Kids start posting lists of "Ten Signs You're Almost Maybe Getting a Little Bit Older."

Nassim Taleb in a discussion [PDF] of how Nature is like a very old, and hence therefore in some senses wise, person:Mother Nature does not develop Alzheimer’s-actually there is evidence that even humans would not easily lose brain function with age if they followed a regimen of stochastic exercise and stochastic fasting, took long walks, avoided ( Read more... )

From The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias's review of Shutter Island:...it should be appreciated first as a vivid, waking nightmare.
If someone whom you trusted (trust me on this) came to your house before bedtime and said, "For $9.50, I will guarantee you'll have a vivid nightmare tonight," would you pay?

I'm occasionally tweeting: http://twitter.com/SteveBrecher

Continuing the theme of the recent post by whipartist... The need for a conjunction of pronouns to reverse use of nominative and objective cases was obviated by Antonio Esfandiari on a recent "Poker After Dark." Speaking humorously about the female need for romantic commitment he remarked, "Me, as a man, cannot."

"New Restrictions Quickly Added for Air Passengers"-from the New York TImes (free registration possibly required):Airline officials also said the carriers were told to turn off the maps on in-flight entertainment systems that show a plane’s location. The rule apparently was intended to prevent travelers from knowing when a plane had reached the ( Read more... )

Radley Balko in an Economist interview:...[I]t's at least possible that once the Obama administration proves just as inept, corrupt, and hopeless as the Bush administration, the younger people who flocked to Obama will start to understand that the problem isn't who's running government, it's that government power itself corrupts--and that we're ( Read more... )

I finished 8th, grossing $99,641. Thanks to all for the good wishes!

For the record: on my final hand I moved in for 472,000, not 572,000 as reported on the WPT site.

Edit: removed the "$" from the chip amounts.

1. Adam "Roothlus" Levy - 892,000
2. Lee Markholt - 480,000
3. Curt Kohlberg - 1,127,000
4. Kenna James - 1,217,000
5. Tom Dobrilovic - 565,000
6. Eric Froehlich - 714,000
7. Steve Brecher - 660,000
8. Cornel Andrew Cimpan - 1,554,000
9. Soheil Shamseddin - 1,233,000
10. Matt Stout - 2,101,000

Play will end today after ( Read more... )

As of today, I'm certificated by the FAA as an Airline Transport Pilot with an Airplane Multi-Engine Land rating and a Cessna 510 (Citation Mustang) single-pilot type rating.