Monthly Archives: November 2009

Wow. It’s not even December, and we just got our first one. Hey, Curtis family, you’re making all of look bad!

Billy Madison lives on (go to page 2) Statutary rape You can’t afford to be skinny… ah, it was a different time. Selection bias: Why your friends have more friends than you 35 Interesting Science Fair Experiments 101 best music … Continue reading →

Thanks to a nut flush and trips and not playing many hands, at one hour in I have 7,000 in chips (avg is 5000). We’re at 100-200. With two raisers to 600 in front of me, I have a pair … Continue reading →

This guy says it well: The game was really lost in the third quarter. It is not hard to fathom that the defense would wear down in the final quarter, but when it happened, the Patriots should have had a … Continue reading →

I try to follow the healthcare stuff. I read a lot. My father is an expert, my wife knows a fair amount, I’m good at economics. And yet it’s nearly impossible to understand it. There are too many threads. It’s … Continue reading →

This guy sums up my feelings on the matter, probably better than my own rant. Every time I start to waver on my support for the death penalty — as I did in the wake of another New Yorker piece, … Continue reading →

I was listening to The Rolling Stones “Can’t You Hear me Knocking” at my desk. This is one of the hardest rock songs in the canon. It was playing the saxaphone solo near the end. Someone stopped by my cube … Continue reading →

Tonight I went out to bar poker. There were about 25 players, we start with 1,000 in chips. It’s funny how being in a different venue messes me up. I screwed up the chips a couple times, and at least … Continue reading →

Here Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has said that singer Steven Tyler has quit the band “as far as I can tell”. Perry’s comments follow those of rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford, who last week (November 6) said that Aerosmith are to … Continue reading →

Last week my father sent me a big box full of all my stuff from college. Textbooks, journals, notebooks, even my picture of a young Claudia Schiffer that used to be on the wall. It’s striking how much more talented … Continue reading →

A day with the Obama flickr feed. Great commentary. I like how this guy handled it. Cat trap C is the new B. How everything goes to hell in a zombie apocalypse Oh my god. Swine flu overreaction Let me … Continue reading →

How come there hasn’t been much content lately? I can’t come up with much to write about. Any topics you want to hear me riff on? I’m just not inspired lately. I know there’s a bunch of people who read … Continue reading →

I like to play word games with the kids. It’s fun, and helps build their vocabulary. We have a little song to set the questions to. For example, “I’m thinking of a word, it sounds like ‘lake’. It’s something you … Continue reading →