John Spencer died of a heart attack on Friday. He was 58. He has played one of my favorite characters on The West Wing since it came on the air. His character, Leo McGarey, was being set up…
American Paper Currency is Ugly. It always has been, and apparently always will be. Yes, the new bills that have some color in them are nice, but, they’re still ugly. Compare a US $20 bill… … with the newly selected design of the Swiss 20 franc note… . Your honor, the…
I started watching a daily videocast called Rocketboom a week ago or so. The Wife hates it with a passion, but I love it. Monday’s was especially interesting because they included what is quite simply the GREATEST. CHRISTMAS. LIGHTSHOW. E V A R !!! I also recommend the Blue Ball…
In case you have been living under a rock, the XBox 360 has been released. I have one thing to say: Whooptie-freaking-doo. Yeah, I’d take one if it was offered to me, and I might even buy one down the road a bit, but, frankly I don’t see…
Movable Type allows you to schedule posts in advanced (for example, I’m writing this post Sunday night but it won’t publish until Tuesday afternoon). However, in order to get the scheduled post to “pop” live at the time you specify, there is script that you run from the…
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I’ve sat down and played some poker for the past half hour and I’m getting some seriously cold cards. I sat down in a $1.00+0.20 45 person MTT and got delt Q-J suited. I was in middle position so I raised 3x BB. Plays around,…
The word Webinar is one of the Internet marketing buzzwords that makes me want to cram a sharp object in my eyes. Say it out loud. Webinar. It sounds stupid, doesn’t it? It’s a marketing concatenation of “web” and “seminar.” Every time I see or hear the word,…