tommy,

people can manipulate their faces okay when playing poker, but what is more revealing is when a player gets the shakes due to adrenalin. No amount of botox is going to hide the tremor after someone gets a good hand.

the other thing that I would add is that you can also play poker from a strictly mathematical approach (play the odds) which is less "sexy", but gets the job done. No need to worry about poker faces.

you can also play poker from a strictly mathematical approach (play the odds) which is less "sexy", but gets the job done. No need to worry about poker faces

Wait--are you the one playing by the odds in this scenario, LeN? Because can't you still give up a tell when you have good hands? Playing the odds means you don't have to take poker faces into consideration, or am I getting this inverted?

Someone over the wall swore during a conversation ("Fucking assholes!") and a guy he wasn't talking to told him sharply, twice, not to swear. Given that he didn't swear again, why do you need to tell him twice? If you are angling for an apology, it's probably simpler to ask for one, instead of assuming he's going to stop his conversation and start talking to you without you being clear about what you want.

And the author is, at least publicly, on board with the size differential in the casting.

BAH.

ita,

for example, I have seen people play poker (usually head to head) without looking at their cards.

many people have "tells" but some people fake them and not all tells are in the face. So if you are trying not to give yourself away, botox isn't going to fix that.

If you are trying to read other people, mathematics will likely help you more.

Why is it Monday again?

Because the universe has a sick sense of humor?

Because the universe has a sick sense of humor?

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors / but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor / And when I die I expect to find Him laughing.

Sorry.

ION, NASA downplays still-unannounced findings from Mars - Boing Boing

Just before Thanksgiving, the lead mission scientist for the Curiosity rover told NPR that his team had found something that would "be one for the history books." Naturally, we all began speculating about the presence of life, giant obelisks, and half-buried Statues of Liberty. Yesterday, however, a different NASA spokesman basically asked the world to not get its hopes up too high, revising the level of importance down from "earthshaking" to "interesting". So far, nobody has said what, exactly, was discovered.

So no direct evidence of life, then. Maybe organic molecules?

I second Jesse's BAH!

Is Tom Cruise directing or producing the Reacher movie? I didn't pay attention to that. (I checked he's producing). I don't like him for casting himself in the role he's not suited for.

BAH to the quote too.

I had issues with Katherine Higel and Debbie Reynolds casting in the Stephanie Plum movie.

Usually when this happens the same cuts are what goes out to all of the English speaking audiences, right?

I don't think so. I think there are different censorship standards in each country. When I was researching Eyes Without A Face, it was noted that they had to make different cuts for each country where it was released.

Then Liv said, "You mean that they can't get married? I'm going to say something bad about republicans. They're bitches!"

So much love.

I like the warning, especially.

But LeN, botox and playing the odds don't have the same goals (well, outside of win), so I'm not sure why they'd be mutually exclusive--you can play all the odds and then lose because you are still telling your opponent what's in your hands (I'm assuming "without looking at your cards" is out of scope at this time), or you can play the odds and have your face not give anything away (through nerves of steel, or facial muscles of concrete).

I don't like him for casting himself in the role he's not suited for.

But we have no idea who cast him.