Public Enemies Photo blog
LOL - I can't believe no one told me Monday was spelled wrong! You guys are getting lax.
LOL - I can't believe no one told me Monday was spelled wrong! You guys are getting lax.
Watertown had 5.3 inches of snow. Columbus 1 inch.
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WHY did the Packers not squib kick that final kickoff. I remember yelling that at the TV as the ball was in the air! grrrrrrrrr!! Hello!! Knock! Knock! Anybody home? Let's see BEFORE that final kickoff Carolina was averaging about 40 yards per return and ONLY because Crosby - the last line of defense, was the guy actually tackling the guy!
FIRE THE SPECIAL TEAMS COACH!! He is the reason we don't have Ryan as our punter!
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Wednesday is the first Wednesday of the month so anyone looking for something to do drop in at the Kurth. If you do you MIGHT be one of the first to taste Creamy Dreamy. After one week in the bottle I sampled it last night and it's the best Bud I've ever had! YUMMO - BUD! LOL
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Remember - Friday will be field trip to the Columbus Water Works. I'll have things hammered out soon but my Water Contact is on vacation until Thursday - I'm thinking we can meet at The Kurth 6:00 to 6:30ish and go there (where ever it is). I hope they have free samples!
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I forgot my two brains today. I cleverly disguise my brains as thumb drives. Those that know me know that I keep my life on many spread sheets. I think if I had a brain operation they would take the top of my head off, peer in and see nothing but columns and rows! So today I will NOT be getting two sets of beer labels, and I will not sell 100 postcards to Walgreens and I can't update Amazing Race or update Football numbers (all on my breaks of course) and I won't update my beer pipeline either.
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I was reading about the City Council and was feeling sort of good about things but the article kept getting more and more negative.
First of all, for all the whiners that complain about Columbus tax's. For the 7th year in a row the mill rate is going down. Last year the mil rate was 9.35 per $1000, this year it will be $8 per $1000. In 2002 it was $12.13 per $1000.
Then there was all sorts of switching funds from one bucket to another and Roger Sneath says "I want us to return the city to a strong city council/weak mayor system. Sounds like a coup doesn't it? Then he goes on and diss's the Mayor saying Mayor Nancy Osterhaus' term has weakened the city council.
THEN I read that all these things happened while the Mayor is in the Hospital.
GEEZ - GAME ON!!
Personally I'm not on any side - I have issues with both City Council AND the Mayor. But I have issues with many things. BUT - they are all trivial.
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Here is an exciting photo from downtown Columbus:
Ever wonder what "K of P" means???
It stands for "Knights of Prometheus" a men's fraternal organization dedicated to preserve world peace and more importantly "lantern making". Another cool things about this building was that in 1895 it was it was a prototype design by N.E. Beamon. He only saw three buildings of his own design built. This one had the distinction of having a room with no entrance. He forgot to put a doorway into the room and it was completely bricked up before it was noticed.
There will be six historical homes in Columbus to tour this coming Saturday and for the first time a downtown historical apartment (see above). Tickets are $12 and $15 the day of the event. Call the Visitor Center 623-5325 for more information. DJ and I are doing the tour (with camera). Come on Down! Get to know your Columbus.
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Anybody see 60 Minutes last night about online Poker cheating? Most of it was accurate but some was not. I won't say I was actively involved with catching the guys but that was in my hay day of online poker and I was following the group of players that would catch the dude. It was all rather exciting watching it all happen.
There is a large online community and we all have a piece of software called Poker Tracker. It tracks OUR play and anybody we play against. I mean EVERYTHING they do is put into a database.
So a few guys in the nosebleed games ($25,000 pots) were noticing a few players that were SO bad and winning SO much that they felt something was up. Hundreds players started to gather information on certain players and it was found that some people were winning at 15 deviations. To put it another way - they were hitting a 1 in a million chance 6 times in a row.
So one the the forum members contacted Absolute Poker and asked for a hand history of his play. What he received was a spread sheet with EVERYTHING - including the IP address's of them WATCHING the games along with every car of every hand.
