So, why do people even try to play on high-population servers? There are so many low to middle pop. servers. Of course, if you were one of the first into what is now a high-pop. server, that sucks. Still, good lesson for everyone else. Try to go to the low-pop. servers. I have been playing since Monday and haven’t…

You’re right, and then again, you are not right. The sports channels make a whole lot more than they are paying the highest grossing sports. The sports channels are cheerfully paying the sports a small portion of what they are making from advertising. So, who’s paying who and why are ESPN and the other sports channels…

Reporters, especially ESPN reporters, lost most of their credibility long ago. Nowadays they are just shills for whatever sport they are covering, because that’s the way their stations, highly paid by those sports, want it.

I do remember the start of Pandaria. I logged in the first day just to see how it was going. The first quest giver has a SEA of brown around him. All you could was the big yellow “?” for the quest. There must have been a gazillion pandas around him. It was impossible to actually click on quest and a gazillion+ pandas…

After the last big strike, it is often said that Cal Ripken and the Streak saved the game, much like Babe Ruth did in his time. There is nothing wrong with baseball, period. People want to see great players, players that enjoy the game AS A GAME (not this “I did my job” thing) and good baseball. All the rest is just…

Robo Strike Calling cannot come soon enough. The success rate of MLB plate umpires runs around 80%. !!!! Only Weather forecasters get paid for worse success. For that matter, if we want to go REALLY CRAZY, see Rule #9 of Ultimate Frisbee: “Self-Officiating: Players are responsible for their own foul and line calls.…

I feel like a near majority of those “nicknames” were made up by the players themselves at the time of being asked what nickname they wanted. A lot of ugly nicknames out there. 

I hate beards. Mostly, because they itch. And mostly because I only ever grew one when I was too lazy to shave. And my daughter always want to tug my mustache. So, those guys with bears are too lazy to shave. (And stay away from my daughter unless you are an All-Star.)

I think it’s just that the author has never actually had sweat appear on his body, much less in his hair. Hence, the conspiracy. Nor has he ever spit on his hands, then wiped them dry to get a better feel, on anything. Keyboards do not need this sort of treatment. That said, I don’t think there is a “wet” guy on the…

Nearly all of the 5 companies I worked for in the last 20 years have “lost” my personal info to a “lost pc in a contractor’s front seat” (or some variation thereof) that I now assume that every hacker in the world has my emails, address, etc. Now passwords are another matter and I completely work to keep them hard to…

You know, this is not a new thing. I got a “most improved” trophy in 1963 (which I kept for many years before I actually won another trophy). Omg, that was a long, long time ago.

I think (read: am guessing) it’s because they know no one looks at the pump screens while filling up. Or if they do, it’s to find the mute button, which is a bit funny that it’s there. I just want to get my gas and go. Why spend money on stuff no one will stop to watch? It’s almost creepy that they put those ads there…

So they are easier to find when they are on the bottom? [Of shallow water, at least. I guess the red color actually fades out from our normal vision under non-artifically lit conditions as the sunlight can’t get to the lower regions. I learned this from an episode of Stargate, of course.)

Japan is weird. Being cute is a big thing there. I am not a big fan of “cute”. 

OpenTable is a mess. According to OpenTable, a restaurant we wanted to go to in Baltimore had all tables full (at the time we wanted) for the next 3 months. We called, got a reservation, and ate a great meal in a nearly empty restaurant. (We told them about the OpenTable weirdness.)

And to reply to my own self, as that is how silly this is, I worked for 4 companies in the last 10 years before retiring and every single one of them has since sent me a “sorry, not sorry letter” telling me how a laptop was stolen out of an HR employee’s car and here’s a lovely 1-year membership in whatever latest…

Pretty much. The only people who DON’T have all my data are the half-asses hackers that haven’t graduated yet from script kiddie programming boot camps.

I live in DC and I have never, ever seen a drive-through long enough to bother traffic, mostly because fast food places with drive-thrus seem to have though of that ahead of time and actually got enough room to do that sort of thing. Maybe land is harder to come by in the Land of the Lakes.

Also, with many of the same options, Community Rec Centers are all over the East Coast and are very reasonably priced. Here’s the price list for one in Virginia. Pretty reasonable. The more visits you pay for up front, the less each visit costs. I was surprised that they have nearly the same equipment that the fitness…

On the East Coast (US) in the Giant grocery stores, we get DogFish Head, of which my favorite is the Palo Santo Marron, a nice brown ale (~12%abv, I think). Side story, they also have a World Wide Stout in their restaurants, which comes in at around 18%-20% abv. I mis-read the menu, and mis-heard the waitress, who I…