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Weird Solitaire Hand

I was playing solitaire ("regular" single-deck solitaire) on my phone the other day and got dealt an unusual hand. All of a sudden I noticed a very weird combination of cards. Then another. Then another. Do you see it? Click the picture to see a larger one.

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 12-28-2008
Diabetes Research Fundraiser

At work, we are having a fundraiser for Diabetes Research Institute. To try to get more sponsors, one of my coworkers decided to turn himself into Mr. T, step by step. He's skinny. He's white. But so far he's raised $1400. Read his story after you take a peek at this...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 10-30-2008
Recent Trips

Over the last six weeks or so I have made three trips to California. I grew up in northern CA and most of my family still lives there wondering why I ever left to live in frozen "Wesconson". The first of these trips was a whirlwind. I flew in on a Thursday night and drove out on...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 06-27-2008
This Looks, Ummm, Fun

Found on xkcd.com , Geohashing looks fun. Now I just need to buy a GPS, keep up on the Dow, and right a program to do the hash, split, hex to decimal conversion, and destination calculation.

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 05-21-2008
Vacation!

I'm very excited because in a couple days I will be going with my wife and daughter to Disneyland in California. We are meeting my parents there for Charlie's first Disney experience, and I can't wait to see how excited she will be. She's coming up on 21 months and really...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 05-19-2008
The Weekend Has Officially Started

I've recently found a new online comic strip: Garfield Minus Garfield . ( Source ) From the site: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 03-14-2008
Happy Pi Day

Today, 3/14, is Pi Day . I hope you were enjoying mathematics at 1:59 in your local time zone. But it's not all fun and games: Beware the Ides of March . Does anyone else celebrate Square Root of 10 Day, or is it just me?

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 03-14-2008
Exploits of a Mom

This comic reminds me of a friend who taught his grade school daughter to count in hexadecimal. At that moment, he was my hero. Exploits of a Mom

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 10-10-2007
The Best Spam Comment Yet (Matt Berther)

Saw this today in my feeds. Matt posts about one of the comments his blog has received. Here's a snip: hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 09-05-2007
Stupid Things I've Done

So I'm starting a new category/tag on this blog. Based on the title of this post you might have guessed that it's called "Stupid Things I've Done". I've done a number of Things (capitalized because in this case it is a proper noun) in my 32 years that were stupid, and looking...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-10-2007

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