It seemed that whenever a player would log on and start to play a certain IP address would soon log on and watch. Over and over. So the players started snooping around and tried to contact that IP address which - oddly - was no longer in use when the persons address was found.
It was at that point when it was decided a forum was not the best place to play private eye and I lost contact with what was going on until it was over.
I have never worried about cheaters. For one thing I was making a bundle playing four low limit $5/$10 online poker games at once. The cheaters I felt were in the BIG games. ANYWAY - I'm getting off topic with more stuff to say.
I'll explain someday how I got the alias of Grinder (I was the 1st "Grinder" on the internet BTW). I was a card counter in Black Jack and ran a team. Cool stories there! :-) I think I'm banned from Hole in the Wall casino up north.
BTW - they say online poker can not be trusted? I say LIFE poker is worse. Party Poker has dealt over 3 BILLION hands and they have the hand history of every one of those. Can't do that in a live game.
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BEER - thanks Left Hand Louie for the compliment of Sean's West Coast Blaster (SWCB). Funny story (at the expense of Sean).
I gave Sean a 6-pack to take to Chicago for Thanksgiving. As we all know Sean is a Fermentor meaning he brews beer, mead, wine, sauerkraut and so forth. If he can get a yeast to fart he'll do it. So his brother is drinking a SWCB and says "This is the best beer you have ever made" At which point Sean says "Of course I had to remind him that I didn't make it. The conversation died for a little bit."
I read that and had a little coffee coming out of my nose.
I see somebody poked who'sinmybasement and he woke up out of his slumber. He commented on my ability to put up a weather bubble for bad weather and how PERHAPS the March weather bubble had something to do with June floods! If he was THINKING straight (obviously still in a foggy haze) he would realize that it was the Columbus government responsible (not any one in particular, just a vague wave at government as a whole).
My weather bubble only has a butterfly effect for a 1 week period and then the June Pacific High and Arizona Thermal Low take over again.
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AND LASTLY!
Deppfan sent this to me - it's an excellent trailer for Watchmen.
Rumor has it Frost/Nixon premiering Friday will have a Public Enemies trailer.
And I hope you are all going to see Bob Wagner's (1st asst Director of Public Enemies) "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Bob has been working his way up the Director ladder with "National Treasure" being his first 1st Asst Director (the guy that actually does all the work). Curious was his 3rd 1st Asst and Public Enemies was his fourth and I feel the hardest one yet!
Go see it - vote for Bob!!
Rod
FIRE THE SPECIAL TEAMS COACH!! He is the reason we don't have Ryan as our punter!
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Wednesday is the first Wednesday of the month so anyone looking for something to do drop in at the Kurth. If you do you MIGHT be one of the first to taste Creamy Dreamy. After one week in the bottle I sampled it last night and it's the best Bud I've ever had! YUMMO - BUD! LOL========================
Remember - Friday will be field trip to the Columbus Water Works. I'll have things hammered out soon but my Water Contact is on vacation until Thursday - I'm thinking we can meet at The Kurth 6:00 to 6:30ish and go there (where ever it is). I hope they have free samples!
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I forgot my two brains today. I cleverly disguise my brains as thumb drives. Those that know me know that I keep my life on many spread sheets. I think if I had a brain operation they would take the top of my head off, peer in and see nothing but columns and rows! So today I will NOT be getting two sets of beer labels, and I will not sell 100 postcards to Walgreens and I can't update Amazing Race or update Football numbers (all on my breaks of course) and I won't update my beer pipeline either.
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I was reading about the City Council and was feeling sort of good about things but the article kept getting more and more negative.
First of all, for all the whiners that complain about Columbus tax's. For the 7th year in a row the mill rate is going down. Last year the mil rate was 9.35 per $1000, this year it will be $8 per $1000. In 2002 it was $12.13 per $1000.
Then there was all sorts of switching funds from one bucket to another and Roger Sneath says "I want us to return the city to a strong city council/weak mayor system. Sounds like a coup doesn't it? Then he goes on and diss's the Mayor saying Mayor Nancy Osterhaus' term has weakened the city council.
THEN I read that all these things happened while the Mayor is in the Hospital.
