Depending on where you live and the age of the house, add in a lead paint inspection to your inspection bills. We bought a 100 year old rowhouse in Baltimore (which has had an enormous problem with lead paint poisoning) and lead paint was something we were always on the lookout for in our home search. So many of those…

Was on Southwest (Mad Max: Fury Road, but in the air) recently and this couple literally RAN from the back of the plane toward the front to get off sooner (in Dayton, so they weren’t missing a connection). Less than 10 minutes later my wife and I walk out of the ramp and those two idiots are standing right there,…

I do this too! It’s brinkmanship of the highest caliber. Like you, I never bluff. And thus I always win.

Behold, Team Tripartite Destruction (and Fluffiness)!

Chances are no one’s prepared, including the delivery guy, and you aren’t going to have the smarts to realize you need to tip about 3x more than usual, either.

The author says these tips are not for people who go out an buy snow tires. He specifically states he’s ignoring the tip of “buy snow tires”.

I still use my Kindle from time to time when I travel and don’t want to haul several books with me, but my default is paper. I find it easier to flip around, go to the back to read end notes I come across, index read, etc.

By far the most incredible Reply All fail I’ve seen was years ago (maybe 2009?) when somehow an internal team of sales people (there’s your problem right there) at a big bank started a reply all chain that looped in several hundred people internally, as well as several thousand external people who were on various…

I like your list. I would only swap 3 & 4 and 6 & 7. And really, 6 & 7 are very close, so it’s not a clear cut thing at all for me. But I really quite like First Contact and liked that we got to see this mythological time period in the Trek universe. It was really interesting that Cochrane was rendered as a product of…

This is a day late, but what the hell.

To be fair, I think anyone who’s has been married in the Catholic Church and attended a Pre-Cana weekend program (Engaged Encounter) would also describe that as “awkward and tacky”.

But alas, it’s a smart business decision, considering that Wayans’ previous spoof film, Haunted House, grossed around $80 million and only took $2.5 million and $4 million, respectively, to make.

Not quite the same thing, but...each year my family has a pre-Christmas gathering that is absolute torture. Shitty food (the menu: overcooked buffalo wings absolutely doused in hot sauce; small cheap-ass meatballs; wilted, stinking greens; POTATO SALAD (nothing says Christmas like cold potato salad!); veggie tray w/…

I don’t have children, but I would think telling people your son’s name is spelled N-O-A-H but it’s pronounced “Steve” would really leave a lasting impression.

Phasma was introduced to us briefly here, but I think this sets her character up for more involvement in Episode VIII, which I think will not be as nostalgic as Episode VII. More new stuff and new people and new locations, etc., including Phasma maybe going after Finn and/or Poe leading her crack troops. Finn (Fin?…

8 p.m. — FX — Star Trek Into Darkness

“This is garbage” is tied with her gargantuan eye roll in the car for best part of this whole thing.

Agreed! Unfortunately, Encore Western doesn’t show Rio Bravo very often.

A few extra movie suggestions: Goldeneye at 3:40 ET followed by No Country for Old Men at 5:55pm on Encore. Say what you will about the Pierce Brosnan reign as 007 (and let’s be honest, there is much to say about how lame Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough are), but this first Brosnan installment is…

Those Northfield players look stunned, but what can you do? I mean, I suppose the kid could have made the free throw. But really, if you’re a Northfield parent you just have to laugh and tell your kid, “Shit happens, son. But seriously, you should have seen that kid’s shot from the stands! Whoooo-wee!”