I’ve heard a number of people comment that a major weakness in the US soccer system is the role NCAA soccer plays in the lives of 16-22 year old prospects. I don’t know enough about soccer development, but I’m curious how much truth there is to it. It seems plausible that (a) players in the NCAA system play less/have…

I joke that I was a math major in college because I’m slow with numbers, and majoring in math meant never having to use any numbers bigger than 2.

5 restaurant meals in September:

Any tips on how I can round up my spare change to invest in lottery tickets?

Any tips on how to load dishes that seem to collect water no matter what direction you load them in? My biggest source of water collection these days is the upside-down rims of my kid’s “take ’n’ toss” plastic cups. Each rim holds about a teaspoon and a half of water, put 5 or 6 of those in the dishwasher and nothing…

I think there’s a mistake in your math. Say there are 1 million drinks, 1 in 10,000 is poisoned (100 out of 1 million), and false positives and negatives both happen with 1% frequency. Then 99 of the 100 poisoned drinks would test positive, as well as 9,999 of the 999,900 non-poisoned drinks. So the ratio of true…

I work for a company that makes a popular (and complicated) app. Since the first developer preview was available, we’ve been rushing to make sure our app is compatible with iOS 11. Every time Apple issues a point release, some API somewhere changes slightly, and, as often as not, a new bug gets introduced into our…

• What was your very first cookbook? “A man, a can, a plan.” TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE gave that to me and my roommates when we got our first apartment.

I mostly overlap with what’s already been said here, but I’ve gotta shout out Fuchsia Dunlop here. Hands-down the best way to learn to cook Sichuan food if you don’t speak Chinese. (And maybe even if you do.)

Yup, that’s the only possible explanation for $uch a $hady $corecard.

I don’t think it’s honor system based, I think it’s basically like a modern hotel minibar — you use an app to unlock it, sensors detect whatever you take out, and the app charges you.

Losing the Laney College Flea Market will be a major blow to everyone who wants a convenient one-stop-shopping experience for stolen goods. Whether you want a half-price bike with its brake cables sliced in half or sports equipment clearly marked “Property of [Local High School],” Laney College Flea has what you’re…

“We’ll give you this service for free! But if you ever want to do anything a functioning adult does ever again, we’ll charge you $10 to undo it.”

It took him a good 10 or 15 seconds to solve it. Once he solved it, it took him under 5 seconds to unscramble it.

Because 90+% of the time when you do that you don’t get pregnant.

Well, yeah. Most sports can’t serve as a full-time job for many people. The few that do tend to take up most of our mindshare, but there are lots of sports where if you’re not one of the top 10 individual competitors in the world, you’re lucky if your earnings cover travel and equipment. The typical H2K member is…

Ten years? Hard to say. Three years? 427. He’d have 427 more hits if he spent the first three years of his career facing subpar pitching.

> people judge you by your clothes, your house and the car you drive

Yup, I remember that, though I feel like that’s more akin to an intentional holding situation where the players on the field intentionally commit an infraction to gain an advantage (e.g. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap2000000135600/Ravens-play-it-smart). I was pretty pissed at what Suarez did, but at…

My #1 rule: check in with yourself once in a while and make sure you’re having fun.