Moiraine

@Comfortably Numb yes. And they trade furs and chickens. Grains too.

They have good sushi too!  And some cool beers

My wife is allergic to corn and soy, so Whole Foods was one of the only places we could get a lot of stuff, especially sauces and canned goods. But around Denver the regular grocery stores have started carrying a lot more stuff we can use. And Sprouts is really good although small selection. Plus Amazon bought Whole Foods and, from people I know who work there, are reducing the quality of the food while keeping similar prices, so we've mostly stopped going to WF now.

I think that is a good point.  I do think that at that level the pads really don't bother any of them anymore (I coach HS ball and you should see some kids the first time they put pads on, it is basically a documentary on stupidity) but I still think you have a good point.

Pads are just a noise that can't be controlled. It's not worth measuring.  The point of the testing is to measure raw ability not account for noise or other variables. It's an excellent baseline. The best really. 

Why don't we make them run up and down the feild, get hit a couple times, and then take the Wondelic?

Would be iffy to compare times wearing old-school pads vs modern ones.

80 is about the point where I start to sweat after a while (depending on humidity), so 78 or so is about my upper limit during the summer. The area where my computer sits tends to be the hottest part of my home, though, so the thermostat might be at more like 74.

Depends on who is paying the bill.

Otherwise, whatever you are comfortable with.

78 Degrees in Summer

72 Degrees in Winter 

Convince me otherwise. 

@RedDenver I can't burp on command very well at all but then again I've never really seen the purpose in trying to burp when I don't need to. There's no problem when it's required though.

Only when drinking beer.

I used to be able to. Like @ZRod said, just swallow air and belch it out.  I think that's a question of ab strength, because I just tried it for the first time in 20 years and I couldn't do it.

I use the worm drive for light items and the snap toggle for heavier things. Hope this helps.

The plastic E-Z anchors are the way to go in sheet rock when you can't hit a stud. They are super easy and I've never had one fail yet.

Yeah, using a screw directly into sheet rock is a very bad idea that will not last.

You guys are scaring me.  I need to remove 2 or 3 trees this fall. Only a couple years ago I had a tree removed, stump ground and 8 others trimmed/pruned and it was like $950 total.

Anybody paying $1200-$2000 per month for lawn and trees is outside their mind unless they have multiple well manicured acres.

@JJ Husker yeah that seems outlandish but the first thought that popped into my head was same as yours that they must have a larger than usual property with a lot of trees or something. I have a 1/2 acre and lawn service is $40/week right now.

Lawn/tree care can be quite lucrative if you find the people willing to pay. good news about our pine tree is it’s in the front yard. I’ve heard backyard trees are where they really get ya because of the challenge of getting and using the equipment back there. 

Haha, great. 2 of the 3 I want to remove are backyard and the other one may be worse because it’s between 2 other trees and between 2 houses. Guess I better start getting quotes now.

well done...

Intermediate algebra, huh? Were you in the same online course as Vernon Adams?

Conga-rats

I have this in Hunter Green. It's quite comfy.

This'll go perfect with my White Claw koozie insulator.

@The Dude your neighbors will be relieved.

The fact that your in the program already means your smart enough to get that degree. Keep your nose in those books a few more days. Your a smart cookie, you'll do well.

What progrum are you in?

*you're x3

Congratulations on all your success. You smell terrific.

I am too, that's why I asked. But I still don't wanna print it. Hmph.

I probably won't get sloshed. I'm doing the traditional eat a bunch of Chinese with your Chinese co-worker and then explain to her what football is pre-game thing.

Oh, is that a tradition?

Now it is.

I'm super excited actually. She has never watched ANY football. I can mold her view of it. E.g. "This is the best football player in history. His name is Tommie Frazier. This guy is Tom Osborne and he is the best coach. He won 25 national championships in a row."

Obligatory.

I have a friend that emailed Amazon about this one time.

Kind of reminds me of Norm's "oh, Google" bit. 

NUance you crack me up!

@NUance obviously just watched the Metal Head episode of Black Mirror.

Ha ha!  I did watch that a while back.  That was dark.  

That's a beautiful shirt.

^^^^They offered a discount, it would have been dumb not to buy it.

As long as there are some "nice guns" coming out of the tank top, you don't actually need any tanks on it.

It is an art...write as much as you can.  I wish I was creative.  

