2010 Dewey Decimal Project: 795.41 B

Because I'm writing a story that takes place partly in an underground gambling establishment, I decided I should do some research. I googled for underground poker books, and came up with Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country by Andy Bellin.

The book is depressing. Bellin is himself a semi-pro poker player, and he takes us into the world of poker in a way that he seems to think is just the way it is, but is actually extremely unhealthy. There were some bits of the book I liked, but I have forgotten them because his chapter about women, in which he condones and minimizes the impact of sexual harassment while dismissing women's work and presenting an uncritical view of femininity, is at the end of the book, and that's now all I can remember about it:

But tending to cardplayers at a club is not a tough job at all for the women who do it. In fact, as long as you don't mind an old man's hand on your ass every once in a whole, it's got to be one of the easiest gigs in the world. There are only about four things on the menu, there are no complicated drink orders to remember, you just have to smile, giggle, and wink every once in a while.

I won't be reading anything else Bellin has written, and I'm extremely glad I interlibrary loaned the book instead of purchasing it.

Google Docs Question of the Day

For those of you using Google Docs on a regular basis, how do you organize it so it's not completely overwhelming?

I now have enough things in Google Docs that when I log in, it's just this giant list of documents. I think it might be less overwhelming if I duplicated the naming structure I use for things held locally on my computer (the list of documents in my My Documents folder is not overwhelming to me). The main reason I haven't been doing this is that my naming structure is not particularly descriptive for sharing things with other people. I have no problem remembering that gabevictoria2 is the accidental marriage fic, gabevictoria3 is the actor!Gabe/director!Victoria story, and gabevictoria4 is the girl!Gabe/Victoria d/s fic, but it seems unfair to make other people track that. I've been thinking about maybe using my naming structure with the descriptive title in parentheses. Thoughts? Ideas? Rolled eyes at how I just don't know how to use newfangled internet things?