This weeks whim book purchase was Amazon.com: Books: Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. Apparently MIT has a long history of blackjack players, and this book details a particular team which aggressively used card counting, team play, shuffle tracking and other aggressive techniques [...]
This week has been dominated by pondering of the public domain. I ordered a book from nolo.com written by attorney Steven Fishman entitled
The Public Domain: How to Find Copyright-Free Wrightings, Music, Art and More. It’s a very easy to read and well written guide to the world of copyright and the public [...]
Today’s Slashdot extravaganza sent me to deviceforge.com for a robot design using Via’s Mini-ITX motherboards. Thse motherboards are very capable and about 7″ square, they have an even smaller motherboard called Nano-ITX that will be a mere 5″ square.
The robot itself doesn’t appear to be very clever, but it’s still a pretty nifty idea.
Well, it’s 8:40 or so in the morning on Sunday, and I’m surfing to the USGS realtime earthquake website to see if the jolt I just felt was a minor local quake, or whether there is no point to going to San Francisco today. But it appears to have been a minor 3.5 earthquake [...]
What can I say, Boston over Oakland, 4-3 in game 5.
I hate politics. It’s mostly about the hypocrisy. I’ve been trying to ignore the
recall news for the most part, but every once in awhile you just have to listen.
Schwarzenegger has been accused of a pattern of what can only be described as boorish sexual harassment for incidents ranging from 1975 to 2000. [...]
I love baseball, and this is the time of year that baseball is the most
fun (except of course for the impending end fo the season). Once again I find the A’s embroiled in the playoffs. My beautiful wife decided that I needed one more game before
the end of the season, and the promise [...]
Okay, this isn’t really news. Rush Limbaugh is an idiot. If you don’t know that by now, you’re probably an even bigger idiot. I’ve lately become uninterested in the NFL (baseball being a far
more civilized endeavor) so I didn’t realize that Rush had been employed by NFL Countdown Sunday as a [...]
