I know the Rockies aren’t doing well, but Nolan Arenado is a goddamn sensation and Troy Tulowitski is hitting .394 over the last 5 weeks or so.

It’s also on camera though…so its initial velocity is pretty hard to dispute. The theory I’ve heard is that it would have burned up—similar to re-entry, but on the way up—and what’s left fell down in the desert somewhere.

A note on #1: My girlfriend’s car (2013 Mazda3) was given a salvage title before she bought it from hail damage when we had some nasty thunderstorms in Denver, but that’s obviously completely repairable.

somehow this error made it through months of corporate scrutiny

Metric kerning all the way. Or, to emphasize, the word “optical” isn’t using optical kerning, and that makes me die inside.

His batting average in this series is .090 (1-11) and I can’t for the life of me see why.

Batters can also earn bonus time for hitting particularly long home runs

All good arguments start with “@HVACRepairman.”

I didn’t know until recently that the U.S. (North America in general) was such a tiny factor in the global slave trade in that era. This may sound insensitive, but is that why South Americans tend to be darker-skinned than their Western European ancestors? Lots of mixing with African slaves over the last 400 years?

The base crossover is one of my least favorite cars, because the zany styling just seems ridiculous on a 188-horsepower car. But on the Juke-R, it totally works. Matte black, weird bumps in random places, crazy engine sounds, it just screams “bonkers.”

It’s because you can see the back corners of your car in the mirror, but you can’t see the front corners of the bumper over the hood. Plus the de facto rear-wheel steering is more nimble in tight spaces.

Just addressing the first thing, but I can back into a spot faster than half the people can pull in forward. Being able to pull out forward prevents that first half of pulling out where you’re completely blind and blocking traffic anyway, so it seems like a net gain, plus I used to have battery issues so leaving the…

I have this blender. Buy it. It’s good.

I have this blender. Buy it. It’s good.

FiveThirtyEight disagrees. Their data shows a plateau in the last 50 years or so, in more than one article.

Made you a present.

Yes and no. Speed tape is thicker, I think, but HVAC tape is adhesive aluminum in the same way. But the original form of duct tape was fabric, not metal.

Maybe it’s me, but that looked pretty damn good for sharp cornering at 50mph.

“A bullet” is a very oversimplified way to think about this. A round from an AK-74 has almost three times the kinetic energy of, say, a standard police-issue 9x19mm Parabellum round. To say nothing of the actual shape of the round.