Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
“I Was Ahead Until 4th Street”
The above quote comes courtesy of Hoyazo, but it describes my flame-out in 6th place in the WPBT-Circuit Event #11, “S is for Stud”. I committed myself with a pair of 9’s vs Lucko21 who had taken a pair of 7’s and made them into two pairs on 4th street, and into three pairs [...]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
The Explicit Cost of Setting Your Soul on Fire
I’ve had to recalibrate my flight expectations for getting to Vegas. It used to be an hour long flight with many possibilities. Airmiles always covered me and it would cost me $10/trip.
With my new departure point it took nearly an hour of searching to come up with this a deal on JetBlue: ~$280 for [...]
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
WPBT-Circuit Event this Sunday
Many thanks to the kind comments on my last posting. We are hoping that the biopsy makes a liar of the pathologist who did the bloodwork – that news should be coming in a week or so.
In other news – a fair percentage of the people I met at my new company are now [...]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Barf on the Irony
About two months ago I left academia to start a position at a company that has one of only a handful of drugs that will cure a certain type of leukemia. I love my new work and I’m compensated well for it.
I just found out that my younger sister, a mother of two, has [...]
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Things That Make Me Go Squee
Whew – just finished listening to Ron Moore’s podcast where he discusses the conclusion of the “Exodus” episode on SciFi Network’s BSG. For those of you who don’t know – Ron Moore is the creator, part-time writer, and executive producer of one of the best frackin’ shows on TV, the “reimagined” Battlestar Galactica. Although the [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Organizing Poker Pals
I’ve been digging myself out of the backlog of stuff that I had to suspend during the ‘fog of war’ that accompanies any major move. If anyone out there has tried to contact me, please know that I didn’t ignore you – my email box just became so stuffed with things you [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Coast to Coast
Google has unleashed a new photoservice so I figured I’d give it a try here.
The top photo is a shot of me fishing mid-September at a beach in Winthrop, a town that is just north of Boston. The beach was largely deserted because it sits right underneath Logan’s flight path. Airplanes flew ~200 [...]
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
Razz:Poker as Cod Liver Oil:Health.
Razz, like Guinness, is good for you. Unfortunately, these two liquids have an entirely different taste. Cod liver oil is rich in Omega-3, as wells as vitamins A&D. Razz busts your mind out of plain ol’ hold em patterns and forces you to think about what you are doing. It is [...]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
You Couldn’t Legislate the Broad Side of a Barn
It looks like the recent legislation against online gambling has not destroyed virtual poker (PartyPoker was the only noteworthy shutdown) but it may have destroyed real poker. Most of the major sites have announced that they will not provide satellites to the big buy-in poker events in the USA anymore because of possible [...]
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Tempest in a RedBull Can
(Oct 9th – update on event schedule at bottom)
It looks like most of the knee-jerk reactions have subsided. On-line poker is still here (for now!). The Frist rider was actually fairly toothless in terms of the average individual player. The only part of that bill that I fear is the language hinting at ISP blocking [...]
