well that's not good

http://wickedchopspoker.com/full-tilt-poker-shut-down-alderney-suspends-license/

so the odds of getting my money off of full tilt just got cut in half. today, FTP shut down completely. completely. a week ago, FTP was still alive and kicking to everyone outside of the united states. now, it's completely shut down. such a mess. for some reason i'm not shocked, i think i already accepted the fact that i might not get my FTP money back. i'm just thankful that i got my pokerstars money. oh well, I wonder how daniel "jungleman" Cates must feel, i heard a rumor that he had over 3 million dollars on ftp

1500 down the drain, FUN. mini fml. this kind of makes me want to vandalize something, and it sorta makes me want to steal something.

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romantic? umm, YES.

STRANGE

i went to the giants game with andy a while ago. unfortunately, the world champions lost 2-1. but anyway, a few beers led to the question, what’s the difference between a weird person and an awkward person. i think people confuse the two. anyway, andy made a few interesting wrong points. i don’t remember exactly what he said. but after thinking about it and talking to a few people, i finally know the right answer.

an awkward person feels uncomfortable in certain situations, not all situations, only certain situations. a weird person feels uncomfortable in nearly all situations, not just certain situations. that's why weird people like to hang with weird people. if there's a group of 5 weird people hanging out, it's not a weird group, it's just a group of 5 people. an awkward person may be awkward when meeting new people, but be perfectly normal around friends and family. almost everyone is a little awkward in some type of social situation. but if you're awkward in less than 25% of social situations, they're you're not considered "awkward". is it weird that I think this is interesting? i don’t think it’s awkward, and it’s definitely not cool. don’t even wanna get started with what “cool” is, I have very strong opinions about it. jt and i debate all the time on what “cool” is. we often debate which mutual friend is “cooler”.

superbad was on fx on sunday. i haven't seen it in a while, so i recorded it and just watched it. they butchered it. its basically a different movie because they had to make so many damn edits. some movies just shouldn't be on tv.

it happens in every season. toward the end of the NBA season, i'm dying to watch a baseball game. and right now, i'm dying to watch a football or basketball game. up until about a couple weeks ago, giants games were must-watch tv. now, if i miss a game, it's not the end of the world. hopefully it'll pass, i think i just need a small break.

time well spent. fobs + exquisite + kevin durant. "this da best" "yess baby" haha

ionotbh

father’s day, we were going to a bbq at my uncle’s house, my mom made some shrimp stuff to bring, and I guess my mom and dad were debating what kind of dish to put it in. they debated, my dad finally walked away frustrated and slightly yelled to no one in particular “arh, they gotta learn to make decisions!” I was like who’s “they”? women? he kind of mumbled “arghwell yeaaaaaa” lol

i was talking bull shit with jt on aim at work. i asked him a random question and he responded with "iono tbh". iono tbh? IONO TBH. IONO TBH! this is it, i've had it, i quit, this is what we've come to. our society is disgusting. iono tbh. i mean i'm not looking for a "that's a great question grant, and to be honest, I'm not quite sure." but with a "iono tbh" response, he's pretty much telling me: don't know, don't care, dumbass question dipshit. but he can't even type that, he has to give me the iono tbh

I wonder how Jay Bilas would describe my game? below average athlete, very passive on the court, character issues, low Basketball IQ, flat feet, zero potential.

time time time

father time, you bastard. i always think about time. how i...use it, fear it, waste it and most importantly value it. was it a waste of time? was it time well spent?

different times are worth different amounts. 10 minutes at 5AM in the morning is worth more than 10 minutes at 5PM. i was at discovery kingdom with derek about a month ago, and we were talking about flash passes, which basically lets you cut in every line. i asked him how much that's worth to him while waiting in line for Medusa (probably a 30-45 minute wait). he said he wouldn't pay anything for it, so i asked him "so you wouldn't pay a dollar to go on the ride right now? and he said "ok, yeah a dollar" i ended up getting to $5 or so until he said no. that was just one ride, but if you buy it, you can use it the whole day. i wish i found out how much it actually was, but i mean. i, personally, value that flash pass pretty high. first, because i'm impatient. and i constantly think to myself how much time is worth to me. when i was in vegas with russ greg and jt. we each paid $25 to cut in line at XS at the Wynn. i know i'm pretty careless sometimes, but i probably would have spent up to $50 just to cut in line. 1 hour during "club rush hour" is worth a lot. i dont want to wait in some dumb-fuck line with a bunch of ansty people.

