A while back, I wrote about a scoring system for my video game tournament. ( Read more... )

Sunday night, I decide I just gotta go play poker. I played 6/12 for an hour and was -$82. I was ambivalent about taking a NL seat, but I did anyway. ( Read more... )

I just lost The Game. So I looked up the rules on The Game from Wikipedia and learned that, apparently, I've been playing it wrong, too.

CNN: Blagojevich defense team seeks to subpoena Obama: Blagojevich, a two-term Democrat, resigned in January 2009 amid accusations that he had attempted to sell the U.S. Senate seat that had been occupied by Obama. The former governor was arrested the month before on federal corruption charges that included wire fraud, mail fraud and solicitation ( Read more... )

Guess where I am
I'm blogging from the plane
I'll blog more when I get there

First it was the washer. I managed to fix it. It's our washer: we bought it when we moved in. It is all whiz-bang electronic stuff inside, and I have lost the manual, but with some random website, and the limited schematic and diagnostic pamphlet I found inside, I guessed the right broken component, found an appliance parts store, bought a ( Read more... )

dmorr did a quick rundown of his no-limit play. I should probably do the same, but this isn't it. This post is about why I have losing streaks. Actually, it's a lot of self-indulgent bullshit. So it's on my blog! ( Read more... )

I have a cold that has to be one of the best I've had in years. But it's raised a question that I hope to have an answer to.

When I want to sneeze, as I do somewhat frequently as of late, my right eye tends to water.

Why, and why is it always my right eye?

Dear Madam ( Read more... )

ATMs are evil. Jenn's bank account was drained, apparently by some unscrupulous person who scammed her PIN. WaMu will do the investigation thing and give a conditional refund in 5 days. Thanks, guys; good thing we didn't need that money, like, now, or anything ( Read more... )