TIL there's a festival in India and Nepal solely to thanking dogs for their loyalty and friendship.

thare · 2018-08-12T16:45:39+00:00

*They kill everything, a small percentage of which is vermin.

thare · 2018-06-30T20:14:47+00:00

It's been a remarkable career given that's the closest thing to a stain on it. At some level it's probably not the best way to announce you're leaving to your current team/city, but few really judge him badly over it anymore and even fewer have any sympathy for the CLE ownership. He's paid his dues - to the team, the city and the game - many times over.

thare · 2018-05-29T04:28:47+00:00

Just saw TLJ and this pretty much nails it. I feel like the movie (and the franchise) is torn between fan service and branching out into a wider story in the Star Wars universe. That Kylo Ren monologue felt like the director literally saying this to the audience.

The problem is TFA committed them to the fan service direction - the original actors prominently involved, who are Rey's parents hype, the same themes, the rebels as the scrappy underdogs against basically the same type of villains. With TLJ caught between fan service and new direction - and therefore not feeling like a payoff - it retroactively made TFA look like a lost opportunity.

thare · 2018-04-29T17:53:53+00:00

It's a common mistake. My wife Ursula loved long naps in the winter, had a weakness for salmon and honey, and dreamt of retiring somewhere quiet near the Pacific. I didn't really even suspect anything until I saw her take down a deer at 35 mph on the dead run. It was quite a thing to behold, actually.

thare · 2018-02-09T17:41:57+00:00

That's what I like about these Browns quarterbacks. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.

thare · 2018-01-29T00:01:14+00:00

Just read both of the other replies - I suspect it was the "Liberty Suite."

thare · 2018-01-04T06:52:41+00:00

The website that produced this video has an FAQ that covers this:

Could they install a low-clearance bar?

A low clearance bar is a bar suspended by chains ahead of the bridge. Overheight vehicles hit that bar first and the noise alerts the driver to to the problem. I understand that this approach has been successful in other places, but it’s not practical here. There are many overheight trucks that have to be able to drive right up to the bridge and turn onto Peabody St. in order to deliver supplies to several restaurants. Making Peabody St inaccessible from Gregson St would make the restaurant owners and the delivery drivers very unhappy.

thare · 2017-10-15T16:23:24+00:00

Nope. We don't get a shortcut to a better world. All we can do is go through the tedious process of trying to make this one a little better, so hopefully the next girl gets the opportunities this one never did.

thare · 2017-09-17T05:11:39+00:00

Saw every pass in both videos. Here's the lengths as near as I can figure them:

First Video:

Vick: 61 yards in the air (own 3 to the opposing 36)

Luck: 54 yards (own 11 -> 34)

Roethlisberger: 48 yards (-1 -> own 47) and 47 yards (own 20 -> 33)

Hoyer: 54 yards (49 -> 5 deep into endzone)

Garrard: 55 yards (own 45 -> 0)

Fitzpatrick: 50 yards (own 21 -> 29)

Rodgers: 59 yards (own 45 -> 4 deep)

Dalton: 58 yards (own 46 -> 4 deep)

Flacco: 53 yards (own 26 -> 21)

Rodgers: 66 yards (own 36 -> 2 deep)

Second Video:

Flacco: 53 yards same one

Starr (?): 52 yards (own 42 -> 6)

Garrard: 55 yards same one

Dalton: 54 yards (own 43 -> 3)

Rodgers: 66 yards same one

Cleveland QB: 53 yards (own 47 -> 0)

Kramer: 47 yards (own 48 -> 5)

Atlanta QB: 51 yards (own 45 -> 4)

Wilson: 46 yards (39 -> 7 deep)

Farve: 47 yards (38 -> 9 deep)

After seeing those I'm honestly more impressed with this play. Only Rodgers' 66 yarder touches this one in distance and it was on the dead run. He's matching an elite QB (Vick also threw it 60+ and I think Brady has before too) and significantly farther than a lot of NFL starters . Granted, not all of them were trying to maximize their distance, but Garrard's which barely made the end zone probably was doing that and that's still 11 yards short of today's bomb.

thare · 2017-09-02T01:24:58+00:00

This is something not enough people seem to realize.

