350 WORDS / 3 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 15, 2015 (EDITED) This isn’t a new blog per se, but a P.S. to my last, where I highly recommended the PBS series The Brain with David Eagleman. You’ve brought it to my attention (and I apologize— I really should’ve known) that the series isn’t […]
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795 WORDS / 6 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 (EDITED) I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the PBS series The Brain with David Eagleman, especially to those who find themselves asking the eternal questions in face of the fast-approaching inevitable. If you missed the series, you can order the book and/or DVD from www.shoppbs.org, or
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531 WORDS / 4 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 11, 2015 (EDITED) After that win I reported to you last January (my second post here ever), I seemed to plateau in my efforts to ascend the heights of pokerdom, alternating wildly between running deep and busting out early. Well, FINALLY I booked a first-place
327 WORDS / 2 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 1, 2015 (EDITED) My Poker Coach George “The Engineer” Epstein talks about me for the second time in his weekly column in Gaming Today, a newspaper devoted to casinos and sports betting. The column is a little confusing— I think he may have misunderstood some of
490 WORDS / 4 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 1, 2015 (EDITED) Ever since the month of May was designated Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) Month, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has followed its usual practice of scheduling Asian-and-Pacific-Islander-themed programs every May. In past AAPI months, they showed very little Filipino content, likely because there
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581 WORDS / 4 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 1, 2015 (EDITED) Next in PBS’s Filipino-American Lives series is Harana, a docu whittled down to an hour from a feature-length film, available from www.HaranaTheMovie.com. Young, classically trained Pinóy guitarist Florante Aguilar returns to the Philippines to see if he can find any locals still
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523 WORDS / 4 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 1, 2015 (EDITED) THE DELANO MANONGS is, of the three Filipino programs included in this year’s PBS Filipino-American Lives series, the most important. It covers the 1965 California grape strike (“the Filipino Civil Rights Movement”) that lasted five years and led to the formation of
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394 WORDS / 3 MIN READ / ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 1, 2015 (EDITED) To wind up my coverage of AAPI month 2015, let me mention three other PBS programs that might be worth looking out for (disclaimer: I only watched part of each): 9-Man covers the Chinese-American version of volleyball, specifically invented to allow shorter
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