Archive for October, 2008

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The Colorless Green Idea Sleeps Furiously

Speak the title of this posting to someone and watch their reaction.  It works best if you slip it in while you are talking about something else.
If they are listening to you, they will look up at you like you have said something and ask you to repeat it.
If you repeat it, they will still [...]

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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Blogger Bodogger Bodonkey Tuesday Night with Rizen in da House

I swear that I have never uttered the words ‘in da house’ in my life.
They’ve improved their software, and the action at Bodog is always goooood.
I’ll be here playing under “TRexRoar”:
You are invited to play in, post or forward this information.
Don’t Miss Tuesday’s Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament!
Start Time 9:05 pm ET.
Think you have what it [...]

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Friday, October 24th, 2008

Nevada Jacks – Your One Stop Chip Shop

I’d like to tell you about an online poker chip site that I found: NevadaJacks.net.
NevadaJacks can meet all of your pokerchip set needs. They sell chips in any quantity that the home poker enthusiast might want. In fact, if you order a 300 or 500 chipset, they will ship to you free [...]

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Monday, October 20th, 2008

Now Where Will I Get the Courage to Ask That Cute Girl to Dance?

MillerCoors ends production of Zima
Associated Press
12:54 PM CDT, October 20, 2008

MILWAUKEE – MillerCoors LLC says goodbye to Zima.
The joint venture between SABMiller’s U.S. unit and Molson Coors
Brewing Co. told distributors in a letter Monday that production of
the malt liquor beverage was discontinued as of Oct. 10.
Chief Marketing Officer Andy England says the decision was due
to [...]

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Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Blogging

I liked this piece by Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic. (toth to G&P)
One paragraph in particular:
 
There is, after all, something simply irreplaceable about reading a piece of writing at length on paper, in a chair or on a couch or in bed. To use an obvious analogy, jazz entered our civilization much later than composed, [...]

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Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I Believe I Will Try for a Spot on the Origami Team

I fold better than Superman on laundry day –
Saturday night – home game at RakeFeeder’s house:
9 handed tourney, with top 2 slots paying and 3rd place is a save.
I nursed a small stack through most of the tourney due to the utter absence of cards and a table full of people who were ready [...]

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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Time for a LeTune-Up

LeCheese is dead.
Long live LeTune!
And by that, I mean that I hope he lives long enough to draw kings to my aces…
RakeBrain.com is fronting some nice cash money for a blogger challenge. See you punk-ass beeyatches on the felt.
Sponsored by RakeBrain.com this tournament is the sequel to the ever so popular LeCheese Challenge, with [...]

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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Online Bingo

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Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Aren’t You A Little Overqualified to Be Driving This Bus?

This year’s noble prizes are being handed out. A giddy time for scientists – in my field there are two potential prizes to be won, the Medicine and the Chemistry prize. I don’t really know enough about the other fields (well – a little about physics) to make guesses about who could possibly [...]

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Blogennui

How many cliches can I cycle through?  How about you choose your own beginning.
1) Sigh.
2) I haven’t written here in a while…
3) Howdy stranger!
4) Wow, look at all the weeds here.
5) I had an epiphany that nobody really gives a damn about what I write here, so I haven’t written because I don’t feel like [...]

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