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The World Series of Poker Main Event begins today. The Main Event is unquestionably the focal point of the entire World Series of Poker, which now consists of 100 separate tournaments over 7 weeks. It costs $10,000 to enter—same as it...
If you put a creative work out into the world and someone has a very negative reaction to it, I find that often the best thing to say is: Thanks for the feedback, sorry it wasn't for you. Now if they made some factually untrue statement,...
M.G. Siegler: A couple years back, I was banned by Instagram. Because I happen to know a few people there, I got it resolved and my account back online relatively quickly. But I never got an answer for what actually happened. A few...
“No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much discussed...
You don’t have to blog like me. You don’t have to differentiate by post kind. You don’t have to put full contents in your feed. You don’t have to keep a library of “maybe-some-day” drafts so long that you’ll never reach the bottom. You...
Notsu continues to expand their lineup of fountain-pen-friendly organizational products, including more blue Centre Rise notecard holders, new sticky notes, and a new set of “To Do” desk pads. We’ve also received a fresh shipment of...
EveryMac.com: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched. Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac...
Who's in a town square at any given moment is mostly chance. Sometimes you land on an empty scene, sometimes a small crowd, and there's no way to know who else might show up, or when. But it doesn't have to stay that way. If you've added...
In no particular order: 1. No, I’m not feeling particularly engaged with the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, but that’s mostly because a malignant narcissist decided to make a national celebration mostly about himself, and...
I was far removed from Final Fantasy and PlayStation when this came out so I had no idea of its existence until recently. Above is the technical demo for a remake of Final Fantasy VII on the PS3, presented at E3 in 2005. Judging by the...
I saw some things on my walk in the #SanFrancisco Upper Haight this morning. Page Street, across from the International School of SF: Sewer covers decorated with Mario things. A block west, near 1260 Page: Sidewalk carp. Jeremy Novy...
I’ve had a couple of people ask, so here’s one solution that will do it: Copy this RSS url for my feed: https://blog.mattglassman.net/feed/ Paste it into the “feed url” box on this website. Add your email address, and then confirm when...
I was sixteen, two months from seventeen, for the Bicentennial. That August, at the Montgomery County Maryland Fair, I bought this Jimmy Carter for President posterI either lost it or tossed to my great regret now. Republicans viciously...
Dear Constant Reader, After not feeling terribly motivated for a while, I did a bunch of costuming in June. Most of it was improvements to existing acts, which I had been meaning to get to for a while. I’ve been using the same pair of...
Det er torsdag og klokka er 13:37 her i Brasil når jeg begynner å skrive dette. Sånn rent teknisk skal jeg egentlig være på jobb nå, men siden jeg jobber alene i et arkiv og uansett kommer til å bli ferdig med siste rest av oppgavene...