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Come to the Rainforest Animal Kingdom and ask for Big Ben...i got you :)
When dining at The Coral Reef, she and my mom ordered the mushroom soup as an appetizer. The soup was served cold. Upon questioning, the bowls were removed, and replaced with hot soup.
The only downer meal was breakfast at the Caribbean Beach Resort food court. It seemed like they cooked the food the night before and left it under heat lamps.
I do find it odd that there is a dish (chicken caeser salad) can be inconsistent from one restaurant to the next. One would think there is a SOP for a lot of dishes.
PS: For anybody wondering how I've been so many times - I live in Orlando and half my friends are College Program.
We have had some good meals at table service restaurants (the ones you can still get into) and in fact I find Raglan Road is now one of my favorite standbys. Usually a short wait, great food, great beer and entertainment to boot.
I won't go there again.
At EPCOT, we really enjoyed the large restaurant in China when we visited last Christmas. Not a huge menu, but what we got was delicious.
On my last trip (one year ago):
On our first night, we were supposed to eat at Teppan Edo. Although not adventurous, we experienced the restaurant in 2003 and the food quality was good, reasonably portioned and priced, and the experience was a lot of fun. However, I booked the reservation using Disney's online reservation system, which was new at the time, and encountered problems once we arrived. They phoned our room and told us the system had experienced an error and overbooked the restaurant. They neglected to tell us this until the day of our Epcot visit despite that I made the reservation three months prior. What they should have done is given us a comp at another available restaurant. What they did was... nothing. No other Epcot restaurants were available that evening, which screwed up our trip as we had planned to experience the fireworks followed by dinner, then Extra Magic Hours. Instead, we had to eat outside of the park and experience the fireworks another night. That is some weak food service.
That night, we ended up eating at Raglan Road. My full report is here, but the gist of the review is that the food is very good, the beer is even better, and the entertainment takes the cake. Excellent service, too. We had a gorgeous waitress that had a taste for good food and beer. My kinda girl. For my money, the best place to eat and/or drink in Downtown Disney, and the quality has remained consistent over my two visits.
We experienced the Spirit of Aloha show the following night. My full review is here. The food was surprisingly good (though the chicken was dry), the show was decent, and the service was excellent. We more than made up for the steep $60/person charge in food and drinks. Overall, a very worthwhile experience if you're with a rowdy group, though I'd only do it once.
We tried lunch at the 50's Prime Time Café in Disney's Hollywood Studios. This place is really hit-or-miss. The food was passable on two separate visits, our server was fun and excellent on our second trip but bland and inattentive on our first, and the milkshakes were excellent on both occasions. I'd rather eat at the Prime Time, Brown Derby, or elsewhere.
On a side note, did Disney screw up their grammar on this one? I do believe it should be '50s Prime Time, not 50's Prime Time. Robert - can you help me on this one?
Opting for something a little quieter, we tried this year's winner of TPI's Best Theme Park Restaurant award, Bistro de Paris. The pricing was what you'd expect at a Disney table service restaurant, which is surprising considering the quality this place offers. In terms of food, I actually enjoyed my meal at downstairs' Les Chefs de France better. However, the atmosphere is much more serene at Bistro, which is a nice respite after a day of sensational overloading. You won't find strollers or wife-beaters here. The service at both restaurants is professional, friendly, and attentive. Plus, the chef slipped our table some free samples of his latest dish. Nice touch.
We ended our trip at Biergarten, which has been a hit on three separate occasions, even with a vegan. I've never been too impressed with the food, which is somewhat bland, but the beer selection and entertainment are excellent. The price is right, too.
I am suprised in the Sunshine Food Fair due to me liking it immensely, but it was for breakfast.
DLR needs to have better food, less food options and chances. They have also had 55 years to iron out the wrinkles. :)
If you've had a bad experience like the hair in the food, I would definitely write a letter about it - these are things that, like you said, they happen but shouldn't. Disney should be way more careful about that and accomodating when they make the error (and take it off the bill at least!).


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Flu Shots Available at UHC
The University Health Center is now offering FREE flu shots for UNL students.
As of September 29, 2014, we do have a limited supply of flu shots. Students are welcome to walk in and get their shot, or make an appointment by calling 472-5000.
Note: There is a charge for flu shots for faculty and staff. The UHC will file Blue Cross Blue Shield claims for faculty and staff members under the wellness benefit. You must have your insurance card at the time of vaccination in order to file a claim for Blue Cross Blue Shield only.
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- Fever (usually high)
- Headache
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- Cough
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- Body aches
- Diarrhea and vomiting (more common among children than adults)
Having these symptoms does not always mean that you have the flu. Many different illnesses, including the common cold, can have similar symptoms.
Flu Home Care
It is very difficult to distinguish the flu from other infections on the basis of symptoms alone. A doctor's exam may be needed to tell whether you have developed the flu or a complication of the flu. There are tests that can determine if you have the flu as long as you are tested within the first 2 or 3 days of illness.
If you develop flu-like symptoms and are concerned about your illness, especially if you are at high risk for complications of the flu, you should consult your healthcare provider. Those at high risk for complications include people 65 years or older, people with chronic medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease), pregnant women, and young children.
- Self-isolate at least 24 hours AFTER fever and symptoms have resolved - contact your professor if you are unable to attend class
- If you live in a residence hall, contact your RA or Front Desk to set-up meal delivery
- Wash hands frequently with soap or use hand sanitizers containing ethyl alcohol
- Cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing; cough into your sleeve
- Use tissues to contain secretions; place in separate bag and dispose daily
- Over the counter medications you can take for the following symptoms: fever, aches, pains and chills - take Tylenol (acetaminophen) or Advil (ibuprofen); coughing - use Delsym, Q-Tussin DM or Mucinex; nasal congestion - use Sudafed or other oral decongestant, avoid nasal spray; and sore throat - warm salt water gargle (1/2 tsp salt to 8 oz water)
- Decrease smoking or stop smoking if possible
- Drink six or more glasses of water each day
- Eat and maintain a good diet
- Get adequate rest
- Finish and complete all prescribed medication
Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Community
- Stay informed. Health officials will provide additional information as it becomes available. Visit the CDC Flu website.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs spread this way.
- Try to avoid close contact with others who are sick and stay home when you are sick.
- Learn more about how to take care of someone who is ill.
- Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds, and other social distancing measures.
Emergency Warning Signs
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
- Sudden dizziness
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Prior to your Divorce
At this difficult time in your life the last thing you will want to consider is what will happen to your financial affairs should you die unexpectedly before a settlement has been finalised. However, we advise that you give some priority to this question, especially if you have children.
Consequences on separation, prior to a Divorce, if you have a Will
If you die unexpectedly before your divorce has been finalised the provisions of your existing Will remain legally enforceable. Now that you have separated you may wish to reconsider this gesture and appoint other executors/beneficiaries. Therefore you must replace your existing Will with a new one as soon as possible.
Consequences on separation, prior to Divorce, without a Will
If you have children and you do not have a Will, your former spouse will receive the following on your death prior to a divorce:
If you do not have children and do not have a Will, your former spouse will receive the following on your death prior to a divorce;
If you do not wish this to happen you must make a Will immediately.
Joint Property
If you still own a property with your former spouse as Joint Tenants, you will need to consider whether or not to revise this arrangement.
A Joint Tenancy means that if you die your spouse would atomatically inherit the whole of the property by way of what is termed the "Rule of Survivorship" and vice versa. If you wanted to leave your share of the property by way of a Will to anybody other than your spouse, you will need to "sever" the joint tenancy so that you could then hold the property as what are termed "tenants in common". We can do this for you by simply serving a Notice on your spouse and the Land Registry.
Even as a tenant in common, whilst you remain married to your spouse unless you leave a Will, your spouse will be your automatic beneficiary under the Intestacy Rules.
After Divorce
If you have appointed a former spouse as your Executor (the person who distributes your estate in accordance with the provisions of your Will) this appointment will lapse.
As the appointment will lapse, this will have important legal implications as a third party will have to be appointed to deal with your estate. This may not be the person who you would want or trust to deal with your personal affairs.
Likewise, should the gift to your former spouse lapse you must appoint another to receive your estate, otherwise the Intestacy Rules will apply. What this means is that if your exiting Will has not provided for an alternative beneficiary, your estate will pass in accordance with the strict provisions of the law only. Therefore, passing to individuals you might not wish to benefit.
Any gift or bequest in that Will also lapses.
