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World Series Of Poker Champion doesn’t want the attention

By Shabbir | August 16, 2006 | Comments Off on World Series Of Poker Champion doesn’t want the attention

"I just thought about what would happen if I won,” Gold said. "Out of the goodness of their heart, a lot of people would feel like they needed to talk to me, they’d want to know what I was doing, cameras would follow me around. I don’t want my life on display. I don’t have…

Time zones are a good thing.

By Shabbir | August 15, 2006 | Comments Off on Time zones are a good thing.

I just finished up a long day. I finished at 7pm and pretty much got saved because two of the people I had to wind up projects with were in California. If they had been on the East Coast they would have already left for the day and I would have missed them until tomorrow.…

Idiotic poker axiom #572

By Shabbir | August 15, 2006 |

"Just because you are making money, doesn’t make you a favorite in a game." Sometimes you’re not a favorite because you’re just not good enough to hold your own with the other players.  But sometimes you are pretty good, but your skill is diminished by the fact that there’s a lot of people calling the…

Hostage: The Jill Carroll story

By Shabbir | August 14, 2006 |

The Christian Science Monitor is running a multi-day series on the 84 day hostage drama of Jill Carroll, a reporter who was kidnapped while working in Iraq and frankly, very lucky to be alive.  Although the CSM’s site is abysmally slow because of the load, it’s worth bookmarking and reading.  There’s a new installment daily,…

All hail the dog whisperer.

By Shabbir | August 13, 2006 | Comments Off on All hail the dog whisperer.

Of course Malcom Gladwell has written about Cesar, and Sarah’s become addicted to his show, "The Dog Whisperer", but I’d been holding out.  I saw my third episode tonight and I’m hooked too.  He reminds me a lot of Todd, our former dog trainer. Honestly, seeing these people makes me feel less self-conscious about the…

$1/$2 H.O.R.S.E.

By Shabbir | August 11, 2006 | Comments Off on $1/$2 H.O.R.S.E.

With the Big Game on hiatus I returned to Chris’ regular Friday night 1/2 game. Chris loves the rotating game, and so we play a dealer’s choice game where you can choose any of the HORSE games: hold’em, omaha, razz, 7 card stud, omaha hi/lo, or 7 card stud hi/lo. I just scooped a massive…

World Series Final Table main event

By Shabbir | August 11, 2006 | Comments Off on World Series Final Table main event

I had a handful of folks over last night to watch the final table of the main event on pay per view.   I thought sitting at home watching it alone would be kind of pathetic, so we had steaks and played a small $5 tournament while we watched Jamie Gold bully the table with his…

tech staff meeting

By Shabbir | August 11, 2006 | Comments Off on tech staff meeting

I play hooky from this meeting a lot. I really like this typepad mobile thing.

By Shabbir | August 11, 2006 | Comments Off on

Honestly, this kind of shit really messes with my head, now that I understand what it means to be a parent: For most of her 34 years, [Maureen’s] life had been typical: She’d been educated in a small town, married, had three children, divorced; she’d worked as an EMT and seamstress, never more than a…

First post from typepad mobile

By Shabbir | August 10, 2006 |

I downloaded typepad mobile (http://www.typepad.com) to my cellphone and it’s pretty cool imho. Posting photos to your blog is also easy as you can see from this shot out of my office window. You can even future date posts. Rock on.