GEEZ - GAME ON!!
Personally I'm not on any side - I have issues with both City Council AND the Mayor. But I have issues with many things. BUT - they are all trivial.
=========================
Here is an exciting photo from downtown Columbus:
Ever wonder what "K of P" means???It stands for "Knights of Prometheus" a men's fraternal organization dedicated to preserve world peace and more importantly "lantern making". Another cool things about this building was that in 1895 it was it was a prototype design by N.E. Beamon. He only saw three buildings of his own design built. This one had the distinction of having a room with no entrance. He forgot to put a doorway into the room and it was completely bricked up before it was noticed.
There will be six historical homes in Columbus to tour this coming Saturday and for the first time a downtown historical apartment (see above). Tickets are $12 and $15 the day of the event. Call the Visitor Center 623-5325 for more information. DJ and I are doing the tour (with camera). Come on Down! Get to know your Columbus.
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Anybody see 60 Minutes last night about online Poker cheating? Most of it was accurate but some was not. I won't say I was actively involved with catching the guys but that was in my hay day of online poker and I was following the group of players that would catch the dude. It was all rather exciting watching it all happen.
There is a large online community and we all have a piece of software called Poker Tracker. It tracks OUR play and anybody we play against. I mean EVERYTHING they do is put into a database.
So a few guys in the nosebleed games ($25,000 pots) were noticing a few players that were SO bad and winning SO much that they felt something was up. Hundreds players started to gather information on certain players and it was found that some people were winning at 15 deviations. To put it another way - they were hitting a 1 in a million chance 6 times in a row.
So one the the forum members contacted Absolute Poker and asked for a hand history of his play. What he received was a spread sheet with EVERYTHING - including the IP address's of them WATCHING the games along with every car of every hand.
It seemed that whenever a player would log on and start to play a certain IP address would soon log on and watch. Over and over. So the players started snooping around and tried to contact that IP address which - oddly - was no longer in use when the persons address was found.
It was at that point when it was decided a forum was not the best place to play private eye and I lost contact with what was going on until it was over.
I have never worried about cheaters. For one thing I was making a bundle playing four low limit $5/$10 online poker games at once. The cheaters I felt were in the BIG games. ANYWAY - I'm getting off topic with more stuff to say.
I'll explain someday how I got the alias of Grinder (I was the 1st "Grinder" on the internet BTW). I was a card counter in Black Jack and ran a team. Cool stories there! :-) I think I'm banned from Hole in the Wall casino up north.
BTW - they say online poker can not be trusted? I say LIFE poker is worse. Party Poker has dealt over 3 BILLION hands and they have the hand history of every one of those. Can't do that in a live game.
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BEER - thanks Left Hand Louie for the compliment of Sean's West Coast Blaster (SWCB). Funny story (at the expense of Sean).
I gave Sean a 6-pack to take to Chicago for Thanksgiving. As we all know Sean is a Fermentor meaning he brews beer, mead, wine, sauerkraut and so forth. If he can get a yeast to fart he'll do it. So his brother is drinking a SWCB and says "This is the best beer you have ever made" At which point Sean says "Of course I had to remind him that I didn't make it. The conversation died for a little bit."
I read that and had a little coffee coming out of my nose.
I see somebody poked who'sinmybasement and he woke up out of his slumber. He commented on my ability to put up a weather bubble for bad weather and how PERHAPS the March weather bubble had something to do with June floods! If he was THINKING straight (obviously still in a foggy haze) he would realize that it was the Columbus government responsible (not any one in particular, just a vague wave at government as a whole).
My weather bubble only has a butterfly effect for a 1 week period and then the June Pacific High and Arizona Thermal Low take over again.
=======================
AND LASTLY!
Deppfan sent this to me - it's an excellent trailer for Watchmen.
Rumor has it Frost/Nixon premiering Friday will have a Public Enemies trailer.
And I hope you are all going to see Bob Wagner's (1st asst Director of Public Enemies) "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Bob has been working his way up the Director ladder with "National Treasure" being his first 1st Asst Director (the guy that actually does all the work). Curious was his 3rd 1st Asst and Public Enemies was his fourth and I feel the hardest one yet!
