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Hold Em (1 image)
May 01 2005, 23:33 EDT [updated May 02 2005, 14:59 EDT]
Played Texas Hold Em last night with five others. Four games, I came out $20 behind (loss, loss, win, loss). The first two games had six players, after that two bailed (thankfully one guy that left was a sharp player) and we were left with four hands fo
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Apr 30 2005, 08:08 EDT [updated Apr 30 2005, 08:15 EDT]
Jennifer Wilbanks, who's disapearance has been a cable media favorite lately has returned from her trip. Basically she got cold feet about her upcoming wedding and went walk about. Fine. But can we get some apologies from all the talking heads who impl
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Top. Five. Bloggers. Ever.
Apr 27 2005, 02:35 EDT [updated Apr 27 2005, 13:22 EDT]
A new what-if Top Five list was started over at SRWU. The question is - who would you pick of any five people dead or alive to write a blog. My top 5 are:
Mark Twain. The mind reels.
Ambrose Bierce. Ditto.
George Orwell
Rod Serling
Benjamin Frank
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Andrew Sullivan Explained, Part II
Apr 27 2005, 01:08 EDT [updated Apr 27 2005, 03:09 EDT]
Andrew Sullivan put out a new piece over at The New Republic that describes Conservatives as a mix of two kinds of people.
One is "conservatism of doubt" who are reality-based. They deliberate and consider and ultimately reach a conclusion.
The secon
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Readability index
Apr 26 2005, 23:54 EDT [updated Apr 27 2005, 02:13 EDT]
Well, one of us was going to post this sooner or later. Juicy Studio has a readability index that the bloggers have found. Kind of like what you learned in English class, saw in your word processor, or learned at the Sergeant's Major Academy. Here's how
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Your week in Quickies
Apr 23 2005, 13:11 EDT [updated Jun 22 2005, 15:12 EDT]
New Family Guy Episode Leaked
[bobsalive]
Apr 23 2005, 12:29 EDT
Available online in all the usual places.
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The Red Dawn theory of the War on Terror
Apr 22 2005, 12:16 EDT [updated Apr 22 2005, 12:46 EDT]
It is well known that most experts blew the call on the end of the Cold War, there are even symposiums where intelligence experts look back on how they did. I'll advance the "Red Dawn" theory - namely five years after we get a kick ass movie about Middle
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Cornell and Lehigh, Schmoozing Together
Apr 21 2005, 00:18 EDT [updated Apr 24 2005, 00:11 EDT]
bobsalive and I went to an event and talk of the Cornell Entrepreneurs Network because Andy Kessler (a WSJ writer and book author[bobsalive: and Cornell alum!]) was giving a talk and it looked interesting. bobsalive is the Cornell in this equation, I'm t
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If you can't be with the Pope you love
Apr 19 2005, 21:46 EDT [updated Apr 22 2005, 00:44 EDT]
I am not a Catholic, I'm not even a good Episcopalian (I set the barrier a bit higher than my cohorts) but I am slackjawed at the people that have a problem with the new Pope. Andrew Sullivan is a Catholic, previously under bad standing (he's gay) and wa
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Democrats Optimal Short Term Strategy
Apr 17 2005, 18:35 EDT [updated Apr 19 2005, 22:55 EDT]
What do filibustering judges, attacking Tom Delay, and trying to sink the nomination of John Bolton for U.N. ambassador have in common? They are attempts at policy making by other means. As a minority the Democrats can't put forward their own agenda (ex
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Open Ecumenical Question
Apr 17 2005, 13:26 EDT [updated Apr 19 2005, 23:11 EDT]
What is the difference between a communion, charter, assemblage, and covenant? I'm guessing there is a difference, or people wouldn't use the different terms. [Of course I could just call andrewdied and ask, but this way google will know the answer, if a
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Your week in Quickies
Apr 16 2005, 14:22 EDT
GI Napoleon
[bobsalive]
Apr 16 2005, 00:01 EDT
Napoleon Dynamite action figures are on the way.
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Summers Summit
Apr 13 2005, 19:17 EDT [updated Apr 13 2005, 23:44 EDT]
Larry Summers got in trouble for suggesting innate differences between men and women may be part of the reason there are fewer women in the sciences than men. Well, a new symposium is going to get to the bottom of it. The New York Academy of Science is
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Wet shaving
Apr 10 2005, 21:44 EDT
I've actually been using a brush for a couple of years now. It's a cheapy from the drug store, and shaving soap either from there, or from the PX. For a razor I've use the Gillette Mach 3, or sometimes the older one, depending on what blades I have at the
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Wall Street Journal starting a weekend edition
Apr 10 2005, 02:30 EDT [updated Apr 10 2005, 02:58 EDT]
I got an email from the WSJ annoucing they are starting a weekend paper. Helpfully the email asks if I want to have it delivered to my weekday address or an alternate on West Egg. Speaking of which Jersey has "down the shore" and since I moved north it
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Your week in Quickies
Apr 08 2005, 14:15 EDT
More Daylight Savings?
[bobsalive]
Apr 07 2005, 17:05 EDT
Congress is considering an amendment to the always-being-crafted energy bill t
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Derb Radio, Zero Day Transcript
Apr 07 2005, 14:08 EDT [updated Apr 07 2005, 14:28 EDT]
A while back I said blogs should be active making transcripts available for content that needs them. "Zero Day" is a software pirate's term for copies that are released on the same day as the official version. Here is my contribution to that cause: a tr
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Does Europe Hate Us? The Discovery Channel says 'Yes!'
Apr 07 2005, 12:37 EDT [updated Apr 07 2005, 12:50 EDT]
The Weekly Standard website is currently featuring banners for a Discovery Channel special titled "Does Europe Hate Us?" The webpage for the program isn't encouraging, here is the first paragraph from the 2000s slide (the program covers 1940-current).
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Passport to travel between US and Canada?
Apr 06 2005, 00:04 EDT [updated Apr 26 2005, 02:30 EDT]
According to this article at CBC you'll need a passport to travel between the US and Canada by 2007. The slashdot thread has spawned a thousand comments, most expressing unfocused outrage.
Currently, Canadians and Americans are able to enter the Unite
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The Iraq Quagmire
Apr 05 2005, 22:04 EDT
To put the Iraq quagmire talk in perspective I'll remind you that two years ago today the 3rd ID had breached Baghdad and "Baghdad Bob" along with many here at home were saying the 3rd ID would be turned back. By this Saturday, April 9th, the city was co
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Sixth Republic Looms
Apr 02 2005, 22:42 EST [updated Apr 06 2005, 14:30 EDT]
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
Some disgruntled French wine growers have turned to terrorism in an attempt to get more subsidies. I don't know internal French politics very well but I imagine throwing sticks of dyna
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