I have pictures and stories about kyle + rosemary from yesterday, but I've got to go to the cleaners and get my tights on my way to Warner Brothers for my Legion of Super Heroes session that starts in an hour. Man, it's so weird (and so cool) to work two days in a row on different voice projects! If I've got anything left when I get home, I'll post about them both.
But if you're looking for something to read until then, here's your occasional linkfest to stuff I've written elsewhere in the last week, that you probably missed if you just read WWdN:iX:
Geek News @ Suicide Girls:
Earth's Artificial Ring - (This is probably my favorite story I've ever put onto the Geekwire.)
During the height of the Cold War, American scientists were also geeked out on the Ionosphere, because using it was the only reliable way to communicate over long distances, should ground-based microwave or undersea cable communication become unusable because of those godless commies. Not happy to accept the Ionosphere as nature intended it, they attempted to create an artificial Ionosphere by launching 480 million tiny copper needles into orbit, which briefly gave our planet an artificial ring in 1963.
The Last Webreference You'll Ever Need
Protolize breaks everything down into categories, from General to RSS to CMS and beyond, and then further sub-categorizes them into Tools, Resources, and Inspirations. Just about everything you need to take that idea in your head and make it something real online is gathered together in one place, and if there's a site you know of that isn't listed, adding it to the list is as simple as filling out a form. It's like Webmonkey meets del.icio.us, and exemplifies the power of sharing and organizing knowledge using the Internets.
Dude Tracks His Transatlantic Flight By Watching Internet Routing
The best part of Todd's blog post is his explanation of routing protocols and how the engineers at Boeing overcame what could have been service-crippling problems, including all sorts of really cool and useful graphics that even a level 010 geek can easily understand. In fact, if you grok and get excited by his story, you're probably on your way to being a level 1010 geek. If you understand what I'm talking about and are giggling right now, you're a level 101010 geek, and we're looking forward to seeing you at the meeting tonight. Excelsior!
Poker Stuff @ CardSquad:
In Washington State, Online Poker Players Are Now Class C Felons, Just Like Sex Offenders
Lawmakers in Washington state have decided that they know what's best for all their residents, and recently passed Senate Bill 6613, which "[reaffirms and clarifies] the prohibition against Internet and certain other interactive electronic or mechanical devices to engage in gambling."
I am the UltraGigli (note: in poker blogger land, Gigli is what we call the first person to be knocked out of a tourney. At the WPBT events in Vegas, the first person eliminated gets a copy of Gilgli on DVD from Dr. Pauly.)
Since I was Gigli'd in back-to-back tourneys, first with Aces and then with Kings, I now declare that I am the JLo's glorious ass part of Gigli. I am, in fact, the UltraGigli.
REVIEW: Phil Gordon's Little Green Book of Poker
During the 2005 WPT Championship at Bellagio, I had the great fortune of spending some time with Phil -- not at the same table, thank gods -- and he really helped me a lot.
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We had dinner together at the end of the first day, and Phil gave me a bit of a lesson while we ate. When we were done, he told me that he was working on a little book that would compile lots of useful information from existing works by Caro and Sklansky, filtered through and expanded upon by Phil's personal experience. He was particularly excited about the tournament chapter, and all the math he'd done to figure out very reliably how often players needed to steal blinds, and make moves to survive into the deeper levels of play. He graciously offered to e-mail me a copy of the manuscript so I could read it over later that night, and it significantly helped my game. The book, of course, became Phil Gordon's Little Green Book: Lessons and Teachings in No Limit Texas Hold'em.
Thanks for reading!
