Russia, specifically.

In the same drawer as the place mats and kitchen towels. Hang the bibs in an easy-to-reach-for-a-toddler location? Are you crazy?

My PS3 background is Vanille, has been since it was unlocked. I’ve been happily dealing with it.

Worse than setting the clocks on network gear installed inside a building?

Reminds me of a “dating a cop” story I witnessed. The cop stopped off at their SO’s family (invited, of course) around breakfast time on a Sunday. They walk in the door and smelled breakfast cooking. “Is that bacon I smell?” “I don’t know, did you remember to take a shower this morning?” “Yeah, I walked into that one.”

Better this happened at O’Hare and not at Midway.

How much are you willing to let your property taxes get increased to support this? No snark, I’m genuinely curious.

Normally I’d comment about the cost of money being low enough that a 72mo loan makes good financial sense in the proper cases. But when they said they’re still going to be underwater five years in? This is not a proper case.

GPs and shrinks generally don’t get paid well, relatively. They do get paid well, compared to the average salary, but not against their peers. And like all other MDs they have their student loans. I’ve been told the loan payments sit up there with monthly mortgage payments (a few GPs in my social circle). Specialists,…

You’re confusing the force out rule for the illegal touching penalty in the NFL. What you described is illegal touching, the force out rule (which has been gone since 2008) is the rule that permitted officials to rule an out of bounds catch as inbounds, if the absence of the defender would have resulted in an inbounds…

I’ve seen a thing or two as well. System architects who came in with their titles, expecting system engineers and analysts to bow before their egos, only to have said architects completely gut working workflows and systems for something that they felt were “better”. The best environments were the ones that brought the…

“No need for medical coders. the procedures are in English, or your language of choice”

For all the crap I accuse other writers at Deadspin of living off of, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out the great work done by other writers. I’ve found that the long form here is great-to-outstanding, and your work here is another example of outstanding long form.

Do the kids still say “for the lulz” these days?

Football reduces the average lifespan? Quite the opposite:

One China. One Taiwan. Hopefully in my lifetime we’ll also have one Hong Kong, one Macau, and one Tibet. If that pisses off Beijing, boo. Fucking. Hoo.

Once upon a time I worked for an Audi shop. There was a customer who drove an S6 Avant (a wagon with a big engine and tight suspension). They didn’t drive the car much, and when they did they said they heard rattles. The tech working on the car checked all the usual places that rattles could come from but didn’t find…

You’re welcome. I figured if people are going to get their noses out of joint because a daytime television talk show host sat next to a former President, I’d dig up something from when the “offending” party was actually relevant. Though to be honest, Carville did continue his political career after President Obama’s…

I believe the original X-Com game had a mechanic where swapping a magazine meant you lost whatever bullets were in the removed magazine. Taught you to keep an eye on your ammo counts.

If Ellen sitting next to President Bush for a football game is going to get people on the left in an uproar, we probably shouldn’t tell them who James Carville is married to. That might cause aneurysms.