Archive for July, 2006
pay a new $5 fee per month unless you upgrade
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
One has to love the balls on some of the cellular companies. Cingular has decided to add a new $5 per month fee if you have one of their older model phones. According to the article, they will generate 23.5 million a month with the new charge. So if you have the older phones and [...]
Netflix delays
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
I assume I’m one of the lucky folks in the Netflix slowdown queue. Movie showed up and watched on Wednesday, dropped of at the Post Office on Thursday – I just to the ‘received’ email today (Monday). I’ll get the next movie on Wednesday. That’s a week turnaround. No matter what I do, I can’t [...]
Vegas tournaments
Posted by mep | Filed under poker
I just got back from playing 3 tournaments in Vegas.
In the $540 O8HL Championship at The Orleans Open, I just did not catch enough cards to keep ahead of the blinds. It was a nice tournament, although the dealers where less than perfect. The hour long blinds, excellent starting chips and good structure made for [...]
Poker Aces (aka Viejas tournament)
Posted by mep | Filed under poker
I made the 30 minute trip out to Viejas to play their Poker Aces Tournament. $300 buy-in, no rebuys, 100k guaranteed. With 40 minute rounds, 5k in chips and starting levels of 25/50, it’s not a bad structure.
I forgot to bring my iPod, which generally correlates to an out of the money finish. (I don’t [...]
IRobot update
Posted by mep | Filed under life, tech
So it’s been about a month since I picked up my IRobot from woot.com. I run it on shave days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday). I turn it on as I walk out the door…I return home with it back in its charging station. I have spotless floors, yet I continue to find about 1/4th of it’s [...]
New Shoes
Posted by mep | Filed under life, sports, tech
My new Nike Free 5.0 shoes arrived via UPS from Road Runner Sports today. Nice shoes. I, for one, am a fan of getting as much of the ‘technology’ out of shoes. Over the years I have had lots of ankle/foot issues that I’m convinced have stemmed from shoe ‘advancement’. They do feel the [...]
randomness?
Posted by mep | Filed under life
i walk in from smoking a stogie (ok, and drinking a Guinness) on the 4th of july. My linux laptop is running a fireworks theme – funny how randomness can look like ‘divine intervention’…or something…guess it depends on how you look at things!
Mexican TV for World Cup
Posted by mep | Filed under rants, sports
Feel free to add this one to the not so obvious reasons to live in San Diego:
For big sporting events, one generally has the option of catching the TV feed from Mexico. I clearly don’t understand what they are saying, but when it comes to World Cup TV, they make more sense to me than [...]
comments are back
Posted by mep | Filed under tech
Well, after a loss of half a day fighting with secureimage, I have replaced it with did_you_pass_math.
I also upgraded wordpress to 2.0.3. There are still some issues to resolve, but whatever…it’s never done and only a fool needs it to be done. There is more to life than fucking with wordpress/linux/mysql.
Feel free to comment away, [...]