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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 10:35 AM) Anyone use a Nest? I have a cheap, $20 programmable Honeywell, but my wife just found that ComEd/Nicor has a $120 rebate if you buy a Nest. New ones are like $250. My wife likes the appeal (i.e. look and fancy functionality). Anyone with reviews? I'm not sure how much cost savings i'll get since we already have the house scheduled to increase/decrease temperature depending on if we're home and if we're asleep. The Nest seems to be a LITTLE more fluid than a strict schedule, but really other than the ability to change the temp on your phone, what's the appeal? Anything else? I have one. You can certainly get the same functionality for cheaper. But it is very easy to program and control, and I bought it right after moving in when we felt like we had a lot of money for upgrades. The app kind of sucks and I have trouble connecting it to wifi sometimes, but the thermostat before was such garbage we could not turn off hte programmable schedule and turn on the air when we were painting. Overall 5/5 usability, 3/5 on its claims of changing temps when away. I have no idea why it doesn't find my wifi.

I have to imagine the world is safer as a whole. There is a very bad, destabilized region, but in the 70s almost all of central and south america was under brutal miltary juntas, khumar rouge was in cambodia, much of asia was dealing with civil wars.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 12:57 AM) I think my major gripe with our election process for president is that there are no qualifications necessary. Is it too much to ask that the candidates have some serious experience in leadership, compromise & getting things done on a big stage? Like him or not, Obama won a popularity contest, not a leadership contest. What, was he a senator for a couple years? Quite the leadership resume! Kind of blows your mind when you actually try to think about his resume. Hillary, seriously? First lady definitely puts her close to daily presidenting, but was she at the big table for decisions? Few years as a senator? Maybe one of the worst SoS in recent history? Cmon! McCain, Kerry- Oooooo senators. What have you lead that was great? While Gbush is a whole separate animal...I will give him credit for being a governor. Maybe you should have to be a successful governor to throw your hat in the ring. I get that senators know how Congress works first hand but ultimately they are just 1 vote out of 100. A governor's job is to get things done period, across party lines. I'll stop rambling now. Thanks PFTcommentor.

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are literally the same person policy-wise.

Yeah Boiler Room is just good patio serving pizza in an underserved pizza location.

High OBP CFer that suddenly had 15 HR power in the leadoff spot (surpassing our 4 and 5 hitters? Trade him.

Gibson wasn't really "core" until 2011.

I could see bucks winning 50

Yeah what did we ever get from Garcia and Contreras?

It's funny. When Maddon played KB and Schwarber in the outfield I was like how the hell can they get away from that unscathed? If sox did that there'd be outfield bloopers galore. But baseball always evens out in long run.

Is Wright still a power hitter?

Let's keep arguing against this unsourced fake quote!

yeah, whatever, I know cemitas puebla is the cool answer but xoco's was better the time I had it. Have not been to the fulton market cemitas puebla, I refuse to entertain when logan square/HP restaurants go to west loop. They stole Urban Belly and Wasabi's one did not look better.

Eh, can't help it. In preseason the offense looks not very good (i.e. not built for being a heavy 3pt team since we...don't have 3 pt shooters) on offense, and really bad on defense.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 12:51 PM) I disagree with this proposed trade but do believe the Sox and Cubs could be good trading partners, but no way involving untouchable names like Sale. Abreu, Rizzo, or Bryant (probably add Rodon and Fulmer to that list as well). Aside from a crosstown trade discussion, though, I think the Cubs have a short list of players on this playoff roster that should be on the trading block from now until the next trade deadline. From what I have seen in this postseason, that list would include: -Castro (highest value in some time) -Schwarber (destined to be a DH and this postseason makes him look as valuable as possible) -Soler (just tantalizing enough to get someone to give you their own young question mark for him) -Arrieta (I doubt they trade him, but he screams 2003 Esteban Loaiza to me) -Javier Baez (see comment on Soler, but to a lesser extent) -Jon Lester (Really does not impress me going back to his days in Boston, too. I'd see if someone with $$ that misses out on the top FA pitchers this offseason is willing to trade for him, returning to the Cubs some package of lower level talent maybe including an arm or two) I know not all of these guys will even be discussed as a trade option, let alone traded, but I would bet 2 or more of them are dealt sometime between the end of the World Series and the 2016 trade deadline. I think the only reason for "why not sign david price" is how many cub fans are still excited about Lester? David Price was more risky than that imo.

