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Predict That!

2011-11-30T08:17:00.000-05:00

This time of year we see so many prediction of how we're going to end 2011. Financial, sports, economy, world war 3, etc. If you like that sort of thing, and even better, if you like sharing your predictions there's a new website you might enjoy where you can make a prediction and then link it to Twitter or Facebook. It's called PredictThat.com and it's fairly simple to use. You can register with either your FB or TW account and then type what you're predicting and by what time it should happen.

Here, take a look at one I created: http://predictsthat.com/#?p=39096765

I predict that this will become a huge hit with sports fans. With the BCS starting up and NFL in full force you see a lot of prediction on those topics. But I think you degenerates still reading this post will start a whole new trend of low brow predictions on each other. So if you make any predictions let me know?

Moving to Austin

2011-08-23T12:50:00.000-04:00

The Author of this post is Velma Baird

Who knew that moving to a new state would change up things so much? I guess I should have since California and Texas couldn’t really be more different but my entire pace of life has changed from what I eat all the way down to what I wear. I’ve made a lot of really great friends since I’ve been out here and I love my little bungalow. Austin is a cool town although it’s really big and sprawling which makes it easy to get lost for someone like me! I got satellitestarinternet.com satellite internet immediately when I got here so I could keep emailing back home with my family and friends and that’s made it much easier. It’s also good that I really like my new job and the people I work with…I can really see myself staying here for a while! I love new adventures and this certainly is one – I haven’t done anything too crazy in a while so I figured it was high time I packed up my life and moved to Texas!

Did you see the supermoon the other day?

2011-04-04T12:29:00.000-04:00

One of the things we got for Xmas was an awesome Telescope. I've always been interested in telescopes and remember wanting one for a really long time. In fact, the first telescope I ever used was a homemade one. I didn't build it myself, but a friend in school did. He got all sorts of cylinders and mirrors and lenses and voila, there's the moon.

But if you want to see a little further than the moon you need to invest a little and get a real refractor telescope. One that can actually show you the rings of Saturn or the spot on Jupiter. The one we ended up getting has a computer on it and once you set it up it will tilt itself automatically and show you pretty much every visible star out there.

My first night out I had the hardest time. I wasn't sure how to align it properly, it was freezing (Xmas) and by the time I was done my nose was running and all I could see was the moon. Which was still pretty awesome because at a large magnification you can really see all the craters and terrain.

The next time, it was slightly warmer and a real clear night. I watched the instructional DVD that came with the thing and figured out what needed to be done. Then all of a sudden, there was Saturn and it's rings. It's pretty freakin' incredible to be able to see that. And very clearly. Then Jupiter and three of its moons. How awesome is that.

I just read an article about the potential for inhabitable planets in the Universe and there's just no way we are the only living form out there. The number of planets being found now is staggering. And this is just from a tiny part of the Universe. Basically they aimed their devices at an empty part of space and came back with billions of stars and planets.

The problem is obviously that we need to figure out a way to move faster than the speed of light in order to get anywhere. And what always blows me away is that the stars we see at night may no longer be there. Since it's taken some of them millions of light years to get their lights here, they may not exist anymore.

Hopefully we run into some aliens that can travel faster than light and don't need to farm us for organs. That would totally suck.

Good night!

Pedophile Beards!!!

2010-12-01T08:05:00.001-05:00

This one goes out to all you "persons of interest" (you know who you are).

Watch here

Cowboys & Aliens

2010-11-23T22:37:00.001-05:00

Awesome!!!

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! (AKA why Foursquare is Stupid)

2010-11-23T22:32:00.001-05:00

Since I follow all the wonderful time-suck new-tech crap pumped up by Mashable and TechCrunch I decided to finally give Foursquare a try. I've signed up and cancelled my account about 4 times so far because I just didn't see the point. But the last time, I decided to really try. And I still don't get it. And I cancelled it again - this time I don't think I'm going back.

