musings

  • THE LAST WORLD SERIES OF POKER:

    Prologue: Never Count your money, while sitting at the table: I imagine the halls of the White House have echoed with the refrain “There must be more money” ever since the days of John Adams. Over time, through the creation of a banking system built on speculation—speculation tenuously tied to real capital (human labor, tangible

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  • Break the Chain?

    MUSINGS I never listened to Fleetwood Mac before moving to Augusta, GA. In my early CSRA years, Jackie—my best friend, who died in a car accident I still blame myself for, even though I wasn’t there, which is why I blame myself—wasn’t surprised by my reaction to the opening riff of The Chain. Once the

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  • Gopiphany

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  • But I digress…sorry I got distracted from the true point of my last post. I am obsessed with GO. I play countless games with my nemesis SmartGo on a 9×9 board and have managed to lower my handicap for a while only to be AI Smashed by Smart Go before I can get it down

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