Monthly Archives: March 2009

From the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge newlsetter, here is how the executive summary of “Why Sweatshops Flourish”: Everyone agrees it is wrong to buy things made with sweatshop labor. Yet many of us are willing to justify our decision … Continue reading →

Obama is planning to increase foreign aid to Pakistan to somewhere around 1.5 Billion per year. And we are stepping up our demands for them to root out extreme Islam and increase counter-terrorism on the Afghan border. At first glance, … Continue reading →

David Lee Roth soundboard. Fantastic! Google classic, pre-internet Swim practice just got a lot more intense. You’re a bad man, Chris Brown Fmylife Sturgeon faces Then hilarity ensued An honest criminal Getting the best of tech support Seth McFarlane, for … Continue reading →

Did I play this right? Let’s just skip to the key hand. We’re two hours in. I have exactly 2,500 and blinds are at 100-200. I’m on the dealers right. I have been quiet for a long time. Players have … Continue reading →

Here’s one of my favorite weird moments from Futurama. The aliens have announced they are coming to Earth and are going to eat all the humans. We will begin with the firemen, then the math teachers, and so on in … Continue reading →

Ben Stein’s column in The New York Times is a joke. Each one is stupider than the one before it. But in a crowded field of dumbness, this weeks column rises to the top. It is a defense of the … Continue reading →

A sitcom map of the US. See, this is why the internet was created. Porn Sting goes to the dogs. Awesome. My life with cables Misquotations Retro Watchmen Cake of resignation Irony: Police Spray Water Cannons at Protesters. They’re protesting … Continue reading →

I first saw this in a long New York Times magazine piece about Newt Gingrich. Last week a Republican friend of mine (yes, I have a few) asked me about it. This article is well-worth reading in full. Frum is … Continue reading →

Some days it’s hard to tell. I got an email promoting “The Webinar Webinar”. Update: Consarn it, where’s the link? I can’t find it. Anyhow, it was an email promoting a webinar that would tell you how to use a … Continue reading →

I always thought these categories were clear. How many is a couple? Two. How many is a few? Three. Maybe four. A handful is five. Exactly. Several is seven. Maybe six or eight. A bunch is anywhere from 5-15. Usually … Continue reading →

We recently refinanced our mortgage. We changed from a 20-year to a 30-year loan, and reduced the rate by one percent. Along the way we talked to three different mortgage brokers as well as our mortgage holder, Wells Fargo. Wells … Continue reading →

It’s been a dreary weekend. Rainy and wet and raw. Finally the three-year old reached the breaking point. “It is too wet! When I get to heaven, I am going to bite Jesus!“

An honest interview answer God hates figs. Journey’s Separate Ways – shot by shot remake I accept your terms. The skeptics page for The Force Frank Miller does Charlie Brown Neat electric ad Fantastic Nissan ad (with Andy Richter) Widescreen … Continue reading →

My birthday is this weekend. I’ve been blogging all my poker games for one year now. (I started here and here.) After one year, how did I do? $689! Six hundred and eighty nine dollars. I did pretty damn good. … Continue reading →

I spent last weekend in Las Vegas. I played in three poker tournaments. Tourney 1 (Sit and Go, $70 buyin): A Sit and Go tournament is a one-table tournament. There are only ten players. The blinds move up quickly and … Continue reading →

There was a herd of highschool girls on the train into the airport. They were heading to Indiana. “Is Indiana in a different timezone?” “O my god, it’s so weird, like half the state is in one timezone and one … Continue reading →

Some nights nothing you do works out. If you raise with premium cards they fold. If you raise with marginal hands they come over the top. If you call with a low or medium pair, nothing comes on the flop. … Continue reading →

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