Can someone tell me why this thing is supposed to be interesting? This whole check-in thing is just a mystery to me. Let's break it down in this week's.... Crap App Breakdown:

1. It's a game - Yes, these things can be addictive as all get out and I've fallen for Farmville and Mafia Wars too (both have been cancelled, just so you know), but at least there I got the satisfaction of clicking my mouse button a bazillion times until my fingernail threatened to leave my finger. But what's the appeal of the Foursquare game? You can check-in anywhere you want or even create new venues. I've seen so many 'Yo Momma's House' out there as well as a couple of 'So and So's anal cavity' and people check in there too. So yeah, it might be funny to check-in to someone's mother's place of residence, but that probably wears off quickly.

2. You get to be a mayor! Well, la-dee-freakin'-da for you mayor of the Starbucks right next to the QT. I became mayor of my office, my bank, my UPS store as well as a bunch of others. So what? Who cares? Wait a minute you say - if you're the mayor of F2O they will give you 50% off your next order. I guess it's worth it then. Because I just saved $3. I need to quickly get in front of a financial advisor who will help me invest this windfall that just fell into my lap.

3. You get badges. I think most of us stopped caring about badges when we graduated from the cub scouts. Seriously? Who give a crap about virtual badges. And you can lump all the other so-called "location based" companies like Gowalla, Scvngr and Badge.ly into this one. Who cares about a dumb badge on a dumb website?

4. You can get a lot of tips from other people who have been to the places you're at. This has to be the silver bullet. Has to be! Because I really needed to know that the pumpkin spice latte is the best ever. It really is. I swear. Umm... this is just another way to push ads on our feeble minds.

5. You can see which one of your hipster friends is at the same place you are! Hold the phone. You mean, my friends are at the bar I am in and they didn't tell me they were going? Who are these friends anyway? Who needs them! I'll go find new friends (go to bullet 6 please).

6. You can find out who's the complete stranger that is or was somewhere you just happen to be. I love technology. So useful.

So now seriously. Can someone explain why this is useful? I can sort of kind of (maybe not so much) understand the value of Facebook Places (hint: because everyone is on Facebook), but let's all hold our breath because Oh. My. God. Foursquare has 4.5 Million users. I am bound to meet someone I know on there, right? Wait, I can add my Facebook friends? But they don't care about Foursquare and don't use it. Wait, what? I can add all my twitter followers too? Well then that settles that!

I would love to figure out who the investors are who green-lighted this crap. I have some other great ideas that need funding. I even know the valuation.

I pity the fool...

2010-11-23T21:23:00.001-05:00

Been a while. I got a lot to say and no time to say it. So I will posterous from now on. Feed ma blogger, ma tumblr and my twitter too. Fo shizzle.

So why do I have no time? Because I have a full time job a wife and two kids. I also have a lot of stuff on my plate. Like lots of mortgages for rental properties with awful, horrible tenants (some are good, but most should just be kicked to the curb except the houses are in such bad shape by now from these sub-humans living in them that it would cost more to repair them and find new, awful tenants than to keep these pests living there and not paying rent).

I am also a super-blogger. What is that you may ask? Well I just made that up. I'm like that you see. I make stuff up. Because it's true. Why am I a super-blogger? Let me count the ways:

Poker Blog (which is now linked to a posterous, a tumblr and a twitter yo)
Real Estate Blog (so I can find better tenants for those fakakte'h properties - does anyone have a Yiddish dictionary?)
Two Family History Blogs (one for my research and one for newbs)
Two Family Blogs (one about being a dad and another I share with my wife)
Book Blog (it's for the kids yo)
and, and, and... oh yeah! My company's corporate blog.

Super. Blogger. I write 8 blogs. Well, not really. Because I don't have time you see?

So I am going to start publishing post-hummus-ly thru posterous. My post will suck and have bad spelling and worse grammar and you will love it and tell all your friends. And I will post about all the stuff I can't post on any of my other super-blogs because everything gets tracked to you and someone somewhere might get upset that I said the company he works for is just pathetic. Some people may know my secret super-blogger identity and that's probably fine. Some shouldn't and don't.

Topics will range from this to that and the other too.

Stick around. Enjoy.

