BitterOldMan

Latest additions from Kayo Books, my favorite book store in the universe. The store has an ever changing inventory available at decent prices. A complete magic tricks collection showed up at the store, while I was there yesterday. Ron Blum, co-owner with wife Maria Mendoza, is great at finding weird and interesting ephemera. The original John Willie Bizarre fanzines have tape and other defects, and so were priced accordingly. The North Beach Girl is the UK edition; note the UK price on the cover. Lived in North Beach from the age of 3.5 to 15, which was a great place to grow up.

Ever have a day, when you wake up and decide to go to your favorite bookstore Kayo Books and find… many beautiful drawings by Frazetta. There is tape on the spine, so Maria Mendoza gave a nice discount. I am all smiles right now.

Back in the eighties, two of my coworkers and I were walking back from lunch in the North Beach part of San Francisco, as we walk by the topless clubs on Broadway, a barker shouts “Perverts half price, two out of three of youse guys will qualify.” No work got done that afternoon, since the finger pointing never stopped. Good times!😂

Luckily, I attended UC Berkeley during 1973-76, and frequently purchased from Bob. I remember attending the BerkeleyCon in April 1973 and buying Weird Science 19 from Bob. Bob always found interesting ephemera. I remember prying the Donald Duck cartoon poster “Drip Drippy Donald” loose from Bob for $60. Sadly, I traded the poster and a bunch of SA Marvels for my first copy of Four Color 9, and never found another copy of the poster.

My Barks estate book bought in 2012. Love the sweat coming off Scrooge. Enjoyed the tearjerker story.

Not me. I have never sold on eBay. My copy has the genuine 3d glasses.

Using PC Windows, View photo Capture screen using keys simultaneously <Alt> <Prt Scr> Open Windows app Paint Paste and rotate. Been using computers since high school 1972,

To correct the orientation of a photo, 1. Using your phone, take a photo of the photo. 2. Use the editing feature to rotate your photo to the correct orientation. 3. Post.

In 1994, a 1975 interview with Carl Barks was released on VHS.

Your comment reminded me of the Mickey Rodent story in Mad #19, Goony (Goofy) reminds Darnold (Donald) Duck that he is’nt wearing pants.

Reminds me of this comic book, mostly because Justice League 6 is one of the books that I vividly remember reading as a child. My childhood copy is coverless. Having worked as a professional statistician, you can use probabilities to your benefit. Jerry and Marge Selbee made $26 million from the lottery using one of two fundamental theorem of statistics, the law of large numbers.

Looks like seventies BullMark tin remote control Godzilla. Marusan produced this product with a blue controller in 1964 to coincide with the Godzilla vs the Thing (Mothra). Marusan went bankrupt in1968. With the current yen to dollar exchange rate, appears to be a good buy. Here is a photo from the internet, but not mine.

I remember these stamps were issued during 2006 SDCC. Seeing the line at SDCC was very long, I went to the post office a few blocks away and was practically the only patron.

RIP. Met Roger at OAFCON.

While my car was receiving routine maintenance at the dealer, I was able to walk over to Kayo Books at their new location at 907 Post Street in San Francisco. Though still a work in progress, the owners Ron Blum and Maria Mendoza invited me to browse. Even though I miss the mismatched book shelves of the old store, the light and spaciousness of the new store will be greatly appreciated by book enthusiasts. The official opening will take place next year. My small haul. Easily, Kayo Books is the best used book store in the San Francisco Bay Area, and probably the universe.😂 I was the first customer at their new location. If you tell them the BitterOldMan Ray sent you, you might get a discount or kicked out and permanently banned.

Bugs loved to play dress up. Along with “Rabbit of Seville”,”What’s Opera, Doc?” Are two of the greatest cartoons ever.

November 2022 $21,600 November 2023 different copy $14,400

The pot is at least $5 million to be split. Those MIT kids are really smart.

I understand your points. The lottery is generally not an even game. An even bet means for every dollar you bet, the payoff is $2, or you get your dollar back plus a dollar. If the odds are one in 14 million, the payoff needs to be 14 million plus for the bet to be even. The spillover rule would allow the jackpot to spread to lower winners if nobody won big and the jackpot reached 5 million. The MIT students knew that picking six out of six is nearly impossible, but five out of six is possible. The students did not win every time during the spillover, but the payoff was vastly superior to regular odds. The only person winning all the time was Bernie Madoff. The MIT students made millions, until the WinFall lottery was shut down. Still tough to buy 100,000 tickets. In other words for every dollar played, the payoff was greater than one dollar.

I worked as a statistician for years putting in some 20,000 hours and taught the subject in college. The students brilliantly exploited a flaw in WinFall lottery, where if nobody won for several weeks, the jackpot spilled onto the other lower levels. The chance of obtaining all six numbers is about one in 14 million. The probability of obtaining five out of six is one in 54,200. So the spillover would cause the bet to be advantageous to the lottery player. If somebody bought 100,000 tickets, they had a better than 84% chance of getting five out of six and getting the jackpot. Buy 200,000 tickets and the player has a 97.5% chance of getting five out of six numbers and getting the jackpot. I ran the numbers as a mental exercise and was impressed with the MIT students grasp of one of the main theorems of statistics, The Law of Large Numbers. There was a movie made about a couple who also exploited the lottery rules entitled “Jerry and Marge go Large”, starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening. My high school project was blackjack point counting strategies in 1973. I used statistics to retire at 55.😉

A bunch of MIT students won $8 million dollars in the Winfall lottery using an application of statistical theory.

How rich is Uncle Scrooge? Panel from the FC291 Magic Hourglass.

It’s much worst than the comics.🤢

Fort Knox safe with electronic dehumidifier would be pretty expensive, but an excellent choice. By the way, you can cut open a safe with a Milwaukee Sawzall and diamond blade. Need monitored alarm with motion detection and battery backup when the electricity goes out.