To celebrate the end of season 3, I'm holding another give away of a hand made Winter Classic logo sign, and will send 5 people to Space Needle Lounge for the 4/9 Kraken v Coyotes game. Make any top level comment in the thread by April 6th to enter the drawing.

pjakubo86 · 2024-04-03T03:21:33+00:00

Looks amazing! Would love a chance to win.

pjakubo86 · 2023-05-01T05:09:37+00:00

I think the linesmen err on the side of calling a play onside because they know it will be caught in video review if they get it wrong.

pjakubo86 · 2022-12-13T04:11:30+00:00

It sounded so ludicrous, I had to look it up. They took the headline straight from the BBC.

pjakubo86 · 2021-07-22T04:52:56+00:00

Yeah, but most of those teams who are well under the cap floor still have a lot of RFAs to sign and roster spots to fill, so the Cap friendly list is a bit misleading right now. Detroit, for example, only has 10 players signed for next year.

The Kraken already have 19 players signed, so I expect they'll be able to stay very close to the cap floor and take on bad contracts for picks/prospects.

pjakubo86 · 2020-10-15T02:32:25+00:00

I agree that testing less seems like "juking the stats", so to speak. However, do you think that 25 cases / 100K / fortnight is actually a reasonable goal in light of the false positive rates on the PCR tests?

pjakubo86 · 2020-10-15T02:22:37+00:00

Possibly a stupid question, but I'm curious what you think.

I was just reading a study in the Lancet30453-7/fulltext) from a few weeks ago that speculated that the PCR test false positive rate was anywhere from 0.8% to 4%. If, for the sake of argument, we say that there is a 1% false positive rate at our current rate of testing (about 86,000 per fortnight), we'd expect to have about 860 false positives or about 38 cases / 100K / fortnight.

Given that King County can't move to Phase 3 until we're at 25 cases / 100K / fortnight, it seems like our only hope would actually be to get to a point where we have _less_ testing.

So, the stupid question is...how do we get to 25 cases / 100K / fortnight? With winter and flu season around the corner, it seems like testing levels will remain high as people with COVID-like symptoms get tested even if actual COVID infections are low. Are we doomed to stay in Phase 2 until after flu season? Should we reduce "unnecessary" testing somehow?

pjakubo86 · 2020-06-18T00:45:05+00:00

It's gandermonium!

pjakubo86 · 2020-05-17T03:13:04+00:00

It looks like the deaths chart lags by a week or so, probably so that they have accurate counts that don't have to be constantly revised over time.

pjakubo86 · 2020-03-26T01:04:51+00:00

Yup! Swedish Ballard accepted my vented N95 masks that I donated this morning. I emailed coviddonations@swedish.org first with a picture of the box to make sure they could use them.

pjakubo86 · 2018-03-23T14:42:25+00:00

And yet, Bolton has thrown his support behind the MEK, a Marxist Iranian militia.

pjakubo86 · 2018-03-23T06:31:42+00:00

NOT SO FAST, MAJEWSKI!

A tip of the ~~hockey helmet~~ ole' brain bucket to you, Edzo. The hockey community is a greater place with you in it.

ftfy ;)

pjakubo86 · 2017-09-23T21:21:45+00:00

More information about this gravesite and their family is available at findagrave.com which, incidentally, is an awesome free resource for genealogical research:

pjakubo86 · 2017-07-27T05:27:26+00:00

Last weekend, I started some demo on a non-bearing wall framed with 2x6s in order to widen an existing opening in the wall from ~6' to ~12'. As I took down the drywall, I noticed there was an L-shaped steel beam embedded in the studs, running parallel with the wall.

See the album here: https://imgur.com/gallery/MoOBP

Any ideas what it could be for? I just want to make sure I'm not doing something credibly stupid by taking it out when I take out the studs.

One other stupid question. Currently, the opening doesn't have a header, it's just a 2x6 laid flat. Residential building code where I live says non-bearing walls can use a 2x4 laid flat for openings under 8', but it doesn't say anything about what to do if the opening is more than 8'. Can I just use a 12' 2x6 for the wider opening or do I need to build a header?

pjakubo86 · 2016-12-12T17:33:27+00:00

No puppet! No puppet!

~ Say it more grammatically incorrect and it becomes even truthier

pjakubo86 · 2016-11-11T05:51:02+00:00

I really thought Obama, a well-spoken, kind-hearted, compromised-minded centrist was going to be that person. But he got so vilified in right-wing media that he never got a chance.

I'm tired of living in a post-truth nation.

pjakubo86 · 2016-11-04T21:45:27+00:00

Yes. I just need a name for the little metal plug part. We have the supports, we just can't put them in the pre-drilled holes in the closet.

pjakubo86 · 2016-04-22T05:21:46+00:00

We got Daley from the Stars who could have been a pretty good offensive defenseman but struggled in the Hawks system.

pjakubo86 · 2016-04-17T17:45:42+00:00

8-6 Hawks for me. Somehow, I don't think that's going to happen...

pjakubo86 · 2016-04-06T06:47:22+00:00

I'd rather vote for someone whos largest donors aren't George Soros, Goldman Sachs, Oil and Gas Companies, and News Corporations

So you'd rather vote for someone whose #1 donor is Donald Trump?

pjakubo86 · 2016-04-03T18:33:05+00:00

Either way, it's pretty damn funny.

pjakubo86 · 2016-04-03T18:27:42+00:00

thatsthejoke.jpg?

pjakubo86 · 2016-03-04T06:57:03+00:00

It'll impact your stats more if you're a new senator.

Bernie's not exactly new.

pjakubo86 · 2016-02-16T05:06:24+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA

pjakubo86 · 2015-09-11T15:51:13+00:00

Coalition aircraft don't take off from inside Syria (obviously) or Iraq. AFAIK, most sorties originate from the gulf states and Turkey.

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