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New Orleans - a photoset on Flickr



I've got some photos from our trip to NOLA up on my flickr page.

Not mentioned in the photoset is that I played in the $500 event at the New Orleans WSOP circuit event and placed 43rd out of 800. Deep in the money but not really a great payday for 11 hours of grueling poker, and pretty tough to finish so close to $100k, which is what they paid the total noob who won the thing. All in all I was proud of my finish and it was a good warm-up for Vegas in two weeks.

CCC | How to fake fingerprints?

CCC | How to fake fingerprints?

This is a good step by step on how to use latent fingerprints on glass and whatnot to fool fingerprint sensors.

I'm sure it will come in handy for some of you one day.

Crazy Ass Video on Machinists Website

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO/CLC

This video was on the IAM homepage. The video itself makes no sense, but it also makes no sense why the hell its on there.

Completely surreal, I promise you.

Mark Cuban's new hedge fund

My New Hedge Fund - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _

yes, mark cuban blogs. his blog is quite interesting, too. he really doesn't hold back on there, and shares some interesting insight into both basketball AND finance with his readers.

this post is of particular interest to me. he is planning a hedge fund where they will gamble with their investors' money: literally... by betting on sports, blackjack, poker, even slots.

an excerpt:
A sports or blackjack or poker bet doesn’t have value beyond that game or hand. In that respect it’s just like the hundreds of millions, if not billions ,of options that are traded, but never converted, on stocks, commodities and other assets around the world every day

The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005

The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005

some students at MIT have come up with an amazing idea. they are holding a time traveler convention in hopes that someone from the future will show up.

they figure if we get the word into enough newspapers, chisel it into stone, enter it into public record, that one day when time travel is invented the word of the convention will still exist and they can come back into time.

Of course, this begs the question, wouldn't time travelers of the future already know about the event, having heard about it from atendees?

the paradoxes are endless.