three weeks ago, i learned that my last relationship had ended a different way than what i had previously thought. no lie, until 3 weeks ago, when a very good friend told me what happened, i had this idea that everything was on the up and up. little did i know, it probably wasn't. i was upset, frustrated, angry. i feel like a few of my friends were more upset than i was, and i really appreciate that, i really really do. but it's all good. i got over it, i know that my time is valuable. and theres no way i'm wasting time (value) being angry, frustrated, spiteful toward anyone. it's not worth it. i'm not letting anyone or anything waste my time. i'm going to spend time the way i want to spend it. and spending time being angry/upset is simply a waste.

i have other things to do. and another thing, when i graduated last year, almost exactly a year ago, i had this picture in my head of what the future looked like. i'll call her Sara. we had a relationship, i thought it would end up a certain way, but it didn't. but that's life, and when i look at where i am with everything, i feel extremely fortunate to live in a new city and have a job that really interests and challenges me. but to be honest, i know for a fact that if it had not been for sara, i would not be where i am today. no way. i was an accounting major, but never really enjoyed it that much, it was just something that i was OK at. but sara encouraged me to look into day trading as a profession. i never really told anyone that i even had an interest in it, i always just told people that i'll go the accounting way, which is cool, but i know i didn't love it. i specifically remember a conversation, where sara told me that i should work with my cousin in San francisco. i bet unders, and said "nah, that'll never happen". rambling rambling

i had heard that lots of poker players were very good day traders. it interested me, and after i graduated college, i bought my first "day trading for dummies" book. i finished the book that summer. eventually in december, my parents wanted me to take CPA classes. i interviewed with a financial planner, and he never called me back. cool. even in the fall of my senior year in college, i interviewed for 2 accounting firms, no job. everything happened for a reason. long story short, i job shadowed my cousin, learned how to use the alarm clock function on my iphone from my dad. and here i am. maybe i last only another month before i go crazy with some facebook stock (facebook stock is coming, and it's gonna be madness) and go broke. maybe i find out trading is not for me 8 months down the line. but right now, this is what i'm supposed to be doing. this is what i love doing, and i know it had something to do with sara. no regrets. if i had the opportunity to do college over, i wouldn't change anything. nothing. so no it didn't end up the way i had imagined. but what would have happened if i got one of those accounting jobs? what would happen if sara and i never crossed paths? scary to think. crazy how life changes. and not to sound cheesy, but spending time with family and quality friends is alwaysss time well spent. maybe this is all bull shit, maybe it's not? maybe this is just what i WANT to think. maybe i'm just being crazy naive. maybe it's EXACTLY how i really feel? who knows, i dont, rambling rambling

the cast of jersey shore said it best, "do you bro". i've got no hard feelings toward anyone. you do you, i'll do me. why waste time. i dont want to remember 2011 as the year after college. i want to remember 2011 as the year i moved to san francisco and the year i bet-raped russell (warriors winning a title in 9 years? under). i dont have time to waste. like the author from the last lecture said, 'time is all we have, and one day you may find that you have less than you think.' time is too valuable. i'm not saying i never waste it, i alwaysssss do. but i try my hardest not to. and yes, watching youtube videos of sports cards being opened on a daily basis is time well spent. random random. the puppy who lost his wayy

july 10th july 10th july 10th

i dont know why or how, but i always forget my parent's wedding anniversary. 2 years in a row! its possible it could be 3, but i forget. last year, i was in vegas, and my mom sends me a text at 10ish on july 10th saying something like "thanks for forgetting our wedding anniversary again.." awesome, that felt good. like happy gilmore, i felt like calling derek and asking "where were you on that one dipshit?" July 10 july 10 july 10, i got it this year

