Entries from June 2008

Congressional Hearing for H.R. 5767

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Today, there will be a hearing in the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. On their agenda is the Barney Frank and Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 5767 Payments System Protection Act. If you’re so inclined, you can watch a webcast of the proceedings! Unfortunately, I’ll be running errands most of the day [...]

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New PPA Website and Video

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The Poker Players Alliance has a new website and man does it look great. Its a Wordpress-based page and its given me some ideas on how to update some of my other sites. (I expect this one will remain as it is for now.) If you’re already a member of the PPA, [...]

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2008 LearJet 550k at Texas

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Here are reasons #1 and #2 for being a member of the Indy Downforce Fan Club! I had enough points build up from the first part of the season to earn two FREE tickets to the Bombardier LearJet 500k at the Texas Motor Speedway.…

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2008 LearJet 550k at Texas

June 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here are reasons #1 and #2 for being a member of the Indy Downforce Fan Club! I had enough points build up from the first part of the season to earn two FREE tickets to the Bombardier LearJet 500k at the Texas Motor Speedway.

My brother and I left at 0600hr Saturday morning and started [...]

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Tags: Family · Motorsports

2008 Indy 500 Race Day

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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, its dimly lit, and decorated with various standards, weapons, and dead animals. Its the only place I’ve ever been where I can say that I’ve never had the same beer twice, and I’ve been there many many times!…

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Tags: Motorsports

Indy 500 2008

June 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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