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For my friend anonymous

Thanks for the virtual birthday flower:-).  Did you mean to be anonymous?

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Update on my friend anonymous

Anonymous has been identified - mystery solved.  :-)

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Oops they did it again!

The Commerce Department has lost or had stolen over 1100 laptops since 2001.  Yahoo says the department uses over 30k laptops, so thats like 3.5% of their inventory.  That's pretty high.  Most of the...

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I love irony

From Yahoo news regarding the purchase by Google of the house with the garage where it all started. . .The busloads of people that show up to take pictures of the house and garage have become such an...

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Poker Day - Ole!

Sunday is a big poker day in our house.  Steve and I, when we aren't travelling, are usually glued to computer, hopefully for at least 8 hours, and longer if we are doing well.  Food gets tricky when...

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my interpretation of string theory

as communicated by XKCD

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the verdict on the soup

the chicken tortilla soup from allrecipes.com turned out well.  I made a couple of modifcations based on the reviews and my own whim.  I added olives and beans (I used kidney, but another bean might...

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Farewell Michael Ronan

The world is short another brilliant mind this week.  UC Berkeley professor Michael Ronan passed away this week in what is believed to have been a suicide.  He recently quit teaching a physics class in...

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A moment to brag

2nd place in the ARG 2005-2006 Best All-Around Player contest  - woohoo baby!!  I really didn't expect to do so well this time because I didn't do as well as in years past.  And I wasn't even that far...

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Article 15

I'm becoming addicted to the Colbert Report :-)

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Wish I were a PL/o8 player

There's a 5 handed 5/10 PL OHL game on FT right now with 90% of players seeing the flop.  Even short handed this game must be really loose, I can't imagine THAT many good playable hands in the game....

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6 handed tables

Well, I am very used to playing 8-10 handed limit poker, but on Stars and FT the 6 handed games seem to be more consistently going these days.  So, are these worth playing?  The fact they are looser is...

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A big day

for a couple of friends.Congratulations to hgfalling and Michelle on their wedding day!!  I think they may have just taken their vows and are now officially married.  Wish I could have been there.  I...

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Horrible news

I log onto the internet briefly to check mail after being offline for a number of days only to find one my ARGE friends, Shelley Louie has passed away.  I am so sad right now it isn't even funny.  He...

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A gift

for pb9617A poker strategy tip.  This is my favorite one I gave my students in my class and it's one that I have found very useful in my play as well.If you read Harrington, he talks a lot about...

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a poker classic from 1999

Two posts today, one by clutch_c and one by tom_bayes reminded me of a classic RGP post from Tom Weideman about the Zogs and their tournament stars.  While it makes a point on how we determine the new...

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OMG! For the geeks and the spouses of geeks. . .

This was on a friend's LJ and was too good not to share. . .

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Amazing Vancouver Sunset

Wow!  Tonight was the most amazing sunset ever!!  I love our view!!  I am not the best photographer and this photo doesn't do justice.  But you have some idea from this photo.  The colors reflecting on...

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Correlation and Causation

One of the best posts I have ever read discussing the problems with linking correlation to causation:Beware of BreadAs a sidenote, I am a huge fan of the blog Junkfood Science.  She does a lot of...

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Discovery

I've totally rediscovered the Moulin Rouge soundtrack :-).  Yay!!!

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