most interesting bet ever? possibly. ok, i was in davis celebrating scottmizuno.com's graduation. if you don't know, scott is a big sports guy, and a big autograph guy. he has autos from all of the biggest athletes. i was looking through his 16x20s, sooo sick. we had a few beers, then i look thru his old 8x10s. and i found this andris biedrins auto's 8x10. i don't really remember the details, but i think it went something like this. i jokingly asked how much it would sell for. scott said it wouldn't sell for a dollar. i then asked if i can have it because i thought it was funny. he said sure. then, i think i asked, would it sell for a $1 on ebay? scott said no. NOW, the most interesting bet (maybe) was booked. the terms: I am going to list this sick biedrins auto on ebay, 10 day auction, starting at $0.99 with free shipping. I get to add my own description. No friends or relatives of mine can buy it. During the listing, Scott has to tweet about the biedrins listing. I get to decide when scott tweets about it. I'm 90% sure the bet was for $10. If there is 1 bid, i win. No bids, scott wins. $1 and free shipping!!!?? there has to be a biedrins fan out there somewhere.

2EZ!

life is so much easier as a laker fan. Yea ok, we lost in the playoffs, but it was a sweep, quick and easy. it just wasn’t our year, you can’t win an NBA championship every year, it happens. well ok, we lost to the Mavericks. once we lost, we, Laker fans, started to root for the Mavs because if you lose in the playoffs, you want to lose to the eventual NBA champions. and Miami? Lebron? I, as a laker fan, hate those who think lebron is better than kobe. Now that the lakers are out, I want nothing more than to see lebron and the Miami heat lose! In the conference finals, I had a dream, I wanted lebron to feel some pain. I wanted the finals to be the heat vs the mavs. And I wanted the mavs to beat the heat for Dirk’s first championship! It’s a wynn-wynn situation, lebron loses, and the lakers end up losing to the eventual champions. Awesome, kobe v lebron? Not even close, kobeeee! So no, we didn’t win a championship, but we still WIN. must be nice to be a laker fan? it is

and not only that, I can talk a lot of shit now that I’m a laker fan. It’s funny how all these warrior fans think they’re something now with jerry west and mark Jackson. not gonna happen. most importantly, I love how when people ask me a question about kobe or the lakers, and I don’t know the answer, i can just say “KOBEEEE” and I win. Do you think the lakers need to make any changes in the offseason? Um, nah, we’ll be fine as long as we have KOBEEEEE. Okok, but would you consider trading pau or bynum? bro, it doesn’t matter, as long as we have KOBEEE. What do you think about the coaching change? It doesn’t change anything, Phil Jackson is overrated, we still have KOBEEEE, and that’s all we need. Shaq retired, any thoughts on his time as a laker? nah man, kobe gave him all his rings, shaq’s weak, KOBEEEE

i think i'm kidding

SINCE JUMP STREEEEEEET

I’m officially looking to sell my glove. I’m looking to get 2/3 of my money back. I want Madison Bumgarner’s glove. I shouldn’t have bought a glove with holes in the web. If I have a son, and he wants to pitch, I don’t want him to tip his pitches. (i think i'm half kidding, i think)

The basketball team I play for lost last Sunday to the Frisco Hawks. They had pretty nice uniforms and like our first game, we looked like 14.5 point underdogs pregame. Btw, I thought San Francisco people hate the term “frisco”, guess not. I played horribly. Had a couple turnovers, 0-2 from the field, 1-2 from the line, maybe 2 rebounds. But let’s be real, I was shooting like 30% from the field in the first couple games, so I was due for a bad game. I even got called for traveling, haaaaahh, it was hilarious. I never travel, I’m not quick enough to travel, I got flat feet homie

today, we lost by about 25 or so. the other team shouldn't have been in the rec league. but whatever. had a bounce back game, 9 points, 3 treys, shot 3-8 i think. condition wise, it was horrible, i only got about 4 hours of sleep before we had to play, and i subbed myself out once the game started after only 3 minutes game time.

