Archive for March, 2011
Obama Sighting in Manhattan
My girlfriend and I were in Manhattan today. With an hour or so to kill, we decided to walk around Central Park. Before we got into the park, we noticed quite a few police officers, several barricades, and just generally a lot of hoopla at 79th and 5th along the east side of the park. [...]
A Million Man Poker Tournament
Online poker seems to have experienced some huge growth recently with regards to the size of tournament fields. Just this month we’ve seen:
A $215 on PokerStars attract 59,000 players.
A $75 on Full Tilt attract 45,000 players.
Those are staggeringly large fields for tournaments with a not-insignificant buy-in amount. It’s a snowball effect: the more people who [...]
No Haggle Honda
My girlfriend and I made a short trek to a Honda dealership today to pick up some wheels. We moved to Austin sans-ride with the plan to figure it out once we got here. Two weeks of subsisting with Austin’s impressive public transportation system and walking was about all we could handle before insisting on [...]
James Durbin Rocks
A couple entries ago, I linked to a video of James Durbin’s American Idol audition that’s had me hooked as a fan since I saw it. On last night’s live show, Durbin did an unbelievable rendition of Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” and is now among the favorites to win the show according to the [...]
