Well if California is anything like Kansas, they'll spend all winter and spring acting surprised that this could ever have happened and talking about conservation measures until it rains a lot this summer. Then everybody will act like nothing bad ever happened and abandon the conservation measures even in spite of…

I was thinking the same, but that's for a different, smaller asteroid (the one we know of that's most likely to hit the earth.

That's kind of how we have it set up. Enough to pay off our house and any other debt there would still be plus a little extra (or a lot extra in my wife's case since I'm the one with most of the student loan debt). At that point, with no debt, either one of us would be capable of living our current lifestyle on one…

You know what would make this really great? Stick to the beef, add some cinnamon, cumin, and allspice and call it by its rightful name: Goddamn Cincinnati Chili.

Just stuff it inside of a turkey and you've got turpengit.

Honestly, I remember that perfect game so well. I somehow saw the ending of that game at my grandparents' house (notable because they lived in rural South Dakota and only spent the night there maybe a dozen times in my life - it must have been an ESPN look-in) and it came on the same night that the MLBPA set an…

That salt lake story still pisses me off, especially since it's never been changed.

Either that or it ricochets off the wall next to them.

Looks like it goes 10-9 really fast, then 7-6 really fast, then holds on 6 seconds. It's probably okay in aggregate

Turns out they added a rule this year specifically to address my issue.

Not to mention that the umpire should have stayed over the ball to give NW time to substitute. /don't care

Like M27235 said, it's technically correct. But if I wrote a headline like "Deadly Disaster at a Nuclear Facility" and then the article was about a janitor dying at the facility because he fell off a ladder while changing a light bulb, people would be upset.

Is this "Disingenuous Headline Day" at IO9 or what? Yes, technically, this disaster occurred during the nuclear age. But saying so implies that it was a nuclear disaster when it wasn't. It was a rocket failure. There wasn't even nuclear material at the site. By that logic, you could call the Challenger explosion…

I think it depends on where you live, how cold it is, and how well insulated your house is.

Damn you. Beat me to it.

You should read your own links better.

Possibly. At the very least, somebody who hadn't been vaccinated traveled to Syria while carrying the virus asymptomatically and, as you say, the lack of sanitation and general conditions of war allowed it to spread to a population that wasn't receiving vaccinations.

Read the article:

I remember that episode. I think he uses an outside fireplace (or a chimney starter), burns some wood chips and puts a metal bowl filled with ice over the chimney, suspended over something to collect the smoke condensation as it drips off the bottom of the bowl.

Just be careful. My wife and I thought the same things about our jobs (regular pay increases, promotions, etc.) as a city employee and a teacher. Then she lost her teaching job two weeks before we closed. Thankfully she got a new job pretty quick, but it was about 25% less pay. We purposely didn't over-extend…