these nba playoffs were weak. the conference finals both went 5 games only, that was extremely weak. in the past few nba playoffs, i was strictly a laker-hater. this year, after the lakers lost, i was strictly a playoff basketball fan, i wanted just to see game a game 7. i wanted to see a must-watch game, a superbowl. ok ok, i know the mia-dallas games have been pretty exciting. but i guess i shot myself in the foot there. i wanted miami to win only because of the $50. but it's impossible, in my opinion, to hate on dallas. i really really wanted dirk to win a championship. and i'm a big fan of mark cuban too. kidd too. weak, i never thought that the lakers would get swept in the playoffs, dallas/dirk wins the championship, and i would STILLLL be unsatisfied. bull shit


Cliffs:
Guy on youtube collects cards. He makes 25 “mystery packs”. Each pack cost $60. Each pack consists of 1-6 cards that have a combined “sell” value of $40 to the ultimate chaser card: the Bryce Harper auto Bowman card. I decide to buy a pack, the most I’m losing is $20, and I have a shot at the Bryce. let's gambooool

Now, the guy assigns me randomly to pack #14. He opens them live on Blogtv. I do not have an account on Blogtv. Anyway, the day he opens them, he posts a youtube video with a link to his blogtv room/site. I was just watching the giants/cards game, so I click it and start to watch him open the packs. Blah blah blah, he opens 20 of the 25 packs. No harper auto. So I have a 1 in 5 chance of getting the Bryce harper auto! I quickly make a blog tv account so I can chat. FUCKING LOSER, I KNOW. I jokingly ask in chat “does anyone want to buy my pack for a premium?”. About 4-5 ppl typed in chat “100” “105” “110”. I ask if they are serious, and they say they are. I thought I was joking, but this could get interesting. So anyway, 5 packs left, 1 pack has a Bryce harper auto which could sell on ebay from 400-500. The other 4 packs have values of about $40 each. Therefore, I calculated that the total value of the 5 packs are about 420+50+50+50+50=580. $620 divided by 6 is about $125. I think I’m being generous about these values, and I took into account ebay fees. By the way, the owners of the other 4 packs are not in the room, and the guy gave me the option of letting another pack be opened, and then re negotiate a “deal”. Long story short, I sell my pack for $150, book the $90 profit. He opens my pack, and bang, Bryce harper auto. Lol of course it would be there. here's the link to the vid: http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/583536/date/bePubeZEaeNwZ23vbH

i've gone back and forth, and i've concluded that i made the right decision. the only argument to why I SHOULD NOT have taken the deal, was that i should have "gambled". but if i wanted to gamble, i could just play poker on bodog, or bet on sports. or i could buy 10,000 shares of apple or stock X. therefore, i couldn't pass on the deal, i couldn't pass on the value that the guy offered me. He offered to pay $150 for something that i valued at $125. i'll take the deal

to recap, i decided to take the "take the deal" in the mystery packs and got effed, i decided to let my MIAMI bet ride (i could've locked in a profit anytime until game 5). and got effed. 0/2. but to be fair, to lock in the MIA profit, i would have had to GIVE UP value in order to do so. basically paying for insurance. and there's a reason why insurance companies make a shit-ton of money

changed bet

for proof: Will the Warriors win a championship in the next 20 years. I had 1k on the NO. it’s been renegotiated, the new bet is, Will the Warriors win a championship in the next 9 years? 10 years is a wash, $775. I have the no.

A month ago or so, I asked a few people what movie was better: angels in the outfield or Rookie of the Year. The correct answer is Angels in the Outfield. I asked JT and he answered Rookie of the Year. I told him it was the wrong answer. He initiated a debate (we were both at work, on AIM), and I warned him that I would eat him alive if he chose to continue. He did. I didn’t even have to use my clean-up hitter, it was over, I debate-raped him. he said it didn’t feel good, too much?

