Archive for January 2007
College Park illegal cardroom robbed
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…
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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…
Read MoreYet another New Year’s resolution, no more CDs or iTunes
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…
Read MoreNYT: What $1.2 trillion can buy
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 —…
Read MoreHow to reach Shabbir
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…
Read MoreThe end of an era..
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…
Read MoreToo much spam made me do something extreme…
…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…
Read MoreWorld Series Of Poker schedule for 2007
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…
Read MoreThoughts on my home game question
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…
Read MorePoker results for the last 3 years
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…
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