Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 31st, 2008
Ryan Stone captured his first U.S. Amateur Open title by winning 7 straight matches on the one-loss side. He double dipped that player that dealt him his first loss, Germany's Dominic Jentsch, in the finals.
Ryan Stone captured his first U.S. Amateur Open title by winning 7 straight matches on the one-loss side. He double dipped [...]
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 31st, 2008
Mika Immonen posted a tournament high run of 119 balls in the first round of play against Brandon Shuff.
Immonen Heats Up Lucasi Hybrid Classic
The Lucasi Hybrid Invitational Classic is underway at Bankshot billiards in Jacksonville, Florida with 39 players competing in the 14.1 division.
The big upset of the day happened in the match between Corey [...]
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 31st, 2008
2004 World pool champion Alex Pagulayan ended the Chinese Taipei stranglehold of the Guinness 9 Ball Tour 2008 as he defeated compatriot and current world number one Dennis Orcollo, 11 - 6, in the All-Filipino finals of the Singapore leg of the Guinness 9 Ball Tour 2008 at Velocity@Novena Square.
Pagulayan’s victory earned him the top [...]
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 30th, 2008
I went on a nostalgia trip and started browsing through my Amazon order history. My first order with Amazon was on July 6th 1997. Damn, time flies. I’ve chewed through a lot of books since then. Who among you are Amazon old schoolers? Do you remember when Amazon used to send free schwag for Christmas?
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 28th, 2008
The release of the trailer for the upcoming Watchmen movie prompted me to dig through my old comic books. Look at what I found:
That’s issue number one of Watchmen. I bought that back in 1986 when I was thirteen. Almost twenty-three years later, Dr. Manhattan is finally coming to the big screen.
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 24th, 2008
Tor.com is still giving away un-DRMed electronic editions of several books as part of their freebies bonanza through Sunday the 27th. Some favorites of mine including Old Man’s War, Crystal Rain, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, and Orphans of Chaos are there. If you have a Kindle, you can grab them for free though the Kindle [...]
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 23rd, 2008
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 22nd, 2008
I’m writing this on the WordPress app for the iPhone, which is now available. Now if only the iPhone had cut-and-paste.
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 21st, 2008
Frankenstein Takes the Cake is out. This is the follow up to Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, which is much loved at our house. I read it cover-to-cover even after the kids have fallen asleep. Unlike other illlustrated kids books, it doesn’t dull mom and dad’s senses into barely-tingling numbness after repeated readings. I just placed [...]
Posted in Billiards Player and Pool Lessons on Jul 21st, 2008
I’m back from WordCamp UK. It was a fantastic weekend and I am very pleased to have met so many interesting and talented people.
The presentations and talks were very informative, and I learnt a lot, which is always a good thing. I have to thank my fellow question time participants and fellow code surgeons for [...]
