Sonoma Valley

[Content Disclosure: Arrival 93%; looking forward 12%]I am, at least temporarily, residing in the Sonoma Valley north of San Francisco. Specifically, I am living for a time in Tina's Hut, while she spends time in the desert southwest. I have already...

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Neither Here nor There

[Content Disclosure: Exclusively Pictori...

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Contemporary Internet Commentary

[Content Disclosure: Politics 88%, Humor 2% Reality 103%]Like so many of you my disturbed readers, I am not fond of internet jokes, puns, religious or patriotic homilies. However, nearly everyone on my email list knows me well enough to forward the prime...

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Swayed into Blinking at a Black Swan

[Content Disclosure: Books 90%; Semi-Literate Culture 22%; Poker 0%]I got caught up in a cultural phenomenon awhile back, it seems that the world is irrational and that we humans have some skills that only a few of us know about to deal with this situation....

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Patience is a Virtue?

[Content Disclosure: Life 64%, Patience 83%, Poker 2%]The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -TolstoyThe aptly named Poker Grump wrote an intereting article disagreeing with my distaste for Poker = Life metaphors. I have been working...

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Female & Male Endings

[Content Disclosure: Gender, Understanding, Passion, Reminiscing and no poker]“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” --William BlakeWell that certainly is one side of the equation Mr. Blake but a side...

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Random Pokerish Thoughts

[Content Disclosure: 45% Poker sorta; 32% Wisdom or a reasonable facsimile; 9% Other, but I give good other]"God does not play dice with the universe; however, she is not above a good check raise when you least expect it." -- MeFor my non-poker versed...

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Cleaning Up After the New Year

[Content Disclosure: Detritus 12%; Flotsam 9%; Jetsam 17%; Dust Bunnies 23%; other 47%]Time to put 2008 to bed and dance on into whatever comes next, but first some housekeeping chores I may have been putting off.RSS feeds: For the many or several who...

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