Broken Wing

Various

• Thomas L. Friedman thinks that we should lower the bounty on Osama bin Laden because it is feeding his ego. Hey! I have an idea. How about we take him off of the "Most wanted" list, and put him at the top of the "Least wanted" list. He'll be so demoralized he'll cry himself all the way to FBI headquarters to turn himself in.
• How many drinks does it take to kill my internal censor? About one.
  The scene: A downtown Minneapolis bar mens room with troughs instead of urinals
  Guy: Troughs? What is this, the Metrodome?
  Me: Yeah, all it needs is a shitty football team.
  
• You know how your cell phone shows how long your call was when you hang up? For some reason I take pleasure in keeping the time under a minute if I'm leaving a voicemail, because I know for billing purposes the time is rounded up to the higher minute, so if I keep it under a minute I'm using the least possible amount of minutes. But when it's the weekend, I take even more pleasure in voicemail calls that take like 1:02, because I think of it as lost revenue for my phone company. Thoughts like these are the reason I haven't updated in so long.
• Question: Do you always wear those pants?
  Answer: Yes. Even in the shower.
• I've been obsessed with Blackjack ever since returning from Las Vegas. My gambling friends seem to think that it is about even money if you play smart, but I'm not convinced. To test it, I've been running a simulator that will play against various types of players and keep track of scores. I have lots of results already, but I have a few more player types to try, like a machine learning version and a simple card counting version. I'll let you know if I find anything interesting. If you are a programmer and want to make a player, let me know.