Saturday, March 31, 2012

Monday, February 13, 2012


Feb 13, 2012 – 2:38pm
  • Hi :)
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    10% Enemy 77% Friend 81% Match Message from prettymotivated

  • Hi there!

    Thanks for the brief note!

    You
    wouldn't happen to know Sean Noobsauce, would you? He's a coworker of mine
    and a very dedicated participant in the Boston IFF. I've actually been
    to a couple of movies at IFF (animated shorts, Soul Kitchen, World's
    Greatest Dad), but not to the extent that he has (he gets the Festival
    Pass and absolutely maximizes the number of movies he can view!). He
    also runs the Boston Bacon Lovers Convention.

    The other thing
    that caught my attention is that you noted that 92.5 The River was
    "Music for the Independent Mind." I thought that 88.9 WERS had that
    slogan! So I just googled that phrase, and lo and behold, WERS it is...

    I'm curious as to what small school you opened, and how you are able to work from home.

    -Geoff



  • Feb 13, 2012 – 4:32pm
    You googled it.

    As fun as you'd be to date - I think I'm going to pass.

    Yes, I know Sean. He's a VIP.

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  • Just now!
    PETTY Motivated:

    To
    clarify, I "googled it" to verify my suspicions on which radio station
    uses that tagline, not to cheat on the answer. It was possible that both
    stations use the phrase. What was worse, looking up the answer, or
    using the word "googled"?

    Fine, openly googling something (or
    using google as a verb) is a dealbreaker for you. Next time, I'll either
    lie about how I verified something, or I will use the phrase "performed
    a search on the Internet" instead. Either way, I'll make sure I know
    how one feels about someone who uses the word "google" in a sentence
    beforehand.

    Someone who has a problem with "I googled it" is someone _I_ would pass on.

    Thank you for enriching my experience on here, and GFY,
    Googler
  • Tuesday, December 21, 2010

    Wednesday, June 09, 2010

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    Friday, April 17, 2009

    Stages of a TAG

    1. Hrmm, this K5s looks kinda good

    2. I will never play anything but these 18 hands under any circumstances

    3. I need to fold postflop if I don’t hit a hand. And I need to fold to pressure if I don’t have a great hand.

    4. Maybe I can loosen up a little bit in position. I can play more hands because I know how to fold them postflop.

    5. I need to bet my good hands hard so I can get value for them.

    This is basically the evolved stage of a “nit”. Tight preflop, slightly looser in position, and mainly putting in serious money postflop only with strong hands. Nits can make money, but they need to really multitable hard to get any kind of real traction.

    6. I can semibluff decent draws postflop with essentially no added risk.

    7. C-betting is much more powerful if you follow it up sometimes with turn barrelling.

    8. I should 3-bet more hands preflop for value.

    9. I can now play a few more hands from all position because bluffing makes bad hands profitable sometimes.

    10. I need to adjust my preflop game to my opponents. That means not folding as much to frequent 3-bettors, calling more on the button against light openers.

    11. I should look for small pots that nobody in particular seems to want and attack them.

    This is where a lot of the TAG regulars in microstakes fit in.

    12. I need to adjust my postflop play somewhat to my opponents. That means getting it in with stuff like top pair against bad or loose players.

    13. I can make money by stealing more preflop. I can steal more loosely from the button, and I can 3-bet light from the button and blinds.

    14. I can also get carried away and start opening too many hands from all positions.

    15. I can combat light 3-bettors with light 4-bets and light 4-bettors with light 5-bet shoves.

    16. Double barrelling can be quite effective, and sometimes I should resort to firing three barrels.

    17. I can take aggrodonks who bet every flop off their hands with well-timed raises and floats.

    18. I should seek out bad players and try to isolate them to play as many pots as possible with them.

    19. Preflop hand values usually depend far more on the situation than on the intrinsic value of the cards.

    20. The size of the pot determines how aggressive I need to play and how committed I am to the pot.

    21. I should look for large pots that people seem to have given up on and shove my money in.

    22. I can value bet on the river much lighter against bad players and expect to get called by worse hands.

    This is about where you need to be if you want to play online poker for a living at the $1-$2 level or so. At this stage players usually vary from loose TAGs to LAGs.

    23. I need to focus on line balancing. Reading hands lets me find unbalanced lines in my own play and in my opponents’ play.

    24. Through obvservation I can determine roughly what level my opponent plays at and out-level them by one level

    25. I can make seemingly drastic adjustments to my game to exploit opponents playing an unbalanced strategy.

    Monday, March 23, 2009

    Biop$y

    It's fun to pay $15 in a copay, $115 to that same dermatologist, $68 to the "MASS GEN PHYSICIANS ORG" and then finally another $198 to MGH. $396, all just to see what the bump on my hand was. Makes one wonder where my health insurance money goes.

    Friday, March 13, 2009

    Yahoo! Briefcase is closing on March 30.

