bless you for posting this. it had been far, far too long.

Agreed. Somehow I managed to live a frequent-flyer life without ever having gone through LGA before last year. How bad could it be, I thought? It's NYC, it has a ton of traffic, it has to be at least marginally ok. OH HOW WRONG I WAS.

This is a really fascinating observation, and potentially one with a hell of a lot of applicability. Thanks, Patrick.

Well, anything's more handsome than a Yankees hat.

Ugh, jealous. I have no camera roll. All pictures live in albums - they weren't deleted - but no camera roll, like TheWraithL98 was saying about their phone.

I think using it with a hangover is going to be a game-ender. It already makes me kind of seasick when typing fast now; if I'm already ill, forget it.

Am I the only one who doesn't seem to have the quick reply option at all? Also, I never got the U2 album (not that I wanted it). I think I have a socially awkward version of iOS8 that no one wants to hang out with.

Yeah, I had the exact same reaction, but was able to update via iTunes without any issues. Took me about 40 minutes, total.

I'm a little dumbfounded that Health was released at all. I was all excited to open it and after a little poking, realized I can do exactly nothing with it. It seems like 20% of the app is there, and none of it actually *works* - it's just static. Why did they bother?

Well put.

If you're referring to the Discovery Channel (I believe) special from a few years ago, absolutely not. That entire thing was a sham and I nearly threw things at my television. The truth of the Atlantis myth is that all signs point to it being simply a story Plato created for didactic, moral purposes, and not an…

I'm a classical archaeologist - Italy, specifically, but with heavy overlaps in the prehistoric Aegean.

I'm not sure what you're reading, but it sounds like the wrong stuff. Archaeology as a field is very comfortable with the fact that civilization evolved in different ways in different places and at different times. The idea that there is a linear progression from primitive to civilized man, and the better…

Vermont: pancakes and maple effing syrup. Maple cream. Maple candy. Anything maple, on a fluffy pancake, ideally from Sugar n' Spice in Mendon, with a side of canadian bacon. Manna from HEAVEN.

And goetta!

Here we go again.

Cincinnati has beer cheese! Come for the beer cheese! We apologize for the shitty chili!

Yes!!! My grandmother and her church lady friends used to make pierogis by the seeming boatload every year and sell them by the dozen, already buttered and ready to throw into the pan. Among my fondest, dreamiest childhood memories are eating those pierogis until I wanted to bust. I grew to be a chubby child, but I…

there's some possible benefits that can come along with the joy of reading.

Furthering my research in the comments of an i09 article? I beg to differ. And your assertion about people burying their dead in the floors of homes is, while correct, temporally incorrect - you are conflating times and places and cultures in your comment. Burying the dead in the floors of homes is an incredibly…