Nov 2nd 2005
3:23 PM
We'll, I finally won. I took home the pot of $80. I didn't get my wish and get
really great cards though. I had to grind it out. For the first 1.5 hours I only
saw three flops, and the hands I hade were: K-4 suited, Pocket 3's, and Q-J off
suit.
I had to fold all but the K-4 right after the flop. I really shouldn't have even
played the K-4, but I had folded so many hands I figured I had such a tight image
people might think my hand was powerful just because I was playing. I was able to
limp in, and thought I might get lucky and hit a flush. I didn't hit anything on
the flop though, and was third to act (five people were still in). The first two
players checked to me, so I checked. The next player checked to Kurt who was on the
button. I've played with Kurt long enough to know that he will always bet if
everyone checks to him. So he throws in $50. The two players folded to me. I gave
Kurt a good stare while I played with my chips, and calmly raised to $150 (the size
of the pot).
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Nov 1st 2005
3:57 PM
Tonight is poker night. I probably won't win. I seem to outplay everyone every time
I show up, but the cards conspire against me. If it happens again I might yell and
scream like Phil Helmuth. I have talked everyone into changing some of the rules to
eliminate some of the luck this time, so maybe that will help. If I win this time, I
assume everyone will claim the that I changed the rules just to win. And that
wouldn't be entirely untrue. Maybe this will be the one time where I just get
superior cards and winning comes easy. I've become very good at grinding it out
with bad cards, but in a short tournament grinding doesn't help you that much. You
end up heads up against a much larger stack with blinds that are killing you. My
only issue is that I don't feel like I've been playing that well lately. My slow
plays seem to backfire and I get aggressive, but then totally miss my flops. But
maybe that's good. Every time I've felt great going in, I've lost.
Enough about poker.
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Oct 31st 2005
3:56 PM
This was actually a pretty good weekend. Kathrine and I got stuff done around the
house. I slept enough so that I've finally shaken this cold. And Everything seemed
to go smoothly. Hopefully more weekends like this will follow. Of course, there are
so many movies comming out now that we'll probably be at the theater every weekend
for the rest of the year. I'd kind of like to see Capote, Kathrine really
wants to see Good Night, and Good Luck, we both will want to see The
Goblet of Fire, and I really want to see Jarhead this weekend. Don't you
hate the run up to Oscar Time? Speaking of Jarhead, I just finished the book
and if you get a chance you should read it.
It's been a few days since I gave you links, so here's an extra special set, I don't
know why there is so much porn involved.
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Oct 26th 2005
3:33 PM
Funny weather the last few days. It's been drizzly and super foggy in
the morning, but then it clears up and is pretty beautiful in the afternoon.
Today there are blue skies and fluffy little clouds everywhere. Of course yesterday
just after five the wind picked up and a a new set of clouds rolled in. The wind was
kind of sad because most of the tress that looked so pretty with their colored leaves
are now all bare. I like fall here, unless it's too rainy. Even winter doesn't
phase me much. It's the spring that's hard to handle.
Anyway, no indictments were announced today; so I'm sure you're all looking for
other news. Never fear, I will provide:
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Oct 25th 2005
3:03 PM
Slow news day. And I don't feel well. So all you get are links:
- Pop
Matters - I liked this interview with Death Cab For Cutie. It made me want to go
back and buy We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes.
- Seattle
PI - Great article about KEXP. I don't understand how people can bad mouth
them. There simply isn't a radio station out there as good.
- Seattle
PI - Ever wonder where KEXP's memebers live?
- Computer
World - Interesting story about a switch to OpenBSD.
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Oct 24th 2005
2:05 PM
Well, at least it was a fun weekend. We did actually have our Zaireeka
listening party, and it was quite good. It's been about six years since I've done
it, and you always forget how good the disc actually is. It's more than just a
gimmick, the music really is that good. What's interesting though is that you can
never make it perfect. It's impossible to get all four CD's going at exactly the
same moment. And even if you did; without a SPL meter and a test tone, you aren't
going to match their volume outputs. And even if you went to that much; trouble
unless you have identical speaker/amp/player combinations (I.E. four identical boom
boxes), you'll run into them sounding a bit different. Most interesting though is
the fact not all CD players play at the same speed. The four players move in and
out of sync as it plays. We took advantage of this by listening to it twice. The
second time I randomized the CD's so that each source was playing a different disc
than the first time.
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Oct 21st 2005
2:04 PM
Sorry about the no links yesterday. Between work and upgrading my desktop at home
(Now running Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger"), I just didn't have time. But I finally
did get my computer all done, so here it goes. As an aside, has anyone ever noticed
how well the Mac OS X desktop functions? Now, I don't like a lot about that OS. I
find it hard to do basic tasks like burning an ISO on to a CD, setting up
networking, mounting a samba share, making a CD duplicate, and connecting to a
shared printer. Of course, to the average user who has no idea what an ISO is or
why you'd want to mount a network share, or use anything but DHCP, that isn't a big
problem. But the desktop just works. With the dock and dashboard thing seem to
work very well. I didn't really realize how well until Kathrine looked at my
computer and said, "It looks just like mine now." Of course there are a few
differences. I'm running Gnome and not OS X, so I don't have a dock or dashboard.
But I do have gDesklets which is very similar (and imho cooler because it's far
easier to write your own desklet).
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Oct 19th 2005
1:17 PM
I have nothing new to report. My life hasn't been that interesting lately (besides
the whole getting married thing). I recently bought some new CD's (used copies of
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail
of Dead - World's Apart; plus new copies of Sigur Ros - Takk, Brakes -
Give Blood, and My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything. I'm already
beginning to think about my top five albums of the year. I think it might be a
tough call.
I don't know if I've posted this before, but I love my Comcast DVR. It makes it so much
more enjoyable to watch TV, and makes watching TV so much more productive. Of
course, the downside is that because it takes less time to watch shows I am watching
more of them. I've already gotten hooked on three of this season's new shows (How
I Met Your Mother, Extras, and The War at Home) plus Kathrine has
started watching another (Criminal Minds).
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Oct 18th 2005
4:13 PM
I was going to do a full set of links that only contained funny pictures. Mainly in
honor of the fact there are now some wedding pictures online here. But alas, I
couldn't find enough to make a full list. So you only get three links today.
In other news, the whole site is done, and most likely works better than before. If
you find something that warrants improvement, or something that totally doesn't work.
Let me know. I wrote over 1500 lines of code in one weekend, so there are bound to
be a few bugs in it. I just have to make sure I go back and add some comments
before I forget what it all does.
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