I know, its already Tuesday, and I’m just now getting around to posting the happenings of GDC on Friday. Its been busy, cut me some slack. At any rate, Friday at GDC was like most final days of a conference: lots of people with suitcases in tow, gradually diminishing population throughout the [...]

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For the record, the Boeing 717 sucks! ok, ok, ok, probably it was just my seat that sucked, but here was the view out of my window.
All was good when I got to the hotel, though. Hotel Union Square is fantastic! Its close to everything, with an easy walk to [...]

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The TwisterSisters is a site that you MUST bookmark if you’re into tornadoes and other extremes of midwestern storms. Peggy and Melanie (oh, and no, they’re not biological sisters, but they are sisters in spirit) spend their springs and summers chasing after storms all throughout the midwest, and they’ve been very successful in their [...]

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As usual, Saturday before the race, my bro-in-law Ryan and I went to Muncie and met up with my friend Steve. We enjoyed our traditional Greek’s breadsticks, and weird beer downtown at Herot. Herot is a pub devoted to all manner of beer from all over the world, and like its literary namesake, [...]

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The mailman finally brought something good instead of his usual packet of bills.

I missed this race last year, and was bummed. This will be my first race of the season, next will be the Indy 500. More importantly, though this will be Tab’s first IndyCar race ever! We’re volunteering for the [...]

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The IndyCar Series is about to start up again, and this year I’m going to take a stab at running some odds (purely for fun) on the various drivers to see how good my insight and prognostication are. The first race of the season is this Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This year is [...]

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The Gambling Geek has served me well for a couple of years, but its starting to become a bit defocused. In an effort to refocus this blog back on gaming, gambling, and the occasional science tidbit, I’ve created a new blog for Tab and I, Tall Tales from the Patterson Ranch. This [...]

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Well, race weekend was a lot of fun. My dad and I went to Carburetion Day (not that there are any carburetors except in the museum any more). It was a great day to be at the track. We ended up sitting just to the left of the yard-o-bricks (start/finish line) and [...]

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Well, the spring semester is over, the Math and Physics for Games I course went really well (for the first time through), I have a new routine for calculating the background counts in HISCALE and data reduction has begun again, and I have an outline for the astronomy text. All in all, the spring [...]

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Well, as if I didn’t have my hands full already with my work at the college and at FunTech, and the ongoing remodel of the house, I found another project to drain my time and money. With much sadness, my a good friend of mine passed over ownership and stewardship of a 1972 Buick [...]

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