I think they measure straight down from wherever it hits, ignoring trajectory, so if it were allowed to fly to a point at the same relative height as home plate, it would be another 15-20 feet, probably. Or at least another some number of feet...

I am truly impressed by what you’ve managed to accomplish, here. I wish I had clicked on this story this morning instead of waiting until lunch time to read the comment thread.

NOOOO!!!! RUN, CRABBBYYY!!!!! NOOOO!!!!

The surname is Abe. Just to be slightly pedantic.

Yeah, I remember shopping for a head unit to replace the stock Ford single-CD player in my old T-Bird, and was overjoyed to find one that had a USB port and played MP3s off the file system. I was a podcasting fiend, and a 4 GB stick isn’t a whole iPod’s worth, but you can get maybe 30-40 albums on it. I almost spent…

Well, New York is about to pay out $75 million over a summons quota civil rights case, and lawsuit payouts against city police departments are regularly large enough to be a real line item in city budgets, so if body cams did anything to make a dent in that, they would probably pay for themselves.

Real quick, buddy, what else should Rafi have advertised from it?

Do you star your own comments?

When you say that it reads, “as if their exclusion in the senate bill were a departure from the ACA,” that’s you reading extra meaning into what was written. Most people who have been paying attention already knew that undocumented immigrants couldn’t participate in the exchanges, and would probably merge that…

Looks like attendance at the British Grand Prix tops 100,000 easily. Are there really that many family and friends of the racing teams that they would make up anything more than a minuscule percentage of the attendees?

Load him into a cannon and fire him into the sun. Do us all a favor, will you?

(All animals are sentient...)

There’s a case to be made that they handled it wrong. There were three ways it could have played out:

Someone once declared to me that Donald Trump was 10 times as good a president as Barack Obama. So I was thinking, if the star that burns twice as bright burns half as long, that would put Trump at about 9.6 months, so sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving, we should expect him to come tumbling down, right?

Bless your heart...

I really really hope I still care about this bet by the time it’s settled...

Can I just briefly tell mlb to fuck off with annoying advertising on their videos. Ads, fine, we live in 2017, but the instant I tapped the screen to scroll a bit, the ad popped a new tab that asked me if I wanted to “upgrade”. Upgrade what, upgrade my lack of cell phone viruses? For Christ’s sake!

DC metro is like any other. Let people of before you get on. At stops, look around to see who’s acting like they need to get off and make way. See which side the platform’s on and move to the other side. Stuff like that. “We’re all in this together” is a nice motto for the transit rider.

Nerdy folks might like Thinkgeek stuff?

Don’t know if you like Korean food, but K-town is on 32nd between 5th and 6th ave, one block away from the East side of Penn Station. That’s an option...