I’ll be in the second wave trying to hit a 2 hr PR! I did the Dopey this year and now I can run for days at a very tedious pace, but getting faster has been so hard..... I’ll probably end up around 2:30.

I run with that race company frequently and was looking at Zion. I’m doing Yosemite through Vacation Races next month.

Friend of our family (literally the nicest human being on earth and a good Lutheran) lasted exactly 6 months in St. George before making a bee line to Oregon. Everyone in Denver tried to tell him it was a stupid plan to move there. SLC is less wacky now, but St. George and that area is just full of fundamentalist…

Costco was carrying the brownie ones I think? I didn’t see them when I was in there yesterday though...come to think of it....

I’ve helped round up nutria and red eared sliders to help native fauna in Oregon as well, and while I didn’t kill them, I knew what happened to them. It is a grim fact, and I’d never claim to “enjoy” it. At least the nutria were used for dog and cat food.

Coyotes and groundhogs don’t require a tag in rural Wyoming and he’s shooting them on privately owned land with the permission of the land owner. I recognize they are pest species, and we’ve lost cats to coyotes. I still think him saying “I just like to shoot ‘em” makes him an unsavory character. Apparently he does…

I think Evans is the anti-Pratt. He’s really insecure and self-effacing and also comes from a blue collar background and doesn’t come across as the kind of asshole who would let a dog starve on the streets.

But he actively admits he does not ever eat the animals he shoots. Someone in another thread dug up the quote where he says he just likes shooting animals, he won’t clean or eat them. I’m not a hunter, but a lot of my family members are, and I agree if you are hunting for food it is fine as long as you’re not letting…

I kept scrolling to make sure somebody posted this. XKCD is always relevant.

A lot of people use the corn muffin mix to make “bird bread” which is literally parrot food. Corn muffin batter made with an extra egg, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, oats, and if you’re me then you puree some random vegetables and fruits and add those in too. Many people add pellets (which are mostly extruded fruit and…

Costco sells these super-fattening-but-delicious buffalo hot dogs and they’re just the right amount of spice. I love those things. Have you tried the TJs soy chorizo? It’s spicy and vinegary and is REALLY good in mac and cheese.

Did exactly this in 2015 and was very thankful I didn’t try to drive the manual. The traffic patterns will mess you up without having to try to shift left-handed. Stupid traffic circles with stoplights.

• What meal do you make for yourself when everything is going wrong and you need some edible comfort?

Trader Joe’s Joe Joe’s in mocha creme flavor are clearly superior to all other sandwich cookies and I will fight people over this.

“Anyways that’s what i get for trying out OKC” should be the slogan for Match.com. Except they really aren’t any better.

I fly Denver to Orlando for Disney races a lot and I always pick the same Southwest flight (late at night) and go to the same bar and get the same sandwich and the same 2 drinks. It is the BEST to just sit there and eat my sweet potato fries.

Yeah I’m really not looking forward to leaving Denver because cheap Southwest flights are so plentiful from here.

It is very hard to rebel against liberal parents, so you end up finding the one thing they hate and doing it. For me, it was not cleaning my room and slouching. For my sister it was refusing to drive until she was 20.

Esp when they’re the kind of people who actually know something about the topic. Jamie and Adam weren’t NASA scientists, sure, but if anyone knows hoaxes it would be them.

Cracks me up that so many people got mad at Adam when he became more politically active on twitter recently. Like...he lives in San Francisco and extols the virtues of science-based policy...and you thought he would be a climate change denier?