To avoid uncertainty we advise you to make a new Will.
For further information on Wills please ring Jeremy Edwards on 01326 318900 or contact Jeremy Edwards at email@example.com
For further help on Divorce please ring Kelly Grigg on 01326 318900 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Disclaimer – This only provides a generic outline of the law as at 22.2.12 and does not apply to every factual situation and therefore it might not apply to your situation. You must obtain specialist legal advice on the facts of your individual case before you take any action and as a result Preston Goldburn Solicitors cannot be liable for any losses you suffer as a result of failing to obtain your own specialist legal advice.


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"We will be glad and rejoice in thee."
Song of Solomon 1:4
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Was reminded of this quote from A Hunger for God by John Piper a few days ago. Beautiful reminder of the utter satisfaction that is found in Christ and Christ alone.
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God the Source of All Good (Valley of Vision)
A prayer to the greatest Father there is. #ValleyofVision
O Lord God, who inhabits eternity,
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This is definitely a unique category in the porn industry but for those of you who like to see hardcore sex taken to the extreme than electro sluts might just be exactly what you need. These women thrive to have both holes penetrated with electricity and mixing pain with pleasure is what they live for. They have no problem experiementing and doing every thing they can to get that electrifying orgasm they are looking for. For some avid porn watchers this may not be your normal thing but either way I do guarantee that you won't be able to help yourself from getting turned on by the things these women are willing to do.
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Pushing You Away.
I'd say "I love you" too, but then it wouldn't be true.
I don't love you, I need you… and I think I want you too.
You drive me crazy— up a wall.
Of all people, you were the one to make me fall.
The only one who promised to catch me if I were to trip—
I keep biting my tongue so "I love you" won't slip.
I hate you. You disgust me… you give me butterflies.
I can't stand you, get away… these feelings, I despise.
You're a terrorist of my heart. You're a culprit of my mind…
You're all I've ever wanted…
But I'm leaving you behind.
-Shannon Cassady
I don't believe in love. Nor no what it feels like.
But if I could imagine…
it's feel exactly the way that I feel about you.
Sometimes, I want to drink with you. Because then I'd have a perfect reason to kiss you and say it was an accident.
But, then again, that's the exact same reason why I don't drink around you:
1. It wouldn't be an accident.
2. I would die.


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- Caroline Phillips
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CEO/President, Entrepreneur & muscian
This conversation is closed.
What can we do, as citizens to promote tolerance in our daily lives ?
You're in a meeting. Someone tells a joke ... it's about a jew, a black guy, that pushy feminist, that gay guy... What do you do ?
You're waiting in line and you see someone ethnic/different being badly treated by a bank teller/government worker/cashier.
You're at a party where Dave, your friend's husband is gay-bashing again.
At school, you hear a kid use a racial epithet when yelling at another kid.
What kind of attitude do you adopt ?
If you do say something... what do you say ?
How can and does your behavior affect others ?
If you have stood up for the underdog and for tolerance, how did it affect your relationship with friends, clients, business partners or significant others ?
Tolerance ... definition :
"The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others."
Closing Statement from Caroline Phillips
Thank you all for your wonderful contributions to this conversation about Tolerance with a capital "T".
I've learned quite a bit from you and I think it's a wonderful testimony to the magic of TED that so many nationalities participated in this conversation. I feel a lot like Mary Saville : I too tend to get too emotional and engaged about intolerant things I'm hearing so I can produce the opposite effect and be too agressive and intolerant. I'll aspire to be more like Robert Jaffe when adressing intolerant people, to react swiftly but not humiliate.
Susan B. writes "Standing up for the underdog, does not make life happy for you. You are looked at as not being a team player, going against the norm and going against the grain."
My concluding thoughts : Unfortunately I don't live in a "TED world", so standing up for the underdog will often be a perilous endavour, but I'm willing to take the chance.
Hugs to all.
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Apr 30 2011: Tolerance is when one learns to accept that no two people can have the same view towards life, things, people or situations. It is a degree higher than patience because we are not merely awaiting our turn, or our time or turning a deaf ear or blind eye to situations.
Tolerance is accepting anothers view, abiding by the law live and let live. We have to teach ourselves, empower ourself to understand that no two people can be clones in thought or behaviour. Experiances, Circumstances, situations, upbringing, values, education, culture all these aspects play a great and vital part in shaping each indvidual personality and developement.
If one has the courage of conviction i fully support standing for the underdog in any situation as long as one doesnt cower away midway leaving the person even more vulnerable and ridiculed than before. If you are not convinced about the cause you can never fight for it with strength. You have to believe that you are doing the right thing. It is the right of freedom that is bestowed upon us and with that comes the responsibility of making the right choice.
Apr 30 2011: Hello Bhagyashree! I really liked the way you took the concepts one step forward to concrete action and the warning that we have to be very careful to follow through when we intervene. Leaving people more vulnerable is counterproductive for everyone.
I read a study the other day that indicated that in fMRI studies bullies demonstrate that they get pleasure from causing harm and that it is actually hardwired into certain centers of their brains. It will not be an easy fix.
May 2 2011: Bullies sense fear just like animals do. Fear in the body odour, fera in the eyes, in the tremble of your hands, a quickened pace.
I am not talking about dealing with murderers here or the ordeal of getting mugged but the bullying that one faces in school, college or workplace. Confidence is a detterent as is indifference. This is not to be confused with audacity or challenging a situation.
Have you seen a stream of ants walking towards their goal...put in a detterent they either cross over it or go around it...their speed remaining constant. You can put 2 or 3 or even 10 objects in their path.....their stance does not chnage. In todays society and world we have to teach our childern to be like that to survive if they not built to give a physical stay away appearance.
This does work most of the time...simply because the enjoyment of the reaction is missed by the bully.
May 14 2011: As a teacher I was expected to not tolerate bullying. I did what I could but kid A sitting right in front of me can give kid B a 1/10 second glance across the room and kid B has been bullied. They both know it and I am oblivious. (Now this presumes a prior bullying relationship between the two - unlikely bullying could be started with such a glance).
Alas, I have few insights into bullying, as, with one possible exception, I never bullied (as best I know), nor, with 2.5 exceptions, I was never bullied.
The 0.5 was almost sad. Bridge in the middle of the H.S. campus & seniors occasionally extorted lunch money form frosh (35¢ back then). The guy wo stopped me was built like a brick s-house with half the IQ. He stops me. I says, 'Look, Stan, that little weasel is sneaking right behind you!' Stan turns his 300lbs to look & off I run, Maybe I bullied him. Got to know Stan a little bit later on. Doubt his IQ made 70, but he seemed to be a good heart - I figure he may have been put pu to the extortion thing - had his heart been into it, I might not have faired so well …
The pseudo bullying, I do not understand but am ashamed of to this day. There was a gal, say 'Melodie' - this was oh, grade 4-5, I'd guess. Well, Melodie was bad news. I treated her like she had leprosy, like she was below the bottom of the caste system - and as I recall, so did others. In grade 7 math I was once seated next to her (to deal with a talking problem) I was horrified, I had to sit next to Melodie!! Desparate times, desperate measures. I talked with, gulp, Melodie. Nonstop. 2 days. Before I was moved, to my ultimate relief! Let me now tell you about Melodie. She was bright, cute (but she had a very fine dark mustache - yuk!), clever, and friendly, in spite of our treatment of her. Why in the hell did I treat her like that!?!? Was I nuts? As I say, not exactly bullying, but reprehensible none the less. I'm sure she got the last laugh & has done VERY well in life.
May 14 2011: Thanks for your honest story John.
Maybe you are illustrating an important insight into bullying and intolerance. Some of the most vicious 'gay' bashers I have ever known eventually came out of the closet and had to face what their own inner denial and what their inner torment had enabled them to do. I kjnow it is easy to blame it on homophobia but there is more than a grain of truth in the overall concept.If we are still trying to establish or defend our own selves to ourselves perhaps a mirror or an association with the person we fear most being like triggers a mindless sort of rage and rejection??
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Best. Poker. Advice. Ever.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson
Friday, March 31, 2006
Basking in the afterglow
Naaaaahhhh… maybe next month.
A few days ago, I posted about logging off when you're getting bad beat all over the place even though you're sure you're playing great and getting your money in with the best hand.
There's also a time to book a win and call it a month. After the last two days, I'm signing off until tomorrow. I've played extremely well. I haven't had many monsters, but I got what I needed when I needed it. Mostly in the form of other people's mistakes.
