This is not a man with a blog.
Here we go again. A couple of years ago the Fairfax County Police got a hard on for raiding poker games that took a rake. Then when they ran out of games to raid in their jurisdiction, some enterprising young fellows started robbing games throughout the area. Then it got quiet for a while and…
My stepmother and I were sitting over breakfast at the IHOP. Moishe and I were eating my breakfast while my mom was eating her one good meal of the day. Mom: "So I’ve purchased a cemetary plot. Do you want to go see it?"Me: "No, that’s morbid."Mom: "Well I think it’s really pretty. It’s in…
I’ve got a handful of New Year’s resolutions, most of which I’m not going to tell you about. They’re really not resolutions, as much as 2007 goals. I do these at work too, and run them by my business parters and senior managers. I figure if you don’t want the boss to go off on…
There’s not much that gets me mad anymore. I’m just waiting for Bush to leave office so I can stop rolling my eyes. But this story in the New York Times really puts the cost of the war in Iraq in perspective: For starters, $1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign —…
Someone commented that they wanted to e-mail me but there was no entry on my blog about how to do that. So here’s some guidance in order of my preference: Write me by e-mail: I much prefer to be approached by e-mail. You can send e-mail to shabbir -at- safdar.net. You will be prompted to…
Tonight I sold the BMW on Craigslist and have already placed the Harley with a friend to be sold for a fee. I am out of the motorcycle life. Many people have asked me if I regret it, and occasionally I think what fun it would be to ride, but at the same time, I…
…I’ve today added a challenge-response to my personal e-mail. I could never do this at work, but personally I get e-mail that’s overwhelmingly spam. I’ve actually lost quite a bit of stuff in my mailbox because I couldn’t find it through all the spam. The system I chose is not new, it’s called spamarrest, and…
The WSOP schedule is out, or it’s been out for a while and I just noticed it. Either way, it’s pretty interesting. Since I am not, as many of you might suspect, a wildly rich man, for me to play in a $1,500 event I have to save for a few months to get the…
Chris, one of the hosts of my regular Friday night poker game, had an interesting perspective on the home game dilemna I mentioned previously. We discussed it in IM today, and he authorized me to post it here. I was contemplating the winner’s dilemma in a game like ours. Although I think the notion of…
A little insomnia caused me to investigate my poker results from the last three years to see how I’ve stacked up. I realized I never posted 2005, so I went back and dug it all up. 2005 was before I really started learning no limit, I lost a total of $462, comprising of $198 live…