This is not a man with a blog.
Everyone has their version of 'running away to sea'. Mine involves getting into the family car and going to Las Vegas or Reno, NV to shark the low-limit tournaments against the tourists for a living. (Not a very good living, I'd like to point out)My friend Derick's 'run away to sea' fantasy has always been…
Attention friends, especially Matt's friend, Lem who will be in Vegas December 5th: There's talk of a tournament-focused trip to Vegas to reprise the Safdar Tournament Poker Bootcamp from this summer, the weekend of December 5th thru Tuesday December 9. Most of us have not cleared it with our spouses. If it comes together, we'd…
One of the major American economic crises of the last century was the Great Depression. In the year that followed the stock market crash of October 1929, everyone from President Hoover down to line workers at auto plants believed that their fortunes were not inextricably linked to those of thestock market. Hoover's quote the day…
My Obama partner and I have two red staters assigned to watch us. We all sit here in the observer pen. They complain about everything we do, and have the McCain palin lawyers on speed dial. My friend in sparks brought me a coat and hat since it's snowing and the McCain volunteer stood…
I phonebank two or three times a week now for the Barack Obama presidential campaign and the No on Proposition 8 campaign here in California. I did a three hour stint last night with Stefani and Shannon at the headquarters in the Castro. Honestly, California, as a state, is a political mess. Legislative gridlock, dedicated…
But as soon as the election is over I’m playing and analyzing 500 hands a week, minimum. We’re gonna step this up a notch.
One of the first things my poker coach did, after looking at a sample of my hands, was to send me to hit the books and tell me not to play poker until I was done with probability homework. He wanted me to work the math out for my game to understand the values of…
I picked up this external battery sled for the iPhone at the mall. I’m charging it now, and will time it to see how long it truly lasts. I built a worm farm with Moishe this weekend for the boy who must have every animal. I put up a flickr set explaining how to do…
Syncing things has been the bane of my digital existence since the moment I started using a cellphone. Suddenly I had two damn addressbooks and I needed software to sync them. I got a Newton, and the problem sucked because the developer market for the Newton never materialized. I bought a Handspring Treo and it…
Because I can wear shorts every day, walk to work, wander over to a Pakistani place for lunch and drink bottomless cups of chai, and still serve my clients through the web and telephone.