Archive for January 2006
Police fight crime with games
"According to the Daily Record, a new scheme was recently launched in the Moredun area of the city to combat anti-social behaviour through the power of games. The local library has been hosting weekly PS2 gaming contests, and hoodies and happyslappers have been flocking to compete with police officers at the likes of Gran Turismo…
Read MoreA better place
Like a car wreck, I’m fascinated by this house. Its one of two show houses at the National Builders Show in Orlando this week. The other is a 7,700 foot monstrosity that many would call a McMansion. The small house was built by the New Urbanist design firm Duany Plater-Zyberk. It’s not the answer to…
Read MoreBest anniversary present ever.
Sarah and I celebrated five years this past December. I suppose it’s a testament to how lucky we both feel that it seems like yesterday we met. For our anniversary Sarah got me a box of gourmet chocolates that blew me away. Made by gourmet chocolatier Richart, they come in seven different flavor groups. Each…
Read MoreWeb 3.0
Funny, but this essay from ‘A List Apart’ by Jeff Zeldman perfectly identifies my fatigue and impatience with people who become technology cheerleaders. People become enamored with a phrase, with no real understanding of the technology, and proceed to repeat it like a mantra. I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time gritting my…
Read MoreOne of my many poker weaknesses
I appear to enjoy playing in games where the other players are better than I am. I’ve noticed that I routinely play above the levels where I’m a favorite, while staying within my bankroll. (ie I’m smart enough to not risk the mortgage payment, but not smart enough to play against weaker players.) It occurred…
Read MoreAll clear on the cancer front.
When I was in Boston a couple of months ago walking through Logan airport, I got word that my mom had been diagnosed with cancer. Now just a few days ago when I was back there on my way to Logan airport, I got word that she’s been given a clean bill of health post-treatment.…
Read MoreGoogle Video
My first Google video experiment is of course, a video of my son playing a toy piano. As Sarah and I were uploading several of them, and waiting for the approval period where the Google algorithm/screeners concluded we hadn’t buried any episodes of I Love Lucy in the middle of them, I concluded, "This is…
Read MoreWhy I can’t sleep.
"AHHHHHH AHHHH AHHHHHH!" The woman’s shrieks went on for a full minute before I awoke, realized it was 2:45am, and realized that it wasn’t a joke. She kept on screaming, same intonation, same level of panic. Crap, I have to go out there, it might not be teenagers just hooting at each other as they…
Read MoreWSOP 2006
So I’ve been perusing the World Series of Poker schedule for 2006 and have noticed there’s something fascinating. There are low cost tournaments at both ends of the month of poker. I was going to go for a week and was thinking I would go from June 25th through July 2nd. I figured I’d play…
Read More‘March Of The Penguins’ and Intelligent Design
As I sat here watching ‘March Of The Penguins’ and pondering how some people actually think the movie supports the theory of Intelligent Design, I was flabbergasted. Every single scene shows something so incredibly stupid if it was designed that I thought this would be an easy blogpost. Then I googled the topic, and all…
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