Pretty sure I just hurt myself trying not to laugh at that so as to not have to explain myself to my wife and 13 year old son sitting a few feet from me.

If we’re going to reference strange HR related stats, the Mariners have either hit, allowed, or both hit and allowed a HR in 103 consecutive games to start the season -- including tonight’s game -- an MLB record.

Excuse me - Tacoma is Pierce County. Kent/Auburn is South King County. Tacoma does enough of its own shitty stuff to get tied to South King County, too.

I was at the game, in that section. You can see our empty seats in that shot. I'd just left to take my kids to get ice cream.

Not familiar with the show, either, so thanks for the clarification. The decision by the people running the show to leave the camera on him (blue shirt), or to switch to putting the camera on one of the other guys in the studio, instead of putting the camera where it needed to be, goes a long ways towards proving just…

Correct. I’ve always considered his death to be AIDS related, with his pneumonia resulting from his weakened immune system. At the time of his passing, there was much less known about the disease. It was back in the time when being Haitian was considered a primary risk factor.

My grandmother had two good friends she used to drink with at the local bar. The two men lived together and, according to her, chose to live in the same house because it was too expensive for two bachelors to have their own house.

My parents didn’t contradict her, at least directly. We did, however, join her two…

Local news has had a feature on the topic this week.

Lived in Texas for several years. One of my sons was born there (We say he has dual citizenship -- US and Texas). Arrived and was welcomed with a tornado warning/sighting while driving to my first job interview. Moved during one (1) of the times recently that the city of Houston was completely flooded by a tropical…

Your first two links are to files hosted on Amazon. While you might mean well, suggesting people download and install patches from anyone other than the site of the manufacturer is irresponsible. Even if that’s where the manufacturer puts the files, get the link from their page, and not from a blog.

“No one seeks to minimize the gravity of the alleged conduct...”

That there is another section of "red flags" might be the best thing I read today. 

My generic phone browser was showing Kia ads. Only when I went to Chrome with my login credentials cached and browsing history at play did I see the Porsche ads. I’m now 7 times more likely to buy each - but since there was a 0% chance before, that doesn’t matter much.

I once had new neighbors move in and introduce themselves as Ron and Nicole. I am terrible at remembering names, and the couple divorced and moved elsewhere years ago, but whenever I run into either of them around town I immediately remember their names. 

Nepotism was absolutely in play. I got my job because of connections through my girlfriends family. The money was very good (at least where I worked) and the jobs were in high demand. I could earn more in that 6 week season than I’d earned the entire summer working anywhere else. My plant was unionized, which helped,…

I was hoping someone else had a fish plant story. I’m late to the party, but am also a fish camp veteran. It was a summer job during college — the kind of job that reminded you why you were going to college in the first place. Our facility was nicer, though still primitive. We had permanent bunk houses, and you could…

The money’s not in the pogo, it’s in the insurance you have to pay for to rent one.

I thought everyone knew the Mariners were where can't miss prospect catchers went to die.

The dead guy should be put to death? It’s like you’re not even trying anymore.