[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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[This is Part 2 of 3. Part 1 is here. Part 3 is here.] Write, write, write I spent about six months blogging regularly. I’ve never had a super structured approach to blogging, so I just end up writing about whatever’s on my mind. I publish some of
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[This is Part 1 of 3. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.] It’s been eight months since I quit my previous job (Part 1, Part 2), and things went swimmingly. I’ve just taken a new job, so I figure it’s about time to summarize what
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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
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Steve Jobs has died. That sentence seems to carry a lot of weight for me personally, and also for a lot of my friends. Twitter went totally nuts when Apple announced Jobs’ death, and I could detect a genuine sadness in many of the tweets. I have
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I ended up getting almost two more days in Seattle after Vancouver, so I figured I should capture that. I didn’t think I should append two more days to a weeks-old post, so I’m creating a new post. Day 7: I took the bus from Vancouver back
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I just got back from a two-week trip to Vancouver, so I might as well recap it for posterity. I didn’t do a “diary” because there just wasn’t enough going on to justify that format. It would’ve all been like, “Day N: Woke up and went to
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While I was in Seattle, I had a couple of meals over at Dan‘s (of Fat Yeti Photography) place. On the last night I was there, he was giving us a tour of his studio and we ended up doing a quick, impromptu photo shoot (see Day
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Day 1: Today started pretty rough, but got better as it went on. I went to sleep about 2:00 AM and had to be back up at 4:00 AM. My plane left Gainesville at 5:20 AM and I arrived in Seattle at 9:30 AM local time. The
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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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