Brewers, Time Machines, Three Cups of Tea, Wind

Finally, it's here. Opening Day! Last year I attended opening day in Milwaukee. I asked my buddy balderdash if anybody was bringing "good" beer and he said probably just Miller Lite. So I picked up some of Ale Asylums Ambergedden. WELL, little did I know that for a few hours before the 1st pitch we would be playing drinking games and doing shots!!

Of course when THEY lost they would take a few gulps of Miller Light which is like 3.9% ABV. when I lost I would take gulps of Ambergedden which is 7% ABV. Add in a few real tasty shots of some concoction and . . . . I was RIPPED.  Now I see why they have auto focus on cameras!  Who Knew!! 

Anyway - this years Brewers by most counts are suppose to come in 3rd place behind the Reds and the Cards. The Cubs are way way way low and I'm considering betting against them in EVERY game this year.  I'm 2-0 so far in baseball wagering, but maybe I'll bet against the Astro's who will spend their last year in the NL.

What I'm NOT going to do is bet on or against the Brewers in every game. I did pretty well and won a lot of . . .peanuts but man that played with my brain. It is so so hard to bet against your own team!!  So this year I'm trying something new, at least till it crash's and burns. I've been working the numbers and running the simulations.

As you know I'm a simulation guy.  Back in the day I was part of a project to test the worlds most sophisticated prototype Black Jack card counting simulation software (this is where I got my alias Grinder, I was a little famous in Black Jack circles). I could "play" 1 billion hands (a little overkill) of Black Jack overnight and was in contact with the worlds leading Black Jack players .  I was pretty good at card counting.  But then Texas Hold'm came along and I became an expert small stakes poker player (wrote articles for Full Tilt Magazine) .   Just a little bragging from the past.

Back on topic

I have peanuts on the following teams today

Texas -180
Minnesota +123
Tampa Bay +117
Colorado -122
The Angels -205
San Diego -130
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OOPS - a good friend of mine was just fined 1 million dollars. Greg Mortenson who wrote Three Cups of Tea was a bad boy. I met Greg when I was helping with the Homeless Book Club of Madison and he came to give a little talk about the book and it seems some money that was donated went to vacations and so forth. HEY - why not, he put in the work.  :-) 

Speaking of giving back. I see the doctors and nurses that gave faux medical excuses during the protests have been fined. Big surprise there. Oh and I see that the Walkers estimate of $7.5 million to cover the protests ended up to only be $200,000. Geez - I hope he is better at math on other things.  Looking at Wisconsin's short fall with his budget I guess not.  Take out 500 million dollars of spending money from State Employees and he forgot that they would not spend what they don't have.
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Check this out - the most coolest weather geek website ever SERIOUSLY.

Here is a still photo but if you go to the site you can see almost real time wind in motion.

Wind Map

Is that RAD or what!!
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I was asked to dabble around with some sort of poster for The Great American Time Machine Experiment using my "Time Machine" image,  (show below). I would so love to blow this up HUGE!!!  Someday a bank or something will want to fill a wall.

  
Anyway here is the 1st idea for a uncompleted poster.  The problem is that it can just get too busy!   That little thing up in the right corner is just something I was playing with. Gotta start somewhere. 

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Today is Friday right?  No one corrected me yesterday when I said happy Wednesday!!  hello?  anybody out there?? 









three cups if tee