This is not a man with a blog.
The Internet is useful in ways you don’t understand. I don’t say this because I have some unique insight into it’s inner workings, but simply because the sum total of information out there has different value to people in different situations. Take YouTube, for example. For you it’s a source of funny distraction. For me…
If you follow the Google zeitgeist you know that major news events follow a familiar pattern online: The news event breaks; People rush to their computers to search for news about the event; People start buying domain names related to the event to attract quick ad traffic revenue; and The funny tshirts start coming out.…
[This is the final stage of my analysis hand. I’ll restate the action.] I wake up with red queens in early position and I raise it immediately to $7. For this table that’s a notable raise. $11 is the high end. Seats 4 and 5 fold. Seat 6 makes it $15 to go with about…
The must-read article this week was in the Wall Street Journal. "A New Generation Reinvents Philanthropy" talked about how the use of social networking is introducing people under 35 to non-profits, both through innovative giving tools like Kiva.org, as well as innovative tools like Facebook being utilized by very traditional brands. "Joe Alamo didn’t set…
Here’s the continuation of the previous hand analysis, "How should he play his 44?" Pushing or re-raising is completely out. With two raisers in the pot his fours are almost certainly dominated by a big pair or a slight underdog in a coin flip to unpaired overcards. So the applicable question seems to be fold…
One of the big stories this week is that Comcast was accused of hiring an advocacy firm to fake public outrage over their object to the Big 10 moving games to their own channel from free tv. Helping to organize a coalition as a large corporate funder is certainly nothing new, and if done transparently,…
[Unrelated poker thought: I use Poker Academy to practice cash game play when I’m not on a net connection. It’s AWESOME, but I’m good enough at reading my table now to tell that it doesn’t model the mood of the table at all. When 9 or 10 people first sit down to play, they’re on…
This weekend I’ve been spending at home with my mom. She doesn’t have a lot of energy and in the evening when she falls asleep, I head over to the largest local poker room in St. Louis and play $1/$2 No Limit Texas Hold’em. I’ve done well there, mostly due to the poor quality of…
Stupid eulogyWhy must I deal with this now?Waste of precious time.
Burning Man 2007: “You’re doing it wrong”
This was my first year at Burning Man as a San Franciscan. I had great visions of how much better my art project would be due to my not having to haul crap across the country. I also had developed a larger set of friends here and was excited to spend some time out on…