A La Carte 9/18/14

Someone tried to explain the laws of probability to me years ago, why what may seem like bizarre coincidences are actually inevitable over a long period of time. With all the cards dealt in Vegas someone will get a royal flush on the first hand, and many other people’s sure thing will turn out to be a bad bet. So it’s no real surprise that a whole bunch of long-delayed projects are suddenly coming to fruition, or that in an area with very few Chinese restaurants two of them would close the s