Try your hand at 888.com

2010-11-22T20:42:00.000-05:00

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Downloadable Games

2010-10-17T08:34:00.001-04:00

I know you like to play games. That's because you are here reading a semi-functioning poker blog. But sometimes you get tired of the donkfoolery and go in search of downloadable games, right? Like a good RPG or MMOG or one of the other nerdy acronyms they keep coming up with. We all know a certain Wawfool who love his WoW. Side note, I remember when WoW meant "Wip'em Out Wednesdays" and chicks were flashing truck drivers from overpasses.

Where were we? Oh yes - downloadable games. So which ones are you favorite? Have you grown tired of plowing and planting Farmville crops yet? Well why don't you try building a Roman Empire instead? Or solve a mystery in San Francisco?

Gaming is HUGE business these days with companies who have never made a single red cent in profit getting bought by Japanese mega-companies for hundreds of millions of dollars? Why would they spend that money? Because downloadable games have made it so easy to try a free game before you buy it. Try the lite version. Try a few levels. Get hooked and pay for the full version. Then sit in front of a screen and waste the rest your day trying to finish that level.

So which downloadable games do you like?

Go fly a kite (or an RC helicopter)

2010-10-17T08:19:00.000-04:00

And while you're at it, why don't you film it? Or let someone do it for you?

What the hell am I talking about? Aerial photography! That's what.

Ever wanted to take picture of your office building? How about a video of a flying over the Las Vegas strip? How about a video of what it would feel like to fall off the Stratosphere? Well, now you can do just that! The guys at SkyCamUSA are taking aerial videography to the next level. Go check out their coll videos (if you dare).

Check out this NYC aerial video:

New York Aerial Video - HD from SkyCamUsa on Vimeo.

Or one of my other favorites, check out this golf course aerial video tour:

Eighteen Hole Golf Course Aerial Fly Over Tour - The Ace Club - HD from SkyCamUsa on Vimeo.

I can think of so many awesome-to-creepy ideas for this kind of production. Your favorite ball parks (awesome). Houses you used to live in (cool). Houses your ex-girlfriends used to live in (creepy). I am sure there are certain restrictions. Like flying through tunnels and scaring the crap out of commuters.

Cool idea though...

All About MS

2010-10-17T08:06:00.000-04:00

Not sure how this relates to your regularly scheduled poker reading (or non-poker reading, whatever you come here for) but I figured this is a topic that is broad enough to write about. Multiple Sclerosis is a tough disease that affects the nervous system and is often confusing to understand. I know of at least two people who have/had it and how hard it is to live with. You may recall that the president's character on The West Wing was living with it (and hiding it from the public) and how it affected him.

MS treatment is expensive and complicated since there is now actual cure for it. It affects people of all ethnicities and backgrounds. MS is considered as an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks normal body tissue. The cells that make myelin, myelin itself and/or the axons (the nerves) are attacked when MS occurs. There are a great number of things that influence one’s immune system, like exposure to foreign substances, stress but also, life itself. While one virus may turn the system off, another one may turn it on.

There are all sorts of treatment, ranging from strong cocktails of drugs to eating a balanced diet. An MS diet doesn't mean you have to starve or go buy shark fins or tiger tails anywhere. And it doesn't by any means guarantee you will feel better. But it can't hurt either.

Learn more about it. Support the fundraising causes by doing an MS walk (or two, or three). And if you know someone who is living with MS be supportive.

Now back to the show. Why don't you try taking the Cacao Challenge?

"Fuck You"

2010-08-26T17:26:00.000-04:00

Oh Antoine (AKA Run & Tell Dat)

2010-08-13T01:08:00.004-04:00

I realize this place has been kind of bare. But what can I do when I have these kinds of things to contend with....

I present to you the amazing Antoine Dodson:

Cause they rapin' errbody out there...

Knitting class

2010-08-04T10:13:00.000-04:00

Guest post written by Helen Johnston

My mom used to knit all the time.

Any time I wanted a new scarf to match a certain outfit I would let her know and we’d pick out the yarn together to make sure it matched my outfit perfectly. I had always wanted to pick up the skill too but never had the patience to sit down and practice. So of course, I never really learned.

