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A friend gave his groomsmen monogrammed pocket watches. They're pretty sweet and I wear mine any time I'm at a formal event.

Question for you guys using Paranoid Android. I've got a Nexus 4 with the latest 3.1 PA ROM installed (3/2/13 release). Everything seems to have gone smoothly, except I can't for the fucking life of me find the pie control that everyone's raving about. If I swipe up from the bottom of the screen...

Cranks/slicers/crushers are not simply pain submissions and can be a lot more dangerous than commonly understood. A calf slicer can explode your knee, and your radius will break if you gut out a bicep slicer. Think of them like old-fashioned walnut crackers, but with a titanium ball bearing...

After that fight the dude cranking the leg said that he tore an opponent's hamstring with that before. Also, the guy who tapped was grabbing the back of his thigh immediately afterwards. There also might have been a bit of a twisting/sideways kneebar going on.

Don't forget the present value of debt accrued during that time, either. As far as birth control failures, they're higher than you think. However, due to the timing of fertility vs sex the incidence of pregnancy given proper birth control use is somewhat lower than stated...

Aaron Johnson, BJJ training partner of mine, is fighting on the Bellator undercard tonight. Go Tex! http://www.spike.com/shows/bellator-mma/live/ Edit: Booya, 15 second armbar. Dude should have known better than to put Tex on his back. He is a dangerous mofo on the ground.

Dude is nuts, but he's a competent actor and does not take shit scripts. I'll watch this.

I just finished The Foul Mouth and the Fanged Lady. Given that the author is a fellow FoH-er, my expectations going in were... modest. I wasverypleasantly surprised. Neb, your setting is fantastic - fresh but not weird, familiar but not derivative. I really enjoyed the spins you put on...

A little late to the party here, but I just caught up. I'm glad to see the story through to conclusion, but it's pretty clear that the writers were just making shit up as they went along. Uncountable things have seemed important that ended up being dropped in fits of "Hey, look, over there...

I can't believe Kelly Hu is almost 45.

Find where you local latinos and asians shop. My in-laws can fill their car to the roof with produce for like $50.

Are you active? Just guestimating the portion sizes, that doesn't seem like enough calories for someone who exercises regularly, even if you're dieting. That looks like roughly 300 for breakfast and 400 for lunch, and 250 for snacks. Even if you're having 1000 calories for dinner that's still on...

God, this. My in-laws are Chinese and there's always some kind of meat or other sitting out thawing or waiting to be cooked, sometimes hours in advance. They put raw shrimp in the sink to thaw and then wash vegetables in it. Drives my cleanliness OCD off a cliff, but no one ever seems to get...

I have a friend who actually did this. It cost him like $10k for his ~30x50' back yard, but he did the math out and between seed, fertilizer, water, lawnmower gas, etc. it breaks even in 5-7 years (water is crazy expensive where he is). In the mean time it's essentially zero maintenance, looks...

How much total time did that take you? Did you have any remodeling/construction experience beforehand?

What. The. Fuck. Why would you corrupt your bacon like that?

You were doing so well... We all learned something there when you took a break from your poo-flinging ad hominem attacks. Unfortunately, it's pretty clear that you don't actually want to help anyone understand anything. You'd much rather make yourself feel superior by shitting up the thread.

I don't think you understand how debate works. If you make an assertion, you have to back that shit up withsomethingmore than an appeal to authority. Doubly so if that authority is you. "Yous is dubmz! I is doctar!" does not count. You might well be right, but by not bothering to engage the...

Here's a video of a lecture by the "Science Friday Guy". I'm by no means an expert in this field, but as a statistically-minded guy with a pretty good bullshit detector this passes the sniff test. Anecdotally, when I changed my diet a few years ago and moved to "real" foods (stuff that grows on...

Wife used Nuvaring for a while. Worked well, was convenient. As said, you can feel it sometimes but you can also just take it out while you're getting the job done. She liked it because she had fewer side effects (the hormone dose is lower than the pill). The effects aren't totally negligible...

