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| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | | 3:05 am |
| | Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | | 11:11 pm |
Movie Quiz Revisited
8 months ago I posted up the movie quiz thing Esran found. Well, i don;t think you guys tried hard enough with finding the answers so here it is again! Only the easy ones have gone already so good luck on that. I'll be a bit more helpful in giving clues this time, though. Meme rules: 1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies. 2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. 3. Post them here for everyone to guess. 4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed. 5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. Totally cheating, you dirty cheaters. ( The Quiz! ) | | Friday, February 8th, 2008 | | 3:55 pm |
Movie Quotes Quiz
Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) esranwho stolled it from other people so it's not really stolling, is it? Anyway, I need a post to show I am actually alive until I get WordPress working properly again. Meme rules: 1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies. 2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. 3. Post them here for everyone to guess. 4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed. 5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. Totally cheating, you dirty cheaters. | | Friday, August 10th, 2007 | | 11:42 am |
Putting a New Site together
Finally started some serious work on Nat and my personal web site. It's been sat there for a few months now and I've never got around to making the damned thing work. The closest I've come is to go through one of the automated site builder scripts and then leave it stagnating while I head of for some industrial thumb twiddling. Of course, this would explain why, upon examining the output a few months down the line, the site had been located, targeted and shitspammed by a hell of a lot of porn site ranking engines. Unfortunately, the first I knew about this was when I asked Nat to look at my funky integration of gallery into the front pages at which point she headded straight for the blog and asked me why I was advertising naked Brazillian teen whores nine hundred times. Ho hum. Today I'll get Wordpress installed and then, hopefully, we'll be able to migrate off of Livejournal once and for all. | | Thursday, July 5th, 2007 | | 2:54 pm |
Pixying
Pixying (v) - The act of sabotaging large-scale industrial construction equipment and then insisting that the faeries did it. | | Friday, June 22nd, 2007 | | 10:39 am |
No WSOP for me :(
Oh well, I tried and failed. The last chance I had for qualifying in what is bound to be the largest Hold-'Em poker tournament in history ended in a heads-up (one-on-one game) last night with my K9 being pummelled by an AQ hitting a straight. Denied!
Still, I can blame my Nottingham landlord for promising to get broadband piped into the flat I am staying at midweek and then utterly failing to do so, resulting in three weeks without a chance to play. Still, I am coming out of this with half a grand more than I went in, and a hell of a lot more experience playing these sorts of games, so mustn't grumble too much. | | Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 | | 10:06 am |
Sopranos Finale
Loads of people up in arms about the Sopranos Finale right now. I, for one, thought it was rather clever. | | Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 | | 2:33 pm |
Delia Smith's a Bitch
We had my parents come visit us on the Bank Holiday weekend and so it was time to put on the apron and do some cooking. I'd decided the food for the day had to be MEAT, spelled with a capital MEAT, and so I hit Borough Market on the search for some short ribs for a bit of braising. Could I find any? Could I buggery. Nobody had any, with the main butchers saying they'd been hit by a huge number of restaurant orders and were having trouble getting their stock together. So instead I settled for a rack of beef ribs and wandered back home. | | Monday, June 4th, 2007 | | 1:57 pm |
New 2012 Olympic Shiruken
Ladies and gentlemen. Without further ado, we are pleased to present the new, 2012 London Olympics Logo...
So far the best description seen has been "The Swastika for the 21st Century"
As you may well imagine, quite a lot of people are rather dischuffed with the whole thing. A quick search and you can find a number of petitions asking for the logo to be retired, then shot, then burned, then shot again, along with the team who designed it.
Who can blame them? | | Friday, June 1st, 2007 | | 12:12 pm |
Offensive Humour
Whilst standing stark-bollock naked in the changing rooms at the gym yesterday I got to thinking.
I don't think gay men be allowed to get use the men's changing areas.
Unless the rest of the men have the option of heading into the women's dressing rooms.
I may have been overdoing it on the eliptical, of course... | | Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | | 4:34 pm |
POTC 3
Well, I liked it so nyeah! Some advice if you want to go see this movie. First off, make sure you have watched POTC 2 no more than 48 hours before going to the cinema. If you do not do this you will miss about seven hundred and fifty eight minute details which are referenced in the third film and which are vital to understand what the hell is going on. Secondly, listen to Hans Zimmer's excellent soundtrack during the remainder of the forty eight hours. That way you can listen to the music if you get bored during the film. And finally, remember to stay until after the credits have finished rolling because, as per the previous two films, there's a teensy bit extra at the end. | | 4:19 pm |
No Life but Lots Of Films Meme
Oh, this is going to be brutal. Mercilessly stolen from esran. SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, paste this as a note. ... | | Thursday, May 24th, 2007 | | 3:41 pm |
| | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 | | 4:02 pm |
It takes off its jumper...
