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Also maximize your HSA if you can have one. I do that every year.

Having not read the books, I expect the Starks and Tyrion to come back and haunt the Lannisters. I doubt they'll kill Tyrion off right away - he's one of the biggest draws for the show. I expect he'll escape or be freed by Jamie. It's nice to see Sansa finally understand how that world works...

That looks adorable.

Discussions like that make me feel like a hipster. I was dating people I met online before the internet... well, OK, not *before* the internet, but certainly before it got huge. She ran a WWIVnet node.

Amazon's not exactly evil. Not my favorite company, but certainly not as bad as many others. It probably helps that I know people at several levels within the company. They're certainly better than Walmart or Target overall. I did that for a while. These days I feel like I can afford to buy...

Yes, but you can keep them from figuring out the specific item by buying either with cash or from a place that sells more than one thing. I generally buy off of Amazon for that reason - she knows where I am buying, but not what I am buying.

Construction wise, Simpson Strong-Tie is mostly produced here in the US. That's one reason I specify them. Personally, though, I tend to not be too worried about buying American made goods. Most food I buy is local; most books I buy are US manufactured. Electronics I buy what I need without...

Which is why I'm glad the NBA told him to take a hike after audio of his being offended by his girlfriend's friends of African descent came to light. People shouldn't be offended by people not like them being associated with them. Or by people merely existing.

Perhaps. On the other hand, it sounds like the teacher brought the subject up before, preemptively, and is irked that the kids and/or parents didn't listen. The main complaint is about having to teach the children to not spread gossip, which is a more reasonable thing for a teacher to have...

Absurd. Let kids be kids, including their little puppy loves. Schools have no business controlling that sort of thing until and unless it causes problems in the classroom.

Yeah... I was a tad frustrated. Contractor hadn't followed the plans correctly, but my initial review indicated that the specified item wasn't required - or, really, even a good idea. Add to that the impossibility of installing it correctly (extra shear reinforcing steel over a column with...

I was expecting the offensive champion to become flambé.

Note to other engineers: If a colleague tells you "you specified this, it's not required from what I can see, here is the information backing me up, did I miss something or can I tell the client they don't need to waste money", don't jump down their throat until after you are done listening...

Actually, Oregon has quite a large conservative population. It's really only Portland and Eugene that are Eco-smug-liberal, and neither is "elitist" so much as they are "hippy" or "yuppie". Seattle, on the other hand...

Hmm. The article I'd read (yesterday) didn't state it was treated, but from what I'm seeing elsewhere it apparently is. That's bizarre to me.

It's probably not treated (yet); it's where natural sources are gathered for future distribution. Which makes this even sillier.

That's not true! Cross the Cascades to Eastern WA and it gets quite a bit drier.

Because it's impossible to make them "safe"; the best you can do is mitigate the risk. Even then, all it takes is one person not following the rules. Like a guy in Seattle late last year - if I remember the story correctly, it was his first time out on high steel - and he wasn't tying off his...

No, I'm serious. I'm not going to sink to his level and denigrate him and his in their time of pain. Nor should anyone else, no matter how good the schadenfreude tastes. Not that *I* will miss him one bit, of course.

He was apparently excommunicated (from his own church) last year; his daughter(I think?) Shirley runs the church now. As with the death of any human being - my condolences to the family.