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Setup Pour one of the little Chessex boxes of 36 six-sided dice in the middle of the table to make the pool. Turns Each player has a bank, zero or more dice kept face-up in front of them. On their turn, a player first takes two or more dice from the pool and announces the Continue reading Dice Game: Sevening
Take turns sitting out a hand as the fluffer. The dealer deals two hands per player to the fluffer, and then the fluffer chooses half the hands to be used for the round. The intent is to force more excitement.
Fred Minnick just released his well-regarded ranking of the top 100 American whiskies for 2022. He started with 800 whiskies, and over several rounds, narrowed things down to his top 100. All else equal, I suspect that higher proof whiskies tend to do better in this ranking. Is this because undiluted, cask-strength whiskies are more complex Continue reading Tasting a Higher Proof
We should expect Trump to announce electoral victory on the night of November 3rd. Or earlier the next day. This will be due to some combination of stronger-than-expected in-person voting results and discrediting mail-in votes due to supposed fraud. By this point, ACB will be seated on the Supreme Court. With Florida in 2000 as Continue reading Like the Electoral College but Worse
The recipe for the famous Tartine country loaf is less helpful than advertising for the bakery and new age woo woo. Pretentious garbage, really. Here is my consolidating upon a practical, clear recipe for sourdough bread. The only ingredients should be flour, water, and salt. The bread should be a crusty, rustic, (mostly) whole grain. Grow Continue reading Bro. Do you even bake?
Wanna go to that kaiseki in The Mission? They have a 7 address, so our whole crew will be there. My rents just moved into the 123 High Street building. Now we can meet at the pub on the corner. He does not stand a chance of a getting a star in Fam Three. The Continue reading Going Out While Social Distancing
Dinner at Saison was really solid. Spectacular service with attention to detail, an open kitchen with almost-haphazard arrangements of tables around the high-ceilinged, taxidermied space. The smell of the wood-fired stove filled the room. Our winter menu was from late December, 2019. My favorite beverage was a sake, Shirataki s Jozen Mizunogotoshi (junmai ginjo). We started Continue reading Saison
Here is a list of the philanthropies and charities where we donated this Giving Tuesday, after another messy year of the Dumpster administration: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, about 14%) Doctors Without Borders (14%) Earthjustice (14%) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF, 14%) ProPublica (14%) Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES, 14%) Southern Poverty…
Texas Hold Em is usually what people mean when they think of poker now-a-days. After the last poker night I attended, I thought of a variant of Texas Hold Em inspired by the card shopping in Dominion that adds more reveals of partial information to the game, while keeping things essentially Texas Hold Em -like. Give Continue reading Texas Hold Em Variant: Buying the River
Like seemingly everyone who works on the buy side, I have been reading the Zuckerman book about Jim Simons of Renaissance. The book spends a lot of time with the big personalities who have worked at Renaissance over the years. However there are some mathematical and technology hints: Jim Simons’s academic field is geometric invariants Continue reading Notes on The Man Who Solved The Market (Jim…