Jon in Pasadena

Between my sense of humor and my experience with shaped charges, I figure I'm in good shape.

The best part is, by the time you read all that they'll nail you for loitering.

His friend told him he wanted to smoke some good ****.

Oh the ream is definitely going to perform this year, no need to worry about that.

Parts of SoCal are also en fuego these days. (I mean property values, not the forests. Well mostly.) Even my little place is now north of $1M, and while it's a solid little house in a great area, it sure ain't no mansion. And I bought before the big housing crash, so it's apparently recovered all the lost value, plus a hefty increase. People are making crazy offers, and a lot of them are all-cash offers from foreign buyers (Chinese & Korean). This must be some kind of record for fastest re-inflation of a bubble?

Exactly. If the players can't hack it in a practice there's no way in hell they'll hack it in a real game. Hence the need to find out now what areas are in most dire need of improvement, so that they can get those corrected. You know, like what practices are for.

Hmm, get all the jitters/drops out of the way now in a preseason practice, or in regular season games.... Decisions, decisions....

Where for the most part "everyone" is a bunch of Facebook "friends" who I've never met and who collectively don't give 2 ***** about me and vice versa. Meanwhile the 2 kids are orphaned in a horrific way for nothing. smh.

Maverick took his final ride on 7/19. Doesn't that make 3?

He must have mixed up his prepositions. In England you're supposed to take the piss out of WASPs. Not take a piss on WASPs.

"Hmmm, I wonder which jack-shack I should patronize. Let me see... ah, this one directly across from my wife's yoga class looks promising..."

We have kombucha from time to time. It's salty as all heck. I find it works better to think of it as a soup rather than as tea. My favorite way to consume kombucha is to pour it over steamed rice (which at that point makes it nearly indistinguishable from chazuke.) PS: It's cheap out here (SoCal)

+1I've been assaulted by wild raccoons in 2 different states. The last one, if Ben Dreith had been there he'd have penalized it for giving me the business!

No. I have only 2 basic rules: No biters/choppers/sawyers/hackers/slicers/dicers or others who make a habit of frolicking with sharp implements. No one named after a death god/goddess (i.e. Kali, Durga, etc.), a natural phenomenon (Sunshine, Rainbow, Stardust), or anything with horns (Fawn, Nyala, Arwa). This chick fails both tests. Pass.

So last weekend we decided to go tent camping. The hottest, driest weekend (104 degrees F when we were leaving Friday pm) in the hottest, driest month, in the hottest, driest year so far, in the middle of a once-a-century drought. Naturally, it rained.

Ohhhhh....so that's what Mr. McGuire was talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsrLHP26zvk I'd aim to send her count negative. Make her forget some she'd already had with those infernal devices.

She couldn't handle me...she's only used to getting 15 O's per week.

SpaceX is very cool. I got a tour of their facility when they were recruiting Software Engineers last year. Their rocket assembly pipeline is just nutso.

Nailed it. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/25/porcelain-dolls-doorsteps-california/13153709/

5/5 But I've been writing pattern recognition programs for 20 years, so that's probably cheating.

The "Not fully sad, but you will be soon" chick -- most definitely.. She got that Penelope Cruz thing goin' on.

At work, a bunch of us were watching the game on a big-screen TV. Someone observed that the ESPN caption box ran out of room to display all the German goals on the Germany side of the box. I suggested they could just list the additional German goals on Brazil's side of the caption box, because Brazil certainly wasn't using it.

Ann Coulter is a chick? For real? I would not have guessed that.

No it snot.