still february

i almost forgot how much i used to like mike jones.

before the ice was in my grill, before i got my major deal, these hoes wouldn't give a damn if i was here, shiiet. i said before the ice was in my grill, before i got my major deal...

two eight one, three three oh, eight zero zero fou

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fun fact: guess how old carly rae jepsen is?

i would have guessed 17 years old. SHE IS 27. i had no idea.

if someone told me she was 15, i'd say okay.

pay that man

i want to be a part time ticket scalper
by now, most people have heard of the Legends of summer tour. jay z and timberlake's summer tour, 12 different cities in july/august. with a stop at candlestick in late july

so here we go. with jessica's help, i was able to get my hands on 8 tickets, maybe 12, but pretty sure 8. here are some thoughts...

-this concert is going to be big. lots and lots of hype. i'm almost sure it will sell out because: there are only 2 west coast stops (SF and LA) with only 12 stops total. people love jay z and people love timberlake. BUT, as scottmizuno.com mentioned, candlestick is big

-i just feel like the demand will be too high. they are both superstars. and since there is only 1 Norcal show, people will travel. sacramento people will travel, fresno people will travel...right? i mean, if you live in Seattle and love timberlake, why not spend the weekend in SF and catch the show?

-the tour was announced just last week, and it's slowly taking over my life. i'm being 70percent serious.  a couple times a day i check ticketmaster to see which tix are still avail (tix go on sale to the public on the 28th), i check stubhub and craigslist to see how much people want for their pre-sale tix.

-buying tickets like this is very similar to a preseason futures bet. say you bet the over/under Cavaliers win total before the season. every day, you have a box score to check and you keep your eye on any Cavalier news. will it be a winner? will it be a loser? any possible hedges?

-so back to taking over my life. i've thought to myself what would have to happen for the ticket's value to drop dramatically? well, let's say a month before the show, timberlake gets very sick and cancels the SF show, and Ne-yo is the replacement. ticket values plummet. or, since its an outdoor event, perhaps there's some type of weird storm in late july. what would make the tix value increase? how about a month before the show, they announce that bieber and rhianna will open the shows. ticket values UP

-people might think its crazy to buy so many tickets without knowing for sure if you can profitably flip them or not. i hear you...BUT, if people are not paying a premium for the tix, i feel like it wouldn't be that hard to sell on Craigslist at face value, basically scratching. i feel like the risk is very low. (selling things on craigslist is safe, right?)

-i guess my biggest risk, and something i'm legitimately worried about, is what if i misplace my tickets. the thought of it scares me, legitimately. if i lose the tix, i might go crazy. i wouldn't be able to sleep that's for sure and i wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything work-related.

-so we'll see, the unfortunate part is that i'm going to have to sit on these tickets for at least 3-4 months probably

-i have ADD. i want 50 tickets!! my dream is....2 weeks before the event, it's sold out and people are posting on craigslist "NEED 2 TICKETS TO LEGENDS OF SUMMER. WILL PAY 2X FACE"         thirsty!

-ice breaker moment. i'm grant, i'm an equity options trader and a part time ticket scalper..
-it's a small gamble, and i love everything about it.

reem

.had a very unpleasant subway experience the other day.

i only go to subway once every other month now. for some reason, it grosses me out, i ate way too much back in 2010-2011. i went with the standard footlong sweet onion chicken teriyaki on honey out bread, provolone, toasted, blah blah blah. half way into my first half of the footlong, i look into my sandwich, and see that. raw chicken, gross.

i know shit happens, i didn't want to make thaaaat big of a deal about it. but i wanted to tell the sandwich artists in case some of the other chicken was raw. i show the subway guy. and he gives me this asshole attitude saying stuff like "we receive the chicken cooked, and all we do is heat it up" "there's nothing i can do" "i'll get back to you" "if you want to complain, then go complain". all i wanted was for him to say something like he'll talk to the manager about it, that's unacceptable, and offer me a replacement sandwich. he neverrrr even offered to replace the sandwich.

the customer service was horrible. so i think i'm going email subway and tell them what happened. it's just crazy that employees would act that way, in 2013! what if i had 100,000 twitter followers?

tripp da volume

every normal work day, i set 6 alarms in order to wake up on time.

 the stock market was closed on monday for President's day. which means extra sleep.

some people (maybe most people) would turn off all of their regular work-day alarms. wrong!

you have to set all of your regular work-day alarms.
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on a normal work day it goes something like this.
alarm 1 goes off: i'm thinking "damn, already?"
alarm 2 goes off: "okay okay, relax"
alarm 3 goes off: "okok, 3 more alarms to go"
alarm 4 goes off: "damn"
alarm 5 goes off: "ouch, this is going to hurt"
alarm 6 goes off: "i hate everything"

-----but on those holidays. it's something like this.
alarm 1 goes off: i'm thinking "damn, already?--ohhhh shit! i get to sleep in today!" *half asleep fist pump*
alarms 2-5: "wow, thissss is awesome!"
alarm 6 goes off: "wow, i can't believe i would be rolling out of bed right now. this is amazing!"

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this is wayyy more fun then just turning off all of your alarms and waking up around 11. boringgg

dayumm

quick, watch this video once.



ok. how many times did he say dayuum?
and at the end. how many times did he say chill?
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i keep changing my mind. am i mature for my age or am i immature for my age? i go back and forth.

for example. the other day, i bought X amount of shares of Symantec in my IRA (mature), then i went onto ebay and bought 6 rookie cards of Derrick Favors (slightly immature). ***

#2) after the market closes, i'll spend an hour reading research reports (mature), then i'll spend exactly 2 hours on deadspin and worldstarhiphop (slightly immature).

