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03:09 pm
patrissimo
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ok day
I must have had apnea or something b/c I had tons of nightmares about blight bogles and zombies (I read the latest Bujold Sharing Knife book before bed). The zombies were the bogle mudmen and could only be killed with steel through the heart, so the dreams involved a lot of carrying swords, wielding swords, and choosing between swords. Shannon & Tovar never got zombified but I was always worried about them. There was one interesting bit where the bogle ate some kind of preacher and organized his fiefdom based on church organization principles of a very accepting sort - like, not eating people whose allegiance lay elsewhere.
Also, after feeling great for a couple days my shoulder is sore and clicky today.
Other than that, life is good. Sent my Google farewell email today, and am officially leaving on July 29th. Have PT soon.
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12:33 pm
patrissimo
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my table for tomorrow
via evan:Scott Sitron 17,550 B62 01
Marko Batanjac 122,000 B62 02
Sebastian Larsson 22,725 B62 03
Jorge Arias 25,550 B62 04
Patri Friedman 24,200 B62 05
Felipe Montenegro 30,200 B62 06
Burt Boutin 29,650 B62 07
Anthony Fox 48,450 B62 08
Joel Do 19,300 B62 09
Do - no cashes on hendon
anthony fox -- an anthony fox has a $600 7 card stud cash in 2006.
burt boutin -- 40 cashes or so
montenegro - 3 cashes, all this year in NLH. none over 10k
jorge arias -- 15 cashes, all NLH in last 3 years.
larrson -- nothing
batanjac -- nothing. and has lots of chips.
sitron -- 6 NLH cashes in last year, 3 at wsop including a 2nd at 1500 WSOP Looks like an OK table, though not great. I have decent position on the one really big stack. Burt was at my Day 1 table, oddly enough. He plays well, although is a little bit tilty. Jorge Arias is twin_caracas, a fearsome online cash pro, who I fortunately have position on. Scott Sitron sounds like a solid player from the description of the WSOP tournament he got 2nd in this year. Hopefully the rest are fairly inexperienced.
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11:13 am
evwhore
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I can't think of *anything* wrong with this idea
The Washington Times, via slashdot:
A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers. This bracelet would: * take the place of an airline boarding pass * contain personal information about the traveler * be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage * shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes [...] According to a letter from DHS official, Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development, to the inventor whom he had previously met with, he wrote, "To make it clear, we [the federal government] are interested in [...] the immobilizing security bracelet, and look forward to receiving a written proposal." The letterhead, in case you were wondering, came from the DHS office at the William J. Hughes Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport, or the Federal Aviation Administration headquarters. In another part of the letter, Mr. Ruwaldt confirmed, "It is conceivable to envision a use to improve air security, on passenger planes." Would every paying airline passenger flying on a commercial airplane be mandated to wear one of these devices? I cringe at the thought. Not only could it be used as a physical restraining device, but also as a method of interrogation, according to the same aforementioned letter from Mr. Ruwaldt.
This idea is so monumentally stupid that I bet he gets promoted instead of fired.
(The promotional video was pretty choppy and only played through the first 2 minutes for me -- they're probably getting blown away by the /. effect -- but it features voiceover by Serious Deep-Voiced Announcer.)
Tags: duh, travel
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10:48 pm
evwhore
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Two items from the New Yorker
A couple weeks ago:
Animal Tales -- this is hilarious.
And an interesting in-depth look at Sheldon Adelson (and in particular his politics), creator/owner of the Venetian and the Palazzo.
Tags: gambling, humor, las vegas
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08:00 pm
patrissimo
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Acrobatics in the fall
I just looked at the schedule, and The SF Circus Center classes are 2 hours, once a week. I was worried about the commute, but once a week seems very doable. Sadly I need 3 semesters of Beginning Chinese Acrobatics before I can do any of the advanced stuff I want (Pole tricks and partners acrobatics). But a semester is just 10 weeks of once a week, so it's not really that onerous. And if I do well in my first beginning class I may be able to get an exemption.
