The Adventures of MDawg II

Tropical based now. Or already have been.

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Tropical based now. Or already have been.
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You're like Schrödinger's cat!

Resorts World Vegas isn’t the only casino caught up for facilitating money laundering.

Wynn Resorts to forfeit $130M in deal with feds over illegal transactions

Venetian finally has some kind of rewards match program. I am already Diamond with them, highest level, so it's unimportant to me, but nice to see that they are playing ball.



Las Vegas Strip resort reveals rare tier-match offer
Unclear whether their match is only for new players though.

Getting ready for this year's F1 in Vegas.

Casino removing trees as F1 prep begins on Strip

I assume drivers will be more ready this year, and anticipate the cooler weather with appropriate tires.

Saturday, Nov 23, 2024.

Watched High and Low (1963) recently. Good movie!

Was aware that Akira Kurosawa likes to use Shakespeare as the basis for some of his movies, Throne of Blood (1957) - Macbeth, The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - Hamlet, Ran (1985) - King Lear, but High and Low is based loosely on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter), which is decidedly not Shakespeare.

And then we've copied Seven Samurai (1954), with The Magnificent Seven (1960) and (2016), of which only the 1960 version is even worth seeing (other than the cool music found in both American movies).

On a somewhat related note, I read that Eli Wallach used to hear the whistled theme from fans of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, frequently when he walked down the street in New York City. Now, that's pretty cool.

In case you've already seen every other movie out there that has anything to do with Vegas. Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959).


Includes some nice scenes with Mamie Van Doren too.


The Las Vegas Story (1952) is on TMC right now, with Jane Russell. (A Howard Hughes film.)

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In case you've already seen every other movie out there that has anything to do with Vegas. Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959).

Includes some nice scenes with Mamie Van Doren too.


The Las Vegas Story (1952) is on TMC right now, with Jane Russell. (A Howard Hughes film.)
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There are hundreds if not thousands of free movies on YouTube. I now watch those movies more than I watch all the subscription channels I have. There are movies here you'll never find anywhere else, movies I didn't even know existed.

YouTube does have a lot of content. But for someone like my wife who has paid to have no ads, it is not free.

The ads don't bother me unless I am trying to listen to music, more than one song in a row, then the interruptions get annoying, and problematic if listening in a car, having to click to skip through them.

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I can tell you that 155 mph is plenty fast. It has been years since I have taken any car beyond that, and even then only maybe 10 mph beyond that, and at anywhere near that speed all the other cars on the freeway (which ideally, you want to do this when there are no other cars on the freeway), look like they are parked.
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Definitely would not try to do that while driving 162 mph. When doing something like that music is not on my mind anyway.