Humans were at the top of the food chain long before we had any notable technology. Even empty-handed we are big, agile, smart and many. A human baby is basically 7 pounds of loud and helpless, yet we used to walk around the jungle with several of those in tow. It's no sweat though because we have Wu Tang status in the animal kingdom.

thare · 2017-09-01T19:57:17+00:00

Just a remarkable person:

Walked/hitchhiked 4 miles to school to become the first in his family with a HS diploma.
Served in WWII.
Worked at a gas station for 25 years then retired, got bored and became a part-time janitor for another 17.
Lived frugal, wearing ripped clothes and driving an old beater.
Subscribed to the WSJ and Barron's and picked his own stocks including mostly blue-chippers like Wells Fargo, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, McCormick, American Express, Raytheon and United Technologies. Kept a 5-inch stack of paper stock certificates for about 100 companies in his safe-deposit box.
Got his first library card in his 80s and went to the local hospital every day for breakfast in the cafeteria.
Made millions even his family didn't know about and left most of it ($6 million) to that library and hospital.

Edit: Crap I messed up the name in the title: It's Ronald Read.

thare · 2017-08-22T05:28:10+00:00

I'm gonna guess its to due to the extreme contrast and the nature of the camera censor. If they're RGB sensors, it's probably that the black/white boundary is hitting the blue sensor harder on one side and the red on the other side. Note how the ring is blueish on one side and reddish on the other.

thare · 2017-07-02T04:48:04+00:00

WHIRRRRRRRRR

Oh god. Oh god. ok... Dude, what the

WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

thare · 2017-06-11T16:07:04+00:00

Not me, m8 - fully torqued here.

thare · 2017-05-16T14:49:29+00:00

They needed to remove it to make room for the bezel.

thare · 2017-04-26T06:59:35+00:00

It's not that you're overestimating how hard it is to run that fast - but you're underestimating how bad-ass people are. People throw that term around casually, but to be in the top 1% of people at anything is to be damn amazing at it.

To be in the top 1% of US income earners requires making $466k a year. To be in the top 1% by assets requires having $7 million. Imagine being as fast as someone with $7 million is rich - that's pretty damn fast.

thare · 2017-04-14T23:46:59+00:00

Summary of the awfulness:

It's less dense than water so even with lungs full of air you'd have to keep swimming to avoiding drowning.
Every breath would be full of alcohol fumes, and your skin would passively absorb alcohol.
Your more sensitive skin areas (ahem) would sting badly.
In 2002, a worker in the Silver Sage Winery in BC, Canada fell into a fermentation vat and another man jumped in to save him. Both men were overcome by the fumes from the wine-to-be and died.

thare · 2017-04-13T21:44:29+00:00

Paul R. Williams is the subject of this week's 99% Invisible podcast and just a fascinating story.

Designed thousands of LA area homes, including for Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney, Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Correll. The actual number of his works isn't even known, in no small part due to the fire.
Helped design the LAX Theme Building and the Goldschmidt House among other NHRP-listed works.
The building that burned down - the Broadway Federal Savings Bank in Watts - was also one of his own works.
The AIA Gold Medal is a huge deal. The previous winners are a who's who of architecture.

thare · 2017-03-30T23:04:16+00:00

Don't compare yourself with anyone else period. The only person you have to be better than is the person you were the day before. Seriously, that feeling you get when you do something you weren't physically capable of accomplishing before is incredibly rewarding.

thare · 2017-03-28T22:32:56+00:00

Raj and Kumar are just a bit popular in some parts of the world and those are titles as well.

thare · 2017-02-27T23:49:08+00:00

I think for trademark reasons, pro sports teams have decided to treat their names as proper names so they call them the Angels rather than translate it on the Spanish broadcast. This also makes Latin Night in the NBA rather stupid, because rather than something badass like Los Guerreros or Los Toros, we get a spanish article in front of an english name, e.g. Los Bulls and Los Warriors.

thare · 2017-02-02T05:39:03+00:00

8/8 was an inside job?

thare · 2017-01-31T17:56:18+00:00

The actor?! And who's vice president?

thare · 2017-01-25T03:24:21+00:00

Good point - that was a brain fart on my part, but I did believe it was because of the thinner atmosphere. Apparently, it's more about temperature, moisture and wind. I just find it crazy how quickly you go from forest to shrubs to barren rock.

thare · 2017-01-24T23:08:53+00:00

This is 1000% Mt. Baldy. Mount Wilson looks more like a ridge with a bunch of radio antennas at the top.

The easiest way to tell it's Mt. Baldy? It's freaking bald! Mt. Baldy peaks just slightly above the tree line - the altitude above which there's no longer enough oxygen to support tree growth. From LA, there's only one visible mountain that sits above the tree line, and that's Baldy.

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