Poker Perambulation

Vanilla got a rep for being the lowest common denominator.  You might throw in bland, boring and whatever.  I confess I like vanilla … at least as ice cream goes.   In electronics it is different.  I’m a small step above bland and boring.  I am an outdated programmer with no skills in the brave, new Internet world.  But, I retain a programmer’s mindset and enough knowledge to cobble my way into places that confuse appliance operators. Read more…

That was Thomas More in the first incarnation.  The movie, play and life described him as a man of conscience.  He was consumed — well beheaded actually — in going against the good political comprise of the day.   He was lucky in that the original sentence was hang, drawn and quartered.  Not that the outcome would have changed. Read more…

Not many will recognize that outfit these days.  It isn’t an honor society or faculty club at an Ivy League college.  This bit of ancient history dwelled just in a sleepy Hoosier town — Terre Haute.  They kept the post office busy.  Read more…

Lets start with the first part.  Need a few thousand for a march?  Simple.  Go online.  Pundits then report the evil dictators then tried to disable the Internet but heroic efforts and so on.   The triumph of man and mankind, right?   Then we get to Chamber pots.  I’ll keep it simple.  That’s about another technical advance — Indoor Plumbing — disrupting the marketplace.  Be still my heart and aging kidneys. Read more…

Well, it is that day that send the fearful under their favorite rock — Friday the 13th.  That the black cat.   The Black Birds give poker players pause — it big chip time, doncha know. Read more…

Yesterday, I exhibited some of the traits of the paranoid.  But, when they are out to getcha, that isn’t really paranoia. With the selling of the cloud concept, that will make the problem exponentially worse.  At one time I was a computer guru.  I’d guess top 5%.  That wasn’t hard to get to.  Moving higher was.  Since then I slipped and slipped and top third might be overly generous.   But, I can try to help those well below that. Read more…

No, not that weird Chuckie doll.  Keep your genders straight. Read more…

What does that nice, innocuous blurb — The Experience — mean to you.   Its today’s electric mayhem; it is about smart phone and what was once referred to as a PDA.  They sucked too at least until they morphed into tablet computers.  You say potato; I’ll say tomato.  Wait, that isn’t right either. Read more…

I received the following comment in today’s spam collection:

I am pregnant.

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The current first meaning is sexual.  In mining terms, it is a mine with large and easily found quantities of gold.  That can also translate to a happening in poker.  Josie asked who was the best player she knew.   That isn’t a simple or even a valid question.  Poker is full of the wrong questions.

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