Archive for August 2006
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.…
Read MoreIdiotic poker axiom #572
"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…
Read MoreHostage: The Jill Carroll story
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,…
Read MoreAll 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…
Read More$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…
Read MoreWorld 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…
Read Moretech staff meeting
I play hooky from this meeting a lot. I really like this typepad mobile thing.
Read MoreHonestly, 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…
Read MoreFirst post from typepad mobile
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.
Read MoreAdventures in the desert: My trip to the World Series
So I’m back and finally recuperated from my trip to the World Series Of Poker. Many important things were learned about my poker. My preparation was good, but I honestly found computer players in Poker Academy to be softer than the real ones at the World Series. I have to figure out how to make…
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