After I retired, I decided to finally learn how to knit as a hobby. I enrolled in a class for it at the senior center and went prepared my yarn and needles in my bag. As the teacher started talking, I noticed that I was having trouble hearing her so when I got home I looked online at some miracle ear hearing aids reviews and started thinking about buying one. I talked to some friends about the subject and they suggested Miracle Ear hearing aids New York, so I got fitted with some.

At the next class I came in a little late so I had to sit in the back. But to my pleasant surprise, I could hear just fine!

Whatevs

2010-07-27T14:47:00.002-04:00

I can't stop laughing this is so true!!!

As previously seen:

And the flip side:

Mailboxes (not the electronic kind)

2010-07-20T14:49:00.005-04:00

Not sure why, but walking around my neighborhood lately I seem to see a lot of mailboxes that have been bumped into or outright ran over. I mean, how drunk can someone be to just run right into a giant white pole on a residential street? Idiots!

The problem with residential mailboxes, especially in a subdivision like ours, is that they all have to look the same. And once the neighborhood is built, it's not going to be easy to find the exact replica of what is now laying on your front lawn in a pile of splinters and crushed metal. You can't just march into home Depot and expect to find one like it. And it's not just the post you need to find, it's also an identical box. So it's a pain in the ass, is all I'm sayin'.

And if we're on the subject - one of my neighbors has a magnetic mailbox cover with his favorite college team logo on it. I thought that was kind of cute. I love when people decide to personalize their mailboxes. So I called our HOA to make sure that he wasn't violating any codes and they sent him a warning. I'm very neighborly like that.

Boom-Shak-a-Lak

2010-07-17T02:39:00.002-04:00

Hosted the monthly home game. For some unknown reason the universe was smiling at me tonight and instead of busting out first like I always do when I host the game at my place, get this, I cashed twice. First game chopped for almost even with 1st place. Second game I won outright after playing heads-up with eBalz after everyone left. Sa-weet.

I didn't get many good hands. The one big pair I got was QQ UTG, which I popped to 3x and got called by both SB and BB. Flop was 969 and all three of ended up in a raising war and all-in. SB had 66 and BB had TT. I get my lovely Queen on the river and triple up. Nice one there poker gods.

Anyway, bunch of bounties and some moola. Nothing else to report. Move along now.

LOLz

2010-07-16T10:48:00.000-04:00

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Thanks Waffles!

FU Blogger and FU Google

2010-07-05T00:24:00.003-04:00

This is probably the beginning of the end. Google fucked up my domain renewal for KajaguguPoker.com and now some Chinese squatter has stolen it and is trying to resell it for $500. So fuck him and fuck Google. I registered a complaint with the registrar and will see what happened, but for now, that domain is kaput.

I was planning to move this blog to a WordPress platform and that is probably what will happen once I register a new domain.

Blah!

Origins of the Vuvuzela?

2010-06-18T13:17:00.003-04:00

Of all the people in the world I got this one from my Mom.

This is a vuvuzela:

This is where it comes from:

And one more. Extra creepy:

Whatever

2010-06-12T00:33:00.002-04:00

All poker is rigged. Not just online.

Played the neighborhood monthly. HUGE pot where I shove the flop with 2 pair and get called twice after a lot of pre-flop action. I know I'm good. But nope. Killed by two outer on the turn.

Next hand I am in the big blind so I just shove the rest of my stack blind and get two callers again. This time, since I was playing blind, I have pocket jacks and triple up.

So the next hand I have AK and shove again. Get called by Q9o, hit my Ace in the door and then see 9 turn and Q river. Adios.

Poker is so stupid. Sometimes you just know there is absolutely no skill involved.

Meh.

Getting some new replacement windows…

2010-06-01T21:16:00.000-04:00

We recently decided that we wanted to try and reduce the heating costs for our home. The electric bills were getting really high every month. We did several different things, but the most important was we got replacement windows for our home. We went to a local hardware store to figure out which ones we wanted to install. We didn't know the first thing about doing it ourselves so we had to hire someone to do it for us also.