The biggest monster, though, was a real doozy, cracking KK with 88. This is also why I never limp with KK from any position – ever! What happens when you flop an A and there were 3 or 4 limpers with you – you could be dead to A2o.
PokerStars Game #4479093527: Tournament #22290258, Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2006/03/31 - 21:10:26 (ET)
Table '22290258 1' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: BigSlickNut (1350 in chips)
Seat 3: Hacha_boy (1425 in chips)
Seat 4: mialfri (1385 in chips)
Seat 5: marlin5555 (1465 in chips)
Seat 6: tiger711 (925 in chips)
Seat 7: OmahaStudGuy (3425 in chips)
Seat 8: Buzzer1404 (1870 in chips)
Seat 9: mt_cpa (1655 in chips)
OmahaStudGuy: posts small blind 25
Buzzer1404: posts big blind 50
Dealt to BigSlickNut [8h 8c]
mt_cpa: calls 50
BigSlickNut: calls 50 (if UTG is limping, my limp encourages other limpers, giving me better odds, or gets a push-monkey to go all-in to punish us in which case it's an easy laydown for me but maybe one of these others makes the call and someone else goes out.)
Hacha_boy: folds
mialfri: folds
marlin5555: calls 50 (see?)
tiger711: calls 50 (see?)
OmahaStudGuy: calls 25 (see?)
Buzzer1404: checks (see?)
*** FLOP *** [8s 8d Kh]
OmahaStudGuy: checks
Buzzer1404: checks
mt_cpa: checks
BigSlickNut: checks (Please, God, please tell me some idiot tricky player slow-played his KK)
marlin5555: checks
tiger711: checks
*** TURN *** [8s 8d Kh] [3h]
OmahaStudGuy: checks
Buzzer1404: checks
mt_cpa: bets 50 (Is it one King or two? Perhaps a flush draw trying to see where he's at?)
BigSlickNut: calls 50 (Duh. I'm playing like I'm drawing to the flush. I can slowplay when I'm 98% to win with one card to come)
marlin5555: folds
tiger711: calls 50 (Cool!)
OmahaStudGuy: folds
Buzzer1404: calls 50 (Cool!)
*** RIVER *** [8s 8d Kh 3h] [2h] (Yeah baby, there's the flush, certainly somebody drew to it)
Buzzer1404: bets 150 (And there he is!)
mt_cpa: raises 350 to 500 (He's got KK, I'm positive.)
BigSlickNut: raises 350 to 850 (I went with the min-raise to look like I have either trip 8's or the flush, but I fear the full house)
tiger711: folds (awww…)
Buzzer1404: folds (awwww…)
mt_cpa: raises 705 to 1555 and is all-in (cha-CHING!)
BigSlickNut: calls 400 and is all-in
mt_cpa: shows [Kc Ks] (a full house, Kings full of Eights)
BigSlickNut: shows [8h 8c] (four of a kind, Eights)
BigSlickNut collected 3150 from pot
Boy, was HE mad! Lot's of cursing about slowplaying. Yeah, I reminded him that he started it. At least he didn't whine about the bad beat. Can't call it a bad beat if you misplay it pre-flop, then put your money when you're behind. Just my opinion.
NEVER slowplay KK! I'm not even in that pot, in that position in level 3, if he bets as little as a 3X the blind.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
I swear
Ok, so I discussed my stats in detail. But I never posted it! And I deleted it!
While it hurt, I recognized the bad frame of mind and got out before permanent damage was done. After a series of soul-crushing 2 and 3 outers, I was in "here comes the suckout" mode. I finally realized I was out of my head when I called off all my chips in the small blind with ATs. Because, "so what, I'm just going to get my AA cracked a 4th time tonight on the next hand anyway - maybe I'll suck out because karma owes me".
Oh yeah, have you ever heard of anyone getting AK, AK, KK, AA on consecutive hands in an SNG with 6 people remaining and still be the next one to go out?
Right here, baby. You're reading royalty today!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Tuesday tidbits
PokerStars Tournament #22112070, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $525.00/$30.00
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $4725.00
Tournament started - 2006/03/28 - 19:15:20 (ET)
Dear BigSlickNut,
You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $1,417.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Thank you for participating.
Yeah, it was that time again. Time to take a shot. I had the bankroll earlier this month to take a shot, took it, and went out 6th. Then, I took a monster cash-out (for me) that I'm just now making up. Also, out of 595 SNGs since 11/1/05, I've won 99 and wanted number 100 to be huge.
No, it wasn't a win, but it was the largest profit I've made in any single tournament. Second place in these things pays $142.50 more than 1st in the $210 turbo.
I played well, got some good cards, took two horrible beats, and laid one horrible beat. The guy who won was the same guy that laid the beats on me earlier in the game. Fortunately, I had played KK like a virtuoso early on (The. Most. Beautiful. Stop. And. Go. EVER.) and had the chips to survive the beats.
Not sure how often I'm going to play this game. Probably more on the weekends when the pool of players is a little larger. I recognized 75% of the players from the 105 and 210 games. Oddly, it was the two I didn't recognize that made it to the money with me. One of them was a pseudo-maniac (not many REAL maniacs at that level, but he was close enough), and he was the guy I bad-beat to stick around after we were already in the money. I like having one maniac at the table.
They do all the work. ;-)
So, anyway, there we were, one maniac and 8 guys all playing the Exact. Same. Way. Super-tight, wait for hands, bet them, follow-up with continuation bets, maybe someone throws in a snap-off bet. I got my hands early, chipped up over T3000, took my beat like a man and wound up the short-stack with blinds at 100/200, 7 remaining, and my M was 4. The two big stacks on my right let it get folded to me on the button over and over and over. So I pushed and pushed and pushed on the button. Kept getting my money in with the best hand and it held up when I needed it to.
The rest of the time, someone else (usually the pseudo-maniac) was doing the raising, but I was lucky enough they never had enough to beat me into the pot on my button. Heads-up, he had me 3-1 and I went freaking weak waiting for at least one face card. I managed to hang on for 12 hands or so, and went out when he had top two pair and I had middle two pair.
It will be interesting to see if the cast of characters changes much over the weekend. If it stays such a small pool of players, I may have to mix up my game earlier than I like. It felt really silly to just be sitting there with everyone waiting for a coin-flip. At that rate, we'll all just win/cash in our share based on a normal distribution of cards. And that's a recipe for losing money.
All I'm saying is, I've got McPheever.
If I lost, like, a ton of weight, won the lottery, pawned Mrs. Big off on a douchebag poet (I keed, I keed!), and still retained custody of my kids, then I'd have to call dibs.
Thanks to everyone for your inputs on my interview wardrobe. It's been pushed back to next week, which sucks, since it will be the day after we move. I'll let you know how it turns out. Also, if I get the cam early enough, I'd like to test it out. I have to use MSN Messenger for the interview, so if there is anyone out there could hook up with me for a test, I'd appreciate it.
Please wear clothes. Or, if you're female and hot, well…. you know….
This is the your third conversation with him, but the first time 'seeing' him. Do you expect the interviewee to be in a suit and tie, or nice business casual?
Wow, it sounds like most are in agreement to go with the suit even though it's a web cam interview! Interesting, I thought I might look like a tool sitting in my bedroom in a suit.
Anyway, some clarifications based on some questions in the comments:
- I am an external candidate.
- The company is located in Charleston, SC. If it was DC or NYC, it would be a suit, no question. Silicon Valley, I'd be going with nice casual. Last time I was in Charleston was my honeymoon, and I wasn't paying attention to the business culture. ;-)
- I always wear suits to face-to-face interviews unless specifically instructed otherwise.
So, I guess I'm going with the suit. I suspect a very low-key tie would be best since a bright color might be distracting on camera… yes? I've never used a web cam before, so any advice about etiquette and presentation would be welcome.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Common Sense
But, I can't afford to pay each one of you $2 to read it.
Instead, I'll write that I thought I exhibited good discipline in logging off before the damage got too extensive. And perhaps, express some thoughts counter to what we're all SUPPOSED to do.
We're taught that when we're playing well we should stick the table, even when the donkeys are beating us. Eventually, the luck runs out and the superior skill kicks in.
Poppycock, I say!
Despite the beats yesterday, I felt I was playing very well – perhaps the best I've played in a long time. I kept betting and playing exactly the same as I do in a "normal" run, I wasn't impatient, wasn't pushing too early, or too often. It was solid, tight-aggressive play, making the right moves at the right times.
