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What I did during my hiatus from the working world (Part 2 of 3)

What I did during my hiatus from the working world (Part 2 of 3)

[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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What I did during my hiatus from the working world (Part 1 of 3)

What I did during my hiatus from the working world (Part 1 of 3)

[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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2011 Vancouver Trip Recap

2011 Vancouver Trip Recap

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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2011 WSOP Diary: Week 3

2011 WSOP Diary: Week 3

Day 12 (July 4): I did end up playing the Wynn re-buy yesterday, and min-cashed again. Here are my results for the trip so far: (+$231) Rio – $235 – 964 entrants – finished 79 – $466 (-$625) Wynn – $625 ($225 plus two $200 rebuys) –

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Freaks and Geeks – A quantum message in a bottle

Freaks and Geeks – A quantum message in a bottle

I am the Oobleck of emotional catharsis: the harder you try to get through, the more I resist; but if you’re gentle and patient, I will listen. Many shows, books, movies, songs, whatever,  just bounce right off me because they’re trying too hard to get through. But

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(500) Days, and then what?

I finally saw (500) Days of Summer, and I liked it. A lot. But I also found it to be exceptionally depressing, although I couldn’t initially figure out why. The narrator is up front about what we’re getting into – “You should know up front, this is

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Machiavelli redux – I look back on me looking back on The Prince

Preface I recently bought a new laptop and, as I transferred my old stuff to my new laptop, I found this unfinished blog post.  I’m pretty sure I initially wrote this some time in early 2006 (possibly late 2005).  I wish I had found this before the

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Back-to-back tourney wins: Poker and… Foosball?

I should write this down so I don’t forget about it.  We had a doubles foosball tournament at work today and my team won.  Then I went home for an hour or so and got ready to go play a couple of single-table ten-dollar poker tourneys.   I

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Ten weeks later…

Remember that time when I said I was going to try and make a substantive post every two weeks? Me neither. So, here’s what’s been up since my last post: Well, obviously, we’re more than SEC Champs these days. Since we whooped up on OSU, we’ve become

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Home, sweet home… When do we eat?

I’ve officially moved to Gainesville and I’m starving. I left yesterday morning around 10:00 (CDT) and I arrived in Gainesville around 3:00 (EDT) this afternoon. I think I made pretty good time considering I was driving a big moving truck with my car in tow. In retrospect,

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