Eat alive. 1. AITO had better current/future actors, D Glove, Adrien Brody, Tony Danza, Matthew Mcconeghuey, and little black JP. 2) better qutoes, rookie of the year had some decent ones. but AITO wins, white guy rapping in the clubhouse "...and its a big bummer, no matter who we play, we give the game away, cause we can't winnn, that would be a sin, we even lose the game before they/SAVE IT MAPLE!". skip to the clean-up hitter. joseph gordon levitt. the Patrik Antonius of young actors. his resume is loaded, inception and of course, 500 days of summer. he IS the next superstar, therefore, Angels in the Outfield is his rookie card. debate rape.

how to be a nit: sign up for an online shopping rebate site like bigcrumbs.com, if you buy stuff on ebay, you get something like 36% of the ebay fee sent back to your paypal acct. buy a $100 macy's gift card for $85-90. You get about like a $4 rebate. so you're only paying like $80-85 for each $100 purchase at Macy's, or subway, or Best Buy.

LIKE A NINJA

I haven’t been diagnosed with ADD yet, but I would bet that i have it, literally. (Btw, this is a serious question, how do they test for ADD? Do they just ask me questions and hope I answer honestly? Or is it like the equivalent of a drug test that I can’t influence?) On my way to and from work, i listen to mainly podcasts on my ipod. The other day, I discovered a new option on my ipod. i learned that you can listen to your podcast at 1x speed, 1.5x speed, or 2x speed. I tried listening at 1.5x speed, not that big of a difference. how about 2x speed? noticeably different, but still listenable. wait, so I’m going to be finishing my hour-long podcasts in 30 minutes? sick, this changes everything. but I hate it, everything is becoming toooooo easy/efficient/fast. SLOWDOWN

I knew exactly what this meant. Within 2 years, people will have the option of watching their recorded DVR shows at 1.5x or even 2x speed. (I know you can watch it 2x right now, but you can't hear anything, right? or at least on my DVR.) People are going to watch Jersey Shore in 24 minutes (DVR it, fast forward thru commercials, and watch at 2x speed). Baseball games are going to be finished in 70 minutes. So efficient, I hate it.
everyone is too damn dependent on technology. "this is bullshit" lolll

is it really june? quickest 5 months of my life

Russell westbrook is a stud. I’ve seen probably less than 10 full OKC games this year, so I can’t really say I’ve seen a lot of their play. But people saying he’s too selfish, takes too many shots. I love that. I read a little ESPN article where an OKC veteran said that “he thinks he’s better than Kevin Durant.” I don’t know, maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. but that fuck-you attitude is badass. I’m not sure if there’s any correlation, but as far as poker goes: if you’re trying to turn a beginner into a successful poker player. It’s easier to start with an aggressive/fearless/borderline cocky person rather than a passive/play it safe/thoughtful person. The more I think about it, I want the warriors to draft the cockiest player in the draft . I want the warriors to draft (at 11), a player who honestly thinks he should go number 1 overall. I want the player who tells his coach “fuck this shit, just give me the damn ball” in the 4th quarter. Yep, I’m a kobe fan, it’s official. Let’s shake things up!!! Proposed trade: monta for Harrison barnes.

Hangover 2 was horrible, I read that scott saw it and said it was bad, but I thought that was just scott being scott. So I decided to waste my money and time. I couldn’t believe how bad it was. 30 minutes into the movie, I was waiting for it to be over. Did they really have to use the exact same story line? Allen drugging everyone? I felt like I was watching the deleted scenes from the first one. Mike Tyson at the end? Was that supposed to be funny? When the movie was over, I heard people saying it was “hilarious”. COMOWhaaaat, am I getting that old and boring where I don’t understand what the “kids” think is funny? Ugh

I wish that you can trade nba basketball players like stocks. Buy to sell, or sell to buy. I would’ve lost my ass on spencer hawes and tyrus Thomas. however, i'm too stubborn, i'm still buying spencer (1.5 steals, 1.5 block, 1 3pt potential). don't even get me started with tyrus' potential (2.5 steals, 2.5 blocks, just disgusting). I’m probably losing on brook lopez, roy hibbert, troy murphy, trevor ariza. If I could, I’d be loading up on evan turner, derrick favors, bismack biyombo. i'm also buying greg oden, his value is too low right now. i'm buying yao too. selling biedrins for a box of 2010 topps chrome baseball