But, as The Man said, "It gets down to what its all about, I guess. Making the wrong move at the right time". Sometimes, other people will do that to you. And they'll get paid off, too – just like The Man did.
It happens. The thing we all have to worry about is how we react to it. Do we sit there and keep playing good, solid poker because Super System says we should stick when have an edge on the table? What about the idea that it's all one long session, so what happens today doesn't matter – a winning player will win in the long run? Seems to be a contradiction there.
I'm of the mindset that a bad day is just that, a bad day. Pushing yourself to play more hours or for more money because you KNOW you're better (and I'm not arguing that your aren't) will begin to take away your edge. I play, on average, a little less 3 hours/day. On a day where my bustouts in SNGs alone would have meant an additional $600 just for having my best hand hold up and move me up just one place, I was down about $90. Not bad, as I did manage to cash, obviously. But, it should have been a huge day. Sometimes the beats were on me when I wasn't even in the hand. Should I have stuck around?
No. Oh, I was playing fine. But, I was approaching my limit for the day. It was late and I was tired. I know myself. I know this can be a dangerous situation, so I avoided it and logged off. Sometimes, an edge just isn't enough to win. And when I sense that I'm fighting an uphill battle against variance, the poker gods, or implicit collusion, it's time to sign off.
Tomorrow's another day. There will be other games. I will have edges in some of those games, and I will win my fair share. There are some days where you have to dig down and find something and win one last time before going to bed. I FEEL those days more than MAKE those days happen. I can't explain it any other way. Among the many experiences I am gaining as I grow in this game, recognizing something I can't explain, something in my psyche that allows me to make one more fold, or bet one more street, is just as important as knowing I need to be getting 4-1 from the pot to see the river and make my flush. When I feel that 'thing' is about to go missing from my game, it's time to go.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
So this is nice
"Dear BigSlickNut,
Congratulations! You have achieved the "GoldStar".
We invite you to learn about your many new PokerStars VIP privileges…"
I suppose I could get to Platinum if I wanted to donk off my whole bankroll mutli-tabling, but that wouldn't be smart. Fact is, I just don't play enough at any level to get there. But, I consider Gold a worthy goal to shoot for each month as long as I continue to play profitably. The monthly 100K freeroll is a good reason in itself.
We see many posts from professionals and good all-around players touting the benefits of developing all-around poker skills.
They're right.
Knowing yourself and playing within your niche is a virtue as well. If you look at your stats and see that you're bleeding cash in PLO or MTTs at a time when you're trying to build a bankroll, then quit playing those other games.
Not forever. Just for now. Wait until you have the cash and time to dedicate to truly developing your skills at other games.
Playing limit hold 'em for 2 hrs a night, playing profitably, then taking those profits to an MTT/7-Stud/PLO/HORSE/Etc… table to "work on my game" for the last 30 minutes before hitting the sack seems silly to me.
By all means, WORK on your game, but the operative word is "WORK". Sit down in a game at stakes within your bankroll and KNOW you're going to pay for some lessons. Then, keep going back there for a couple thousand hands. But trying to learn with an irregular schedule of hit-and-run sessions isn't going to teach you much. If you can't afford the time or money to work at it, stick to what makes you money/you enjoy the most.
Most of you have figured out by now that I'm primarily an SNG player. More specifically, Turboes are now my primary game. I single-table. It's my bread and butter, and it's been good to me. When I first started, I basically busted out a couple times by taking my profits and gambling on games at which I wasn't skilled. I pretty much documented those efforts here.
When I analyzed my stats afterwards, however, I found that SNGs were consistently profitable for me. That is why, when I won my huge $1 prize in an AP freeroll, I decided to just use it for a $.50 SNG rather than donk around on the .02/.04 tables. I've stuck with the SNGs for the most part, infrequently taking low-buy-in shots at MTTs and LHE games. Big-field MTTs are almost gone from my schedule now because I'm so unprofitable in them. I'm finding the 6-max LHE tables very interesting in they seem to require similar hand selections and aggression as SNGs that are in the middle-stages. I've been profitable enough that I'm strongly considering going to "work" on them for a couple of weeks. But, I'm enjoying the SNGs so much right now that it's hard to break away.
Being a niche player has been good for me, good for my game, and good for my bankroll. I wish that when I was starting out someone had told me, "find a game you think you can enjoy for a year or two, then play the crap out of it." There's a time and place to move on and learn new games, but only you can know when that will be. In the meantime, be satisfied being a big… um… fish (?)… in a small pond. (You know what I mean!)
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Just a thought...
Might be a cheap alternative to my laptop purchase. If it works, I could move between desktops as necessary in order to play.
Of course, I'm seeing some really good deals on laptops at the big-box retailers right now and they are sure to get better as the end of the March quarter gets closer… ;-)
I almost never play during the day anymore. It's pretty simple really – I win more money in the late evening. More people online, a lot of them more tired than me because of having to wake up for work, less distraction in my house, yadda, yadda, yadda… there's probably a thousand reasons why, with no one reason being primary.
Yesterday, I found myself with some rare time to play during the day and the urge to go along with it. I decided to drop down in levels to limit any potential damage and proceeded to go 1-1-3 to make my daily nut in an hour and 45 minutes. The second one lasted only 27 minutes; the third one, I was out 3rd in 27 minutes. You can imagine what the hourly rate looks like.
When I grow up, I want to be Otis.
I'm just saying.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Actual poker content
I managed to get a 24% signal somewhere around level 4, saw K9s, and said "fuck it".
Sick, I know. AQs called me down, flopped 2 pr, and rivered the boat to rub it in.
Tried to get a signal going, dropped down to a $15 turbo, and the same thing happened. Disconnect, disconnect, disconnect, fuck, fuck, fuck. Pushed with QTs just so I could go to bed.
Made it up, plus a little more, this afternoon in a $105 turbo that saw quads 3 times. None of the hands I was in, thankfully. One luckbox hit it twice. First, he had JJ vs. 77, all the money goes in pre-flop against a well-known multi-tabler, and the cold-deck delivers a flop of J7J.
Rigged. ;-)
Later, he min-raises in EP with QQ (baby jesus wept again – he min-raised all his good hands). A short-stack pushes with KJo, then the well-known multi-tabler (who had made a most-excellent comeback) pushes over the top as well with JJ. The extreme short stack auto-called getting over 5-1 on his money when you include the blinds. The luckbox flops trips and rivers quads to take out 3 players.
I lost a coin flip with QQ vs. AK to cripple me on the bubble, but staged a comeback to get heads-up with the luckbox at a 2-1 disadvantage with an M of 4. The tried-and-true formula of selective aggression worked to expectation, allowing me recover last night's misfortune, plus a little.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
It's not so much that I suck at them (I must), but there is simply no pushing anyone off their hand. First hand of tonite's tourney, what turned out to be an uber-maniac raises 8X from UTG, gets called, then pushes on an AKT rainbow flop. He has A9. Caller has A8.
Yeah, so it's impossible to put people on hands. Just wait for a good hand and push and hope it olds up. It was nice when my short-stack tripled up with AA. Not so nice when I pushed from the button with 77 and the SB woke up with QQ.
Add to this that I have to win for my hourly rate to approach my hourly rate for SNGs and I'm left to wonder what I was smoking when I signed up.
Oh yeah, I need the MTT practice. Maybe I should stay away from the turboes and actually get some practice that will serve me well in the bigger MTTs
After busting out, I toodled over to a 210+15 turbo where I didn't recognize anyone. I'm learning, that's a good thing.
I won a $105+9 earlier this evening that gave me enough to take this shot. I felt good about my play, no distractions, etc. I have a lot of confidence at the higher levels right now, and even though I cashed out such a huge portion of my bankroll I felt good about stepping back in.
Wound up third. Ok, glad I cashed. I think I got pushed off the best hand early, but I just wasn't strong enough to play back. So, that left me short stacked, an all too familiar place for me. I chipped up, made the bubble as the short stack, but had enough in relations to the blinds to wait and enough in relation to the other 3 that I could scare them.
Didn't have to. A LAG-player two to me left pushes UTG and gets called by the button. LAG-y has 66, button has 99, and I cash.
I understand the play, and probably would have tried it. But, looking back, I think with me on the short stack, it might be better to make a big raise PF – 4-5X. If you get called or someone comes over the top, you can let it go; after all, you're either dominated or in a coin-flip, and neither is a place you want to be with a short-stack in the game on the bubble.
