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House
Last night's episode of "House, M.D." got me thinking about why I like the show. I don't like medical drama shows that much. It is probably my phobia of doctors and such but I never got into "ER" or any of the others. What is it that makes "House" the exception? It is entirely because of the Gregory House character ( Read more... ) -
Television
I don't watch much television. That is mainly because if I started I would just sit in front of it and waste a lot of hours gaining nothing. I am not saying I don't waste time. Hell, I am typing up this entry while I am at work. If you watch TV it just seems to eat more and more of your time ( Read more... ) -
Bubble Boy
It sucks being bubble boy. It sucks worse when you are bubble boy and you didn't think smart tournament strategy.
On a 4 handed table I have KJo in the small blind. Player ahead of me raises 15k which a call would cripple me...not to mention he has been buying A LOT of pots with that exact bet. I raise allin. Big blinds fold and raise calls ( Read more... ) -
The Pit
I used to love BBSs. My first modem, put inside my Tandy TL/2 computer, was what started it all. Before that I was just trading files with my other friend who had a computer. Now all my friends have a computer but then none of them did. I have fond memories of the friend. I used to give him a hard time because my computer had a hard drive and ( Read more... ) -
Tech Talk
I like talking about technology. Give me a beer and people talking about technology and I will close down the bar. It doesn't matter what the technology is, just as long as it isn't consumer based stuff. I don't really care about how great the resolution is on you new 42" plasma TV. Talk about how to mod an X-Box, use ssh to do interesting ( Read more... ) -
Play Money, Online Games
There are tons of poker books on how to play poker at various limits. I recommend, "Winning Low-Limir Hold'em" by Lee Jones, "Harrington on Hold'em" both Volume 1 and Volume 2 There are even books on how to be successful at online poker. The one thing that I haven't found yet is information on how to have success at play money, online poker ( Read more... ) -
Vampires
Sometimes a genre gets in my mind and I can't let it go. It is like a virus. The anti-virus is to consume lots of the genre. Just like a virus it isn't content to not replicate so it attempts to reproduce itself via memes ( Read more... ) -
Sandman
I just finished reading the first volume to Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman", "Preludes & Nocturnes". The "Sandman" work has been considered by many to be one of the best pieces of work in the graphic format. I don't know yet if I agree ( Read more... ) -
Server Upgrade
Spent some time last night upgrading one of my company's primary servers. We are having a problem with IRIX nfs clients have mount points with some resources missing when served from a linux nfs server. There has been reports of this problem when exporting file systems from IRIX to Linux clients so it is worth a shot. This was my opportunity to ( Read more... ) -
Geek Wed^H^H^HTuesday
I used to think of Wednesday as my geek day. Going to the comic book store is a pretty geeky (and fun) experience. Today trumped that in a major, major way.
Macworld San Francisco is going on this week and today was the primary keynote address by Steve Jobs. There has been a load of rumor and speculation about what would be announced. Would ( Read more... )