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[Newframes.typepad.com] New Frames: Crocodile tears for the tavern owners: Now the state is giving the people who decided to open up those crummy taverns with the crummy food yet another opportunity to make money by adding the slots.  The state just wants a bigger cut of the state sponsored gambling program.  The owners "claim" they won't put the slots in their businesses, but I urge Governor Kulongoski and the State Lottery Commission to call their bluff.  There will be owners who will use the slots and the gamblers will go to those businesses.  It's a pretty simple equation:  No slots, no gamblers, end of business.  Or you've got the tavern down the street:  Slots, gamblers, growing business. 

 [Billrini.com] Bill's Blog: Designing The Perfect Online Poker Room: I'm thinking that there are a number of areas in which the sites could standardize, perhaps starting with hand histories. If each site wrote hand histories in a common standard format (let's face it, it's not that complicated) and stored them similarly, then life would become a lot easier for all concerned: the sites could stop spending money on their (mostly crappy) stats and history components and the players would be able to choose the level of tool (and cost) they wanted - there'd be a lot more to choose from if developers didn't have to fool around figuring ou how to parse various crummy formats (and weird database structures, like pokerroom's).

 [Moneypages.com] Bill's Blog: Designing The Perfect Online Poker Room: I'm thinking that there are a number of areas in which the sites could standardize, perhaps starting with hand histories. If each site wrote hand histories in a common standard format (let's face it, it's not that complicated) and stored them similarly, then life would become a lot easier for all concerned: the sites could stop spending money on their (mostly crappy) stats and history components and the players would be able to choose the level of tool (and cost) they wanted - there'd be a lot more to choose from if developers didn't have to fool around figuring ou how to parse various crummy formats (and weird database structures, like pokerroom's).

[Whitesoxblog.blogspot.com] Go Sox Go: bag of pre-cut wings at Sam's Club or Costco, buy some wing sauce (I prefer www.wingtime.com and www.buffalowings.com sauces--a bottle generally costs $4 by the case, shipping included. I first saw these sauces at Treasure Island; don't buy the sauces they sell at Jewel or Dominick's, they are crummy), broil the wings to their desired crispness (30-40 minutes from frozen in my oven), heat up the sauce and then dunk the wings in the sauce and you have good tasting wings for cheap. It is not that hard and it is not that expensive.

[Ruminate.oilies.com] Ruminations » Blog Archive » Crappy jobs I’ve had: giving out hot dogs: The booths had displays on everything related to the penis. Viagra, still-in-testing Cialis and Levitra, strange creams and lotions, CD-ROMs showing new methods of vasectomy reversal, and…The Tools. Endless tables full of thin, whiplike metal probes, all intended to go up that one hole where *nothing* is ever supposed to go. The people who were pimping this stuff were completely normal white-collar drones; didn’t they see what they had in front of them?

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