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Vegas Hotels Meme
EDIT: I only list the first time I stayed somewhere, so ladies please stop sending me texts saying you slept with me at The Orleans in 2007 or whatever. I remember. Honest.
1986
- Imperial Palace. This is where the National Open used to be held, so became my first Vegas destination. I'm sure 25 years from now a lot of Chinese-American 40-year ( Read more... ) -
2010: Drummers I Saw Perform, The Collage
..and I'll define perform so as to exclude the guy at the bottom of this entry being one of the top two air-drummers in my row at Sir Paul.
Probably not a lot of drumheads reading this (o/u = 2.5), but I saw some amazing guys last year. You are a totally cool music nerd if you can identify 75% or more.
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Chicago Rock City
From the November 13th Economist:
Substantial rivals for Mr Emanuel are surprisingly few. Jesse Jackson junior, a congressman,
says he will not run. He has been criticised for ties to a blonde and to Rod Blagojevich,
the disgraced ex-governor, thankfully in separate incidents.heh.
Tom Dart, a sheriff whom many thought a favourite, withdrew from ( Read more... ) -
Of Prodigies and Prophylaxis
So I went to the inaugural Saint Louis Chess Club Thanksgiving Open last weekend. That might seem an odd place to hit given there is always a big tournament in LA then, but the St. Louis club is probably the nicest operation that I've ever seen. The Chase Park Plaza was a welcome change from the Ballys' and Holiday Inns of the normal chess ( Read more... ) -
Kramnik vs Robot
Rebroadcast from chessbase. I think the title is something like Chess Visitor Robot, but I'm open to correction.
I love how he tries to get in its head playing pawn to a6.5, covering the b5 square while retaining control of the b6 square. That would be useful in many Sicilian lines. -
Keeping an Open Mind About it All
A decade and a half later, in early May 1940, Marvel Cooke, a reporter for the
Amsterdam News, walked the streets of Black Metropolis investigating what her ( Read more... ) -
Giant Balls, of Ice
I already twittered this a couple days ago, but I thought the pic was cool enough to add. I've never heard a storm as loud as the noise when my house was being pelted for a few minutes.
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1a) Second Shift at the Sausage Factory
What jobs are most likely to torpedo your marriage? Researchers at Radford University crunched the numbers and found that dancers and choreographers have the hardest time staying married Business Insider reports. The top 10, with the profession's divorce rate:
1. Dancers and choreographers, 43%
2. ... rebroadcastWho Needs Slaves?
Colleen was studying ancient Egypt this week, and while reading her book, I was surprised not to see anything about mass quantities of slave labor wrt pyramid construction. She said her teacher said that the modern belief was that it wasn't slave labor, so I started bumbling around Wikipedia. That may be correct. It's a very interesting mystery ( Read more... )
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