So, I said I was cashing out of all the online sites. That was true, I did. The main reason I did it was because I was getting bored with playing and playing hands I shouldn’t because of it. I was, obviously, losing money because of that. I cashed out, and figured in about a month or so, I’d put some of the money back in and start it up again.
Well, PokerStars wouldn’t let me completely cash out. They left me with fifty cents. Last night, I turned that fifty cents into $4.41 playing .02/.04 hold ’em. For some reason, playing at that level, I was more patient and disciplined than I have been in a while. I guess it helps that no one else there is. I still don’t want to play as much as I have been, because I’ve been spending too much time on it, but my new goal is to see what I can do starting with just $0.50. I’ll keep you updated, unless I get bored of it, in which case I won’t. 🙂
Most of the news I’ve watched this week (besides the Daily Show), has been Fox News. Just so I, too, can be fair and balanced.
I especially loved the part where Bill O’Reilly told Sean “P. Diddy” Combs he should be a Republican, because he was a self-made man. Because, as we all know, Republicans, like our President, are all self-made men.
I’m sure everyone’s heard about this by now, the cop in NYC who was assaulted in the middle of a protest group. There are some things people might not have heard. First of all, the guy who was later arrested for the assault was not a member of the group protesting. Let me repeat that. He was not a protester. He was just some guy with a long arrest record, who found his way into the group of people, and decided to beat the cop up. The people were protesting peacefully.
While no one deserves an assault like that, neither does anyone deserve what the police officer was doing. First of all, he was a plainclothes cop, so no one knew he was an officer. With that in mind, take a look at this video: link (Unfortunately, you need Windows Media Player for that.) How would you react if someone in plainclothes, that didn’t identify himself as a police officer (he may have, I don’t know) was riding through the crowd on a scooter and running people over? He didn’t deserve the beating he got, but I certainly wouldn’t be upset if people tried to get him off the scooter and stop him, if only in self defense.
And let me state again, for the record, that the guy who assaulted him was not part of the protest group. It was not a politically motivated beating. Unlike, say, this one. Now, there’s no excuse for what these protesters did. I’m not at all supported them making their way into the RNC when they shouldn’t have been there. Still, that’s no excuse for what was done there. Wonderful advertising for monster.com, too.
As for the rest of the police in New York City, they don’t seem to be doing such a great job, either. It’s nice to know we’re not living in a police state, where people can get arrested for just walking down the street. Er, I guess that’s only when the Republicans aren’t in town.
Senator Zell Miller, 2001
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.
Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.
John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its “Digital Dozen.”
http://miller.senate.gov/speeches/030101jjdinner.htm
Good stuff. Found over at Wacky Neighbor
Update: Much of what Miller said Kerry voted against, Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, also worked to cut. Others, Kerry didn’t actually vote against. He voted against the Fiscal Year 1991 Defense Appropriations Act, which wasn’t a vote on those individual weapon systems. Just like Kerry voted against $87 billion in body armor for soldiers, with $20 billion of that earmarked for Halliburton.
(Source: http://slate.msn.com/id/2096127/)
Multiple choice question. The title of this post refers to:
- Judges who disagree with Republicans
- Judges who uphold the Constitution
- All of the above
Elizabeth Dole, in a speech at the RNC said:
Two thousand years ago a man said, ” I have come to give life and to give it in full.” In America I have the freedom to call that man Lord, and I do. In the United States of America we are free to worship without discrimination, without intervention and even without activist judges trying to strip the name of God from the Pledge of Allegiance; from the money in our pockets; and from the walls of our courthouses. The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The right to worship God isn’t something Republicans invented, but it is something Republicans will defend.
She couldn’t be more wrong. Freedom of religion means exactly freedom from religion, for those who don’t believe in God, or want to practice any religion. For those that do believe and want to practice, they’re free to do so as well. It means the State does not sponsor any specific religion, or type of religion (ie, monotheism). If she wants to say “under God” when she says the Pledge, that’s just fine. Forcing children at a public school to do the same, not fine. Similarly, if she wants to write “In God I trust”, on her money, that’s just fine with me. Having it printed on the money, not so much.