    So, I was downloading the files I had in my Yahoo! Briefcase, and noticed that certain files were not downloading. I also noticed that my folder name and one of my file names had an exclamation point in them. I edited these to remove the exclamation points, and, lo and behold, the downloads worked. Kind of ironic considering the site uses an exclamation point as part of their branding. You would think they would have tested that case.

    Tuesday, November 18, 2008

    2008 AL MVP Award Voting
    Player, Club 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points
    Dustin Pedroia, BOS 16 6 4 1 317
    Justin Morneau, MIN 7 7 6 3 3 1 1 257
    Kevin Youkilis, BOS 2 4 4 9 2 4 1 2 201
    Joe Mauer, MIN 2 8 1 3 4 3 3 2 1 188
    Carlos Quentin, CWS 1 4 8 4 4 4 1 1 160
    Francisco Rodriguez, LAA 1 2 6 1 6 3 2 2 143
    Josh Hamilton, TEX 2 2 3 7 3 2 4 3 112
    Alex Rodriguez, NYY 1 1 4 1 4 7 45
    Carlos Pena, TB 1 2 2 3 2 3 44
    Grady Sizemore, CLE 2 1 5 6 1 42
    Evan Longoria, TB 2 2 5 2 1 38
    Cliff Lee, CLE 1 1 1 1 1 24
    Miguel Cabrera, DET 1 1 4 1 17
    Vladimir Guerrero, LAA 2 2 1 16
    Jermaine Dye, CWS 1 2 2 14
    Aubrey Huff, BAL 1 2 3 12
    Milton Bradley, TEX 1 1 9
    Jason Bartlett, TB 1 6
    Mike Mussina, NYY 1 3
    Raul Ibanez, SEA 1 1
    Ian Kinsler, TEX 1 1
    Ichiro Suzuki, SEA 1 1
    Mark Teixeira, LAA 1 1

    Saturday, September 27, 2008

    BAHH

    $10 + $1 Texas Hold'em (No Limit Tournament) - 00:32:15 27/09/2008 ET
    Table 'Table 1394344', 10 seats max, Real money
    Seat 2 is the button. Small Blind $50, Big Blind $100
    Seat 1 (playing) : HERO, amount $2340
    Seat 2 (playing) : wardode, amount $2046
    Seat 3 (playing) : daddio, amount $1799
    Seat 4 (playing) : reefbrake, amount $1013
    Seat 6 (playing) : kimph, amount $1923
    Seat 7 (playing) : jimymatt, amount $1375
    Seat 9 (playing) : rs7214, amount $6096
    Seat 10 (playing) : smileywpciller, amount $4368
    daddio: Small Blind ($50)
    reefbrake: Big Blind ($100)
    ** Dealing Down Cards **
    Dealt to HERO: [Kc, Kd]
    kimph: Fold
    jimymatt: Fold
    rs7214: Call ($100)
    smileywpciller: Call ($100)
    HERO: Raise ($700)
    wardode: Fold
    daddio: Fold
    reefbrake: Fold
    rs7214: Call ($600)
    smileywpciller: Call ($600)
    ** Dealing Flop **
    Community cards: [6c, 3c, 7h]
    rs7214: Check
    smileywpciller: Bet ($1200)
    HERO: Raise ($1640)
    rs7214: Call ($1640)
    smileywpciller: Call ($440)
    ** Dealing Turn **
    Community cards: [9c]
    rs7214: Bet ($3756)
    smileywpciller: Call ($2028)
    ** Dealing River **
    Community cards: [Ks]
    ** End Round **
    ** Evaluate **
    ** Showdown **
    Main pot $7170
    Side pot #1 $4056
    Side pot #2 $1728
    Summary HERO: bet $2340, won $7170, net $4830, HoleCards [Kc, Kd], HiHand [three of a kind, kings] [Ks, Kd, Kc, 9c, 7h], won $7170 from main pot
    Summary rs7214: bet $6096, won $1728, net $-4368, HoleCards [9s, 6h], HiHand [two pairs, nines and sixes] [9s, 9c, 6h, 6c, Ks], won $1728 from side pot #2
    Summary smileywpciller: bet $4368, won $4056, net $-312, HoleCards [3h, 3d], HiHand [three of a kind, threes] [3h, 3d, 3c, Ks, 9c], won $4056 from side pot #1

    Tuesday, August 19, 2008

    Fabric Place shutting down

    That loud noise you heard yesterday was Fabric Place lowering the boom. Employees were tearfully informed that the owners expect to close the two remaining stores at the end of November.

    Tuesday, February 19, 2008



    These above Web 2.0 images look eerily similar to this failed dot-com bust:


    I guess they figure if they take the ".com" out of their logo, everything will be just fine!

    Tuesday, January 22, 2008

    Oops!

    Drake or Drexel? Shows some lack of respect for a team that is 17-1.
    Something tells me this doesn't happen to teams like Duke and Kansas.