I honestly didn't realize what an effect replacement windows would have on our home, but it was amazing. They installed the windows right away and immediately I could tell a difference. One thing was that our house just looked a lot nicer outside. These new windows made our home look like a different one. Another thing that I really liked was that the drafts seemed to be gone. When I walked by the windows, the temperature didn't change. Used to you would feel a cool breeze sometimes, but this was gone. The first month I got a new heating bill I was so excited. Our bills had dropped a significant amount. The replacement windows will pay for themselves in just a short amount of time. I am very glad we made this decision.

This is a guest post by my friend Matt Walkes

Fuck You Justin Bieber!

2010-05-19T15:07:00.003-04:00

Fuck You Justin Bieber!
Fuck You Robert Pattinson!
Fuck You Kate Gosselin!
Fuck You Jon Gosselin!
Fuck You Pete Doherty!
Fuck You Glee!
Fuck You Adam Lambert!
Fuck You Real Housewives!
Fuck You Jersey Shore!
Fuck You MTV!
Fuck You American Idol!
Fuck You Lady GaGa!
Fuck You Ke$ha!
Fuck You Lindsay Lohan!
Fuck You Dina Lohan!
Fuck You Michael Lohan!
Fuck You Ali Lohan!
Fuck You Amy Winehouse!
Fuck You Bristol Palin!
Fuck You Perez Hilton!
Fuck You Miley Cyrus!
Fuck You Kellan Lutz!
Fuck You Taylor Lautner!
Fuck You Kristin Stewart!
Fuck You Twilight!
Fuck You New Moon!
Fuck You Eclipse!
Fuck You Grey's Anatomy!
Fuck You Courtney Love!
Fuck You Jennifer Love Hewitt!
Fuck You Pete Wentz!
Fuck You Ashlee Simpson!
Fuck You Mischa Barton!
Fuck You Snooki!
Fuck You Demi Lovato!
Fuck You Facebook!
Fuck You Gossip Girl!
Fuck You Jonas Brothers!
Fuck You The Hills!
Fuck You Heidi Montag!
Fuck You Spencer Pratt!
Fuck You Kristin Cavallari!
Fuck You Olsen Twins!
Fuck You Lily Allen!
Fuck You Rachel Uchitel!
Fuck You Rumer Willis!
Fuck you Jamie Lynn Spears!
Fuck you Zac Efron!
Fuck you Brody Jenner!
Fuck You Kardashians!
Fuck You Selena Gomez!
Fuck you Taylor Momsen!
Fuck you One Tree Hill!
Fuck You Cheryl Cole!
Fuck You Entourage!
Fuck You Jeremy Piven!
Fuck you Holly Madison!
Fuck You Kendra Wilkinson!
Fuck You Audrina Patridge!
Fuck You True Blood!
Fuck You Vanessa Hudgens!
Fuck You Dancing With The Stars!
Fuck You The Bachelor!
Fuck You The Bachelorette!
Fuck You David Boreanaz!
Fuck You Victoria Beckham!
Fuck You Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
Fuck You Taryn Manning!
Fuck You Tila Tequila!
Fuck You Adrian Grenier!
Fuck You Jenna Jameson!
Fuck You Brooke Hogan!
Fuck You Paris Hilton!
Fuck you Joslyn James!

If I missed you on this list and you're a time-drain fame-whoring talentless fuck, then Fuck You Too!

This is Alabama. We "Speak" English.

2010-04-28T13:29:00.003-04:00

This is some funny shit. I am not even going to discuss the fact that I agree with this doofus and everyone who lives here needs to speaka-da-Engrish. But to come out and say that people speak English in Alabama is misleading. Well, maybe they can speak it, but they can't read or write it real good.

When you go to the NAEP website and run some state comparissons, Bama don't come out too good. In 4th grade reading they're in 40th place among the states. in 8th grade they drop to 44th place. Writing doesn't have current data on the site but the latest the have is 43rd and 40th places. Not so good.

But its gooder than Maths. Cause fo maths they are in 50sth plac. fo both 4th and 8th graed! Can you beli' dat?

Keep blinking at the bottom of the screen Tim. You're a shoe in to get elected:

Or should I say "YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH":

BBT5 - How old am I anyway???

2010-04-16T21:01:00.002-04:00