The Szott family

This is a great cause. Please watch the video.

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Our hotel.

Limo we rode from one end of the Las Vegas strip to the other with the wedding party.

New york in LV

Bellagio lobby ceiling

Paris in Las Vegas

Sometimes extinction is a GOOD thing

TwinCities.com - Scientists find fossil of enormous bug

The discovery in 390-million-year-old rocks suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were far larger in the past than previously thought, said Simon Braddy, a University of Bristol paleontologist and one of the study's three authors.

This is not a joke

Check out the instructional video. Gibson Robot Guitar

150 Monty Python Sketches

A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches - One Mans Blog

A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches

Mark Steyn: Thanks for America

Opinion: World should give thanks for America | americans, world, thanksgiving, europe, europeans - OCRegister.com

Speaking as a misfit unassimilated foreigner, I think of Thanksgiving as the most American of holidays.

My subject

Test email to blog. Taken on my phone camera and sent directly to this blog.

Blackjack

The foundation of winning at Blackjack is to utilize proper basic strategy in playing the hands. "Proper" means that each decision you make on hitting, standing, doubling or splitting pairs is the correct mathematical play for that hand. There is no room for intuition, gut feelings or guessing when it comes to basic strategy; you must make the "percentage" play each time. Even if you've doubled an 11 against a dealer's 10 five times in a row and lost, when that hand comes up a sixth time you must double. Consistency is a big part of playing a winning game, so resolve right now that you are going to make the proper play, regardless if the dealer rolls his eyes upward or the other players at the table groan quietly when you do it.

Free Medical Clinics

This is cool.

TCS Daily - The Free Clinic Movement

Free Clinics are private, non-profit organizations that provide medical, dental, pharmaceutical and/or mental health services at little or no cost to low-income, uninsured and underinsured people. These clinics are truly free - both to their clients and to the taxpayers.

Unlike federally-qualified so-called "free clinics", they do not submit receipts to Medicare or Medicaid for reimbursement. St. Luke and the other authentic Free Clinics in Virginia do not submit bills to anybody for reimbursement.

This is a really cool story

ESPN - High school teammates honor gravely ill classmate - ESPN

It was halftime at the Lake Fenton-Mount Morris game, seemingly just another high school football contest during another homecoming week on another October Friday night in another American suburb.

But this time the fix was in.

Zipskinny: census info for your zip code

ZIPskinny - Get the Skinny on that ZIP

Doris Lessig: "unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men"

Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search

The novelist Doris Lessing yesterday claimed that men were the new silent victims in the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest.

Lessing, who became a feminist icon with the books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a "lazy and insidious" culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.

Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival, while energy which could be used to get proper child care was being dissipated in the pointless humiliation of men.

"I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed," the 81-year-old Persian-born writer said yesterday.

The summer my son graduated from High School, we went on a car trip. We hit a Cubs game at Wrigley and a CArdinals game in St. Louis. This camera phone pic is from Wrigley Field on a bright sunny day. It was a great trip.

Saw this at my local Holiday gas station. They installed the TVs in the last couple of weeks. All the others pumps were working fine except this one. I mentioned it to the manager and he rolled his eyes and said "I know, thanks."

Software Engineering vs. Computer Science

I have always felt that Computer Scientists need to come up with the new theories needed for the Software Engineers to implement in the real world. Here is another example of what we need our Computer Science Departments to be doing. This is a different curriculum than what a Software Engineering program would be. The sooner the schools make this split the better.


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