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Brian Baresch

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Member Since: March 22, 2013
Last Seen: Sept. 18
Member Type: Bridge Player

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Pearls Before Swine: Actually I doubt they're cheap; they probably cost the papers more than a less well-known strip. The established existing audience is the main attraction. BTW Calvin & Hobbes is also in reruns, and it ended in 1995, but I don't know if it's been publishing continuously in the ...
Pearls Before Swine: The strips are not far from real life; newspaper features like bridge columns, horoscopes and comic strips have extremely vocal and ardent fans, and publications ignore them at their peril. Dallas used to be a two-newspaper town, but at some point the Morning News poached a number of comics and ...
Embassy Suites available for San Diego NABC: Every time an NABC is in a big city, people complain that it should be in a smaller, less expensive city. Every time an NABC is in a small, less expensive, people complain -- many more, it seems to me -- that it should be in a bigger city. IMO, and I ...
Hurd and Wooldridge Win Wernher: Coming out of lurkdom to say mega congrats to Anant Rathi, an occasional partner of mine when he was in college. I knew he'd do great things once he got pickier with his choice of partners.
Internet Hotel Marketing Affecting Room Guarantees In Hotel Contracts?: Never mind, not worth it.
Internet Hotel Marketing Affecting Room Guarantees In Hotel Contracts?: Let's also hear what you'll do about resellers like Priceline and Expedia. Will you try to include them in the pricing requirements? Lotsa luck.
Internet Hotel Marketing Affecting Room Guarantees In Hotel Contracts?: Why would they do that, since it's entirely false?
Internet Hotel Marketing Affecting Room Guarantees In Hotel Contracts?: What outrage? Go somewhere else yourself and get the playing space for free. If you don't want to pay for the space, just stay at a different hotel.
Internet Hotel Marketing Affecting Room Guarantees In Hotel Contracts?: When suggests "boil the ocean," it's not out of line to ask whether they have thought it through.
Internet Hotel Marketing Affecting Room Guarantees In Hotel Contracts?: I once worked for a publication aimed at the event planning industry, and Bernard makes the most sense to me. Hotels generally don't get their money from event space per se, they get it from having people in the rooms who then spend money there. If the ACBL buys ...