It's too late for summer session and my shoulder is still recovering (although it's feeling pretty strong!), but I have made a note on my calendar to sign up for a class in the fall. Yay! I'm really looking forward to putting my new CrossFit body to use and learning some fun new skills :).
Just one example of something I really want to do that I'll have the time for thanks to quitting Google! :).
Tags: acrobatics
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04:19 pm
patrissimo
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EEE 901
They've got OS X working pretty well on the 901. No WiFi, but you can get a USB Wifi dongle for $10 that works. And I'm not sure I actually need OS X, as I think I may mainly use my desktop for book editing. So I'm leaning towards the EEE as my laptop for when I leave Google and return my MacBook Pro. But I still haven't played with an Air.
I'm somewhat torn between "My desktop has 2 big monitors and my office area is a great place to work, so why not work there?" and "It would be nice to be able to work on the book while traveling, at coffee shops, etc." On the one hand, I'm not really one of those people who needs to get out of the house a lot. On the other hand, it might still make me more productive and focused to go places where I have less distractions. And I may end up getting cabin fever once I am home more often.
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02:41 pm
walterzuey
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2008 WSOP Roto after all day 1's
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham 49k Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius 64k John Phan X Ralph Perry X
Ivey X B. Greenstein 21k Dario Minieri X Daniel Wong 8k David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus 103k Michael Binger 31k Elky 25k Jonas Klaussen 18k Isaac Baron X EDOGN 92k
Robert Miz 142k David Singer 128k Michael Miz X JC Tran X Nam Le 13k Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko 45k Brian Townsend 91k Layne Flack X Erik Seidel 65k Hellmuth 79k
Juanda 12k Alex Jacob 25k Johnny World 52k J v. Altsyne X Max Pescatori X Daniel Alaei X
Scotty Ng. 23k Nick Schulman 69k Haralabos V. 52k Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. 46k Joe Cassidy X
Thayer Rasm. 54k James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet 70k Jordan Rich 35k Oppenheim 114k
Brandon Cantu 79k Jeff Lisandro X Hooman Nikzad X Jen Harman 63k Antonio 93k Laak 45k
Sorel Mizzi 76k Kathy Liebert 39k Matusow 48k Chad Batista X Jesus X Rafi Amit X
Mimi Tran X Nenad Medic 91k Meng La X Chris Lee X J J Liu X A. Galajian 12k
Jorj95 X Tom Schneider X Jim Geary X Ryan Hughes 63k Robert Goldfarb 21k Tad Jurgens 15k
Tags: poker
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01:07 pm
evwhore
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Just to balance things out
Drew well and won my first two games this morning, then ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) paulsid drew the bag against me (up by like 150+ 6-7 turns in I think, don't have the scoresheet in front of me). At least I finished close to .500, 13-14 -1xx.
Meanwhile there's a new work crisis going on -- for totally baffling and inexplicable reasons some logging processes are running *really* slowly despite nothing much going on in the db, no obvious limits being hit, etc. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
UPDATE: Work problem turns out to have been some sort of networking issue on the machine in question. Logging processes have been moved elsewhere, all is well.
Tags: scrabble, work
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12:21 am
evwhore
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Almost as exciting...
Just "slumming" now, keeping captainparanoid company. (Sequential!)
Tags: gambling, reno, royal, video poker
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10:58 pm
evwhore
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Ok, this makes me feel *slightly* better...
My first jokers royal! A bunch of Scrabblers came by to see, and I've been dubbed "S. Spencer Cree."
Tags: gambling, reno, royal, video poker
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05:58 pm
walterzuey
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WSOP 2008 Main Event: I Go Home Now
Had a great table. All Americans. No kids. No pros. Never had a shot.
Third hand of the tournament:
Limp, limp, raise, call, call, call, call.
Flop is K-T-2. Small blind goes all in to an 2000 pot for 15000 (yes, he already had spewed a quarter of his stack in one of the first two pots when he made second pair on the turn as his opponent made top two.) Raiser thinks for a long time and finally calls with AA. 222 goot.
