News to Reuse: BuxMILF showered with love, Philly Wi-Fi, and ‘burbs are gambling hub…for the whole family
Submitted by jstudent on Thu, 2008-06-12 11:29.
[ ] Remember the (alleged) happy time sleepover we told you about yesterday?
Yah: that one.
[ ] It looks like the local group thinking about taking over the city’s failed Wi-Fi clusterfuck mess wants it to be FREE. Yay! (KYW-1060)
You just know this is pissing off Comcast (fifth item), unless of course it IS Comcast, though ‘free’ does not seem like them. At. All.
[ ] The possible statewide Pa. smoking ban, which may be enacted by the fall, is making some bar ownership upset (Courier Times)… and everyday Bucks County folk, too. (Courier Times)
From the ban story:
…“It sucks,” countered Steve Teti, kitchen manager at The Horsham Inn on Horsham's Easton Road. “I think this is going to cause a lot of problems.”
He worried that customers leaving their seats at the bar to smoke outside would run the risk of losing their seats or anything they leave at their places…
….“I think it'll work because people will get used to it,” said Langhorne Hotel owner Ben Asta, who said he's neutral on the issue. “It's going on everywhere else.”
He said about 70 percent of his bar patrons smoke and he has heard that some customers are unhappy about the change.
“Some say that if they can't have a cigarette with their cocktail, they may decide to go home,” Asta said. “When I sit at a restaurant and someone is smoking near me, I'll move. But at a bar, there is some expectation that you'll be able to smoke.”…
Indeed, Philly EDGE has observed and imbibed at both bars several times and believes that no ban on smoking is going to keep drinkers from drinking.
[ ] Western Pa :: Quarterbacks is like Main Line :: Poker? For the second year in a row, Bryn Mawr has landed a high-place winner in the World Series of Poker. (Inky)
And, no shit, the guy had to get better at poker for his job.
From the story:
…Businessman Eric Brooks, a cofounder and former director of the investing powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, collected $415,856 and a champion's gold bracelet from a Las Vegas seven-card stud table Monday….
While still in Las Vegas, Brooks - who had never won a pro poker tournament before - told the gambling press he'd been playing poker since age 11. After college and several years as a stock trader, Brooks and four friends founded the Susquehanna International Group in 1987 and helped build it into a successful firm where poker skills are a must.
An Investment Dealers Digest profile from 2005 said trainees "are required to master the two poker games that figure prominently in big-stakes poker tournament: hold 'em and stud" and "are required to play poker daily [because] poker is considered an analog to trading." In 2006, the firm even hosted a poker tournament to cull potential recruits….
Better still: Dude donated the winnings to en educational charity.
[ ] Philly Park Casino has been fined more than $20,000 because it inadvertently allowed children on its gaming floor. (Courier Times)
So, kids are a fine-able infraction, yet painfully staged photos and this entertainment lineup are allowed to go on unpunished?...There is no justice. None.
