Monthly Archives: September 2009

The American Gothic subjects posing with the picture. For no good reason. I give you, man in rainbow chicken suit going over cliff on bicycle. Dinosaurs and everything in this sand sculpture. How to do the Moulin Rouge “Keep fucking … Continue reading →

We started the next “season”, which will run until around January 1st. We have updated our neighborhood’s game’s format. We are now using deeper stacks, slightly accelerating blind structure, and adding antes. We’ll also be experimenting with 7-2 bonus, cracked … Continue reading →

The downside of having Vonage is that when the internet goes down, so does the phone. Lightning hit our neighbors house, fried our system. We’re mostly back, but still have no phone service.

Poker is off this week, and I wanted to get this up before the Kanye jokes got old. Kanye, cut it out. No really! Stop it! Okay, that’s over the line. Even Obama thinks you’re a jackass. 11 interesting musical … Continue reading →

Never read Powerpoint slides aloud. Nothing is worse than a presenter back the slides out loud to the audience. It is patronizing. I can read. I’ve been doing it for a while. I don’t need your help. It shows your … Continue reading →

I am so glad the NFL is back. I hate baseball and golf, so my summers seem long. I am forced to be with my family playing in the pool and watching them grow up… yuck! Tonight the Patriots season … Continue reading →

Fantasy Football: Once again, it looks as though I am primed to take the league by storm. I kept my top five from last year. I still I had a lot of talent that I couldn’t hold on to (you … Continue reading →

Impact of Obama’s school speech Get educated about sweat in tennis. I will not read your fucking script. The real Star Trek Just one comma off Chuck Klosterman repeats the Beatles. “I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release … Continue reading →

I wore my Tom Brady jersey for the big poker tournament tonight. The kids asked about it. I said, “The New England Patriots are winners. Tom Brady is a winner. Tonight, I hope wearing a winners shirt will make me … Continue reading →

Holy cow. Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two and family values champion began describing, for the benefit … Continue reading →

A lot of you readers know my ol’ buddy Bryan Reesman. Bryan has made a name for himself in the review writing world. He focuses primarily on music, but steps out for general pop culture once in a while. His … Continue reading →

Man, that is one great looking cupcake We’ll always have the Batman Beavis and Butthead return Finding common ground Another guy who goes to extremes to avoid nagging wife: robs bank Don’t piss off the guys with the bulldozers Amazing … Continue reading →

I need more test posts to see if I have fixed the problem. And this old one attracts spam, so I’m deleting the original and pasting the text below (from 11/29/2007). I was listening to NPR today, and there was … Continue reading →

Let me know if you follow this blog with any RSS feed, particularly Google. I got hacked somewhere along the way. I am looking for more information about the hacking. Among other measures I just deleted a bunch of weird … Continue reading →

Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It) by William Poundstone: I have always been interested in the mathematics of voting. It is not a simple problem to figure out the best way to … Continue reading →

Fingernail clippers are concave, to fit the curve of your fingernail. Why would a toe clipper be different? I don’t understand this. My toenail still curves outward. I just don’t understand this.

Update: Ole ole convinced me I’m being a whiner. At the bottom I’m adding in some of the mistakes and good plays I made last night. I remember a lot more of the hands the day after then I did … Continue reading →

For no good reason, the Muttrox family gives charity in lumps. At some point in the year we sit down and figure out how much we’re going to give, pick out our favorite causes for the year, and write a … Continue reading →