I guess we should count ourselves lucky. He is evil but also incompetent. God help us if he ever gets good at this.

Is that really a thing that happened? Fuck people man.

I just picked up Joe Hill's latest for 2.99. No idea if its any good but he hasn't let me down yet.

Carrie Kelly would have been super awesome. Its Dick Grayson though.

Well, I'm not telling you to shut up, and I'm certainly not blaming you for the asshole in the white house. Obviously we're not going to agree on this. If this is a dealbreaker for you, you're entitled to your opinion. I just hope too many people don't feel the same, because she looks like about the best thing the…

I'm guessing she isn't able to produce anything verifiable, because surely she would have by now. And even if she did, it would never be enough, not unlike Obama's birth certificate. But if someone was going out of their way to live off the grid to escape persecution, maybe they wouldn't leave any records behind. Hey,…

You of all people know racism is a thing right? You think people who could pass for white didn't? You think people who managed to escape from the forced march to their internment camp (er, reservation) didn't? Lots of people in Oklahoma believe themselves to be of Native American descent. Some of them are probably…

Its not a lie. She is from Oklahoma, as am I. Lots of Oklahomans have unverifiable family stories of being of Native American descent, and its not that far fetched. People intermarried, and people who could pass for white did. Saying something that you believe to be true, even if it can't be verified, is not a lie.…

Well, in all seriousness, yeah. It helps to try to buff out any physical damage like scratches, but its entirely possible that EAC can successfully rip disks that aren't actually playable. Your mileage may vary depending on just how bad it is of course.

The "F" in flac stands for "free", so any number of programs can encode/decode flac files. I like mediamonkey for organizing and playing back my music library, and it can also rip cds and convert audio back and forth between supported formats, including flac. For more "serious" cd ripping for archival purposes, exact…

Very much agree on there is no reason to use a lossy compression like mp3 for archiving given that storage is so cheap. But no need to go uncompressed, just use a lossless compression like flac. As a point of reference, my flac version of the new Radiohead record is 305MB. Lossless compression is as good as wav, there…

Goose Island, for real beer. Also, for cheap yellow beer in the summer, your basic Michelob lager is pretty awesome. Just stay away from Light, Ultra, and all that other horseshit.

Guinness is a "dry" stout and actually lower calorie than a budweiser. Whole different animal than these imperial stouts. That said too much of any beer will make you put on weight.

I don't know about that exactly, that record had a level of guitar wankery that was decided not cool in the nineties. But it was GOOD guitar wankery. Reeves Gabrels was the lead guitarist, and also played on most of Bowie's 90s solo stuff. He can play his ass off. Anyway, it was a welcome change from the 80s, and is…

Michael C. Hall is the lead in the Lazarus musical, and also played the main character in Dexter. The Dexter finale was terrible, even by Dexter standards.

If you avoid the imminently skipable Tonight and Never Let Me Down (although even those have their moments) after that its pretty much all good. My favorite from the post-80s era is Outside personally.

Not a bad idea. But then I have to do the whole patience thing.

Yep, sure am. I even make a decent pumpkin ale. Unlike pretty much any commercial brewer I use the current year's fresh local pumpkins, which means mine aren't ready until November or so.

Yup. Pretty much any "insert thing here" beer is still mostly barley malt. That's what makes it beer. Besides simple tradition, the enzymes in malt are needed to convert starchy adjuncts into fermentable sugars. Unlike pumpkin spice latte most pumpkin beer does include pumpkin. But most of the flavor is beer and…

The grisly reaper can stop with the fucking mowing any time now.