Typical raise would be 50-100 blinds , fold fold fold, 700. Every post-flop bet was between 1.5 and 2x the size of the pot. Forget bluffing. I resolve to flop sets and let them monkey out on me.
First hand I play after the flop, I limp behind a school with red sixes. Flop is JJ4. I bet, and get checkraised by a not altogether unattractive girl. I think she thinks I wouldn't bet a jack on the flop and is trying to put a move on me. Turn puts up a third diamond, and I figure I'll let her come to grips with all her fears if she has a bigger pair and bet. She calls. Oops. River is a fourth diamond, and I contemplate the sick vb, but decide to just take the pot. KJo for her. 22k for me.
Next hand of note @ 100-200 blinds, I have QQ. Raise to 600 get called by showily nutty older Asian on my left and one of the uberfishys. Flop is QT8 w two spades.. I bet 1100 into a 1900 pot I think. Call, fold. Turn is an ace, and I bet 2k, he raises 8k more! I think, call. River is the 2 of spades. Check all in. Tank. I fold.
Still had about 10k at a soft table. Few hands later. JJ in the small blind. School comes in. Late position raises, I call as well as most of the school. Flop is KJ5. Well, you know the rest.
Tags: poker
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06:10 pm
evwhore
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And so it goes
Round 24 was a rematch with Isaac. He opens with ZOOID and I think great, here we go again. I chicken out of H(O)URLIES (it's new) but get DEV(I)SALS down on the next turn. ANOINTE(D) for him followed by WEEP for 43, but after an exchange I get GrADERS for 81 to pull close (chickening out of (PA)yGRADES[1] since it looked like two words but it wouldn't have scored as much anyway). BROWnIE puts me up by 48 but his XI for 41 keeps it close.
33 and 37 pt plays have me up 57 when he gets (G)ENTRIES for 80, I draw CGJKLMR with 4 in the bag and very few vowels on the board to play through, and he gets DIQUAT at O10 for 81. Isaac is a really nice guy and I enjoy playing him, but still, Merry fucking Christmas.
Thus the story of how I lost my fourth (possibly more) 2-blank game this tournament, 395-476. IHTFG. I'm seriously considering withdrawing from Nationals.
[1] had I played it, it would've been my third 9 this tournament; also (AS)SAILING and CHE(ER)IEST.
Tags: scrabble
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01:01 pm
evwhore
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Lunch update
Wow, Isaac is having an even worse tournament than me. I just beat him by 6 and won only because he went over on time.
9-11 -2xx.
Tags: scrabble
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11:55 am
evwhore
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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
THIRD FUCKING LOSS with both blanks because I can't draw for shit at any other time and bingo-bongos with great placements just keep raining down for whoever the hell play (except for the win-by-171 I had sandwiched in between another fucking irritating loss).
Sample situation: I can play WHELP(S) for 36 to get a lot of crap off my rack but the S is neat to an obvious tws for opp to block and instead I have to exchange (4 times last game). Equity swings like this keep coming up.
And no, having hit $10k in VP jackpots two days ago does not help, so don't ask.
Addendum: most of these fuckbox* losses have been to people seeded 15+ places lower than me. And now I get to play Isaac "Dr. Lethal" Apindi.
*A phrase I coined a few days ago. It's the opposite of "luckbox."
Current Mood: postal
Tags: scrabble
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10:34 am
evwhore
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IHTFG
I am getting REALLY FUCKING SICK of being down two bingos 5 turns into the game and then having my opponent make single-digit blocking plays to fuck up the board making it impossible to open up two bingo lines.
I have flirted with < 300 several times and now it's happened, 298-399 when she managed to find her 4-tile out-play when I had 1 tile left on my rack.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!!!
