One of my favorite stories is the time I was stopped at a red light (on my bike) when an asshole flies past me on his bike, cursing at me, only to slam into the side of a bus in the middle of the intersection.

This is something you learn when you are 8 years old when playing hockey. Exit the zone before going to the bench. Yes, it is a stupid rule that doesn’t affect the game play. It is the same as turning toward second base after you cross first base playing baseball. In youth hockey, before the 2nd period starts, one of…

When I was a kid I would beg my dad to take me on his annual fishing trip. When he finally gave in we drove up 395 along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range past volcano craters, massive signs advertising beef jerky, small dirt roads that lead up to what looked like enchanted canyons, an Ancient Bristlecone…

I knew someone was gonna get mad about that 

I’ve really enjoyed this series, and hope you continue. Thank you!

White shirts, white hair, white fan, race attack.

Ban college athletics.

Ex Band Geek here. I ask you, Mark. Next time you’re in a room with even 5 other people. Ask them all to count to 10 in their head and then clap once they get to “10". I would bet you $100 you get a cascade of people clapping at different times.

The title of the article contains major error: DOF is a measure of how much of “field” is in focus - the app in question cannot add any depth, but selctively remove some.

After his first touch, yeah, but you can tell by the way he moves towards goal before going back for the ball that he was expecting that first touch to put the ball in front of him for a shot.  The backheel was a quick reaction to almost misplaying the first touch.  

Is it stealing if you leave it out in the open for everyone to see?

No, I really hate their fans. 

It doesn’t get much better than Belle and Sebastian, but occasionally, it does...

I say this in a way that is divorced from Aziz or the woman victimized:

Came down here to comment about just how badly I miss “Breaking Madden”

Thanks for bringing that up! Actually, because we have depleted the land’s natural water tables, and because climate change-induced drought has kicked our butt so hard, and because historically the delta is a *wetland*, the land has subsided over the past hundred years of farm use to the point where we need levees to…

Why do you hate our troupes?

He was definitely more fun, and enigmatic, than say Mary Barra.