Is horse collar still a penalty? This GIF makes it tough to tell, but it looks like a horse collar.

Old Grey, even!

Obligatory:

Crooked Stave is excellent. And the giant wine barrels they have are pretty fun, too.

Say hello to gorgeous Arica, Chile, the driest city on Earth. Arica gets an average of less than one inch of rain per year, which means you could probably luck into 365 straight days with no rain of any sort. You can truly say your life is pretty plain there.

According to Leslie Horn’s own Twitter account, this is what an adult should dress like:

I’m a former localization PM, and I loved the LQA testers (and linguistic analysts, and linguists). They provided us client-side folks hard data on not only translation issues, but issues in the source (usually EN-US). Having documentation to provide to the client was crucial to maintaining healthy, successful client…

Nice work! I feel some Zero Punctuation influence, which works well for car reviews!

Oberon is a regionally-known, established, solid beer - especially from draft - best enjoyed while sitting on an outdoor patio, or a lakeside dock.

Now see the two combined!

I think the primary thing that I learn from the weekly Funbags is that Drew Magary’s taste in music is worse than his taste in television clothing.

Maybe not in your area, Will, but Avery makes delicious stouts (Out of Bounds, Out of Sight), as does Great Divide (Yeti, et al.) - both from of Colorado.

I chuckled.

I chuckled.

From Sunday, 03/15. Hah!

It is! The jets scream up and down the Chicago lakefront, in formation, while you watch from a lakefront park (or rooftop deck, like Saturn, above). Blue Angels overhead on a summer day by the lake shore is a sight to behold. Throw in a few friends and a couple brews, and it's the best show in town.

Drew, it sounds like he's screaming, "Be anointed of the Holy Ghost," at the end of the video.

I'm with you, Will, on the "Black IPA" term being more of a marketing thing. As you found with this beer, I'm in favor of the breweries using roasty flavors with other styles because it's delicious beer, rather than a novelty for hopheads.

"Pepper" was the correct answer. He whiffed that softball.

Chicago restaurants, on the whole, are pretty excellent for people with food allergies (myself included). I, too, have a hard time finding restaurants that will take allergies seriously enough in smaller towns (as a comparative generality). I usually just end up ordering a couple beers, being overly polite, and…