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Las Vegas Magical Weather Week
Las Vegas’ “Magical Weather Week” is a term I coined a few years back to describe this process that happens usually the second week of September or so where the weather just suddenly changes from summer hot to absolutely perfect. The daytime heat doesn’t get so hot; the warm nights begin to get more mild. It doesn’t happen gradually over a month or so. It happens suddenly – magically.
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Las Vegas Web Worker Woes
There’s one thing that is the suck about being a web worker in Las Vegas: technological enhancement proximity (or a lack thereof, rather.)
I have a very large project that I have been working on and working towards achieving for some months now and to that end I’ve had some personal remediation that I’ve had to do in la manière du monde with regards to the world wide web technologies such as xhtml, css, and current web standards, php, mysql, content management systems, templating systems, and server side scripting languages.
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Las Vegas Monsoon Season Is Officially Under Way!
I was sitting here in my living room, replying to some emails and catching up on a few things online when I heard it: the sweet, violent, glorious sound of thunder!
I’ve written before about how the one thing I miss about living where I grew up in Texas is the weather. There is something so amazing and so emotionally invigorating about thunderstorms to me. Serious rains storms make me feel so relaxed and so at peace… You just don’t get a lot of them here in the desert. When it does rain, though, it makes it all the more a treat for me.
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7/7/7 – It’s Your Lucky Day! – Thousands Marry in Las Vegas
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Okay, it’s true: I don’t believe in luck. Big time superstitions – even small, insidious ones – can be the undoing of any gambler, but mostly, I have always been big on mathematics and science and not so much on defying the inevitable. The law of large numbers is on your side, so long as you’re gambling with an edge. I’ve seen that principle in practice so many times, if I have a “belief,” it’s in the math.
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