This is why flying by plane into Colorado is the only way to do things. A short time passing over extremely regular farmlands and then suddenly you get near Denver and you’ve got the mountains rising like a great wall from the west side of the city.

Driving in Houston I definitely wanted the GPS on the way to work. Not because I didn’t know how to get there, but because I didn’t know where the traffic would be worst. Google can tell me not just how to get there, but how to get there fastest taking into account current traffic, road closures, etc.

I friend of mine was hosting a debater visiting from another college in his dorm room him. My friend got drunk and puked in their ear while they were sleeping on the floor. That seems like an entirely appropriate reaction to this visiting family situation.

There are also models that take a cold and hot water line. Problem there is that your toilet is presumably only plumbed for cold, so you have to tap into the sink’s hot water line. Not a problem (aside from being a little ugly) if you have a pedestal sink next to the toilet, but if you have an enclosed vanity or the…

Seems likely. Seems like it’s good enough, though maybe they could do special handling to treat the max date as a permaban (for display purposes). Probably doesn’t matter though, I think this gets the point across.

These old xbox 360 ban complaints are always fun:

Hmm, I’m guessing they don’t have full moon data in their tables, but I’m sure they could find a moon phase database they could join in.

Probably all teams are more likely to do that (when in reasonable FG range). But you TDs are more points than FGs. So you need to take into account the expected points you’d get from the play, the field position differential, and the risk that 3 points won’t be enough (getting three points doesn’t matter if you still…

Agreed. It feels like NFL coaches don’t appreciate just how valuable a down is. It’s similar to smallball style baseball managers not recognizing how valuable an out is. Yeah there are situations where it makes sense to sacrifice, but you are really hurting you team by doing so in a lot of situations.

Of course it does. As well as game situation (if you are losing big, you should be more aggressive).

It’s not that they track this it’s that they track everything, so they can easily query for specific situations.

It’s not just that high school coach that thinks that way. From an ancient Easterbrook article (now purged because Easterbook):

95% chance of a field goal: Expected value: 2.85 points

Now I’m feeling like there should be a board game somehow based around the concept of humorous truck rollovers. Maybe they can partner with The Takeout... 

16 is the median starting QB. The median starting QB is neither the average QB nor the median QB. In addition, you have to take into account that the guys ahead of him vary from year to year. If over a three year span he’s behind players A, B, and C for one year each, but ahead of each of them for two years, that…

Raccoon-sized? I’ve never seen one bigger than a small house cat. There are a bunch of actual raccoons that hang out in the parks at night eating garbage though.

I guess he can always tell himself that he’s better than the ReiserFS guy...

On the other hand, he’s apparently totally cool with statutory rape...

I once ran into a crazy bearded guy at a computer trade show in Boston. Told me he was a hologram and had a direct connection to the Internet in his head, among other things. At some point I was able to excuse myself and he started talking to our sales guy, who then called security on him. I didn’t do that because the…

I disagree to some extent, I see these buildings (and art in general), as an important legacy of past people. Every one of of us will die, but the things we create can live on, probably not forever, but longer than we can anyway. I also dislike the idea that as long as there is poverty, we cannot do anything beyond…