The problem with waiting for a down season to fire Brooks is that the Thunder missed out on the recent wave of good young coaches. Brooks isn’t great, but who will be on the market that’s a clear upgrade?

It is, and I have. We all should.

I think usually a simple "excuse me" works for moving past someone or sitting down on/near their stuff. Dealing with creeps is tough, because of the general possibility of them being crazy. Generally the view in NYC seems to be that you should post up nearby and keep an eye on things while you're sharing the train.

How could you leave off the biggest piece of etiquette? Don't block the doors. No one gets to have their own spot on the train. Move into the car so that others can get on. When you want to get on a train, allow people to exit first.

The other perk is that once you start the process of downsizing (and up-quality-ing), you quickly figure out what your key wardrobe items are. Once you know what matters, it makes it that much easier to focus on quality and keep trimming. When I started my first job that put me in a suit, I thought I’d need to stock…

Generally I go with “when the expenses are lower.”

Sorry, I wasn't trying to snark at all. It sucks to end up with a mangled pile of egg and shell. Lifehacker has a few options, I like this one:

Just search "peel egg." There have been a few posts rounding up how to cook eggs to make sure they're easy to peel and how to peel quickly.

Burger and beer spot, but they hadn't ordered. I totally agree on the value of shitty beer sometimes. I think it's David Chang who's also a fan. I just get sad about folks who wouldn't take advantage of the opportunity of flat pricing to try something decent.

Shared this story before, but this past weekend I witnessed a table behind me opt for a pitcher Coors Light over a decent variety of crafty beers despite the fact that pitchers were a flat price no matter what you ordered. Lots of people want that safe harbor of Coors/Bud/Miller in a sea of choices.

It’s a good comparison (especially since I grew up in Idaho). Upon further review, I think the grocery number isn’t skewed particularly high by the local factors, but the eating out budget is. When I’m buying just for myself, $80 is usually enough to handle even my appetite (which, for several months of the sample,…

Total food spending of about 75% of my discretionary budget, very much towards the high end. About half is spent on groceries and half on restaurants, drinks, etc. What’s crazy is that even though I try to eat large quantities of high quality (cage free eggs, grass fed beef, etc.) food, I cook almost all my own meals…

On the environmentalist side, most folks are happy to make the trade off of getting rid of regulations like CAFE in exchange for a standard carbon price applied to fuels. The whole “mandate vs. free market” debate was settled in the 80s-90s. The only problem is that regulatory options like CAFE hide the true cost of…

Barely-sequiter: the other day I grabbed a burger and a drink at a restaurant with the odd policy of charging the same price for each beer offering. The selection wasn't huge, but not having to consider cost differentials pushed me to Ommegang's Rare Vos, which was a great choice. Other options were your seasonal…

Totally fine with a smartwatch in NYC.

BWI has its problems and Dulles isn’t that bad, but DCA is by far the best airport in the region. Clean, ridiculously quick and easy to get to, open and easy to navigate layout, and I’ve only once seen a security line longer than 10 minutes.

It’s definitely better than EWR, but those giant trams you have to take between terminals are, for want of a better word, stupid, and proximity to DC actually does matter.

It would actually be the Pelicans and Suns. The Mavs’ record (in the harder conference) would make them #3 in the East. Cut the playoffs in half and you’re only looking at a 6-2 West-East split.

Makes sense, as the Basketball Jones had to switch to royalty-free intro music after initially going with a Phoenix song.

Could save time and just show the SNL skit.