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And you thought Utah’s liquor laws were strange

It’s November 15th and I played golf in very nice, sunny weather today. This is a good thing. Shot a decent 75. The last few years the courses would have been covered with snow and closed for five months by…

Category: Hackers

Near Ace Today

Here’s the setting: I’m on the 9th tee and my pal/opponent is four down. He presses. Then I nearly hole out my shot from about 180 on this tough par three. Press won. I sure could have used my 2nd…

Category: Life

Good Karma coming back at me

Nice Gift I had quite a pleasant day. First, right when my recent review of the Bobby Jones Hybrids was posted, I got an unexpected package. Inside was a gift from my friends Andrew and Jeanine in NYC, a framed…

Category: Life, Miscellaneous

Kiddie Rides USA

Remember when you were a kid, crying to your mom to pop a nickel in that kiddie ride outside the grocery store? You thought you were going to die if you didn’t ride that thing. For the golfer who has…

Category: Hackers, Life

“Golfers For Global Warming” meeting #2

JOIN MY NEW ORGANIZATION: GOLFERS FOR GLOBAL WARMING It’s November 8th here in Salt Lake. It’s not uncommon for the courses to be closed and for me to be shoveling the snow off the driveway by now. I’m happy to…