An overtime loss is still 1 point in the standings.

At that scale, is anyone liquid? Even if you’re Bill Gates, it’s not like you just have $1.6 billion in cash lying around. Best case you might have $1.6 billion in publicly traded securities, but even then, there’s not a great way to make a sale that large without losing a bundle.

Does the “let’s fire our championship-winning coach sot we can win another title” thing ever work? How many teams have won another title after that (without turning over the whole team in the interim)? ’13 Red Sox, ’90s Cowboys, anyone else come to mind? Further back than that you’re looking at the Reggie Jackson A’s…

In my experience, for city riding, the helmet is mostly for looks. I’m not getting much speed on my fenders-and-lights-and-rack-and-panniers bike. I’m pretty unlikely to get in a crash that involves hitting my head. (As opposed to my road bike, where I could really hurt myself if things went bad.)

Yeah, this really is different.

Yeah, the vodka didn’t freeze, it just started leaking into the ice maker, which was cold enough to freeze a water/vodka mixture.

When you’re low on freezer space and you’re trying to chill, say, a bottle of vodka quickly, you can clear out some of the ice in the ice maker and put the bottle in there. And if you forget about it in there, you’ll eventually start spiking your ice cubes unexpectedly.

Ah, crap. Now everyone on the internet knows I’m a dog.

Isn’t the answer just “there’s a giant lull in the sports calendar right now?”

Couldn’t the humans just, like, sit in the cars?

Aww, look at the cute little Canadian government, trying to be incompetent like their big brother to the south. You’re gonna have to do better than that to catch up to us!

I didn’t say you’re more likely to be hacked, I said I’m more likely to be hacked. I assume our risk profiles are different. Maybe you lock down all you devices much more than I do, I don’t have any idea. Personally, I assume that I’ve given some program on my computer too much trust, or maybe there’s a vulnerability…

Cloud service. Choose one that won’t go out of business. (If it’s improbably cheap, it’s going to go out of business.) And my home PC is a hell of a lot more likely to get hacked in a meaningful way than a cloud service where there are professional security people making sure they’ve got shit updated and use the…

You may not be putting your drives through nearly the use the data center drives see, but the data center drives aren’t seeing nearly the abuse your drives see. Your drives will get jostled more, they’ll get dustier, they’ll face a wider range of temperatures, they’ll get power cycled at inopportune times, they’ll…

It seems kind of odd that the article is about full-barrel kegs. At the local BevMo, I see mostly quarter barrels and a few half barrels (at least for the home consumer side of things). Who gets a full barrel for a party at home?

Well, this has been a hell of a week.

Well, yeah, but that’s kind of my point. If a researcher’s goal is to produce an alarming stat about credit card usage, they can manipulate some definitions to prove their point. If their goal is to produce an honest assessment of people having trouble with credit cards, they’d get a different stat. And I suppose it’s…

I wonder if I’m part of the balance carrying or non carrying statistic. Aside from a couple of months where I was optimizing my credit score before applying for a mortgage, I think I’ve had a credit card balance since the first time I bought something on a credit card. I’ve paid the bill in full every month, but since…

How do you like the Dave Ramsey class? I listened to his show for a while, and I agreed with a lot of what he said, but when I checked out his books at the library, there wasn’t much content that wasn’t already covered on the show. Is the class better?

When I was a hotshot teen computer whiz, I used to fake reboots. That’s because I was a goddamn idiot who thought I knew how computers worked. Now I’m a professional engineer and I know enough to know I don’t know how my computer works, so I reboot when asked.