It’s not quite that we don’t use those muscles, it’s that they get plenty of workout just from walking around on two legs.

Actual Tigers - Yardwork in November

Howzat?

For me, the only metric that matters is, “will this gym keep me coming back?”

he will handle play-by-play for ESPN Radio during the MLB Divisional Playoffs

Oh, yeah, I don’t think it takes much effort to post DUAN, I just think it takes a lot of effort to maintain a comment section at all, both from the content curation and computer security perspectives. As much as Kinja doesn’t seem curated, the fact that it manages to support anonymous posting/burner accounts without…

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I don’t even think that’s elitist, just wrong. It’s like standing on the corner and yelling, “pork isn’t meat! Meat comes from cows!” Like, uh, you can say whatever you want, I guess, but it’ll just make me think you’re stupid.

Heh, yeah, I read that book when it came out, well before I’d ever heard of Warren. I thought the identification of the problem was good (the normalization of two income households has led to an arms race as all these dual-income households dump all their extra income into largely zero-sum games seeking relative…

Given your experience working in debt restructuring and personal finance, I’m hoping you’d be able to answer a question that’s been on my mind: when people are spending as much as/more than they earn, how much of the spending is on high-volume small-ticket items (eating out, clothes, TV, movies, cell phones) vs…

Hey, our athletes don’t cheat. In fact, they’re playing at a disadvantage: they’re the sickest group of people in the country (at least according to their Therapeutic Use Exemption paperwork). I think a round of soft-focus NBC featurettes on the obstacles they’ve had to overcome in life is in order.

The best thing about college basketball is that no matter what happens, your season is still intact until you lose in March. The downside is that none of these December/January games really matter. Even if Duke suspends Allen for 5 games and they lose to FSU/Louisville, the committee can just discount those losses and…

How long until the league starts investigating this as a salary cap violation?

My local grocery store is closed two days a year: Christmas and Pride. San Francisco is a weird place.

The problem here is that they’re crying poor. Franchise ownership had a choice: stay in a (relatively) big market without a giant government subsidy, or move to a small market with a giant government subsidy. They picked the latter, and now they’re complaining that their market is too small so they can’t spend money…

I wonder how much has to do with the sport coming of age in an era when even casual athletes are expected to load up on pills, shakes, powders, and gels from GNC. And I think a lot of athletes (both casual and serious) recognize that the line between legal and illegal supplements is pretty arbitrary, and probably not…

How common is it for a job to hire for a particular language? I give 100+ coding interviews per year, and start each one with, “use whatever language you’re comfortable with.” My company (in CA) is more interested in how you think about systems and algorithms (and some basic data structures — nothing more exotic than…

This is one of those situations where it’s easy to get caught over-optimizing. If you’re adding $5/week to your kid’s savings, in 21 years, that’s $5475 in contributions. Compound interest in the best savings account you can find beings that to $5605 (this disagrees with my math, but it’s what the article says, so…

It seems odd that the headline takes his story at face value. At first I figured this was one of those zero-tolerance 0.02% BAC type of things where near-beer can put you over the limit. But 0.16% is, like, Edward Fortyhands territory. “Unwittingly” my right eye.