"Sports is man's joke on God, Max. You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'"
Monday, January 19, 2009
New Music
I am really digging these guys: http://www.myspace.com/brickfoot
In fact, I like that music so much that I am linking to that site in spite of my totally rational hatred of all things Myspace. Worst. Website. Ever! Every time I go there I end up super-tilted by all the ads and the layout and the crazy-ass wallpapers people choose. And auto-playing music is always a bad idea, always. Even the name itself tilts me. Myspace. The first time I heard that name several years ago, I thought it was some site for little kids to play on. It sounds like something involving Toys-r-Us. Bah. I guess I'm just too particular about things.
My brother used to like to say that Myspace is "Facebook for Idiots." However, the way Facebook is now, I would say Facebook is now also Facebook for Idiots. Or something. I guess I shouldn't ding it that much -- it is quite useful. But I really do not need to know when one of my friends takes a quiz about her favorite ice cream flavor, thankyouverymuch. And no, I don't want to take the quiz and compare my answers, that's OK. I think I can find a few more interesting things to do. Like rant on here. Hmmph...
In fact, I like that music so much that I am linking to that site in spite of my totally rational hatred of all things Myspace. Worst. Website. Ever! Every time I go there I end up super-tilted by all the ads and the layout and the crazy-ass wallpapers people choose. And auto-playing music is always a bad idea, always. Even the name itself tilts me. Myspace. The first time I heard that name several years ago, I thought it was some site for little kids to play on. It sounds like something involving Toys-r-Us. Bah. I guess I'm just too particular about things.
My brother used to like to say that Myspace is "Facebook for Idiots." However, the way Facebook is now, I would say Facebook is now also Facebook for Idiots. Or something. I guess I shouldn't ding it that much -- it is quite useful. But I really do not need to know when one of my friends takes a quiz about her favorite ice cream flavor, thankyouverymuch. And no, I don't want to take the quiz and compare my answers, that's OK. I think I can find a few more interesting things to do. Like rant on here. Hmmph...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
A New Year
Well, I wanted to do a 2008 Year in Review post but never got around to it. It was a decent enough year, not too notable in a good way or a bad way. Pokerwise, I didn't hit my (kinda secret, kinda unreasonable) goal of 250K, but I did learn how to play PLO, which was one of my major goals. And I made slightly more than last year at least. Personal goals for 2008 were a less successful front. I guess I could blame my increasing responsibilities at work, but really I am just lazy and awful at holding myself to self-imposed rules.
2009 Resolutions
I do love resolutions, even if I am horrible at keeping them. If I at least make a solid attempt on all of these, I'll be happy:
1) Learn to play guitar (for real, not just practicing random chords for a week and then giving up on it). Be able to play at least 5 songs by the end of the year.
2) Make at least 2 blog entries per week. For posterity's sake, at least.
3) Keep working on my PLO game. Get good enough that I am comfortable playing 5/10 by the end of the year.
4) Read at least 30 books.
5) Watch a couple poker videos each week and TAKE NOTES!
6) Do some remedial math, esp. mental math exercises, so it doesn't take me 10 minutes to determine my pot odds. And so that looking at an equation doesn't cause my brain to automatically shut off.
7) Healthier lifestyle. Regular sleep patterns, eat less meat, stay away from drinks w/ calories, stop sitting in front of the computer so much, get some exercise etc etc.
8) Figure out whether I should go pro or not.
9) Make more money than last year. Try not to lose so much of it in the stock market.
I guess that's about it. So long, 2008.
Here's a cute little thing that's been making the rounds of my office's email:
2009 Resolutions
I do love resolutions, even if I am horrible at keeping them. If I at least make a solid attempt on all of these, I'll be happy:
1) Learn to play guitar (for real, not just practicing random chords for a week and then giving up on it). Be able to play at least 5 songs by the end of the year.
2) Make at least 2 blog entries per week. For posterity's sake, at least.
3) Keep working on my PLO game. Get good enough that I am comfortable playing 5/10 by the end of the year.
4) Read at least 30 books.
5) Watch a couple poker videos each week and TAKE NOTES!
6) Do some remedial math, esp. mental math exercises, so it doesn't take me 10 minutes to determine my pot odds. And so that looking at an equation doesn't cause my brain to automatically shut off.
7) Healthier lifestyle. Regular sleep patterns, eat less meat, stay away from drinks w/ calories, stop sitting in front of the computer so much, get some exercise etc etc.
8) Figure out whether I should go pro or not.
9) Make more money than last year. Try not to lose so much of it in the stock market.
I guess that's about it. So long, 2008.