I'm all in favour of stupid wastes of time which relieve the monotony of the wait for the 5 o'clock exodus. According the the Beeb, Google have just created a fine one. Google Trends shows the top 100 searches for the day, so now you can have fun trying to work out what bit of media has triggered a rush to googlise some mad-arsed phrase. Your starter for ten, why on earth is today's fourth most popular search "How Does A Kangaroo Keep Cool?" | | 11:48 am |
| | Monday, May 21st, 2007 | | 3:34 pm |
Free cinema tickets available in London for this Sunday
Good news and bad. The good news is I won a couple of tickets to go and see Dead Man's Shoes at the NFT this Sunday. The bad news is I forgot that my parents are coming over for the weekend. So does anyone want two free tickets to go and see this rather excellent film? | | Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 | | 9:46 am |
Outs with a bang
Has anyone else noticed that poker is deceptively hard. I mean, seriously hard. I thought it was a fun game where you took a bit of a punt on whether your hand could beat your opponents' given a few extra cards hitting the table. But nooooo! It's about quantifying probability of success versus the expected mean value of your rate of return based upon the aggressive/passive nature of your opponents when counterballanced with their chip stack size at the relevant stage of the tournament whilst taking into account the blinds, the tournament pace, the average number of chips, the flight of geese overhead, the specks of dust on a ping pong ball yadda yadda yadda OH MY BRAIN HURTS!
This WSOP is murderous. Somehow, I am staying afloat. Quite well, all things considered. Currently I am up around $2,300 but I am really getting no closer to actually GOING to the World Series. Every night, PokerStars has a $160 buy-in tourney where the first place finisher wins a slot in the big one. So every nigh I have been nestling down with my laptop and failing to win that place. Came pretty close last week with a third place finish, knocked out by the eighth highest earner on PokerStars this year ($200k profit since January). At least I won back my entry fee but it's not been a good run. All other times I have scored no higher than 40th place out of ten attempts. Which is rather pathetic.
Dan Harrington's three books on Tournament Hold'Em have been a great help. Seriously good books, those. If anyone here plays poker and would like to read the bible of tournament play then you can not go far wrong buying these tomes.
Meanwhile, I'm just grinding away and try to beat this damn thing. Grindy grind grind. | | Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | | 12:15 pm |
The Riches
There was an article in the Sunday Times a few weeks ago about a new series which started recently in America. The Riches stars Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as a pair of American-Irish travellers/gypsies who, together with their three children, take over the identity of an affluent couple they accidentally killed in a car crash.
And it's good. Really good. Izzard plays it straight and is very memorable but Driver is fantastic as a freaked out, drug addicted woman completely out of her element but trying to blag her way through it all.
Wait for this one to hit the UK or go search for it on your favourite torrent site. Highly recommended.
PS In other news, came third last night in a tourney for a WSOP entry. Deserved to lose on the hand I went out on but I'm getting closer! | | Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 | | 9:36 am |
These are not the cutesy cartoon characters you are looking for...
Whilst prepping for our wedding, Nat and I fell victim to one of the multitude of Chinese fakery producing outfits that now populate the web. We were trying to find gifts for the people who helped out and ended up being sold a load of cheap, fake branded tat instead. We were able to sort it all out in the end and got a refund for the goods but it's still annoying when it happens.
But even so, copying a few items of jewelry is one thing. Copying Disneyland, the whole damn park...well, for that we're talking about a whole different size of cohones altogether. | | Friday, May 4th, 2007 | | 10:36 am |
WSOP or bust!
Around the turn of the year I discovered the super-satelite system on Pokerstars and decided I'd like a bit of that. Very simply, you play in a low stake tournament (around a tenner a go) to win an entry into a larger stake tournament (anything from £200 to £400 an entry) and from there you win an expensive seat to a live event which can normally cost anything up to £10,000 to enter. I started by trying to get into the European Poker Tour in Monte Carlo and missed out by a whisker. Now, Pokerstars is revving up for the World Series of Poker and I intend to catch the train into the big one.
So two months ago I set myself a goal. Get into the WSOP or bust out trying. This was made considerably easier by my winning the first satelite I entered, resulting in my cash pot rising from $200 to $850 (if you win a satelite you can withdraw an equivalent amount of tournament entry tokens called W$ and use them to enter more tourneys). After yoinking out my original deposit I've been hitting the card rooms trying to build up my pot, entering super sats like crazy, trying to win the larger sats without much joy, and generally been wasting many an evening whilst trapped in Nottingham playing poker.
So right now my pot is up to $1,200, I've won and subsequently spent an additional $5,000 on entries (which sounds worse than it is as my total cash in hand has never been higher than $1,500) and so so far it's not going too badly. The prize is the $10,000 entry plus $1,000 spending cash and a $1,000 hotel booking in Las Vegas for the ultimate event of the year, the WSOP 6 day Main Event. Actually, that's not the main prize. The real prize, the one that thousands upon thousands of people will be playing in the WSOP Main Event to win, will be the first place purse of, most likely, $15 million dollars plus change.
Hey, I can dream. :D |
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