think outside the bun

Jersey Shore season 4!!! The group is headed to Italy this spring to film season 4. These guys are so big right now, it’s ridiculous. It was also confirmed that Pauly D will eventually have his own spin-off show on MTV. He is by far the funniest on the show, so that’ll be interesting too. But, season 3 is starting to scare me. All of the good/interesting things in the preview have happened already. Jenni and Sammi’s fight, Snooki’s arrest, and Sammi punching Ronnie in the face. It’s also a little disappointing that Jenni and Sammi are acting friendly with each other right now. I’m not officially concerned yet, but there is a lot of pressure going into next week’s show.

I went to Ikea last week to look for room stuff. I couldn’t believe how huge it was. It definitely had a casino-feel to it. There was a big multi-level parking structure, just like a casino. There was a food court, just like a casino. There was a kid play place, like a casino’s arcade. There were massive amounts of excited people walking around trying to spend money. And once you’re inside, you kind of get lost, and don’t really know how to get out if you have to. They’re killing it right now.

I think this whole Taco Bell lawsuit is hilarious. Taco Bell claims the beef that they use is 88% beef. However, the lawsuit claims that their beef is actually only 35% beef. There’s a huge difference between 88% and 35%. Thirty-five percent!! That would be so funny. That sounds a little too much like Mondo Burger to me. Adding thriampithal? to their unsuspecting customers?

Last Subway pet peeve for a long time. I hate it when the lady smashes the bread while she is trying to cut it open. I asked for honey oat bread. I didn't ask for honey oat flatbread, bitch. i'm kidding, i love all self proclaimed "sandwich artists"

Everyone knows that Rounders is by far the best poker movie. And I know it's still a year or two away, but i can't waaaaaaaaaaaaait for Rounders 2 to come out. Supposedly, it's set to release in 2012, but i assume it will get pushed back a bit.
I read a "legit" rumor online that Tom durrrr Dwan is in the opening scene, and he or another character makes a huge misclick and loses a ton of money playing online.

-So far, 5 people have joined the PokerStars home game. We need more players! everyone should make an account and join, or tell your friends about it. They have play money tables, so if you don't want to play for real money, we can still play for fun. I was playing Russ heads up the other day for play money, and it was really fun. Russ kept owning me and finally stacked me, and i wrote in chat "a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes". (my friend ray used to say this when we played poker in college) But anyway, Russ stacked me again, and he wrote "I found another one"
^what a good line. But yeah, join if you're interested, or even semi-interested.

PokerStars Home Games

Hey, just wanted to see if there was any interest in this.
The new feature on PokerStars is their "home games."
Basically, you can set up a "poker club" where you invite people you know, and you can schedule tournaments and cash games with only the players in the club. so i was thinking that i can set one up, and play once, maybe twice a week. If you can't play, no big deal, people can come and go whenever. Maybe we can schedule our cash game during a sports game, and just mess around while watching the game. We can play just a low-stakes cash game (blinds $.05-$.10, we can even play 0.2-0.5 blinds) or a low stakes tourney. I think it could be a lot of fun.

if you're interested, please email or text me and i'll invite you.

also, if you don't have a pokerstars account, let me know and i can help you.
if

so it looks like there is some interest, here's how.

You are invited to join my private poker club for Home Games online.

- If you don't already have it, download the free PokerStars software from www.pokerstars.com
- Open the main poker lobby, then click on the Home Games tab
- Click the 'Join a Poker Club' button
- Enter my Club ID number: 186961
- Enter my Invitation Code: password

That's it! Once I've approved your membership request, we'll be ready to start playing Home Games online together.

If you want to find out more, visit www.pokerstars.com/homegames

scuba steve...damn you

I’ve always heard of people getting tickets in San Francisco and whatnot, and have thought to myself it can’t be that hard to avoid getting parking tickets. However, it took me about 48 hours for me to get my first ticket. On the street that I live on, you can’t park on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month, from 1-3 PM. Therefore, out of the entire month, you can’t park on the street for 4 hours. And on the second day here, I walked to Bart in the morning, leaving my car on the street. I come back Friday afternoon to see a nice little white envelope on my windshield. 55 bones, cool bro.

I’m not completely positive, but I think I live in a half-ghetto (in SF terms). The neighborhood basically has characteristics of a ghetto, and of an average neighborhood. But who knows, maybe all of San Francisco is like that. Sometimes, there will be kids riding their bikes on the sidewalks. Other times, a group of 6 guys living the thug life come strolling through. Maybe strolling is the wrong word.

I think if I had to pick one guy, i'd say that Billy Walters is the most interesting man in the world. I first heard of him when I read an article that Billy Walters allowed Phil Ivey to make some of his high stakes sports bets. But anyway, I was listening to a poker podcast this morning and supposedly, Doyle Brunson said the dollar amounts in this video were played down for IRS reasons. unbelievable

just stare

It’s really frustrating when some slutty Subway employee just sort of throws your sandwich together. I hate it when the cheese isn’t spread evenly throughout the entire sandwich. I hate it when there is supposed to be 4 pieces of ham, and they only pick up 3 pieces and don't bother grabbing another piece of ham. And I hate it when I get a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki, and they dump the chicken onto the bread and leave like a 2 inch gap in the middle of the bread. 2 inches of no chicken, ugh! And this one lady grabbed 4 tomatoes, and just threw them on my sandwich, and 2 of the tomatoes were exactly on top of each other. horrible. But anyway, I have a new theory that seems to be working (Sample size of 2).

