[This is Part 3 of 3. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.] Poker in the beautiful Northwest Near the end of August, Luckbox Larry rang me up and suggested that I visit Seattle for some poker tournaments. I started planning my trip to Seattle and
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Part of the American ethos is that we should love sports, and that we should love particular sports teams. This goes all the way to the top: George W. Bush recently threw out the first pitch at a World Series game, and next March will bring hours
Read more →On ESPN’s Tuesday night WSOP coverage of the Main Event, there was a really big hand between Vanessa Rousso and David Bach. I was in the audience when the hand went down. I had several conversations about the hand over the following days, and it turns out
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I’m finally back from my month-long stint in Vegas. I think I’ve written something like 15,000 words about the trip (maybe more), so I thought it might be helpful to recap and summarize everything in one place with links to all the other stuff. Here are links
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Yesterday night, I busted from a tournament at the Wynn (I min-cashed), but decided to stick around because a friend was still playing and I wanted to offer support (known as sweating or railing in the poker parlance). Fortunately, I had my Burro Bag with me, and
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The annual WWDC Keynote is a pretty big deal for Apple fanboys like me. Apple typically makes several big announcements throughout the year, but this is usually the big announcement. (Maybe I’m biased because iPhone and iOS are my favorite Apple products.) It’s typically pretty easy to
Read more →@ModeledBehavior (the Twitter account for a group economics blog, ModeledBehavior.com) shared this on Friday night: Because what we need right now are more labor market regulations http://nyti.ms/ivdMwq Obviously, @ModeledBehavior was being sarcastic here, but the Connecticut legislators are totally serious. Their plan is to mandate that hourly
Read more →The latest Planet Money podcast–How Many Jobs Has Scott Walker Created?–was about whether government and politicians can actually create jobs. The Planet Money team focused on Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, and rightly pointed out that his plan doesn’t seem to be creating jobs so much as allowing
Read more →A while back, I wrote about the price differences between Redbox, Amazon and iTunes for renting movies. My friend Andy emailed me to point out that I had missed a pretty big component of Redbox’s pricing scheme: Late fees. This was a pretty big oversight since it’s
Read more →[Josh's note: This is Part 2 of a 2-part post. Part 1 is here.] What am I leaving behind? Even if I saved up enough money and had a list of things to occupy my time, I still had to decide whether to leave my job. A major
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