I love to play cards.  I think its one of the things that growing up helped me to increase and fine tune my analytical and pattern recognition capabilities.  I moonlight every now and then writing for a couple different poker websites even today.

One of the things that I had never considered from a technology perspective is the tech behind multi-use poker tables. These are poker tables designed to be configured like a transformer to be suitable for use for a number of different types of poker games and other gambling games.

These tables are often elegant but always very functional and practical.  Its one of those things that fits into a niche but definitely has hundreds of years of technology and design behind it.

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 does get it wrong sometimes and I have been continuing to accumulate a number of odd ball examples.

These can be pretty funny especially in context, so here is a list of some of these bizarre misquotes.

The first phrase in each of the examples below is the misquote and the second phrase is the words that should have been dicated and were later corrected.

 

nor Josh out the Boers husband

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Husband

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horrible quince indents

horrible coincidence

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some dinner on the PlayStation

somewhere around the police station

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Bush ministration

Bush Administration

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he cosmo not

cosmonaut

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Christina Aguilara

Christina ideal Arab

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Dutch Equity

Check with you

.

except Chennault

exceptional

.

E. Dano bitch book

Janet Evanovich book

.

great big pair meds

great big pyramids

.

a Stickle experiences

mystical experiences

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a rubato

Aruba

.

poll for which

Paul Wolfowitz

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to sting whooshes

Note when I trained the correct word I felt very silly having to speak this phrase to clarify the difference in my profile!

distinguishes

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law sufferers

Philosophers

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color of the Koran

color with a crayon

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Domino walls

abdominal walls

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DeGaulle Fitch

The Golf Itch

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rogue ram

program

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an iso-place

a nice little place

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parasail groove

paris hilton news

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pickled bent

big event

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Big pharmaceutical companies this week had a great deal to celebrate as an industry.  One of the first over-the-counter nonprescription fat blockers was approved by the FDA.  The drug known as Alli was approved by the FDA.  It is only half as strong as its prescription counterpart.

Alli works by blocking about one-fourth of consumed fat.

Source: Is “Alli” The Holy Grail For Dieters?, Over-The-Counter Pill Promises 50 Percent More Weight Loss For The Same Effort - CBS News

It is already being dubbed a lifestyle drug even though it’s not designed according to representatives to be used for actresses or everyday people who are hoping to lose a few pounds before a big event like a wedding.  It’s intended for people that are very obese to the point that it may be detrimental to their health or even their life.

There are many drugs on the market that are never approved by the FDA.  Some of these can be viewed in a Diet Comparison by the DietAwarenessInstitute.org.

Like all technologies, the application of drug technologies to lifestyles will always be subject to benefits for people and also subject to abuse.  There is not always a black and white answer.  In fact the answer tends to be a moving target depending on the circumstances and application from one company to the next and even from one country to the next.

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