Personally, neither of these things actually bother me at all. I don’t care that “under God” is in the pledge or that “In God We Trust” is on our money. What does bother me is that these people think they have the right to force it on people who do care about it.
I was watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tonight (I was at the bowling alley, it was on the TV. I had no choice. Honest!), and the following question came up (as best I can remember):
Vice President Dick Cheney was the head of what company?
A) I don’t remember B) Halliburton C) I don’t remember D) I don’t remember
The contestant didn’t know. He had to ask the audience. When anyone living in this country doesn’t know the answer to this question, how can we expect them to make educated decisions voting for our President? To be fair, I don’t know when this show was taped. The audience, however, very clearly knew the answer, and Cheney was obviously already Vice President. Some people did vote for choices A, C, and D, though. Maybe they were relatives of other people waiting to be the next contestant. I can always hope.
I’ve been meaning to write a little bit about the switch from MovableType to WordPress. Not much, just a little bit. Updating my templates wasn’t hard at all. It was basically just replacing all the MT tags with a little bit of PHP. Having multiple index templates (blog, photoblog, etc…) caused a small problem, but a little PHP code fixed that too. Here’s a list of links to useful information that helped me with the move:
- Carthik.net – A post about moving from MT to WP, where I found several of the following links.
- Fix for the date export problem from MT.
- wp-mail.php – WP moblog script, that I modified to fit with my site structure and create thumbnails.
- DrBacchus’ Journal – Importing MT posts into WP while keeping the same post numbers, so with a little .htaccess hacking, all my old links still work.
- Tutorial: Installing AWstats at 1and1.com – Not really WordPress related, but when I made the switch to WP, I also switched from my old hosting to 1and1. And now, I have AWstats going, since 1and1 doesn’t have them by default. I’m sure I could have figured this out on my own, but this tutorial definitely sped up the process.
Hmm… I thought there was more to it than that. I’ll update this post if I find anything else that I used. Also, obviously, the WordPress Docs, though those weren’t as helpful as I would have liked.
My Terror Alert has made the news. The St. Petersburg Times, anyway. I didn’t actually come up with the design, but that’s besides the point. Hopefully, this won’t bring anyone down on me for copyright or trademark violations. 🙂
Does anyone know if this was actually printed in a physical newspaper, and if so, how I can get one? Thanks.
(Also, thanks to Google Alert for finding this for me.)
I need a break from online poker. My game has gone to shit, I don’t enjoy it anymore, and I’ve lost too much of the money that I’ve made (haven’t put any more in, but it still sucks.) After losing these three hands in a row: JJ, flop a set, someone turns a gutshot straight after I bet (no free card), KK, capped preflop, beat by A6o (ace flopped), and then 42s, flopped 228, someone rivers a flush. Three hands in a row. I don’t believe online poker is rigged, but I just can’t deal with it anymore.
I was all set to play one last tournament, but I don’t even get to do that as Pacific fucked up and didn’t add me to the tournament.
I don’t think by any means that I’m never going to play online poker again, but I need to stop for a while, and I know the only way I’m going to be able to get myself to do that is to cash out. So I have, from all the online poker sites.
Maybe in a month I’ll put some money back in. I just need a break. Now I just have to figure out what to do with all the time this opens up.
Here’s a nice article about the state of the media in the US: Only the jester speaks the truth.
As American voters prepare for arguably the most important election in two decades, The Daily Show’s influence is growing. With a blend of scathing satire, comedic brilliance, gonzo hijinks and incisive commentary, the show attracts more than a million viewers a night in the U.S. and has emerged as a force to be reckoned with on the national stage.
I get most of my news (including the article linked here) from Google News. The only news I watch on TV is the Daily Show.
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