Yeah, it really ruins my flow, and I’m such a sensitive sort that any break in flow means, “Welp, might as well read one of the 12 tabs I opened for future consumption.”

I do appreciate Lopez-Alt, so maybe I’ll have to try again. It’s really a matter of timing in the end.

My friend is an instructor, and he has some real horror stories. One including a woman shitting on the table or the floor; I can’t remember exactly, but honestly, is one better than the other?

The only faults are the people saying these very good dogs had any faults.

“Yeh, u said it....they PLAY! I WORK..,,ever herd of it, milenial?”

Reminds me of this thing in Philly (and other locations in PA/DEL) called Painting With a Twist, which seems like a fun idea in theory or an interesting date night, but often ends up with a lot of horrible basic-ass bachelorette parties doing paint by numbers and being awful to the instructor/moderator.

I had the same “for some reason.” I’m still reeling at how much preamble there was to him ultimately answering the question.

Re: hard boiled eggs

It’s 4:30, and I’m ending a half day after an overnight trip to cover an event, and my brain has been on cruise control for the past hour, so I enjoyed the journey.

It’s nice to be understood. You get me.

Oh most definitely; just related that I have actually seen people do this and it drives me mad. There’s definitely a rhythm of typing vs deleting that you can tell when it’s happening in the office. Luckily, I can just crank up some Easter European shoegaze music to drown out the sounds.

This is 100% accurate, in that I have stood over the desk of older coworkers who not only delete whole paragraphs, but HIT THE BACKSPACE BUTTON EVERY DAMN TIME until it’s even more torturous than listening to Despacito 100,000 times in a row.

I write for a living, too, but I never use backspace/delete. More often, I simply just highlight and retype the entire word. Because I’m a masochist, you see.

Story and math checks out to me!

He’s shooting 45% from 3 in the G League right now; he’ll probably get a call up sooner than you imagine.

Your self-admittedly limited worldview doesn’t qualify any opinion you may have on the global relevance of this rivalry. 

When you say “biggest rivalry in the NBA, possibly in all of sports,” yeah, you have to qualify that you mean only in the US sports.

You went a long way there, but I appreciate it.

That all said—and though not in Grassley’s (immediate) purview, to my awareness—it’s amazing that Iowa was among the first states to legalize same-sex marriage.

Oh hell yeah. I’ve been in her camp since The Guild