If he's retiring after 45 years, maybe the Padron 45th is the right answer.

I'll take "Thanks for the Mammaries" for $200 please, Alex.

GO ILLINI!!!!! is it too much to hope they at least keep it respectable?

I was interested in finding more information about the delicious La Aroma de Cuba that I smoked yesterday, thinking that I might have read a review or some product information, reblending, or just general background on the marca some time within the last month or so. I tried searching for "La...

Congratulations on your return! I'll guess 101. Thanks for the opportunity and your service!

Thanks for the insight! Yeah, it seems like it'll make a nice, sturdy sort of starter kit. I think the DPG 5'er looks like a good place to start--no dog rockets, some good variety, and a decent range of mild to medium but no full-bodied monsters apt to make a noob puke. I'm going to send...

I've got a cousin deployed over in Afghanistan and I'm planning on sending him one of CI's "Herf 'n Go Combos" (click) to get him started on cigars. He's pretty shy and socially anxious to begin with, and he's doing something associated with radio communications during the overnight shift, so...

You mean without her exoskeleton?

I'd equate it to being about as necessary as starting to watch Seinfeld at the beginning. There's some backstory, character introduction/development, and jokes that will only make sense within the right context, but it's hardly required like it would be for The Wire or The Sopranos or something...

I go down to Marathon periodically, so depending on where the shop turns out to be located, I might be able to stop by if you strike out dealing with them directly. Shoot me a PM if you find out the name of the place but can't get them to help you due to being in Canada or whatever.

Perseids tonight and tomorrow night.

It's obviously not a very practical or prudent thing to do, but (assuming it's true) I have to give the guy a lot of credit for having the balls to cash out and live for himself for a while--consequences be damned.

I can't imagine that it's real, though I guess you never know with Hollywood these days. I just hope they don't make Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing into a movie.

I imagine much of this will be pretty familiar to children of the '80s. Pretty funny. I wish they had somehow included a reference to the fact that so many people seemed to pronounce "Oregon" as if it rhymes with "polygon" but only within the context of this game's name--not anywhere else...

An article on the poll administered to the Manhattan Project scientists before deciding how to proceed with nuclear weapons in WWII. There's a link to take the poll in the article. Monday morning quarterbacking 65 years after the fact.