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 I am an outdated programmer with no skills in the brave, new Internet world.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…
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 am not addressing a review of my body in front of a full-length mirror. It is this Occupy movement. They keep announcing, “We are doing this for you.” and that misses the mark more and more. To paraphrase a politican of my day, “I knew altruistic Yippies. Believe me, Occupy, you aren’t Yippies.” Read more…
Hey, is that a mouthful? And it ain’t done. There is the last name missing. take a guess. If you’ve followed the Full Tilt saga, you’ll guess it. Read more…
Unless you moved from Krypton, that’s likely a false assumption. But, some folks go a long ways in life before needing to search for unauthorized holes — often needing to start with the foot and praying it doesn’t migrate higher. Read more…
We are aren’t we? It is almost impossible not to be sheep at some level. Poker was a place we could avoid or not being sheep. It was our microcosm of what plays out in the other arenas but we had a modicum of control of that. It a lot of why we played. Read more…
Well, Gekko says good. Like all subjects, until acted upon by the verb, it lacks any presence. Las Vegas, gambling, rock-star, angel, Howard, Jesus, Tilt Boys are staging a morality play. Meet the cast and crew. Autographs in the lobby right after the perp walks. Read more…
My barracks was open bay. There were three squadrons left on base with open bay. When I visited the place a year or so later, they were gone. But, on base housing still has shared facilities. Certainly not as primitive as the head in those WWII barracks. One wall had shower heads; another held basins; and the other had dump stations. There wasn’t a single partition in that room. Read more…
Every once in a while the good guys win one. That seems more prone to happening in the courts. Alexis de Tocqueville thought the greatest threat to freedom was the legislative process and that the courts would be the only protection from its tyranny. A bit of that has played out in one of the more unlikely judicial venues proving that Al might have been ahead of the curve. Read more…
About the only thing Prohibition proved is that you can’t prohibit human proclivities. But, government never bothered to understand that. The UIGEA stands out with many readers here. Sadly, it is just one of many examples of using the law to attempt to form human nature. Read more…
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