As somebody else recommended, Better World Books will take most things, if there’s a drop box near you.

Agreed. I’ve looked into getting a Tivo, but commercial-free Hulu is $12/mo and gets me everything on NBC, ABC, and Fox without commercials. The CBS and CW apps have ads but they’re not that intrusive and are usually quite a bit shorter than broadcast ad breaks. And they’re free.

Joe Walsh had himself an entire career today. It was kind of amazing, in a horrible, racist kind of way.

I’ve been trying to not to get all hipstery with the “You haven’t really seen an eclipse until you’ve seen the totality,” but this was my first total eclipse and it really is spectacular to see the totality.

Can somebody explain the scoring to me. Isn’t a 6-4 tiebreaker in the third set the end? Why do they play another game?

“Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?”

I’ve owned multiple versions of this game and had never seen the fifth level before today.

Because the purpose is to get a representative sample, and you would miss the increasing number of homes (about 10%) that don’t have cable/sat or the 50% of homes that don’t have DVRs.

Cincinnati chili is fine once you get past the fact that it’s called “chili.” Hand somebody a plate, call it “Greek Spaghetti,” and they’ll usually like it.

Both Battlestar Galactica and Lost had endings that were perfectly fitting to their shows.

We have quite possible the worst type of house for a Roomba (a split level) and we love our Roomba. We use it just like a regular vacuum except we don’t have to actually do the work. We just set it to run when we’re watching television or just hanging out and then move it to a different level when we want to do that…

We have quite possible the worst type of house for a Roomba (a split level) and we love our Roomba. We use it just…

He knocked in a run to take a 1-0 lead, yeah

You really don’t have to have strong Pokemon if you live in a decently populated area. We took down an Articuno today with two kids at Level 25 who weren’t using the best counters. We just waited until we had 16 or so people to do it.

My reading of that announcement is that the bonuses are available until Monday only (Double Stardust, Double XP, etc.) but that the legendaries will stay.

Pokemon Go doesn’t work as intended: People complain. Pokemon Go works precisely as intended; People complain. It’s almost as if people will look for anything to bitch about when it comes to this game.

Agreed. All the talk has been about Chicago, but 99.9%+ of the game’s players were not in Chicago. Our groups came together at a local hotspot and had a good walk together. Some stayed all day, others left to go do other things. It was a good time. I imagine that’s the experience most of the players had.

About 95% of this piece is spot on, but this is just wrong:

Granted, not everyone will be able to capture a Golem—I’ve never even seen one during my many hours of playtime.

This is Highlight Reel #56, from December 2014, which calls it

Before last week’s update, the only monsters you ever saw at Pokémon Go gyms were walls of Blissey punctuated with Snorlaxes, Lapras, Dragonite, and Gyarados.