Here it goes, when you order your footlong, stare at them while they make it. STARE. Concentrate. Don’t look at your phone, put your ipod in your pocket, and even lean down and put your face to the glass and make it obvious that you are staring at how he or she is making the sandwich. Ever since I’ve started doing this (twice), the sandwiches have been acceptable. I haven’t tried this at PandaExpress, but I assume if you do, that you will get that extra piece of shrimp.

shady mcgrady over there

-There is a store in the Stonestown mall called Pure Beauty. I kept thinking about it in my head, doesn’t it sound like puberty? Or is it just me

-Roy Hibbert is a bum. He killed my enthusiasm for the entire season. dirk, iguodala and steph's injuries haven't helped either.

-Hac and Di Dang are probably 2 of my top 10 favorite poker players. This video was pretty cool just watching them play high stakes and talking. http://www.pokerstatic.com/hot-seat/interview-with-hac-trex313-and-di-urindanger-dang/

-Shore update. Sammie is the new Angelina. In Miami, everyone ganged up on Angelina and she couldn't handle it and left early. This season, with no Angelina, Sammie seemed to fill that void. Only this time, Sammie has Ronnie, which makes it extremely awkward for Ronnie. In an unrelated note, I was at Marshall's looking for a black scarf, and I saw the Situation's work-out video on clearance for $5.99. I was extremely close to buying it just for fun, but decided against it. Also, I never thought I would become a scarf guy, but it's effing cold skateboarding in SF in the morning.

-I move into my new place this week, either Wednesday or Thursday. I always wanted to live on a hill, and now I get my chance. My room has a pretty nice view for the most part. We'll see what my roommates are like. Haven't met them because it's a newly remodeled house (only me and another guy have signed a lease so far) and I needed a place ASAP. There's definitely one thing i'll miss about living at my Grandma's house, and it's called free rent. booo

-It must suck to be a starting NBA player, get hurt, and watch your team do better with you in street clothes. I know any player would never admit to this, but if I was a injured player, I would want to see my team struggle a little bit, right?

-I want to date DEV (you know, go out and kick it). She was born, but not raised in Tracy(according to wikipedia). Not only that, she likes her beats fast and her bass down low. So weird, that’s exactly how I like my bass and the speed of my beats.

go big papa

-I went to my first pawn shop last week somewhere in downtown sf. It was definitely very shitty, but I badly badly badly wanted to negotiate the price of something PawnStars-style, just for the hell of it. I might just try and sell my Movado watch just to see how much I can get, then, just leave. Prop bet?

-Whenever I eat subway, I usually only get lettuce, spinach, red onions, and pepper. If I’m feeling very frisky, I’ll get banana peppers. However, I’m trying to eat more vegetables. Therefore, today, I went for lettuce, spinach, banana peppers, red onions, tomatoes, and CUCUMBERS! It was definitely pretty crazy for me, no lie. So short story short, it wasn’t as bad as I had imagined it would be. There were just so many different flavors that I don’t know exactly how I feel about it. I might just add tomatoes to my “usual” and cucumbers when I’m feeling crazy. We’ll see how it goes. And at Panda Express, instead of getting all fried rice, I am going to start getting half fried rice and half mixed vegetables.

-I admit it, I exaggerate about how good the Jersey Shore is. I have told pretty much everyone that I know that it’s an awesome show, and they are missing out if they are not watching it. Blah blah blah. However, this season, THIS SEASON!! (season 3) is going to be one of the best reality tv shows ever. EVER. No exaggeration, the 60 second preview of the season was pure amazing. Deena is going to be perfect for the house, it completely divides the house even more against Sammie and Ronnie.

-Cream cheese is disgusting, just ugh. If you like it, you're wrong.

-I bought a new skateboard, fun!

2011

-Jersey Shore season 3! are you ready?! I know scott isn't.

-There’s no better feeling than losing something, then you find out you really need/want it, look everywhere for it, ask at least 1 person if they can help, drop multiple f-bombs and FML’s, THEN eventually find it. It feels sooooooo good. I seriously turn into a different person when I can’t find something that I’m really looking for.

-The lady at Subway told me spinach cost an extra $0.50 for a footlong. I told her lol ok. But the day after, there was no mysterious charge, shady lady.

-I have a dream, that one day Phil Jackson will write a book and detail how much he hated coaching Kobe. Then he will compare coaching MJ to coaching Kobe and how he loved coaching in Chicago. And finally, he will explain how much he enjoyed coaching Shaq. I love his quote "then Kobe has to screw up the game..." lol

-My new favorite thing to do is walk around San Francisco with a big jacket while listening to my ipod. It's always so interesting to observe everything going on. Yesterday, i walked through a park and watched guys play speed chess (like in Searching for Bobby Fischer). Today, i wondered through city hall and then to the westfield while taking the long way back to bart.

-Jim Harbaugh, Tim Shmarbaugh.