborhood which in many people’s minds is not an option.

The kid is trying to network and land a job in the field, so s/he has no choice but to show up and work the room.

As a lifelong fan of one of those teams, while Lebron was in his prime, yes. It was worth it. We will be mired in mediocrity for about the next decade, but I’m telling you my dude, the four straight finals and two titles were like the prime of my fandom life. It was awesome, and I’ll happily sit at an 8-10 seed for…

Having tried both pirate and legit ‘classic’ versions of my choice MMORPGs with old guildmates...the problem for us older gamers isn’t quite so much that we want the social/difficulty/grind of the old games, but more that we want the kind of free time we had back when we could play those games. 40-60 hours a week free…

I’m sorry but this kabuki theatre has been done before. We’ve seen pharma CEO’s raked over the coals before. Shit, they even threw Shkreli in prison for 7 years, and it hasn’t lowered prices a bit.

This is exactly how I feel. I had a similar experience at a ramen shop where my two friends were served while the server and kitchen forgot my order...twice. I finally got my order an hour after I had ordered it and requested that they make it right. Their solution? A free serving of alcohol.

Bear in mind that no one…

At that price you get something that looks and drives like a real speedster, but that you’d be able to mod or just drive the piss out of like the originals were designed to be, without having to worry about harming your $100k+ car. I’d say NP.

Yes, the server and the cooks screwed up, but they did offer something free in return. It might not have been what the letter writer wanted,

It’s not customers’ jobs to micromanage the staff and make sure they actually do the job they agreed to do. If he had asked any sooner, you or someone else would’ve bitched about him being impatient.

Exactly. It’s not someone tripping and falling. It’s a professional second-baseman having no actual idea what to do with a tailor-made double-play chopper with the goddamn bases loaded, in the 7th inning of a two-run game. The Orioles managed to turn that situation into a two-run infield hit, without so much as an…

That’s not what happened at all, but I do enjoy these constant examples of PC Game Launcher Wars being more petty and immature than the Console Wars ever were. Keep ‘em coming.

“Instead of comping me for something I did order...I was given something I didn’t ask for at all” ^^^This^^^ Comp that bottle of wine or don’t even bother, you can ask if I’d like something extra for free (including a digestif or a dessert), but don’t just throw your cast-off crud at me and expect me to be grateful…

But the problem was that the meal never came out. The kitchen and the server forgot about it - it was never coming out if the LW didn’t say something, so this is, indeed, a major fuck up by your criteria.

Well I doubt that the deal still includes all those players given the fact it wouldn’t need to anymore. The Celtic’s deal has only gotten worse over the last few months as we’ve seen those players they were lauding fall flat and their draft picks are garbage positions.

Their package was bloated due to them wanting to get the trade finalized before Boston could make an offer. Having 4th overall pick and the aforementioned lack of progress by Tatum, etc. helps the Lakers ease their offer. 

Hating on the big markets is easy, and tempting. But, while you may prefer for Zion to toil away in irrelevance, the best thing for everybody is for him to go a media mecca and either be a legend or a bust. Anything in between is pointless.

Just a note on the Toyota WRC Turbo, it was out right cheating. There is a wonderful article in an old issue of Racecar Engineering that goes over the whole cheat. From my memory I remember reading that the scrutineers looked at the turbo several times before finally hearing something strange then just cut the whole…