Fructose is evil.

In honor of the greatest improv scene ever:

In more wholesome TLI news, Keenan Cornelius is participating in Copa Podio this weekend. He just tied Leo Nogueira (winner of 2012 Mundial black belt superheavy gold and silver in the absolute by a whisker) 2x2. Very impressive. Legit free stream up here...

Not only that, but it was dug up that Lloyd Irvin himself was tried for a gang rape scenario 20 years ago, but wasn't convicted after claiming he was present and attempting to participate but couldn't get an erection. Wow. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/1/10...rvin-rape-case Remaining...

Yup, you're right. I misread the ebook formatting.

The problem is that Sanderson writes characters very differently than Jordan. I won't say that Jordan's are better per se, but they absolutely fit into his story better. Sanderson's early handling of Mat was just painful, for instance. Sanderson does a perfectly adequate job in Way of Kings...

A lot of this will echo what has already been said. I enjoyed the book. Major kudos to Sanderson for embarking on a task that could have ended poorly. I'm glad there is closure to the series. Some parts were great: That said, some things felt off. I don't blame anyone in particular:

I'm in this camp. The first 3-4 are some of my favorite books of all time, but as Cook "matured" as a writer and got more verbose with his style the series lost its charm to me. It was really a slog for me to finish, and I hate reading books I that I dislike technically just because I want to...

I'm talking about background and education, not profession. Einstein was working as a patent clerk to pay the bills while getting a PhD in physics. This is different from a man who studies old fictional stories telling physicists they're doing their job wrong. With regard to plasma...

This is a phenomenally terrible documentary. I'm not an astrophysicist, though my wife is a nuclear physicist and and I have a close friend who is a radio astronomer and designs telescopes at Cal Tech. The idea that modern astrophysicists have totally neglected basic electrodynamics is patently...

My days of waiting in line at book signings are over. If anyone else is like me and is also willing to wait a bit to have a signed copy, there's a guy selling them onwww.abebooks.comfor $32 plus shipping. I shot him an email and confirmed that he's getting them signed by Sanderson at a local...

Has anyone found a place where you can order a copy signed by Sanderson? I have all the other books signed by Jordan/Sanderson, and while I'm not nearly as attached to them as I was in 1990, I want to have the complete set.

I woke up this morning to a call from American Express about fraudulent credit card transactions. Apparently last night there were a dozen or so charges to my account from "SOE EVENTS - SOE EVENTS" and "STAR WARS - WWW.SWTOR.COM" for amounts like $1.00, $29.99, $39.99, etc. I never subscribed to...

At least anecdotally, Crossfit is notorious for encouraging people to move too fast with too much weight without good form. A bunch of guys I train BJJ with have screwed up their backs and shoulders to varying degrees by doing Crossfit. There's nothing wrong with the theory, but a lot of the...

Well duh. All the people in the survey had at least one kid under 18. That's the hard part of parenting. Ask a guy what he thinks about marathons while he's running one and you'll get a very different answer than two days after he's done. Lots of things we do suck in the short term but are...

Yup. The most you should realistically lose over the long term without going nuts or malnourishing yourself is 1.5-2 lbs per week. That requires a net caloric deficit of 750-1000 per day, which is a lot. Anyone that talks about losing 5-15 lbs in a week is really just dehydrating and/or passing...

Kids are noisy, messy, and frustrating. They require incredible amounts of time, patience, and money. But there is exponentially more love in your life, both given and received. I wouldn't trade a second of it.

This game is excellent.

I've been usingPlex Media Serverrunning on headlessLinux Mintserver that I access usingNX Client for Windows. It is also home toSabnzb,CouchPotato, andSickbeard. I can't say enough good stuff about this setup. It's non-trivial to get running, but it requires almost no maintenance once you're off...

These things are awesome - great for foods that would otherwise be choking hazards. Also worth their weight in gold for their ability to hold ice cubes during teething.