But, I understand the play. Hopefully, I learn from his misfortune and play it better than he did and I would have.
Mrs. Big has me scratching my ever-loving-head these days.
She asked me to stop at Sam's and pick up a Click-n-Pull order today. I get there, and there's a float stacked high with emergency food: 128 bottles of water, a case of Gatorade, gobs of canned soups, veggies, and Chef Boyardee, 50 lbs of dog food,30 rolls of TP, filter masks, god knows how many maxi-pads… oh, and there was a second order she placed an hour later with hand sanitizer and 6 more gallons of Zephyrhills water because apparently 128 bottles wasn't enough.
We're moving in 3 weeks. We're spending our days weeding out crap, and here she is bringing it back in. I can't even bring myself to tell you how much this crap cost.
Bird Flu.
Yep, she's afraid that society is going to break down if there's bird flu.
Ok, I can understand the canned goods – you don't want to go to a store if society breaks down. And hey, stranger things have happened that society breaking down in the NEXT 3 WEEKS. But, I'm pretty sure the water will still run. As a matter of fact, I'm sure of it because the house we're going to in Jax has a WELL!!! And Bird Flu won't make the power go off!!!
It's as though she woke up this morning and said, "Hey, how can I make my hubby's life even more inconvenient?"
Where's a douchebag poet when you need one? (I keed, I keed!)
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Sunday stuff
I know I could always just keep anything I won, but that's not the spirit of these things. If you do that… well, you're just a tool.
So, until my picture clears up and it is obvious that I won't be employed at WSOP time, I'll just stick with the site promo tournaments – something I won't feel bad about selling if I need to.
Well, I finally broke down and told Mrs. Big about my recent success at the tables. I didn't go into any detail, but we have a move coming up and she was fretting about how to pay for the movers. The movers we selected don't take credit, so there's no opportunity to charge it and repay it after closing. So, I offered to pay it out of my bankroll.
Ouch. Sorta.
While it slows me down a little, it's nice to be able to take care of something big like this for my family after the last six months. I've only recently started taking out a small allowance, just enough to cover gas and a meal or two. Locking in a gain like this is probably bad poker, but good karma. It's satisfying to know that even if I go broke tomorrow I'll know I beat the game for several thousand dollars at a time when my family needed it most.
Of course, I did explain to her that I'll be buying a laptop if I re-build the bankroll enough and I don't want to hear any shit about it. We're going to have our PC in our bedroom in Jacksonville, making my nighttime forays online just about impossible. BSN needs his flexibility! ;-)
Is there anything more annoying that signing up for a NL SNG and discovering you mis-clicked into a LHE event?
Last night, we celebrated Eldest Biggette's 7th birthday by having a sleepover with a total of 9 girls between the ages of 4 and 7.
Check that one off the list, and make a note: "Never Again." Two a.m., and they were still going strong.
Proud Daddy Moment: Hearing Eldest Biggette saying, "It's the Fart Game!"
That's my girl.
Use me
I Beat Big Slick Nuts!If anyone wants it, be my guest. The Total Available Market for this one is huge!
Friday, March 10, 2006
The day after
Sign in Mama Big's gift shop
I used to wonder what it would feel like when I got my -$1K cherry popped. It was a strange feeling; regret, mixed with excitement from knowing I COULD lose $1000 in a day and still be ok.
Regret and excitement, just like losing your virginity.
SO, the sun came up this morning. The kids had to be taken to school. Mama Big needed help with a marketing project for her gift shop. Job search agents had to be scoured. Life went on.
Played some poker. Had a rollercoaster day. A total of 4 SNGs were cashless due to 3-outers today. Fortunately, I managed to win enough in the rest that the day was profitable. It's funny, though, how perspectives change when it comes to poker. I made more today than I did in a day at my former job, and I'm just, "ho-hum". Catching the positive end of the variance-bitch in a huge way earlier this week has spoiled me. Now, I'm trying to get my head back on straight, recognize that I played pretty good poker today, I made nice money, I'm still up for the week, yadda, yadda, yadda…
On another subject, I'm feeling poorly health-wise. Putting on even more weight again, started having syncope episodes again, and I think the sleep apnea is getting worse. So I've got to turn at least this part of my life around. I'm resurrecting the blog I created for myself during my last attempt to improve my health: http://runfatassrun.blogspot.com/
Please stop by, I could use the support. I'll keep all this healthy crap over there so it doesn't pollute this narrative of my ongoing descent into degeneracy.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
- First 0-fer on SNG cashes for the day in a veeerrrrryyyyy long time.
- First -$1K loss for a day (Don't worry, I have enough to handle it, but still… ;-) )
Y'all have had days like this. The 2 and 3-outers came along for a junk-kicking party.
Ah, well. I'm still ahead on the week, believe it or not. Mostly due to winning 4 consecutive $210+15 Turboes earlier in the week.
Yep, 4 straight. $720 profit in each. Makes for a nice buffer for days like today.
Even though I took a blue-veiner today, I feel like I played well. After all, the nature of getting slammed by the 2 and 3-outers is that you make good decisions, get your money in with the best of it, and the other guy draws out. Saw some specrapular calls to beat me, which is probably why my ABC, tight-aggressive play pays off so regularly.
It will be interesting to see how the games look this weekend…
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Submitted to Jack Handy:
Sounds to me like that's just Karma…
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Stars website seems a little unclear to me. I'm only finding them saying they are used for 'special' events. No mention of how they are earned.
Has anyone done enough research to make a recommendation regarding a low-end laptop? I just need enough to single-table my pokah and keep up with e-mails and job boards in a wireless environment. I might even look for refurb if I found a legitimate source.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Saturday cleaning
I do and I don't.
I don't really want to discuss the money aspect in any specificity. I'll just say that my bankroll is extremely healthy, hitting a new record high today after a rollercoaster Friday. I've taken shots (and won) at the $210 Turboes on Stars, but I've done this with a bankroll short enough that y'all would scold me for it. I've also managed to build a small bankroll at Party over the last month or so despite some pretty terrific beats at levels where people shouldn't be playing that badly. Definitely beatable, even with the 10th person in the mix changing the game slightly. I'm profitable, but should be doing better than my results indicate.
As for the shots, I'm very confident right now, and I stick to my own guidelines.
I won't say much more than that, except to post this histogram of my finishes in 504 SNGs since November 1, 2005:
The slope looks cool, but I'm still carrying that burp for the 6th place finishes. However, my 2-3's are greater than the 6's, something that wasn't true a few hundred SNGs ago. Also, having more first place finishes than any other has become a source of pride and confidence.
Thinking about it, though, I think the ideal shape would be a "U" shape, at least for a multi-tabler. If you don't make the money, you want to be out early so you can re-load another table, right?
Speaking of multi-tabling, 121 of these were in some form of a multi-tabling environment on various sites and at various levels. Both my hourly rate and ROI were less than 1/2 what they are single-tabling. A good multi-tabler will see his/her ROI go down, but hourly rate go up. What can I say, I suck at multi-tabling and rarely even try it anymore.
As for other types of games, I'm deeply negative for MTTs, slightly positive for SNG MTTs thanks to some cashes in the 180's, and surprisingly positive in limit ring games. Ah, sweet variance.
Well, the house is under contract, the buyer's inspector was out here for 3 hours today and couldn't find a thing wrong with it - a matter of some frustration for him since they always feel the need to justify their fee by uncovering something. We're good homeowners, though. When we fix or improve something, we take the time and spend the money to do it right. It also helped that we approached this as the house we'd live in until the kids were raised, so we wanted it right for ourselves. Now, it's perfect to sell.
I have a couple of phone interviews this week. One is just a few miles from a beloved alcoholic, the other just a few hours from the toughest homegames in the Southeast.
I fear I could not keep up in either place at either activity.
Warning: Bragging on my kid follows. I'd tell Felicia to stop reading here, but I don't think I make her grade anymore ;-)
A little good news, finally. For the last two years, we've lobbied the eldest biggette's school to test her for the gifted program. They don't like to do it in the first grade because they don't actually have a program until the third grade, and if she tests out then they are required to do something for her. Well, we finally got our way, she took a K-BIT test yesterday, which is a quick intelligence test that correlates with the better-known tests, and she scored very, very high - 2 points higher than her old man has scored in the past. So, she moves on to take a full-blown exam later this week.
