As much as I’d like to believe it’s because Americans were suddenly starting to get some taste, it probably has more to do with the fact that there are some many legal ways now to get people’s gambling impulses satisfied.
Leaving Las Vegas
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
The Horror. The Horror.
I’m sure the boys in Gainesville would be interested in this, since they have long stipulated that on the eve of economic calamities, the public becomes fascinated by terror and depression.
Farewell, Ozzy
As a kid who grew up listening to Beethoven and Gilbert & Sullivan operas, I was never exactly a Black Sabbath or Ozzy Osbourne guy. As an adult however, I stumbled upon The Osbournes show on MTV years ago, and I was instantly hooked. It was cool to see a famous heavy metal star dealing with the same kind of family and dog nonsense (albeit in a mansion) that the rest of us do. He died yesterday, so let us all hoist a mug of – – what, goat blood? – – in his direction.
Netflix and Anime
Since I’m not a sexually frustrated Japanese male with severe arrested development issues, I’ve never really thought about anime, but apparently, it’s a big factor in choosing a streaming platform.
So, It’s All G-Rated?
From what I’ve heard behind the scenes, a lot of folks aren’t exactly using AI for purposes they’d want published on the front page of their hometown paper. Maybe it’s relegated to “Entertainment” in this pie chart. In any case, “Learn to Code” was clearly the worst career advice offered to young people over the past decade.
