Just yesterday a longtime reader of this blog told me he thinks that discussion of specific poker hands has always been the best part about my blog, and that my recent reluctance to discuss specific hands here is a shame. It just so happens that I just played an interesting poker hand about two hours [...]
Monthly archives: January 2010
2009, The Year in Review.
11Jan10At the end of 2008 Janeen and I were newly wed and had just returned from our honeymoon. While our wedding and honeymoon were wonderful experiences, I came home with a smoldering sense that I had unfinished business to attend to. On the professional front, the last half of 2008 had been a disappointment, a [...]
Goodbye, Old Concrete Dump.
02Jan10In 1984, then-owner of the New York Jets Leon Hess decided that his franchise needed a new field. So he announced that the team’s games would no longer be played in their quirky but cozy Shea Stadium home. The announcement of the Jets’ new home was as bad as it could be: far from its [...]