Archive for July, 2009
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Case Study: The Jersey Surf model of drum and bugle corps – part 2
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Given those sorts of struggles on top of other small or big struggles that they face, questions arise: should they have stayed in open class? should they have reached for a longer term goal of becoming world class but with more of a full tour model? is this “in between” model [...]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Case Study: The Jersey Surf model of drum and bugle corps – part 1
The Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps are in their cinderella year in World Class this year, and as an individual who has some personal investment in the corps as a former staff member and the mentor of one of the current staff members who likes to chat it up with me, i felt like [...]
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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
maximizing value and ease of decision: same hand, three different scenarios
last night when i went to the casino to play poker i ended up winning a pretty big pot by rivering quad queens over my opponent who had turned the nut flush, and as i replay the hand in my head it further enforces how slow-playing a strong hand is not always the best idea [...]
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
bored with mobile phones
verizon has been sending me emails saying that i now qualify for my “new every two”. i upgraded my work iPhone’s OS to 3.0.
neither of these things exicted me, and from this i think i’ve discovered that i’m pretty much over the newest mobile phone trend. i like having a phone on the [...]