Lagniappe: an unserious blog
Las Vegas monorail seeks to double down on 12.
Emily Yoffe tries the OCD calorie-restriction diet, and isn't impressed. Lisa Walford's face as a 50-year-old isn't an effective advocate for the diet.
Situation: about a third of a way through a three-table free on-line tournament; most of the maniacs have already been knocked out, and people are playing surprisingly seriously for a free tournament. I have an average stack of about 25 BB, and am in the BB, blinds 50-100.

Folded to loose cutoff with average stack, who calls. Button is chip leader, playing a lot of hands, and raises to 600. I have AKo. The last time I went all in I had AKs.

Do I raise all-in or just call?
Transferring TurboTax information
I used TurboTax online for my 2005 taxes, and was told that I could transfer information to the hard-copy software for my 2006 taxes. You can, but there the instructions on how to do so are not in one place. Here's how, after an hour of trial an error:

1) Log into TurboTax Online.
2) Select "Start A New Return" to create a 2006 tax return.
3) "Continue" through the "What's New" propaganda.
3) Select "Tranfer from Last Year" to transfer your 2005 online information into your 2006 online tax return.
4) On the left-side menu, select "Other Options" and then "Download my tax data."
5) Press the "Download my tax data" button to download your tax data.
6) Select "Save to disk."
7) Log out of TurboTax Online.
8) Open TurboTax software.
9) In the "File" menu, select "Open Tax Return" and open the file you just saved.

Ta-da. A two-step process in only nine steps. At least, for the first time in the Bush Administration, the software fixed the bug that didn't give you the option of deducting investment expenses against dividend income. They also seem to have fixed the gap in their software that didn't account for the tax code deductions for hybrid vehicles, a few years too late for my benefit.