Archive for December, 2008

Food Fight

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

It’s a YouTube kinda day. Check out this abridged history of American warfare from WWII to the present. Oh yeah, they use food to represent the countries.

Large Hadron Collider

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I wish Physics was cool twenty years ago.  Or rather, I wish I had known how cool it is.

Rake

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

I should explain about the “profitable” part of my last post. I am a winning player, just not (at this point) a profitable one. How is that, you ask? Good question.
For every tournament there is something called a “rake”. A rake is the fee paid to the site for [...]

179 Poorer Souls

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Only a day or two before this post, I told my brother what good poker I was playing.  And I was, too.  I had gotten into a groove of beautiful play, in which I kept my opponents off balance by mixing up my passive and aggressive, loose and tight play in such a way that [...]

Sock and Awe

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

I love the internets.

Notes

Monday, December 15th, 2008

If you are going to play online poker at any point, let me strongly suggest that you take advantage of any note-taking system that the software that you use allows. It’s amazing how often you run into the same players, even on sites with tens of thousands playing at any given time.

Jinx

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

The quickest way to ruin a good poker streak is to brag to your brother about how good you have been playing lately.

All Day Long

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

You ever manage to mess up everything you did all day long?
Welcome to my day.  I can’t even talk to people right.

Easy Bailout

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

An easy way to bailout the ailing auto industry (and America in general) would be to institute a single-payer healthcare system.  GM spends about 5.6 billion dollars a year on healthcare alone.  That $5.6 billion could be spent on retooling and innovating.  I’m just saying.

Knew Him Well

Friday, December 5th, 2008

When we sold the old house we left all of our appliances in it.  They were perfectly fitted for the kitchen they were in and a tad undersized for what we wanted in the future, so we sold them with the house.  this, of course, means we need new appliances in the new house.  I [...]