Trying to use an entire box of Crest Whitestrips over the course of one day was, in retrospect, not a great idea. My gums are now as white as my teeth. According to the website, I should be okay, and the excruciating sensitivity should go away in a day or so ( Read more... )

Omaha is a better game than Texas Hold'Em.

There, I said it.

You may proceed about your business.

Poker this summer's been great... at least if I were to measure it by success. Sadly, the two people I was planning to hang out with most of this summer have up and left ( Read more... )

Decided to jump back into poker today ( Read more... )

Booyah! First place in an 8-ball tournament ( Read more... )

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So... I just got a summer job that demands 40 hour weeks. I've got some serious regrets about signing myself up for this... I've never worked an honest week's work in my life, and this'd be the first. I think aside from 3-4 weeks where I've played about 60-80 hours of poker, I've never been anywhere near having a full-time job ( Read more... )

Okay - some of you might know that this last semester was devoted to self-improvement. There were some things I didn't like about my life, and I decided to work on changing them. Several were vague, and lacked an algorithmic metric of progress, e.g. becoming comfortable flirting with a girl I like who I've known for less than a year (good ( Read more... )

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder” - Aldous Huxley

My Foundations of Mathematics teacher is hilarious. He's an asian guy in his early 50s I'd guess, with a ridiculous comb over that looks alright until he turns to write on the board. Here's a picture. (I couldn't find a good one where he wasn't wearing a hat)

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