On Saturday, Aaron Turtleman, IT manager for a local software business, hit the jackpot at the Tulalip Resort Casino playing nickel slots, winning a whopping $20 after spending only 30 cents.
“I was so surprised,” said Turtleman. “I never expected I’d ever be this lucky. I was just hoping to make between $5 and [...]
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Local man hits jackpot at casino
Posted in Our World Today on August 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Zimbardo puts an end to San Francisco
Posted in Our World Today on July 24, 2008 | No Comments »
37 years after psychologist Philip Zimbardo ended the Stanford Prison experiment early, citing problems with ethics, Zimbardo does the same with the San Francisco experiment, citing similar ethical concerns.
For his San Francisco experiment, Zimbardo purchased 100 acres of deserted farmland by Oakland, California in 1972, and populated it with approximately one million participants. Participants [...]
East vs West: Fireworks
Posted in Our World Today on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Growing up in the US, I’ve always associated fireworks with Independence Day and New Years celebrations. On these special days, big cities and hillbillies would light up the sky with fireworks displays, and everybody would go, “ooh… ah…”
But fireworks weren’t always used for this purpose. Back when the Chinese invented gunpowder sometime between 9AD and [...]
Happy America Day!
Posted in Our World Today on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
On this day, the day of American Independence, wave around your American flag, have some American apple pie, and try some of these activities that celebrate things that are uniquely American:
Charge something to your credit card. Americans love credit! In fact, we can’t get enough of it. Fortunately for us, predatory lenders can’t give [...]
Euro 2008 and an end to an era?
Posted in Our World Today on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
This past Sunday, Germans all over Germany had their hearts broken as Spain shamed Germany 1-0 in the finals of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament. What does this mean for Spain? That they won! But what does this mean for the game of soccer? So much more…
So much more…
Euro 2008 was actually the first UEFA [...]
Melissa Theuriau and why the Web exists
Posted in Al Observes Things, Our World Today on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Why? So that some time in the distant future, some guy could spend 10 minutes learning html and create this web site (safe for work), posting 29 screen caps of the French news anchorwoman Melissa Theuriau. Mr Berners-Lee, I have one thing to say to [...]
Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Downtime
Posted in Our World Today on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Are you a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Or any Star Trek series for that matter? If so, you’ve probably wondered:
Why is the ship constantly malfunctioning?
Why don’t members of the crew ever have to use the bathroom?
Why are all of the command officers constantly going on away missions together?
The fact of the matter [...]
Our World Today - Tomorrow (40 years from now)
Posted in Our World Today on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
40 years ago, it would’ve been near impossible to predict what life 40 years from then (now) would be like. Some guessed that people would be driving in “space-pods,” commuting to neighboring “city-pods,” listening to their portable “i-Pods.” How wrong they were!
Though the future is hard to predict, it’s easy to say that our world [...]
Understanding - Fake conflict diamonds
Posted in Our World Today, Understanding Finance on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Stocks are so pedestrian these days. Every publicly traded company seems to offer them. And they’re so impersonal too. When was the last time you saw a person you saw a man drop to one knee to propose to a woman, offering a stock certificate?
These days, all the rage is in conflict diamonds. What women [...]
"No we can’t" - The National SADD Society responds to Obama
Posted in Our World Today on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s a big day in politics as Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont hold their presidential primaries. In the spirit of the occasion, I’ve decided to post about politics. The big question on the Democrats’ side: Clinton or Obama?
To gain a new perspective on the question, I met up with John Mirth, the director of National SADD Society, at [...]
