I've been too {lazy,busy} to write any posts lately.
A reclusive seer shrouded in riddles, you reveal very little and only what is deemed congruent with your plans.
Understanding is a three edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth.
Saw this on Card Squad today.
What: WWdN Where's My Burrito? Invitational
Where:PokerStars.
When: Friday, October 14th. 4:00 PM EST
Password: monkey
Tournament number: 13722477
Buy-in: $10+1This tournament is open to anyone who reads WWdN or WWdN:IE, or who happens to know that the password is monkey, including poker bloggers and cardsquad readers.
Unfortunately for me, I will be travelling with the family and most likely will miss this go 'round. Hopefully Wil can follow through with his plan to make this a regular game.
After saving and rereading that last line, I felt that I would need to make one addendum. It is unfortunate that I will miss the inaugural WWdN Where's My Burrito? Invitational, not that I will be travelling with my family.
My luck slowly begins to turn… and towards the good end, too. I'm up to T8475 in a $3+$0.30 R after one re-buy. I should've known better than to do what I did next. I played aggressively with KK. Now, these re-buy tournaments are idiotic. Folks will go all-in wielding the Hammer (or worse depending on the flop). Stupid shit like that. I should've known better. KK. All-in. Come give me a big kiss, Lady Luck.
2 callers. One shows me QQ. Potential for pain there… with my luck, the f**ker will get QQX on the flop and end it quick. The next caller shows me, of all combinations… AA. Sonofaf***kingbitch! The next 5 cards helps none of us. I decide to cut my losses and run. Lady luck, you can kiss my bender, bitch!
The prize pool is going to be huge… at least $20k, probably more. I'm not sure that I want to find out. [FYI, the pool ends up at $22,473.]
And, since my luck is so great, I decided it would be a good idea to play a $5+$0.50 at the same time. I am having better luck… not good luck, but not bad luck neither. Made the first break down only 50 chips from the start (although I had been up to T3500 at one point).
Edit: Sorry, Lady Luck. Thanks for the 9 on the river so that I could trip over the AA on my way to doubling up (and then some). Sorry again. No! Screw you, Lady Luck! You put me All-In with KJs against TT. You leave us both cold on the flop and then give me K on the turn only to tear my heart out on the river by throwing out another T?!?! You are scum, Lady Luck.
OK, so I sit down to a $1.50+$0.25 SNG at PokerStars. First hand, I am dealt QQ in LP with 3 or 4 callers before me. I go All-In to see how my luck would hold up. I was hoping for a caller and got one… TripleA76 shows me 66. Sweet. Thank you lady luck. Flop comes 6KK. Ouch. It's OK. I still have a chance. Turn shows me a 6. WTF?!?! Quad 6s? What kind of crap is that? The poker gods were angered by my aggressive play and punished me severely for my insolence. From here on out, I'm checking or folding unless I got AA… and then I am only calling. It is what the gods have requested of me. I will obey.
Time to toot ye olde horn.
According to this morning's weigh-in, I am down 66 pounds since starting my diet* (3 Jul 02005**).
Yes, I know that I lost too much weight way too fast. Spare me any warnings that you may have buzzing around in your head right now. This has not been a starvation diet. Quite the opposite, in fact. If I am hungry, I eat. If I am not hungry, I do not eat. Simple as that. Rather than change how much I eat, the only change I have made is what I eat.
These days I eat lots of meat (beef, cattle, cows, steer, pork, pigs, hogs, bacon, ham, chicken, wings, legs, etc.), lots of fruit (apples, fuji apples, braeburn apples, granny smith apples, the occasional banana, the more occasional banana, and some kiwi), and some veggies too (too many to name…). Perhaps it'll be easier if I name what I don't eat: sugar, grains (processed or whole), legumes (i.e., beans), dairy, potatoes, and soda. In general, if I can eat it straight-out-of-nature raw, it's OK for the diet. And, yes, meat falls into that safe-to-eat category.
There was a post earlier with links to a couple books, so here are some additional links of interest:
* - Diet is not the right word. WOL, Way of Life, would be much more appropriate. Diet implies a short-term change of eating habits, while I have, in fact, changed my life forever. I will never go back to my old, damaging ways.
** - Why the 5 digit year? See here.
Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi!
Tech, Tech, VPI
Sol-a-rex, Sol-a-rah
Poly Tech Vir-gin-ia
Ray rah VPI
Team! Team! Team!
Tech over Marshall 41 to 14.
Go Hokies!
Two cool things this morning about Serenity which, by the way, opened at #2 in the box office last weekend.
First: Universal has made the first 9 minutes of the movie available here.
Second: This is an older link (from 30 Sept), but it's still cool. It's Orson Scott Card's review of the movie. I think this snippet speaks volumes on what Card thought of Serenity:
Those of you who know my work at all know about Ender's Game. I jealously protected the movie rights to Ender's Game so that it would not be filmed until it could be done right. I knew what kind of movie it had to be… [Serenity] is the kind of movie that I have always intended Ender's Game to be (though the plots are not at all similar)… And I'll tell you this right now: If Ender's Game can't be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made. I'd rather just watch Serenity again.
Just saw a posting this morning, or was it last night? Either way, Google now has a feed reader! It's pretty cool, but still a bit buggy. And, with the announcement that Google is going to make spreadsheet and word-processing software available online, we will soon need no more than a web browser installed on our desktops.
Question though. Is The Inquirer a reputable enough source to quote? It seems that Slashdot thinks so, I reckon that's good enough for me.
"What is it? Is that your hand?" asks his mother.
"Noooo, " he yells! "It's a camel!"
Or, something along those lines.
Without further ado, here is the latest from young Mr. Parker.
Drastic measures. Mrs. Dan (aka Cyn) and myself have decided to get rid of the idiot boxes we have in the house. That's right, no more television in the house of dan. They haven't been turned on since Monday, I think. Definitely not since Tuesday. So far, the only thing I miss is the background noise. To replace that we'll be running the XMs a little more. Side note: I've been getting into the old time radio broadcasts on XM 164 - Radio Classics. Some of it is rather corny, especially the mysteries, but I have fun listening. I listened to some Nick Carter, Master Detective yesterday… could be a suitable replacement for CSI! (… if I actually watched CSI, that is.)
Why are we doing this? What are these "drastic times" calling for these "drastic measures"? I dunno. I just had the random thought one day a couple weeks ago and it stuck. Mentioned it to Cyn and she was all for it. We will be keeping one TV (w/ DVD player) for emergencies and the occasional family movie night. But that TV will be in an upstairs guest room… so, if we want to watch TV, we'll have to get some exercise to do it.
Maybe now I'll be able to finish the half dozen books I've started in recent months………
