This is not a man with a blog.
One of my readers asks me about using a tablet pc to play online poker.
I see you’re a poker player too… have you used your Tablet PC with
any of the online real-money sites, and if so did it work well for
that? Was it easy to place bets correctly, especially in no-limit with
the "slider" controls on screen? I’m looking at buying a tablet for the
sole purpose of online poker. Thanks in advance!
It’s her birthday today, she’s building an amazing new resource about tuberculosis, and last night she won third place in a large 800 person poker tournament, netting her $6,900. She didn’t even hold it against me that my coaching resulted in her being put out in third place. (I’m an impulsive no limit player)
Sarah and I had friends over for bagels and then walked the baby all over town to art museums. Only today (Monday) am I starting to get to the NYT Sunday magazine. I’m postponing reading the article about why the world is running out of fish.
Clearly the situation would be helped if places like Cafe Japone in Dupont Circle would stay open. Their sushi on Saturday night was so past its prime that I couldn’t finish my meal. A few more Cafe Japones in the world and sushi consumption will start to decline.
Ever see a cashier receive a hundred dollar bill, and check it with a swipe of a marker to see if it was
real? Well, some clever counterfeiters have figured out how to fool the magic counterfeit detector marker.
I’m a great believer in gambling according to odds. I don’t play blackjack, though I would if I knew how to count cards well enough to tip the odds in my favor. I don’t play roulette, or any of the other hosue edge games. I play poker for the challenge of playing against other players, hopefully, weaker players, where my edge is largest.
And I don’t play the lottery. Unless it’s statistically an advantage. Allow me to explain.
Link: Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod – New York Times.
Some of my photo links are broken, because TypePad had a disk crash of some sort that they couldn’t recover from, and it turns out their backups either suck, or hadn’t run after I had uploaded the photos. Color me pissed. Now I’ve got to spend time finding those photos.
Sorry, but I left you to read the NYT and the WP and figure out yourself what’s worth reading. I would have recommended, of course, the magazine. Instead of reading the Sunday papers for you, I spent the weekend up at the farm in rural, western Maryland with a Presidente-sized Macanudo, a bottle of Talisker scotch,…
When I was at Goldman Sachs, I fell into a crowd of Newton devotees. I even remember my boss buying
a Newton after hearing me say that my first generation Newton was the bees knees.
Judge Voids Some 2002 D.C. Assessments
A dispute between the Office of Tax and Revenue and several communities in DC over property tax rates had another small milestone today. "I describe a lot of what’s going on around the country as sticker shock," said Wayne A. Tenenbaum, a property tax lawyer and former assessor from Kansas City, Mo., who sits on…