Archive for October 2009
Vegas trip report, October 2009
Though I live near card rooms in the Bay area, I like to go to Vegas occasionally as a sort of personal poker camp. The time purely devoted to poker allows me to experiment with my game in a way that leads to deep analysis for a prolonged period of time. Also with someone along…
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I caught a cold over the weekend and had just about enough energy to lay in bed, but not to get up. (Not entirely true, since on day one of the cold I painted four rooms of the house, but that's probably why I was bed-ridden the next two days…) While laid up in bed…
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a very unassuming and in fact bleak looking novel. Like the post-apocalyptic world it depicts, the actual hardcover book is all black with barely a title on it. The story is one of the few litmus tests of parenthood mindset. Reading it is probably a gut-wrenching experience for anyone, with…
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