{"id":388,"date":"2006-01-02T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2006-01-05T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T19:17:47","slug":"understanding-my-weekly-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/understanding-my-weekly-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding my weekly game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been interested in the idea of information visualization&#8211;that there are better ways to present information than the simple ones we always use. In fact, I once wrote a university paper on things that were experimental at the time, like transparently overlaid GIS information, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In this spirit, I present the eight other players in my weekly  poker game, expressed visually as t-shirts. I won&#8217;t be associating the shirts with names, since either you know the people involved&#8211;in which case you need no names&#8211;or else you don&#8217;t know the people, so the names would be meaningless to you. A couple of these are crude, so consider this your chance to bail out of this post.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracksmokingshirts.com\/index.php?action=item&#038;id=663&#038;prevaction=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/ck.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Bukkake\" title=\"Bukkake\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr-shirts.com\/Site\/Scripts\/prodView.asp?idproduct=24&#038;style=Choose%20A%20Style&#038;color=Choose%20A%20Color&#038;size=Choose%20A%20Size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/km.gif\" width=\"265\" height=\"270\" alt=\"Stolen\" title=\"Stolen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmilitia.com\/pot-weed-shirt.php?id=&#038;ref=&#038;cc=#shirt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/ky.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"198\" alt=\"Caffeine, sugar, and...\" title=\"Caffeine, sugar, and...\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.12s-tshirts.com\/16wassweetbu.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/md.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"213\" alt=\"Honestly underage\" title=\"Honestly underage\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr-shirts.com\/Site\/Scripts\/prodView.asp?idproduct=123&#038;style=Choose%20A%20Style&#038;color=Choose%20A%20Color&#038;size=Choose%20A%20Size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/mw.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" alt=\"...and no job\" title=\"...and no job\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorfulimages.com\/412297.html?&#038;RS=1&#038;keyword=atm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/nm.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"216\" alt=\"Yes, yes you do\" title=\"Yes, yes you do\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/detourdesign.31045389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/rg.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Extra\" title=\"Extra\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr-shirts.com\/Site\/Scripts\/prodView.asp?idproduct=77&#038;style=Choose%20A%20Style&#038;color=Choose%20A%20Color&#038;size=Choose%20A%20Size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/12\/pokershirts\/ss.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" alt=\"Can't jump\" title=\"Can't jump\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;ve always been interested in the idea of information visualization&#8211;that there are better ways to present information than the simple ones we always use. In fact, I once wrote a university paper on things that were experimental at the time, like transparently overlaid GIS information, etc. In this spirit, I present the eight other players in my weekly poker game,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/understanding-my-weekly-game\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hgpa","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-6g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}