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The full title to Jay Greenspan’s book is ‘Hunting Fish, A Cross Country Search For America’s Worst Poker Players”. Greenspan talked an editor into funding his road trip across America. The premise was that he’d play in cash games as he went and write articles about the interesting situations and characters he found along the […]

I enjoy good books on poker. I like the strategy discussion, the tips, and the experienced insights but tend to skim over the sample hands. Poker hand analysis is deadly boring! Phil Gordon’s latest book is nothing but hold’em poker hands and hand analysis. Boring? Not! I followed every hand and thoroughly enjoyed Phil’s setup and analysis. […]

Seth Godin, master squid at Squidoo celebrated the org’s 50,000th lens by creating a “favorite things” challenge. All lensmasters were challenged to create a “favorite things” lens  with the earnings going to a favorite charity. His theory is that if all lensmaster created a new lens pointed at a single charity, it would have an […]

Decided to make Laurence Shames the second in my Discover mystery writers series on HubPages. HubPages added a nice feature that allows you to group selected HubPages. Then when you are on one of the pages in your group, there is a pull down list of other group pages. Click and link. Neat!
Laurence Shames seems […]

I’ve started a new series of HubPages on mystery writers that I like. My favorites include many of the big names, but also include a lot of relatively unknown names. So the series is called Discover … the first is Discover Harold Adams. I’ve also entered Harold Adam’s character Carl Wilcox in the official Quirky […]

John Keller lives a very quiet, ordinary life. He’s single. Lives in Manhattan. Had a dog as a pet for a while. Had a midlife crisis, sort of, and thought about moving to a small town. Collects stamps, his one small obsession. Thinks about retirement, but has been making some large stamp purchases that eat […]

The detective – Pete Amsterdam, in The Naked Detective by Lawrence Shames, makes the cut as a quirky detective, by being a complete fraud as a detective. He hangs out his PI shingle as a business tax shelter on the advise of his accountant. He is living a good life in Key West that consists […]

I just finished reading, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson. I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend the book. There are many things that fascinate me about the man, but his general cleverness and adaptability got me thinking about how his approach and style would overlay with today’s world. I think he would take all […]

Turing Hopper is the name given to an artificial intelligence personality, or AIP, by her programmer creator Zack. He created several AIP’s as part of an online research service. The AIP’s deal with clients, do the research, and are programmed to interact like a human researcher would – chat, anticipate and even throw in a […]

One of the books that inspired me as a youth was Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. As a kid, I found reading it to be slow going, and raised my eyebrows at some of his moral posturing. But I was impressed by the drive and accomplishment of the man.
I’ve been attracted to any story, article, web site […]