I’m with you except for the library part. You can waltz right into the science building and check out the cool enigma machine on display there, but the library is locked down for some reason.

I think the wearing of the ball is less “tradition” and more something that’s incorporated into tactics. I’m struggling to come up with an analogy in a major American sport, the closest thing may be something like the way NASCAR teams manage their tires.

I just figured this was one of those “things cost more when you have no money” things.

Growing up, my parents and I always talked about money concepts, but were vague about specific numbers. After college, I was running my own small business, and my mom was worried about my health insurance, so I went out and bought health insurance to make her happy (this was pre-Obamacare, so insurance on the…

I think it depends a bit on the situation. When I was in my 20's, my brother was in a situation where he couldn’t leave his job for a better-paying one without making a lump-sum payment to his old employer, who had paid for his grad school. Basically, if he could come up with $10k, he could raise his monthly take-home…

I’m not going to take my kid to the corner bistro any time soon, but the neighborhood place where 90% of the art on the walls is drawn in crayon or marker? That place would go out of business if everyone with kids just stayed home.

Looking at the expansion draft, it seemed like a potential (but weird) playoff team at the time. In essence, they got to pick a second-line forward or a second-pair defenseman from every other roster. You’d expect a team full of above-average players to play above the league average, and most NHL teams make the…

Isn’t this... strictly more difficult than making pancakes the regular way? I guess this could make sense if the only cooking implement you have is an instant pot, but making batter, greasing up a pan, and cleaning up is already 98% of the work involved in making pancakes. At that point, sure, you *could* make…

The limit is $15k now.

Yeah, that makes sense. We’re both steeped in professional cultures where sharing passwords just isn’t done, so that doesn’t really work for us.

The mechanical parts of dealing with money stress out my wife. Like, we’re totally in sync with the actual meaningful decisions — deciding how much to spend vs how much to save, what big-ticket purchases we should make, where we should trim our budget and where we can have small splurges, how to handle salary…

What the hell? You think it’s ok for people to just go around touching other people? At work? Just thinking about this fills me with rage.

Goddamnit I’ve watched every miserable episode of modern family and big bang theory since they started. As long as I keep it up, I’ll never need to come across a rerun and say, “I wonder if I’ve seen this one...”

It seems pretty clear to any reasonable observer that Kap is getting blackballed from the league, but it’s not hard to see the argument the NFL is going to use here. Kap is 31. Manziel is 25. And “I used to be a coke head, but now I’m clean, and 100% focused on football” is a plausible explanation for why a person…

If you can’t see more than 20 feet in front of you (including the neighboring lanes), it’s reckless to drive 40 mph.

I think the problem with putting it in terms of “They would just rather spend the money on something rather than save it” is that most people don’t think of their major spending decisions as spending decisions at all. For most people, it’s not Starbucks or eating out that’s busting their budget, it’s that they’re…

This is interesting, thanks for all the details!

Yeah, but we got bored of it. The standard now is, “you can dope, or you can be an asshole, but not both.”

Dog bites man.

Replay is good.