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Monday, September 29, 2008

Poker "Office"

Watching the season premiere of "The Office," Jim IMs Pam and we can see that he plays PokerStars on his work computer (an HP):



Earlier we saw him iChatting with Pam on a MacBook.

Though Kevin won a WSOP bracelet, Jim also plays a mean game of poker in the charity casino night episode when he confessed his feelings for Pam.

He also plays Bodog:



This is what I do when I'm not busy screen grabbing cracked pocket Aces and Kings.

I'd be lost without streaming TV. My laptop finally died after 5 years, so replaced it with a desktop machine that runs video like a dream. Couldn't wait a couple weeks to order from Dell, so I rented a car and popped by Best Buy to pick up an already configured Dell.

Everything hooked up surprisingly well with no problems so far on Vista.

Then spent the rest of the weekend catching up on season premieres, courtesy of all the networks' sites, Hulu.com, Fancast.com, and various other means. NBC even premiered shows online a week ahead of time, so I didn't have to wait for "Chuck" and "Life." ("30 Rock" will also premiere online on Oct. 23.)

Dual core lets me watch a high definition video, rip a DVD, update my iPhone, scan porn, and play four tables without noticing any processor slowdown.

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Heroes" have both greatly improved this season, and I'm tempted to stay up till 4 a.m. when FOX and NBC put them up online or shield my ears from spoilers tomorrow at work.

Gads, what has my life become?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

RedBall at the Chess Pavilion


A beach in the middle of a city? If they can put a baseball stadium in the middle of a city, they can do anything.

Artist Kurt Perschke is behind the RedBall Project, which is touring Chicago for another couple days.

I stole the above photo from the website showing the ball at the Chess Pavilion at the North Avenue Beach. (More photos here.)

While grubette and Doug were in town, we walked along the Beach and watched a speed chess match, complete with repartee by a Laurence Fishburne-like guy from one of my favorite movies, Searching for Bobby Fischer.

At the steps to the pavilion was this:


Hopefully they cleaned it up before the RedBall rolled up.

Here are some other pictures around the beach and Castaways restaurant. You wouldn't know it's Chicago.





Sunday, September 14, 2008

What goes up...

Ever since my withdrawal, I've been doomswitched and am now close to busto on Full Tilt.

PokerTracker tells me I should throw away pocket Aces.

I can't remember the last time they held up.

When I wasn't closing the table in disgust or throwing the mouse across the room, these are the screens I managed to capture (all are from the past two weeks and all were either all-in preflop or on the flop):




















Pocket 8s are also bad:



I don't like poker very much any more.