A very under-rated movie I believe, based on the book about the real life story of a bunch of card counting MIT students who systematically took down Vegas for several million before facial recognition software and other hi-tech casino weaponry changed the team-card-counting-game forever. I had never seen Ms. Bosworth before, and when I did […] Read more
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth Read more
Have you ever stopped to fully consider “why is Rick Pitino so damn good?” Or Calipari? Or Izzo? Or Boeheim, or K? Of course, one must have excellent basketball knowledge, a teacher’s gift to make players better under your coaching, and the steely nerves to make the right moves when a game is on the […] Read more
From the “you can’t make this up” file…. really? look closer? check it out @DR24 #MH370 and its like a mile away Pulau Perak, where they "last" tracked it pic.twitter.com/tqavAe4zIL — Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) March 17, 2014 So apparently, we live in a world where we do NOT have a hardwired tracking device on […] Read more
If you are familiar with Gawker Media and it’s founder Nick Denton, this may not be news to you. But if not, Denton might strike you as the very DEVIL of the digital age. I don’t agree that more and more layers of privacy stripped away from citizens is “liberating” (it may be for some, […] Read more
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” – Winston Churchill Read more
So Jim Dolan has his good luck charm.Calling retired, and never-GM’ed-before Phil Jackson anything but, would be a stretch. For a guy who has never performed this role on an NBA team, who is only *thinking* about moving to New York to grind away at the job (Laguna Beach and Montana are certainly hard to […] Read more
Good thing I already bought mine, before that ninny Diane Feinstein can begin her usual march to regulate and restrict. Read more