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Jun 212009
Jun 212009
As many of you may or may not know, I fancy myself a decent poker player. Not decent like I could make a living, but decent to where I could become a degenerate gambler who smokes Lucky Strikes and spits on cars off of the Spring Mountain exit ramp. Anyway, everyone who plays poker has had a few bad beats happen to in their poker life. I am no exception. Here are some of my recent ones:
I’ve got A-10, flop is KQJ, Heads up, I bet like a madman, Turn and river are both 7′s. Guy turns over Q7 for a full house.
I’ve got 67, flop is 458, I flopped a straight. I bet, guy calls. Turn is a 9. I bet, guy calls. River is 8. I check, guy bets $20, I move all in over the top of him for $60 more. He instacalls with 89 for a full house.
I’ve got AK of clubs. Preflop, I raise to $7. Two callers to the flop. Flop is 3c8c7d. I bet $10 on a semi bluff. Two calls. Turn is 7c, giving me the nut flush. I now bet $20, two callers. (seriously, wtf?). River is 7h. I check because now anyone with a 3 or an 8 has a full house. Guy to the right bets $35, other guy calls, I have to call because I’m a freaking moron who can’t let go of the nut flush. They both turn over 8′s for the full boat and split the pot.
In the same instance, all poker players have some hands that are unbelievable. Here are a few of mine:
I have AsAc preflop. I bet $7, this guy who talks alot of crap goes over the top of me and raises to $15. I raise to $30. He calls. Flop is 7s8sAd, giving me the nuts. I check into him, he bets $40. I grumble for a while, putting on a show, and call the $40. the turn is the Ace of hearts, giving me quad aces. I check, he bets $50, I grumble, look at my cards, sigh, etc. And call his $50. (Right now, he’s drawing dead. There is no way he can have a better hand than mine). River is the K of spades. I go all in for $120. He grumbles and calls. I flip over the Aces. (Not only was that pot massive, I also got a high hand bonus for $400).
I have a few other hands that involve quads, full houses and the like. Never had a straight flush or a royal yet. Which kinda sucks, because the high hand bonus for those sometimes hits over $2k.
Jun 202009
Well, since I’m amazingly absent at posting lately, I’ll put a list of cool people to follow on Twitter up.
why not.
* androidlust (Shikhee from Android Lust)
* trent_reznor (Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails)
* amandapalmer (Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls)
* thelindsayellis (Lindsay Ellis the Nostalgia Chick)
* drtiki (Dr. Tiki from TikiBarTV)
There, I posted! Yay.
Link dump time.
A cool little post on using Ferret and ruby to do search magics
A post about putting NetBSD on an NSLU2 (ARM)
BlackBerry Curve General Discussion forums over at Blackberry Forums
There, just a few links that I have in my Bookmarks. Figured someone could use them.
(Jejunum is here.)
Apr 132009
Well, I started rewatching the entire series of The 4400 the other day. It’s a decent scifi show that USA Networks made a couple of years back. Plot summary (thanks to imdb.com) is:
“As the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in which the victims have been changed.”
Meh. Not the best plot summary ever. But you can’t really say much more than that without giving alot of plot away. The plot of this show and how it interleaves is pretty well put together. In most scifi, you can definitely feel a sense of continuity as the seasons go on, and “The 4400″ isn’t any exception.
I was planning on going on a rant about how the real world needs an event like this just to give ourselves a wake up call, but I’d rather wait until I have some coherence.
Dec 102008
… Never a bride?
I am amused at how people automatically think that because DreamHost uses mod_security and Drupal that my earlier post about making Drupal and mod_security work together actually would apply to them. Read it again. Yep, thats what I meant to type. Look, it was a suggestion to help get random Joes Drupal installation working with mod_security, so that you can hope to have a secure install of Drupal (a rarity these days, it would seem). If it doesn’t work with DreamHost, I am truly sorry for my error.
Idiots.
Oct 292008
Well, it seems official. David Tennant will no longer play the Doctor after the series finishes the 2009 season. It seems that all of my favorite series are coming to a close, with nothing good to replace them with. I realize that Doctor Who will continue on with a new actor to play the Doctor, but will he be even as close as good as Tennant was?
All we’ve got to go on now as SciFi fans is the rumored political spinoff of Stargate. Oh, and maybe True Blood. I really wish I was kidding 
Oct 022008
Last night before I went to bed, I realized I have the same problem that alot of people who share my technolust have. That is, if we have a blog, we spend more time hacking on the code than we do actually posting things. Which I guess isn’t such a bad thing, but in my case I really needed somewhere I could throw stuff about all of the projects and things I’m working on, without going “Gee, I bet I could add this feature really quick” or “Wow, you know what would be cool? let me add this feature!”. I just want somewhere I can dump my ideas/whatever and not have to fuss with anything. I still have a special place in my heart for BlogUnknown, and also feather (which I’ll eventually get to work), but for now this blog is going to stay WordPress only. I’ve got it fairly locked down anyway, so I dont have to worry about the masses, and plus, its shiny. Ooh. Shiny.
Sep 202008
8:47 < derek> teleolurian: Lady in the water was based on a fairy tale that MNS’s parents used to tell him when he was a kid
8:47 < derek> it’s based on the “Water origins” Mythos
8:48 < teleolurian> “one day there will be an indian screenwriter who doesn’t write bollywood level shit”
8:48 < teleolurian> yeah, that’s a fairy tale
8:49 < derek> by that I mean the “People used to live in the water, now they live on land” one, not the evolution one 
8:49 < teleolurian> so can somebody sum it up for me like this: http://www.rinkworks.com/movieaminute/m/interview.shtml
8:49 < teleolurian> apparently there’s a cookbook involved, that’s all i can see on wikipedia
8:50 < derek> Chick lives in pool, dog things don’t want her in pool, Paul Giamatti.
8:50 < derek> there.
8:50 < teleolurian> thank you
8:50 < teleolurian> that’s much better
8:50 < d> lol
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