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How You Can Become a Professional Gambler
I get an annoying amount of email from people asking me how to gamble like I used to. The truth is that what I used to do isn’t profitable anymore. It was a right time, right place sort of scenario. Although I’m not a professional gambler anymore, I have been spending time studying and improving…
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Tynan’s Quick and Dirty Guide to Las Vegas
At four thirty a.m. last night I finished wolfing down my table-side omelet, racked up my chips, cashed in, left Bellagio’s poker room, and headed to the airport for a red-eye back to San Francisco. I’ve been to Las Vegas more times than I can possibly count, and absolutely love it. When people tell me…
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What’s the Point of Being a Minimalist?
Minimalism has been on my mind for a few reasons recently. First, I bought a motorcycle. If minimalism were a religion, I’d probably be excommunicated for having more motorized vehicles than I have pairs of socks (RV, motorcycle, folding scooter, and electric skateboard vs. two pairs of socks). Second, I had a long conversation with…
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Why I Sold My Berkshire Hathaway Stock
I logged into my stock account the other day and realized that contrary to my previous claim/strategy of investing solely in Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, I had no Berkshire shares left. Time for an update, I reckon. So what happened? Nothing against Berkshire, for sure. I sold almost all of my shares at a profit,…
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The Risks I Take
A couple people recently have asked about the risks I take. On one hand, as they point out, I play it extremely safe by eating healthy foods and abstaining from alcohol and drugs. On the other hand, I climb construction cranes and go skydiving. Isn’t this a contradiction? It isn’t – at least in my…
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Three First Lessons and What You Need to Know About Them
Last week I went skydiving. It was actually my fourth time going, but since I hadn’t been in a couple years, they made me take the training again. After skydiving, my friends and I went to an arcade. I don’t really like arcade games (besides H2Overdrive), so I wandered around until I found one called…
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19 Foreign Currencies Worth Less than Monopoly Money
Today I was walking home from a rousing game of Rummikub with some friends. I mentioned that my phone was at critbatts, a strange shortened version of slang that Todd and I use, which means “critical batteries”. To give credit where it’s due, our good friend Elliot actually invented that particular phrase. Until that, we’d…
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Tynan Meeting Tynan
“Like a stalker thing?” “No,” I replied, “You don’t get it. Her name is Tynan, too! That’s crazy!” “I guess.” Then I realized that my friend, Phil Jr. was sitting next to his father, Phil Sr.. Meeting someone with the same name wasn’t a big deal to him. But it was for me. Until yesterday…
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2011
New Year’s eve is approaching, which means that people are making their New Years’ resolutions and asking me what mine are. I don’t have any, and I think that’s a good thing. The problem with New Years Resolutions is that they’re not motivated by a burning desire to change. Wee all know that most people…
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Embarrassing Stories of Childhood Crushes
I ‘m a bit under the weather today, which for some reason makes me want to write something fun and useless. Behold three little stories of childhood crushes. The Chair Lift Switch The first girl I had a crush on was named Keely. I got my mom to take me to a toy store to…
