Recent content by oknazevad

Nah, splitting Europe into just east and west is a Cold War relic. Central Europe was a thing long before then, and is a thing again.

In a gif:

That's what he gets for coiling around his arm. Karmic punishment. Over-under, following the existing coil tendency of the cable, people!

Well, that's all they've announced so far. There's likely to be others. But, yeah, I'd say that's a little bit crowded.

The field makes me wonder just how wise it was to schedule this immediately after the EPBF championships. I know the thinking is likely that having this tournament both shortly after and not too far away (sub-2-hour flight) from the previous event is supposed to make it more enticing for players...

Looking at the pdf, the only thing I'd really recommend (and it's really more layout than actual rules) is that all the sections on the individual games be put together. Having the more general sections on fouls, wheelchair use, and regulations (current sections 6–8) should be before all the...

Thanks for pointing that out. The template there that handles automatic conversions was set to round too much for the sizes and tolerances involved. I fixed that.

The model names (and designs) are different depending on the territory. The Palladium/Rhodium/Vanadium/Chromium sets are the ones for the Asian market, while the Platinum/Gold/Silver/Bronze sets are for North America. (Tungsten is common to both.)

Why? To get to the other side, of course.

That was the center fielder's ball. Always default to the outfielder. And call it dammit!

Less, even. Shellac is a fairly stable substance, and any turntable can still play them so long as they have a 78 rpm setting. DVDs, like all optical discs, will suffer from disc rot in which the layers separate if exposed to widely varying temperatures, and all digital formats are only as good...

The maroon is a reddish brown. Which is why a less reddish brown is still pretty acceptable. It always comes down to the basic 8 Crayola colors. And that includes orange. And having those alternate between ends of the spectrum for contrast. The purple 5 is just out of sequence.

It wasn't something from "Pirates of Penzance"?

Eh, they're not that big. Same size as the circled number. You can hardly tell from more than a few inches away.

The use of the plural "hundreds" implies at least 200 years. Better to just say "over a hundred years". Accurate if imprecise, it's not an exaggeration. As for an exact date, I'd love to know that myself, but it's one of those things about the origins of modern pool that was overlooked back in...