Go see it - vote for Bob!!
Rod
hmmmm - could the newspaper be wrong??
ReplyDeleteK of P COULDstand for Knights of Pythias who is also a fraternal organization and secret society founded at Washington, DC on 19 February 1864.
hmmmmmm
Mill rate goes down 5%, assessments go up 10%; in the end the City (all cities, not just Columbus) magically gets the amount needed to make the budget work.
ReplyDeleteMark - They do it by not plowing Vista Circle in the winter or taking down flags.
ReplyDeleteRod, while you are mentioning the home tour, allow me to add that we are still in need of docents for many of the houses. We do shifts of 2.5 hours, I believe. Please email me at pbhgirl at gmail dot com if you can help! December 6 from 12-5pm. I have to turn my computer in for repairs tomorrow, but I'll still be checking my email about once a day.
ReplyDeleteI think the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Promethus are arch enemies, divided by their love and hate of fire wrangling...
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad someone is reading the articles in the paper! K of P...whatever you want it to be. Don't we have enough secret groups already? :o)
ReplyDeleteWe have a paper?
ReplyDeleteLHL - Don't you read the Columbus paper????
ReplyDelete"Fire Wrangling" in that time period was a very competitive industry. It is alleged that in April of 1898 the D.C. district 13 of the K of Pythias road quietly into Columbus on their donkeys (that Washington/Donkey connection was actually the event that gave birth to the Democratic party but that's another newspaper article) with a plan to infiltrate the Columbus K of Promethus headquarters on James Street. They quietly purchased the vacant land located at 122 N. Dickason Blvd. (now Studio 28) in May of 1898 and completed construction of that existing structure in September of 1898. Upon completion of that building they opened a habidashery shop ironically called “Pythias Secret” specializing in the sale of bloomers and undergarments. Three weeks later on a cold October evening they busted through the common wall and swiped 42 of the 63 patented designs for the K of Promethus lanterns. From the interior of the main building one can still see the silhouette of the opening now long since closed. The K of Pythias slipped out of town under cover of darkness never to be seen again. That event was forever referred to as the Great Flaming Bloomer Heist of 98. Many of you probably don’t know this but the City of Columbus sponsored a Flaming Bloomer Festival from 1899 into the early 1940’s. There was no greater honor than to be the Columbus Queen of the Flaming Bloomers.
ReplyDeleteHistory, in this case is hilarious!!!
ReplyDeleteAwww I thought the field trip was on the 12th! I am not sure if I can make it this Friday bummer :(
ReplyDeleteInteresting History facts Rod!
I for one am dying to see the benjiman button movie!!
Take care all!!
We can change it to the 12th if all want that - perhaps I was mixed up . . .ME????
ReplyDeletewhat? no wait. ummmm
Todd - WTF?
I'm finding no reference to the Flaming Bloomer Festival and am beginning to think it is a cleaver rouse!
ReplyDelete>>There was no greater honor than to be the Columbus Queen of the Flaming Bloomers.
ReplyDeleteaka The Columbus Flaming Queen ?
That's a coronation I'd drive down to see!
M
ReplyDeleteAs odd luck would have it a Columbus immigrant chicken farmer by the name Ebb Spragtight entered the Flaming Bloomer Queen Competition in 1942. He roared into town in his 1936 Dodge pickup sporting a fresh pink paint job with a rainbow colored feather boa (another first) flowing from the AM antenna. As you can guess the sight of Ebb sporting high heels and a dress just ever so slightly above the knee was more than any small Midwestern town could imagine in 1942. The nail in the coffin of the Flaming Bloomer Festival was Ebb Spragtight’s photo on the front page of the then Columbus Journal Republican.
I'm thinking of a Public Enemies / Flaming Bloomer Queen float nest year.
ReplyDeleteBTW - todd - that was me yelling at you from teh street in the parade!
nice coat!!
Why didn't I see you?
ReplyDeleteI'll be sporting the coat for the home tour as well.
Public Enemies Photo blog......
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Julie
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