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Welcome to this week's Reno News & Review.

This is the last time you'll see me write about the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada until next time. Probably.

I was happy with it and started sleeping again on the Thursday it published. Our experiment publishing in 3-D was overall a success. There were two or three images that didn't work particularly well, at least not as well as they worked online. For the geeks out there, there were three factors that seemed to contribute: 1) the short distance between the camera, the foreground and the background, 2) the color saturation, and 3) the shift going from RGB to CMYK, which does not perfectly work with the red and blue of the glasses.

But overall, I'm giving us an 8 out of 10. I have some friends who disagree with that assessment.

I know people liked it, though. I was at a popular new coffee shop, and I was told by the barista their entire stack was picked up in just a few hours.

As far as counting, final results for the Best of: 3,132 voters voted in 108,150 categories; our most voted-in section was Goods & Services with 28,388 votes; and our least voted-in section was Innovation with 1,614 votes.

Look, we know there are some weird winners. Every year, somebody gets recognized for work they did a year or even two before or a closed business wins. Sometimes people will campaign to win in areas they don't necessarily deserve at the expense of people who do deserve them. But it's not up to us to change the results, and unless we have reason to believe that somebody cheated by gaming the system, the results appear in the paper and online as they are counted. Otherwise, what's the point of all this fun? I mean, maybe the Moonlite Bunny Ranch is not the Best Local Place to Work, but they didn't cheat to win the award. I mean, shoot, maybe I'll send them a resume in a year or two.

Finally, there were a few issues that didn't get the 3-D glasses inserted. Sorry about that. We still have extras here at the office.