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he said dayuum 7 times. and he said chill 13 times. and i love his reaction. i've watched this video 8 times. but any way, i'm officially invested in derrick favors. i couldn't help myself, i had to buy. i couldn't miss out again. but i effed up. so there's this seller from hong kong, and he had about 20 derrick favors rookie cards on ebay. he was charging $3 per card for shipping. OR, if you buy multiples, it's only $1 for each additional (save $2 for each additional card). so i figured, if i'm going to do this, i'm gong to do it somewhat big. so i tried to buy as much as i can for (what i thought was) reasonable prices. i ended up buying 6. woooo, fun. not really. I bought one card for about $20. and i later look, and the exact same card, is listed on ebay. with the BUY IT NOW-option for $15. ouchhhh. DERRICK FAVORS, he's going to be a 6x All-star, tell you friends!

consider me miles davis

bet with russ Dental Program

if the Lakers don't make the playoffs, DP owes me $60
if they are the 7th or 8th seed, i owe $50
if they are the 5th or 6th seed, i owe $75

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i downloaded fulltiltpoker FTP for the hell of it last week expecting to see some message saying that i cannot download the software because i live in the US. however, i downloaded it and was thrilllllled to see that americans can still watch the high stakes games. the first high-stakes game i found, it was the mann himself, phil ivey. so sickkkkk. i honestly forgot how much i miss poker. oh and you can also see your account balance(that is still basically stuck on the site.) i thought i had money in 2 accounts, my Friend ryan's (which had $1095), and my personal account. i was shocked to see that i had zero dollars in  my personal account. i thought i had about 300-400. slightly weird, cause i don't remember ever leaving my account at zero. strange

i miss the pokers so much. i miss getting pissed when my opponent hits his backdoor flush draw. i miss the heaters, i miss watching durrrr and ivey go at it. i miss getting pissed off and seeing if anyone else is in the room, and if not, throwing a pen against the wall. i miss when DP would owe me money and say "i'll send it to you on ftp". knowing that he had exactly zero dollars on ftp

i miss this feeling. knowing that you have to be at a class in an hour (ucsb days) and you convince yourself that you have time to play a little. but before you know it, class is in 10 minutes, and you're stuck $90. and you drag yourself away from the computer and you go to class, and for that entire class, you're just pissed and can't wait to get back home to fire up the tables. ohhhh

OR. the worst, when you're playing 3 hu-sng's and your internet disconnects. and you realize that you hate everything in life. like, 20 seconds without internet feels like 10 minutes. and you just say to yourself please effing coming back, you effing piece of ish. why does this always happen? whyyy! eff man, you gotta be effing kidding me. EFF

THE PLUNGE

andrew luck, robert griffin iii, cam newton, russell wilson, and colin kaepernick

if you're starting a new franchise, who do you want?

5. cam newton - i'd take him last. he definitely had a disappointing sophomore season. maybe his team sucks, but he had bad body language at times, and some of his post-game interviews make him seem like a bad teammate/leader. however, if you ask me "if you stuck all 5 of these guys in a Las Vegas nightclub, and asked which one can pull the best looking girl?" i'd say cam easy. so he has that going for him.

4. rg3 - i just think he's fragile. what is that now, 2 major surgeries on his knees? he seems like he always gets rocked, which is scary. and i find him annoying in his commercials. at least in cam's under armour commercials, he looks "cool". i just find rg3 annoying, sorta like the kid in elementary school who always participates in class, to the point where the teacher doesn't call on him anymore and says "does anyone else want to answer?"...or when he says he wanted to be unique by wearing colorful socks? cool robert, even i can do that.

3. russell wilson - he's a short beast, had a great year, and he was on the some pregame show for the super bowl, and he was very charismatic, confident, and seems likeable. and he was wearing a pretty sick watch. 

2. colin kaepernick - he's a tall beast. and he's from turlock, 209.

1. andrew luck- he went to stanford, i always like to root for stanford. **fun fact** when i was younger and needed to create passwords for things like aim and hotmail, i used "stanford" as my first password. and when he was at stanford, all he did was cover spreads. all day long. when he was qb at stanford, all we did was bet stanford, make the money, then lose it when we bet on baylor (rg3). i specifically remember, stanford was playing at washington state, and line was something stupid stanford -8 or something. first pass from scrimage, luck throws a deep ball, a high lofted motherfcuker. i tell scott "look at that touchhhh". boom, interception. lol but it was okay though, he covered nbd. 

boomshaw

so there we were, just watching the super bowl. and this commercial starts. it gets really quiet, like completely quiet, and everyone is just watching. my dad and uncle brian were in the room, so it made it even more personal. then it says "when his son says...he wants to spend his life doing what dad does..."

then i was like holy shit balls, this is getting hellllllla deep. like, crazy unbelievably DEEEEP.
almost to the emotional level of watching the Giants win the world series in 2010.

i mean, after the commercial ended, if my dad turned to me and said "son, i want you to join the family business, and be a farmer..."

without hesitation, i'm pausing dramatically and saying "yes father, show me the way..."

but instead, after the commercial, i grabbed my tablet, went to 5dimes.com and checked the updated game spread to see if i can lose more $ before the game ends.

but seriously, awesome