Monthly Archives: September 2008

Current fave tracks (of the moment)

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Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon , great song

The ’59 Sound – Gaslight Anthem

Love Is Noise – The Verve, William Blake paraphrased over a Tomorrow Never Knows backdrop. so awesome.

Human – The Killers , released today and even an average Killers track is still pretty freaking good

Play Your Part (Pt. 1) – Girl Talk, great mashup, this dude is a genius

Bruises – Chairlift , low-fi Postal Service duet material

Time to Pretend – MGMT, “I’m feeling rough, I’m feeling raw, I’m in the prime of my life.”

Kelsey – Metro Station

Walcott – Vampire Weekend

Make Your Own Kind of Music – Mama Cass

Famous Blue Raincoat – Leonard Cohen

Fidelity – Regina Spektor, saw her open a concert in 2005, didn’t appreciate it at the time…

Pretty in Pink – Purplespace

First Presidential Debate 2008, Lehrer/McCain/Obama Live Chat/Blog

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8:58 PM tbone pikkens: i am 8 tabling
gonna be hard to stay involved
RZA: dude
sit out
8:59 PM i have cnn on
they have a counter
37 seconds!
9:00 PM the crisis
what channel do you have on?
9:02 PM tbone pikkens: cnbc
RZA: jesus christ
they still have the ticker going on
at the bottom
9:03 PM i can’t stand that
switiching back
wonder if O feels like a dick there
for raising his arm so high
bam
right off to economy
(Ed: there’s a lot more)
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Degenerate hoser convention, part 1.

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The following is a long-delayed entry from my experiences at this year’s World Series of Poker.

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Kyle had been telling me for the past year that the live players at the WSOP tended towards a very low average skill level. For example, I played(and hosed) the $1500 no-limit holdem event today. I had initially expected the skill level to be somewhere around the level of online $530s. Or at least, $215s.

Today was about the level of online $55s or $33s.

To say the least, I was not impressed with the general level of play. Sure, I could identify a fair number of good players at each table, but rather than having 1 or 2 donks at each table on average, there had to be more like 4-5 donks a table. At least, I was seeing some plays which were completely beyond my comprehension, implying that they were either strokes of genius or complete idiocy. My money’s on the latter.

Multiple people were getting on me for shaking, thinking that it was a tell. However, as former roommates can attest, my leg tends to twitch/shake constantly anyways, so this probably doesn’t indicate anything aside from me being the spastic type.
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Information Management in Firefox: Stumbleupon, Delicious, Read it Later, and Zotero

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 Those are the four most important information management addons I use in Firefox.

Stumbleupon is for channel surfing and finding cool new stuff. It’s also great for sending links and comments around to a group of friends. Unless they don’t ever click stumble: “The person you are sending a page to has too many sites waiting in their stumble queue. ” 

Delicious is for bookmarking, social or otherwise.

Read it Later is for storing one time sites (i.e. ones you might not want to necessarily bookmark) for later consumption.

and Zotero is the ultimate reference management tool and webpage snapshot addon.