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the appeal of casinos

I don’t get the appeal of casinos. I just experienced my first one, during our beach trip, and I can’t say I understand the allure.
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A house I pass each day seems to be inhabited by someone in the expensive or cool car business. There’s a Honda S2000 there most days, but I have seen a new black Ferrari there, and this week, there are (or were) two 2002 Mini Coopers.

Google Search: 2002 mini cooper
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Dewey decimal redux

The startup that brought me to Seattle was building a system to locate documents in a repository that resembled the one currently on the user’s display (we called it “no click search” since it required no keywords or query language: we knew what you wanted). For reasons I won’t go into here, the company failed, but the idea is still pretty compelling to me.
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