To be honest, I didn't really know what fan fiction was or what your name pertained to so I used the Google machine. It's pretty cool if you're creative like that. I am not creative at all when it comes to writing or songs. And I just learned that mistress Alys is a babe. I'll never picture you any other way again Moiraine. Although for quite awhile I have pictured you as Mila Kunis so not much of a change really.

Well, I'm fine with that. She's pretty hot.

Starts with an sd and ends with a sker

Maybe the mods would allow us to run a contest and toss one person. We could nominate 16 or 32 potentials and then through bracket voting get it down to one poster that actually gets the ban hammer. I like it.

C'mon mods, a little vigilante justice for the board. Sort of an offering of sacrifice to the football gods for relieving us of BP. However ya want to look at it. We want a pound of flesh.

melanoma is one of the scaries.  

I admittedly just found the word "inventory" funny in this context.

My annual derm visit calls it "making a mole map" of my body.  Equally weird to inventory I think.  And snaps to the above - super important.

Ya. Damn men and babies thinking they were the reason boobs exist.

You must have big boobs.

I've never seen a pair of boobs that I didn't like.

Yeah can't watch.

he trained on this mountain for 2 years using ropes to find the ideal path for this....and he made it safely up the mountain in 4 hours...but still  crazy to do that.  

@knapplc @huskered17 @commando

Some people who've studied him based on interviews and what he does for a living think he might be on the autism spectrum which they claim explains why he does/is able to do what he does. Also:

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Neuroscientists recently studied Honnold’s brain. They put him in a large machine and then quickly showed him a series of terrifying and off-putting images — toilets overflowing with faeces, mangled and bloody faces, a climber dangling over the void — the sort of stuff that would send most people shivering, gagging, or both.

 

It didn’t register with Honnold. They hadn’t seen anything like it. His amygdala, the part of the brain that reacts to fear, lay dormant.

 

“Maybe his amygdala is not firing — he’s having no internal reactions to these stimuli,” said neuroscientist Dr. Jane Joseph. “But it could be the case that he has such a well-honed regulatory system that he can say, ‘OK, I’m feeling all this stuff, my amygdala is going off,’ but his frontal cortex is just so powerful that it can calm him down.”

 

Medically, it would seem, Honnold does not experience fear. At least not in the way that you or I would. Or, if he does experience it, he requires a lot more to set it off than anyone this team of neuroscientists at least has ever studied.

 

What Honnold does have in spades, from a neurological perspective, is a tendency to seek out sensations, a drive nearly double that of your average brain based on their study. This pushes him, of course, but it also hints at something darker, something addictive.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/science-shows-alex-honnold-feels-no-fear/news-story/57b006f2ea85b6f913c69e5915e0fbd6

Plz don’t wish away my summer.  

Okay but we're all going to have to hold hands in a big circle and concentrate and a few of us may levitate in the process.

Just need some Pym particles.

Delete this! Delete this! See how it feels.

@Moiraine You can control the posts!  YOU HAVE THE POWER

@JJ Husker  Yes but brute strength is cheating. And good idea, I'll have to use that.

@Redux don't think we have any. He didn't use anything I didn't already have on the floor. The thing is the end I was trying to stop from turning is only maybe 3mm thick (and round - how is this not in out of context topic yet?) so it was super hard to get a handle on.

Use a flat head screwdriver to pry up the edge of the round head to create enough friction to prevent the bolt from turning.

@huKSer tried it - and I have a very thin flathead. I couldn't get anything to fit underneath.

Why do you hate the US Olympic team Moiraine? Pulling for the Brits like that.....

Obviously>

Actually it was a Scott Frost tweet that I noticed. Then I saw that anyone posting #gbr had it. I haven't tweeted in like 5 years.

Talk about a dry spell

I think it depends on the state. I’m in Louisiana and cannot establish a Bovada (or other) account 

Oooh....I guess you did specify "legally". I guess I'm not sure what, if any, is really legal. Technically I think it depends more on what is legal where you are than on what site you use. Technically it was illegal for me to place bets off shore but they don't report to anyone so....

Legally, you go to one of the 4 states that allows sports betting and bet there.   Technically, as of now, there are no legal sites to place wagers.

@man eating mastodon  lmao.

Sure she has it made, but do they feed her a carrot every day?  Nei-ei-ei-eigh!

So mean! Her sister's a lil purtier.

@ZRod I'd eat sushi every day, if I could.

Thank you for proving my point