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If you haven’t tried it out yet, Full Tilt Poker’s new “Rush Poker” is pretty cool. For people not familiar with Internet poker, it’s way faster than live poker. At a live poker table you can see 20-25 hands per hour, and you can only play one table at a time. Online you can see…
Over the years most people who've run a home wireless network have run through a number of routers. These devices sell for very cheap and are often replaced when they start working poorly. I've got 3 or 4 of them sitting in my basement in what most people call my own personal e-waste dump. (I…
These are my favorite gloves. Sarah knitted them, and they're fingerless/thumbless, so you actually can do useful things with your hands. I'm giving them away (with Sarah's permission) to La Casa de las Madres so they can be gifted to a woman in their shelter system who has lost everything in order to save her…
I suppose its awesome to be the best poker player in the world, a fact agreed upon by all the other top players in the game. It's also good to have an enormous income stream from an online poker site that makes it easy to ignore the money at stake.
Though I live near card rooms in the Bay area, I like to go to Vegas occasionally as a sort of personal poker camp. The time purely devoted to poker allows me to experiment with my game in a way that leads to deep analysis for a prolonged period of time. Also with someone along…
I caught a cold over the weekend and had just about enough energy to lay in bed, but not to get up. (Not entirely true, since on day one of the cold I painted four rooms of the house, but that's probably why I was bed-ridden the next two days…) While laid up in bed…
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a very unassuming and in fact bleak looking novel. Like the post-apocalyptic world it depicts, the actual hardcover book is all black with barely a title on it. The story is one of the few litmus tests of parenthood mindset. Reading it is probably a gut-wrenching experience for anyone, with…
I'm around a number of Buddhists, though I'm not one myself. (Or, you could say, I'm an awful Buddhist who drinks, smokes, eats meat and denies being a Buddhist.) Recently, the lead teacher at the Insight Meditation Center, where I took their meditation course and occasionally attend while practicing my own form of bad Buddhism,…
Let me tell you, it's a lot of fun. You're like a giant suckout machine, and people constantly curse you for being a donkey. I'm experimenting with a new starting Limit Hold'em hand set I created using pokerstove for a style I've named "Drunken Master". Chris and Katie are familiar with this style, it's a…
Holiday gift bags for victims of domestic violence in San Francisco
This holiday season I ask you to be thankful for what you have, and give a little kindness to those who are surviving domestic violence. I recently reached out to La Casa de las Madres, a San Francisco domestic violence nonprofit that provides intervention and prevention services to women and their children. All their services…