Just in time to move to a new school. Ironical.
Hey, growing up Catholic, I'd usually give up desserts for lent. Mom always told us we were allowed to take Sunday's off, though.
I sincerely hope that is official church doctrine. I plan to ask the priest after Mass tomorrow.
This is getting harder than I expected.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Calling Phil Gordon! Candy-gram for Mr. Gordon!
Maybe This Dispute Can Be Settled Using Rock-Paper-Scissors
Two Leagues -- One Highbrow, One Not -- Spar Over Soul Of Familiar Child's Game
By TIMOTHY W. MARTIN
March 3, 2006; Page A1
NORMAL, Ill. – Gavin Vansaghi was sipping a beer at Brewe-Ha's tavern here when a woman in a Bud Light T-shirt approached with a proposition: Would he like to play rock-paper-scissors? If he won, she said, she might even go to Las Vegas with him.
"Of course," he recalls saying.
Scenes like that have the world of competitive rock-paper-scissors in an uproar. The weeks-old U.S.A. Rock Paper Scissors League, formed by a pair of Hollywood television producers, is enticing members with Bud Light girls, a racy Web video and a $50,000 prize. The tactics have drawn the wrath of the Toronto-based World RPS Society, revived a decade ago by two brothers who set out to bring decorum to the child's hand game.
"We are certainly not very happy with what the USARPS is doing to cheapen the grand sport of rock-paper-scissors," says Graham Walker, co-managing director of the World Society. Matti Leshem, who helped create the U.S. league, calls Mr. Walker's group "highbrow and intellectual," adding, "We're much more rock 'n' roll." Mr. Walker's brother, Douglas, says, "To put it really simple, they would call us pompous blowhards and we would call them ugly American knuckle-draggers."
The squabbling is over an ancient game that involves two players flinging a hand at each other on a 1-2-3 count. A fist is a rock, a flat hand is paper, and two extended fingers signify scissors. Rock smashes scissors, paper covers rock, scissors slices paper. Typically, the winner takes two of three throws.
The Walkers -- Graham, 38, an advertising executive in Prague, and Douglas, 34, a Web consultant for a public-relations firm in Toronto -- are lifelong rock-paper-scissors fanatics. Douglas says he stumbled upon a long-dormant Toronto society while searching for strategies to beat his brother. In 1995, they restarted the club with a new Web site, attracting players who eagerly chatted about playing without ever holding an official contest.
"The game is the most democratic game possible," Douglas Walker says. "You have all the equipment as long as you have one functioning hand." At the society's first international tournament in 2002, Toronto's Pete Lovering outlasted more than 250 players while competing in a green bathrobe adorned with "1974 World Champion." Today, the society counts 3,000 members and calls itself the sport's governing body.
Fox Sports Net broadcast the World Society's 2004 championship in a one-hour special produced by Mr. Leshem, 43, and Andrew Golder, 45. "We saw the potential to stage this on a much bigger scale and bring levels of show business they weren't doing," says Mr. Golder, who helped create cable-TV's "Win Ben Stein's Money."
The two, who had talked about forming their own league for a year, approached St. Louis brewing giant Anheuser-Busch. Its Bud Light brand agreed to sponsor thousands of local tournaments leading up to the April 9 championship in Las Vegas with the $50,000 prize. Marlene Coulis, the company's vice president for brand management, says, "We're always looking for fresh new ways to put beer drinkers together."
The U.S. league also cut a deal with the A&E Network to cover the championship. Nancy Dubuc, senior vice president for nonfiction and alternative programming, says the network "will explore the characters behind the events and look for that break-out star." Messrs. Leshem and Golder discussed a partnership with the Walkers but couldn't reach an
They launched the U.S. league in January with a news release declaring, "For too long, adults who gather in clubs looking for competition have had only pool or darts to challenge them. Finally, there's a true sport where talent can be showcased."
The World and U.S. leagues agree that rock-paper-scissors is a game of strategy. "Selecting throws in advance helps prevent unconscious patterns from forming and can sometimes reduce the subconscious signals that give away the next throw," the World Society's Web site advises. Advanced players twitch fingers to confuse fist-watching foes, or delay unveiling a throw until the last possible instant. The U.S. league asserts, "All cries of 'RPS is just random' disappear the moment one's opponent states, 'I dare you to open with rock, you sissy.' "
The World Society describes two throws of scissors sandwiched around a paper as "an invasive and devious gambit." The U.S. league says a man who throws two papers then a rock has never kissed a girl.
The World Society deplores the U.S. league officiating as lax. "There doesn't seem to be any accountability or quality control," says Shawn Ring, 29, a World Society member in Philadelphia. At a recent U.S. league event, he claims a referee allowed a contestant to make a patently illegal vertical paper throw. Mr. Leshem says the U.S. league is still learning, and it is difficult to enforce rules consistently with more than 300 Anheuser distributors organizing tournaments.
The U.S. league's Web site displays a video of the "Girls of RPS," scantily dressed women nicknamed Rock, Paper and Scissors, cavorting to pulsing music. The World Society posted a critique on its Web site saying the U.S. league had "chosen to go down that old tired and true
route of hiring strippers for a cheese-fest" rather than celebrate women "who have actually played RPS."
The U.S. league shot back on its Web site that the World Society was sexist for implying that an attractive woman couldn't be good at rock-paper-scissors. "Brothers Graham and Doug Walker obviously know nothing of beautiful women, most likely because they've never actually spoken to one," the Web site declared.
Mr. Vansaghi, a 21-year-old senior at Illinois State University, joined 31 contestants who crowded into a corner of Brewe-Ha's bar while country music blared. In the semifinals against Andrew Strickert, 28, a National Guardsman who plays left-handed, the Bud Light girl
told Mr. Vansaghi to play scissors. He listened -- and lost.
In the final, Mr. Strickert faced Kelly Collins, 21, a junior psychology major at Illinois State. On the decisive throw, he tossed a rock to Ms. Collins's paper. The crowd chanted her name as she was hoisted onto her boyfriend's shoulders. Now she can compete in a regional match to determine the 250 or so finalists who will vie for the $50,000.
Last year's winner of the World Society championship won only $6,158. But "there's more prestige to our title," Douglas Walker says.
Mr. Leshem says he doesn't see why the two groups can't get along. "If things go really well, everybody wins," he says. "Maybe we'll even buy them."
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Too. Much. Time. On. My. Hands.
Or, is it sadder that the WALL STREET JOURNAL put this on page A1??
Thursday, March 02, 2006
I am still the Master...
But, I finally have proof that there is a God, and he has a sense of humor.
Scene: Ash Wednesday Mass.
Players: Yours Truly, Seriously-Hot-Blond-Coed (SHBC)
Location: Back two rows of the church
At first, I didn't even notice her. But, the mind wanders as it often does during a homily, in that period between the priest's opening joke and the final Message we're supposed to leave with.
Then I saw her. SHBC looked old enough, but there was a couple sitting next to her that may have been her parents. So, who can tell, girls these days? I suspect the hormones in fast food hamburgers have caused overdevelopment of young girls.
Bookmark her - she's so close nowAs we stand for the profession of faith, I notice SHBC is wearing a short denim skirt. Nice.
This girl is half his age
Temptation, frustrationWe sit back down for the offering, then stand again for the blessings. Only this time, her skirt gets kinda hung up somhow as she stands and it slides down a ways.
So bad it makes him cry
Don't stand, don't stand soThen, I see the black, lacy thong outlined by the top half of SHBC's alabaster buttocks.
Don't stand so close to me
It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov
Well played, God.
Well. Played.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Shots, Limited
A couple days ago, I took a shot at a post about taking shots. Primarily, it had to do with SNGs. But, I've also been taking shots at 5/10 limit, both full-table and short-handed. I'm a net winner at both (microscopic sample size of ~500 hands), but I think I have something to offer about the psychology of taking shots in limit ring games that is similar to SNGs.
I think (stupidly, maybe) that you have to be willing to lose your money before you can stop playing scared when you move up. The key for me is to buy in for the same number of BBs as I would at a .5/1 table, and then I truly think of them as "just" betting units. Yes, there is a small math difference between a game with a SB that is 50% of the BB vs. a game with a SB that is 40% of the BB, but for most people it isn't enough to matter. What is most important when you are in 'taking a shot' mode is to be prepared to play the toughest of any SOB at the table.