Current Mood: sunny and cheerful
Tags: scrabble
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08:20 am
walterzuey
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2008 WSOP Roto after day 1-C
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius 64k John Phan Ralph Perry X
Ivey B. Greenstein 21k Dario Minieri Daniel Wong David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus Michael Binger 31k Elky 25k Jonas Klaussen 18k Isaac Baron EDOGN 92k
Robert Miz 142k David Singer 128k Michael Miz JC Tran X Nam Le 13k Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko 45k Brian Townsend 91k Layne Flack Erik Seidel 65k Hellmuth
Juanda 12k Alex Jacob 25k Johnny World 52k J v. Altsyne Max Pescatori X Daniel Alaei X
Scotty Ng. 23k Nick Schulman 69k Haralabos V. 52k Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. 46k Joe Cassidy
Thayer Rasm. James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet 70k Jordan Rich 35k Oppenheim
Brandon Cantu Jeff Lisandro X Hooman Nikzad Jen Harmon Antonio Laak
Sorel Mizzi 76k Kathy Liebert 39k Matusow 48k Chad Batista X Jesus Rafi Amit
Mimi Tran X Nenad Medic 91k Meng La Chris Lee J J Liu X A. Galajian
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes 63k Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens 15k
I'll be rallying my team in a few hours, at which point the rest will be academic. Heh, just saw Boom-Boom on the tennis pimpin for Stars. Hope that's a sign he's at my table today.
Tags: poker
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01:26 am
patrissimo
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I'm so sick
12 hours of poker, and all I want to do is go to the bellagio and gamble more :). I'm exhausted, though, and supposedly catching a plane at 10:30am tomorrow, so I'm headed to bed. We'll see if I actually make the plane.
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12:59 am
patrissimo
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T24,200 - final count
my table was tough. Not super tough like better than me, but still, not juicy. There were some bad players, but they were generally replaced by decent ones. Although I might feel differently if I had been the recipient of some of the chip spewage - there were definitely some big mistakes. But not frequent ones.
Anyway, it's nice to pick up chips on day 1, but day 2 is where the blinds start to pick up and you can really build a stack if you make some hands. So it is good just to be still alive. I'm flying home tomorrow, and then back Tuesday night for day 2 on Wednesday.
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10:08 pm
patrissimo
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27k
busted a short stack with AK vs AQ!
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09:44 pm
patrissimo
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12k (now 18!)
Won a race with 88 vs AQs to double up. 11k feels like a lot! I'm gonna have to like, play poker and see an occasional flop.
Then won a medium pot with AQ to get to 18k. We are back in business!
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04:25 am
andyblochfeed
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Playing Main Event day 1d tomorrow
http://www.andybloch.com/gl/pub/article.php?story=20080705234153320
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04:25 am
andyblochfeed
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Poker player or dice player, who would you rather have as our next President?
http://www.andybloch.com/gl/pub/article.php?story=20080705232809433
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07:04 pm
patrissimo
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6k exactly
heading into the dinner break. It's been brutal, no big pots, no big hands, rarely seeing a turn or river.
After the break we're at 150-300 w/ 25 antes, so an M a little under 10. I'll be looking for a good spot to jam over an opener. A bit of a discouraging spot, but one nice thing about NLH is that such things rarely last, I'll soon have more chips or be out. Just gotta find a good spot and then get lucky.
Play resumes at 8:30.
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04:37 pm
patrissimo
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T16k
second break. Pretty card dead. Table is pretty loose passive, not a place for bluffing.
Ah well, the longer it goes, the more you win if you make a hand.
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02:17 pm
patrissimo
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T19,200 (first break)
from T20K starting. Played no big pots, lost a couple medium and won a lot of small. Our table has an empty seat on my left, which is excellent. Two pros, which is not so good, but the table is still decent, if not as juicy as I'd like for the big one.
One tight player lost with a set of aces vs an (obvious) wheel, had 1000 left, and seems to have just given up and left! Why not just jam a few times instead? So weird, but again, good for us, especially as the winner of the pot is a bit inexperienced. No one terrible, though.
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