Man this thread is petty.

the first movies had a lot of silly dialogue but charismatic actors to pull it off. The 1,2,3 movies brought on awful child actors to spew out worse silly dialogue. It also looked some how worse in special effects than the first, as it hit some sort of uncanny valley where he was so impressed by what computers could do he made something look completely fake. They were the worst movies I've ever seen. You basically only watched to see the plot points you expected from the later movies, and they hit and were completely unsatisfying.

Well, it sucks. But it's not an out for the year injury. That puts him back by Christmas. Need to grind out the next two months.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 03:29 PM) Magic's career was anchored by the NBA's all time leading scorer, plus another Hall of Famer in Worthy. LeBron did have the four years in Miami with Bosh and Wade, but still managed to make finals with teams that literally had no one of historical note. Magic didn't win a title without those guys. He did get to the finals once without Kareem, but still had a prime Worthy. Right. Last year was amazing. When he had shooters he would draw attention and get them open looks, when he lost literally everyone he singlehandedly dictated the pace to slow down and iso the Warriors to death, and it nearly worked. He acted as a free safety on defense and allowed his teammates to play risky, in your face D and he would clean up. I hate that he's so good but he's soooooooooo g-d good.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 02:54 PM) Yeah, Jordan and Lebron don't make anyone else better. His statement is that he makes his teammates better, better than those 3. Lebron had much worse talent around him than Magic ever did though, so I'm not sure I agree.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 03:07 PM) Wow, there are some super defensive responses here to Jenks. I'm kind of with him. I was born in 1983 and saw the movies when I was around 13ish. They're good. I enjoyed them. But I've seen them maybe twice each, and that's enough. I'm not trying to criticize at all, but I have also wondered why the extreme fandom that has followed that franchise for so long has been so huge. Again, not criticizing at all, I am/have been) obsessed with stuff like that before. It's just amazing to me how it's lasted so long for some people. It's like Game of Thrones or Marvel on super steroids. I do get it for people around when they first came out, but anyone my age or younger does surprise me too. Yeah, I don't know. I think being super into star wars has been such a pop culture thing itself (kevin smith films, etc), and it being such an american experience movie that people bring it up a lot, talk about references to it. But yeah, not sure anyone could explain why this is the movie that can cause such devotion 40-50 years later.

Surprised Bryant stays 3rd

Re: age, one thing is that kids can watch those movies. They aren't particularly violent and obviously very little language. So it's one of those movies you can watch when you are young and feel like its an adult movie. 2) The whole mid-late 90s re-release in theaters. Lots of parents took their kids to those. Unfortunately it had all of those stupid extra scenes. It's just hard not to have seen starwars as it has basically had a theatrical release in every decade at this point.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 11:44 AM) Quality of the bullpen is fully controlled in this stat. It's about what each manager did with his options - whether he had his best guys pitching in the most important situations. Aside from a few undeniable head-scratchers, I think bullpen usage is one of the areas Robin has definitely improved. That includes the atrocious 2014 pen, which I think he handled with about as much grace as he could have. I agree. Honestly in game I don't really think Robin is bad (aside from challenges). But the baseball IQ his team shows is really bothersome to me. I think part of this may be the skills our organizatio is departing in the minors, but the inability to steal with fast players, run players down, not have your 1b constantly risking outs for great plays, etc etc. It just wears you down. They just come across as so stupid.

Probably worth checking out Reno in Logan Square. It is not my favorite, but they are consistently crowded and worked a breakfast menu out of it by doing brick oven bagels.