15 minutes? oof. In St. Louis where all the chains are less than 5 years old the line can wrap around the building and you’re through it in less than 5 minutes. There’s a small army of competent workers doing a job amazingly well. Sometimes you’re in a hurry and they meet the need.

As a software engineer at the moment no. If a car maker can’t make an infotainment system that won’t crash no way would I trust them to drive my car for me. All the big auto makers would be wise to purchase self driving systems from companies that know what they are doing rather than create something in house.

Glad to see these pilots just got a slap on the wrist. Was it childish? Yeah.  Waste of tax payer funds? Yeah. But we spent a decent chunk of change training them to fly and to toss it for a sky penis seems wasteful. 

So does Union Pacific keep these guys “online” for lack of a better term because it’s good PR / living history? I was wondering if maybe they’re paid by the government to keep a 100% steam engine available in case of EMP attack etc. Sure it’s far fetched and just a few trains plus how fast could you deploy the train…

It’s an interesting map. I’ve not yet found a great defensive strategy for the first two points but trying to push that cart into the castle is extremely difficult in less organized quick play.

My wife works in a cafeteria in a suburban school so I have an insiders look at this issue.

Same sort of thing happened in my neighborhood. Turned out it was shorted out exterior light. People complained to the FCC and someone came and diagnosed it in a few weeks.

Why the harsh on bread slicing bagels?  When my kids were younger and were out at a Panera (st louis bread co locally) we’d get a plain bagel bread sliced with cream cheese for each kid. Their meager teeth and hand eye coordination couldn’t handle biting into a whole bagel. I didn’t even know that was a St. Louis…

Said pizza isn’t greasy per se. In addition the cheese isn’t gooey like hot mozzarella. As a native of St. Louis the pizza isn’t great, and I rarely get it, maybe gets 10% market share (maybe), but for some weird ass reason every now and then you want one. *shrug* I don’t know. We’re a weird ass city, with horrible…

Pork steaks are the true silent hero of St. Louis cuisine.

Disney World is the only place I’ve been to where I walk away penniless and am completely happy. IMO the key is to separate your money from the trip. No one plans to go to DW on a moments notice, it’s a once or twice in a lifetime affair so you plan it, and pay for it, months in advance. Throw in a meal plan, which is…

I drink my body weight in Mtn Dew every year and if Pepsi goes live with this I’ll will boycott the company forever. I’ve never boycotted anything but damn this goes beyond the pale, I’ll make an exception.

I know right?  I’m going make the following prediction:  Injury in the 2nd round of the playoffs will kill their cup chances.

Here’s my $.02. I and my family took the Amtrak just last week from St. Louis - Chicago and back. It was a 4 day trip to see all the museums in Chicago. The Science and Industry museum was amazing.

I’m late to the conversation but will still add my $.02. You know why you walk somewhere and see a sign that says don’t do this and you think to yourself who in their right mind would do such a thing? Well here you go. Rulebooks are huge and expansive to handle these weird and one off issues. Esports is in its…

I’m one of the few people that had a horrible maintenance experience with a Corolla. Bought my used 2000 Corolla in 2002 with 18k miles. I sold it with 110k highway miles. In that time the check engine was on 30% of the time. The car would eat mass air flow sensors, brake pads, tires, window controls just to name a…

It probably wouldn’t help them out in the long run. Because now that you know you’re predisposed to those issues you’ll get routine checks for those cancers. Those checks cost money that the insurance will have to pay out. In all likelihood you’ll switch jobs and insurance plans before any cancer would show up and…

Usually we just power through the flu but one of the kids had a cough that wouldn’t go away for 3 weeks. Figured it might have been pneumonia. Tamiflu was an option on the second kid as we caught it early with her. Last year during flu season we learned that it cost $230 a prescription so we passed on Tamiflu this…

$2,000 deductible. Damn I wish I was that lucky. Under my plan the individual deductible is $5,000 and the family is $10,000. That was a real shock when the bill for the flu tests for my kids came in at $283 a piece. Insurance negotiated that down from $318 so that $35 in savings was really worth the monthly premiums.

It’s really easy to end up in East St. Louis when travelling around the downtown St. Louis area. There are a few highways on the West side where if you miss the last exit (which is a 1/2 mile before the river) you’re going over to Illinois. You’re first instinct is to take the first exit in Illinois and make a U-turn…