You may have noticed that this blog has become all poker all the time. Well get ready for even more. Here is a link to an ABC World News story about my friends Ben and Ami Foster. Cool! Ben, you remember is the guy who gave up a job at eBay to play poker online professionally. Cool shot of Ben’s setup playing eight poker tables at a time. Even cooler shot of his tracking his success staistically. When I was little I used to take two dice and role them over and over and keep track of the statistics and plot them up all pretty. Yeah, it was a repressed childhood.
Ben and Ami now have got me beat. My closest approach to such stardome on national TV was on CNN where I was a token Caltech student fawning over Feynman. Luckily the video isn’t online to embarrass me.
O brave new quantum world!
My mom got me on the local Romper Room when I was 3 or 4. I hid under the table for almost the entire show.
Then I was on the local news coverage of a regional elementary school spelling bee (where I came in near the bottom of the heap).
In high school I was briefly in a Lesley Stahl report about high school science education.
Thankfully Caltech didn’t trot me out in front of anything other than my own ignorance.