Here's a cute little thing that's been making the rounds of my office's email:
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Coolness
My awesome co-worker Dee met Barack Obama when he came to our school to speak on Martin Luther King Jr. Day about 7 years ago. Dee was one of the nominees for our institution's Martin Luther King Jr. Award, so she was able to have picture taken with him. I just helped her scan the photo into her comp today so she can send copies to all of her family members.
Pretty cool to have a picture of yourself with any President, but with this one in particular it's a hell of a lot of awesome. Seven years later, and he's the most important politician in the world. :-)
Pretty cool to have a picture of yourself with any President, but with this one in particular it's a hell of a lot of awesome. Seven years later, and he's the most important politician in the world. :-)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
ABCD...INFP
I was a psych major in college, so I am somewhat familiar with the whole MBTI/"determing your personality type" subject. I think everyone who has taken Psych 101 had to take the Myers-Briggs test at least once. I never really put much stock in stuff like that, though. The actual Myers-Briggs research is pretty cool, but as is the problem with almost all personality psych research, the true findings get buried and subsumed by pop psychology (even in the introductory level psychology classes themselves). And then there's the whole unpleasant offshoot of the pop psych aspect, that of people trying to make a buck off of telling you how wonderful you are deep down inside and how you're really in the wrong career path and oh yeah, just pay us $49.95 and we will give you a nice little home-grown test to determine exactly what you should do with your life. And if you pay another $19.95, maybe we'll even throw in some graphs to show you what a unique person you are.
That said, though, for some reason tonight I was motivated to read some stuff about my (best guess, anyway) Myers-Briggs personality type, INFP (introverted intuitive feeling perceiving). And it's kinda frightening how well these describe me:
http://similarminds.com/jung/infp.html
http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/INFP.htm
If I had to try to write some blurb about my personality, I really couldn't do any better than that.
I once read that there is an abnormally high concentration of INTJ types among poker players. Makes sense, I guess (although it makes me picture a bunch of Sklansky type limit nerds...I wonder if there is a difference between the average personality type of limit and no limit players).
In other news, we got about 4 inches of snow today. Generally this makes me happy, as I love the snow (seriously, in my dream world Chicago would have 3 feet of snow on the ground for the whole winter), but when the snow starts coming down in the afternoon and you have to drive home in rush hour traffic, it gets pretty annoying.My usually 15-20 minute drive home would have taken me about 1.5 hrs today...I say would have, as my car broke down 2/3rds of the way home. (As they say on 30 Rock, "Blergh!") I've been driving this car ever since I was 15 and on a driver's permit...so 13 yrs now (yikes!)...and I had never before had it break down on me. So, of course, my life being what it is, I get to have my first break down in the middle of the worst snowstorm so far this winter. Heh. I really can't complain, though. The engine lasted long enough for me to make it into a strip mall parking lot and then I called my dad to come and rescue me with his nice big 4-wheel-drive SUV. I even got to spend the intervening time waiting for him in the local pet shop, which is my general idea of a fun outing. (Yeah, INFP, we're not really the wild and crazy fun type.)
That said, though, for some reason tonight I was motivated to read some stuff about my (best guess, anyway) Myers-Briggs personality type, INFP (introverted intuitive feeling perceiving). And it's kinda frightening how well these describe me:
http://similarminds.com/jung/infp.html
http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/INFP.htm
If I had to try to write some blurb about my personality, I really couldn't do any better than that.
I once read that there is an abnormally high concentration of INTJ types among poker players. Makes sense, I guess (although it makes me picture a bunch of Sklansky type limit nerds...I wonder if there is a difference between the average personality type of limit and no limit players).
In other news, we got about 4 inches of snow today. Generally this makes me happy, as I love the snow (seriously, in my dream world Chicago would have 3 feet of snow on the ground for the whole winter), but when the snow starts coming down in the afternoon and you have to drive home in rush hour traffic, it gets pretty annoying.My usually 15-20 minute drive home would have taken me about 1.5 hrs today...I say would have, as my car broke down 2/3rds of the way home. (As they say on 30 Rock, "Blergh!") I've been driving this car ever since I was 15 and on a driver's permit...so 13 yrs now (yikes!)...and I had never before had it break down on me. So, of course, my life being what it is, I get to have my first break down in the middle of the worst snowstorm so far this winter. Heh. I really can't complain, though. The engine lasted long enough for me to make it into a strip mall parking lot and then I called my dad to come and rescue me with his nice big 4-wheel-drive SUV. I even got to spend the intervening time waiting for him in the local pet shop, which is my general idea of a fun outing. (Yeah, INFP, we're not really the wild and crazy fun type.)
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