This doesn't mean that you should jump up and try to run over the table, nor call down everyone and their brother with 2nd pair because you just "know" he would have raised pre-flop if he had that Ace. It means you play hard – you raise the hands you're supposed to raise, you fold the hands you're supposed to fold, you punish the LAG when you think you've got him beat, and you change gears from time to time. The exact same thing that brought you success up until this point. You make it very hard for them to get your money, and make them pay dearly if you think your hand is good.
So, last night, I felt like I was ready for another 5/10 session and decided to multi-table it. First, I sat down at each table with 20BBs, what I typically buy in for at 2/4 and 3/6. Then, I took a series of wicked beats, and finally, I tilted until I was down 30BBs with "just one more card" bets.
BUT – I'd only played about 30-40 hands at this point, and I pulled it together, calmed down, and set about folding my way to bliss. I said out loud to myself, "play tough". For me, this means stop giving away bets just as much as it means winning more bets. I managed a couple small pots to stay even, and then along about the 90th hand (I usually stop for a break around 100 hands) I started getting my big pre-flop hands hitting flops with people who also had enough to play back at me on one of my tables. By the 105th hand, I'd erased my 30 BB deficit and booked a small 3BB win. And it was all because I didn't get scared of the loss, I recognized that I had become as much a problem as the donkeys, and I got my head and my heart right. No, it wasn't a big win in terms of dollars, but it was huge in terms of confidence.
If you can't go into the new game with the same mindset you go into your usual game, you're beat before you start. One tactic people try is to buy short into a bigger game. Yes, I know 20 BBs is short to some, but it's just what I've always bought in for in limit regardless of the level, so I just keep it the same. But, I don't buy in for 10-15 BBs (as I so often see at this level), because you get beat out of one decent pot and you either have to re-buy anyway, or give up some EV on the next great hand you get.
Ever picked up AA when you were down to 5 BBs, hit the flop, and had someone willing to play with you? Yeah, you don't want to be THAT guy. That has the same effect as giving your opponents free cards.
So, buy-in for the same number of units as normal. If you can't bring yourself to do that, you aren't ready.
Then, bet just as hard.
At the level you're comfortable playing, you get QQ and you're probably raising 90% of the time. If you find yourself just calling pre-flop and saying to yourself, "I just want to be sure the board isn't scary", then you've allowed all sorts of hands to stay in that wouldn't be there otherwise. Being afraid to lose that money means you WILL lose that money through sub-optimal play.
If you've tightened up your raising range because you're afraid to lose money, then you aren't going to win as much as you should. So, you shouldn't be there.
I guess I've said it enough. You just can't think of it as money to lose. You've heard enough people say that there are plenty of fish to go around at each level, and I really believe that. Sure, I find myself completely outclassed on occasion, but I recognize that and get the heck out of there. But, mostly, I look for the guys who are buying in short, who are calling too much instead of raising, who are reacting to beats like they just lost their last $10 in the world, and I just know they are the players to beat.
Don't be that guy. Be the same player tomorrow at 5/10 as you were yesterday at 3/6.


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Not only are we suffering from a serious case of wanderlust, but we've also got a touch of the winter blues. The only cure? Vacay! And whenever we're planning a trip, the first place we consult is Jetsetter. You can't beat their combination of gorgeous destinations and killer deals. Lately, we've been drooling over their Jetsetter Homes collection, with dreamy villas and private rentals. Each day this week, we'll be showcasing one of their best mid-winter escape properties and making suggestions for what to pack. From exotic beaches to powdery slopes, there's something for everyone. By Friday, you'll be ready to hop on a plane. Today's lust-worthy locale: Paris!
Maybe we've watched Amelie one too many times, but we'd like nothing more than to spend a week wandering around the City of Lights. Wintertime is actually a great time to visit Paris. Since you won't be one of the camera-wielding hoards who flock to the city in the summertime, it will be infinitely easier to blend in with the locals and enjoy la vie bohème. Rent a bike and take a ride along the Seine, or sip a few beverages in a sidewalk café. Craving some retail therapy? You'll find killer shopping in the chic boutiques.
Laduree macarons at the Charles de Gaulle Airport
Spiral staircase at the Serge Lutens Shiseido Salon in Paris
Serge Lutens Bell Jars
This week we tapped Karen Adams, one of the co-founders of the event-based fragrance group Sniffapalooza, to guest blog about some of the best scents she's discovered on her recent travels. Today's adventure: Paris.
Bonjour! Every day is a great day for flavors and scents in the City of Light. While the macarons tempted us from each passing patisserie window, we were intent on reaching our destination. Just a few steps from the North Wing of the Louvre, the Galeries du Palais Royal is a lovely courtyard lined with elegant shops and boutiques. We headed straight into the indigo-violet twilight of the Serge Lutens Shiseido Salon and ascended the spiral staircase to a private room above.The exclusive Serge Lutens bell jars (only available in Paris and not exported to the U.S.) were lined up on a low wooden tasting table. We perched on petite chairs as the shop manager, Sandrine Wagner, guided us through each fragrance, letting us sniff to our hearts' content. We lingered over previews of the leathery Boxeuses and the silky Bas de Soie, forgetting all about the macarons. For scent lovers, cherry almond Rahat Loukoum and wood honey Miel de Bois more than satisfy the sweet tooth.
So incredibly versatile you'd be hard pressed to find a woman that didn't love, it Serge Lueten's fresh and feminine L'Eau is an all-time fave.
Looks from the Alexis Mabille Spring 2011 Haute Couture show. Photo: Stylelist
Couture isn't just about beautiful ball gowns—it's about taking everything to that ultimate, showstopping level, including makeup and hair. Yesterday we talked about our fascination with the flame-red uber-dramatic eyebrows that models sported during John Galliano's Dior show. Today, we've fallen in love with another over-the-top look: pretty plaits. At the Alexis Mabille show, hairstylist Odile Gilbert did long braids woven with faux-flowers and vines. The result was the most beautiful princess-worthy hair we've seen in a while. Who can resist loving such a romantic, Rapunzel-perfect look? Even though you can't wear this hairstyle in real life, a girl can fantasize.
For lovely locks of your own, take a look at our favorite hair products in the Birchbox Shop.


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"My bees are dropping like flies, and I need them to fly like bees" - Gob; Season 4
Arrested Development themed cross stitches for sale at STITCH PARTY!
I made this awhile back!
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Last year I was asked to help Mike Lockwood and Kirk Shinmoto paint a huge mural for the first episode of the new season of Arrested Development. I'm proud to finally share that with you guys today. The production designer, Dan Butts, asked us to create a digital painting in the style of classic travel posters. However, he also wanted us to include a lot of easter eggs for the die hard fans. I've been a huge fan of the show since college, so the project was a dream come true. Initially, we had to do a bunch of brainstorming, which really just meant joking around about our favorite moments from the first three seasons until we had a list long enough to make a painting from. We sent our ideas back to Dan in the form of a quick sketch that would later form the backbone of the painting. After that got approved, we divided the painting into thirds, Mike taking the first part, Kirk taking the second, while I took the third. Two or three days of nonstop painting followed, but somehow it all came together. So anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the painting as much as we enjoyed making it. This really was a labor of love.
Insert Me Anywhere - The Shining with Tobias Fünke (by Chris Mellor)
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Every single detail of this wedding invitation suite was an absolute pleasure to design and letterpress print, from the carefully constructed storybook inspired typography to the unique envelope liners.
Perhaps the most striking element is the vintage drop caps, circa 1682. We found these in an old type specimen book which we carefully redrew, and modernised by splitting them into two plates. Pouring through old type manuals and bringing hand lettered type back to life is one of those indulgent pleasures that can only be understood if you are that way inclined.
We tried to capture the personalities of Jaimee & JK throughout the invitation suite. The quirky story we wrote (with a little help from a very talented friend) is brimming with character and printed in charcoal ink, with the details of the wedding highlighted in a neon pink accent colour. The invitation is accompanied by an RSVP postcard forming the second page of the story, with a return address letterpress printed on the back. Both pages are lovingly wrapped up with a bookmark inspired vertical belly band and matching pink ribbon.
The invitation and RSVP card were delivered in a kraft envelope letterpress printed with their return address and a very special envelope liner. We ran pages of pre-loved Golden Books through a die on our press to give each and every invitation (and thank you card) a unique, one-off envelope liner. Scouring the bookshelves of op shops was great fun and a great challenge, and it was very nostalgic pulling apart storybooks from our childhood.
