Good times in hot dry Las Vegas!  Well, dry except for the flash-flooding (and crazy winds too ( Read more... )

Today is the fifth birthday of one of the most legendary threads I have ever read (and I have read hundreds of articles with multi-hundred comment sets on dozens of comment-prolific forums.  Aside from the incredible OP action, the comments (especially what used to be muffin with tentacle's, who is now anonymous around comment 120 or so) reign ( Read more... )

Ack!  Will not studying much in six months hurt?  Watch what happens when I drink and play next...

10-10 +123, expected to win 12

( Nitty Gritty )

SO what's with no FB Doppelganger week again?  (sigh) I guess I'll have to continue my own.  Memory Lane anyone?

Last year's submission #1, #2, and #3
Last year's submission #4


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Hey-o sports fans!  I returned to the legendary Albany NYE tourney after skipping two (for financial reasons, not lack of addiction).  It feels good to be back in the crease (yes, I know the humorous potential here, but it's still less dirty than 'five-hole')  It was fun seeing some folks I hadn't seen for 3-4 years. Also playing bingos not played ( Read more... )

Hey all you ISC junkies!  I'm trying to use the Chat feature on the application and my Dell laptop simply cordons off the feature into the start bar without actually opening it.  All attempts to ( Read more... )

This weekend was awesome.  I drew 25/36 blanks and went 14-4 +1300+ for the [ETA: Div. 2] gold.  I particularly loved:
( Paydirt... )

 My eXchange with the winningest of food bloggers I know (xpmorgan ) has spawned the release of a recipe I had bubbling in the cauldrons of season past.  I originally got it from lowcarbfriends.com which means (as someone veg. and/or Spanish-speaking might have grokked) IT'S TIME TO PUT THE MEAT ON!!! Unabashed carnivorism* has never been so tasty.  I ( Read more... )

Sometimes I find that in order for internet exchanges to be entertaining they have to be either meaningfully constructive or trivially funny, but are too uncommonly both.  The Average Observer's conundrum is always how much they should get to judge someone else's work, attitude, appearance, etc. when they are none of the critical parties in ( Read more... )

 Hey, it's February right?  Where's the love, FB?  Sigh.  Fine, you made me do it.  These are not perfect twins by any means, but certainly if movies were to be made featuring  these scrabblers, the respective actors would be at the top of the casting lists.  Fair notice:  most of the actors of my height and girth have the wrong hair, eyes, or face ( Read more... )