We also printed a thank you 'epilogue' to follow up the invitation, with space for the happy couple to fill in their guests' names and a heartfelt message.
Along with the invitation, we letterpress printed flags, escort tags and designed a super cute bonbonniere for their guests, though photos of these will have to wait until after the big day.
We had a great time working on each element but perhaps the most fun part was working with Jaimee and JK, two positively delightfuful people who were truly excellent clients. We wish them all the best!


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What? This is how its done in these parts.
Albert, Buddy and I prepared the sliding hill today for some serious sliding. It turned out fast, can't imagine why.
What? This is how its done in these parts.
Albert, Buddy and I prepared the sliding hill today for some serious sliding. It turned out fast, can't imagine why.
Hard to believe the days keep flying by and soon enough we're buying another birthday present for the child. Jess helped him decide what he wanted this year. I bought the 1st generation iPod Touch back in 2007 and used it mightily for two years. Then boy got his hands on it after I received my Droid. He used it hard for the past 13 months and surprisingly never broke it. But atlas, mother helped him out. She laundered it with the bedding. Dead.
He wasn't upset hardly at all… after we said we could probably replace it as a birthday gift. He really didn't have anything lined up anyway. (A sign that he has everything?)
Its the 4th generation so it does a fair amount more than the one we owned. External mic and speaker, two cameras, more space… and of course cost almost half as much as mine. He's already Skype'd with Grampa and taken pictures of various things.. so far so good.. oh and yes, we have some insurance on this one.
It was high time I did something about the drafts around a few windows in the house. I'd used some Great Stuff on the door sills in the past, but was warned of their expanding properties. This time I found the special low "grow" Great Stuff for Windows. Worked well, but it took an extra can or two.
There's still a "draft" (cold air off the glass) but I've done what I can without replacing the windows. Some things are just easier in a log home.
Another blast of winter and the boys were anxious to make something of it. With a little help from Dad/Uncle Buddy, they carved out a cave and a fort. Simple pleasures.
Every once in a while, I'll get the idea in my head that I can grow purposeful facial hair. The jokes always on me. But since it doesn't cost anything to try… actually its cheaper since I don't shave for a while, I gave another go with a mustache. LOL. Like a bad caterpillar on my lip. Nathan was the only one that liked it in the house. So yeah, I shaved it off.
Nathan has been working on these "army" men for over a year… off and on. We've been building a "war gaming" box, resembling a diorama, to place these men in. It's been going slow, but a good challenge.
Here he is gluing arms and rifles to 1:72 scale men… blah. He wants to hand paint them, I think that'll take him through high school.
Nathan, after two days of self-inspection/denial, came to us and revealed his "rash". We didn't know quite what to think, but because Scabies was going around the school before Christmas, we kind of jumped to that conclusion.
So it was off to the clinic early this AM to see what the real reason for the outbreak was.
Short and sweet. His Chicken Pox vaccine was "leaking". So they were signs of the chicken pox virus. They call is Zoster which is really the children form of Shingles, but without all the pain. The Doc said it was take care of itself in 10-12 days. It could become contagious to children/adults who have not had chicken pox, but only if the rash breaks open and weeps. No signs of that.
Just for fun, we took a photo of Nathan in the play house, it'd been years since he'd been there to play in it, I probably have a photo of him at 5-6 playing in it. Same one.
So Jess grabbed a few things from my Amazon Wish List and tossed them in my stocking. One being a cool little R/C Helicopter that I love to fly around the house. Another, a lens adapter for my Lumix G2, so it can accept Canon lenses. The Lumix has a sensor 2x smaller than a typical 35mm camera, so that affects the focal length. What am I saying? My lenses all have double focal length on that Lumix body. Good if you want telephoto, bad if you want wide angle.
So my big bad Sigma lens.. the 50-500mm – that's right… 1,000mm! Of course there is a downside.. there is no auto-focus, and the aperture is wide open. Certainly not for sports, but it will bring some wildlife much closer! This photo of the moon was not cropped, only resized.. that lens has some reach! (no digital zoom used of course).
Well, every couple of years I get it bad. This time it was a nasty head cold. Ten days strong. Three beautiful days of weather in there when I could have flown, but besides the fact I was a bit concerned my ears would burst, I was wiped out. Thankfully I had ten days off from work, so no sick time was needed. That's a good thing, because I learned that I didn't have enough sick time to cover may last check and only received a 74.5 hour paycheck. Oops.


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"We were trying to come up with something that was intelligent enough for kids, but exciting enough for adults," laughs writer Michael Palin midway through a lengthy interview with Terry Gilliam. And it's fair to say that, with Time Bandits, they succeeded, this romping 1981 adventure classic being every bit as much a marauding sensual riot as it is a history-hopping conundrum. From the moment it comes screaming out of the blocks with its iconic, eye-popping wardrobe equestrianism sequence, Gilliam sneezes out the exotically lurid contents of his frazzled post-Python brain and leaves us to work out the wondrous mess.In a nutshell, a rogue squadron of six dwarves sweep downtrodden schoolboy Kevin (the fabulously smackable Craig Warnock) along on their time-travel flight from, of all people, God. Leaping spasmodically from war-torn Napoleonic Italy to the stricken Titanic via Sherwood Forest and Ancient Greece, the inept band of pint-sized wannabe outlaws bicker, squabble and ego-pummel each other along in an ever-more-futile attempt to pull off a series of major heists. Once they've incurred the wrath of the aforementioned Supreme Being (a boomingly immaculate Ralph Richardson), the trans-eon pursuit rattles along at breakneck speed with the help of a mysterious map of "portals" nicked from their enraged former employer.
As Gilliam explains in a grainy archive Q&A, he shot the movie almost entirely from a low-level perspective, enhancing the action by putting us on a level with our diminutive antiheroes and their permanently goggle-eyed companion. Impressive cameos are scattered throughout (Sean Connery as Agamemnon stealing the limelight from Ian Holm's Napoleon and John Cleese's Robin Hood), while a smattering of genuinely challenging moments ensure that the narrative carefully steers a course around condescension. Most notably, the sudden demise of 'nice' dwarf Fidgit (Kenny Baker) is a true tumbleweed moment, right up there with Bambi and the rifle crack for kiddie hysterics potential. (Gilliam: "You just don't do that to kids. And that's exactly why you DO!")
Once you also factor in the deeply philosophical climax (why DOES pure evil have to exist, anyway?), it becomes abundantly clear that Time Bandits isn't simply a cracking children's quest film. It's a quest film children will enjoy, for sure. It has all the classic anklebiter-courting elements, from a schoolboy protagonist to an epic, ongoing struggle between towering forces of suave, beardy good and camp, cackling bad. But the relentless pace of the gleefully disjointed narrative is distinctly... well, actually, according to Gilliam, even that worked for the young 'uns. "The first time I showed it, a lot of adults were struggling with the film because it was going too fast for them. They didn't know where they were; the signposts weren't clear. It was leaping around all over the place – which the kids immediately just went for. They had the confidence to believe in this, to trust us and go with it." You'd be well advised to do the same.


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|6th International Workshop on Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics, Londres : Royaume-Uni (2007)
|Cryptogauge symmetry and cryptoghosts for crypto-Hermitian Hamiltonians
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|We discuss the Hamiltonian H = p^2/2 - (ix)^{2n+1} and the mixed Hamiltonian H = (p^2 + x^2)/2 - g(ix)^{2n+1}, which are crypto-Hermitian in a sense that, in spite of apparent complexity of the potential, a quantum spectral problem can be formulated such that the spectrum is real. We note first that the corresponding classical Hamiltonian system can be treated as a gauge system, with imaginary part of the Hamiltonian playing the role of the first class constraint. We observe then that, on the basis of this classical problem, several different nontrivial quantum problems can be formulated. We formulate and solve some such problems. We find in particular that the spectrum of the mixed Hamiltonian undergoes in certain cases rather amazing transformation when the coupling g is sent to zero. There is an infinite set of phase transitions in g when a couple of eigenstates of H coalesce and disappear from the spectrum. When quantization is done in the most natural way such that gauge constraints are imposed on quantum states, the spectrum should not be positive definite, but must involve the negative energy states (ghosts). We speculate that, in spite of the appearance of ghost states, unitarity might still be preserved.
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|Soumis le : Vendredi 20 Juin 2008, 10:08:51
|Dernière modification le : Vendredi 20 Juin 2008, 10:54:20