I miss this (blogging) and think I'll just have a little fun with, "things i love"...
1) Netflix. I haven't set up the Netflix RSS feed yet, since I hate
messing with radio's page layout and just end up screwing the pooch
when I do-- but check it out, most recent rentals:
Hero (!!!)
Chinatown
Ray (went out & bought my 1st cd in like, seven years-- soundtrack)
Oceans 12 (shameful)
The Decalogue 1-3 (whoa. 4-10 are in the queue)
Motorcycle Diaries (::swoon::)
Casablanca
Mean Girls...
Yeah, mean girls :) Okay, say you'll rent it for only the strip tease
in mrs santa claus outfits and lindsey's happy birthdays, but its fun--
I think I'm going to rent more dreck more often.
Speaking of dreck, Esquire's calling out for a one week postponement "strike" against the Star Wars juggernaut--
"Here's the plan. It's exceedingly simple but also potentially revolutionary. If you saw and genuinely enjoyed the first two installments, by all means dash straight out and see Episode III
, taking special care that your imperial-stormtrooper helmet hides the
lobotomy scars. If, on the other hand, you found one or both of the
previous two films lacking in some way yet feel obligated by a sense of
pop-cultural duty and/or lingering nostalgia to tune in for the grand
finale: don't. At least not for the first week. See an intriguing
foreign film instead, or catch up on the first two seasons of The Wire (the best TV series nobody's watching), or gather like-minded friends and play a drinking game in which you watch Attack of the Clones
and do a shot every time Hayden Christensen pouts. Do whatever it
takes; just avoid the theater for seven days. And tell every single
person you know to do likewise.
In my dream, this article isn't dismissed as a bitchy
provocation. People take it seriously, word of the provisional boycott
spreads across the Internet faster than that "Re: Wicked screensaver"
worm, Revenge of the Sith
attracts only the hardcore fan boys and opens to $22 mil, and that
popping sound echoing off the Hollywood Hills is revealed to be the
heads of various studio executives imploding as the one and only
certainty they cling to dissipates like dry ice in front of a wind
machine. Hey, a man can dream."
I figure I'm spreading some good provisional boycott love, and hope
fair use is a fair maiden :) And, maybe my little republish will help
stem the tide against an anticipated "star wars sickout"...
And speaking of Esquire, I made my first blog comment ever (im shy, really) on pPlayer in a post about Esquire y poker (shameless quote of myself follows, degrees of separation notwithstanding):
"*Poker is sex* aside, Esquire Magazine is even more interesting to me
in that they chose to carry a large poker "tutorial" (advertisement) in
last April's issue, and have been subsequently slapped with an
"informational subpoena" by the US Department of Justice because of the
advertisement. (As reported in the Kansas City Times: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/11496287.… )
Esquire
Magazine now may have the standing to challenge the DOJ's
jurisdiction/power to issue such cease-and-desist/informational
subpoenas, either calling the Wire Act's applicability to online poker
into question, or a First Amendment challenge that Casino City advanced
(but was negatively received by the court, in "asides" in the opinion).
Casino City attempted to challenge the DOJ's ability to issue
such warnings but failed as they could not show they were affected by
the DOJ policy (which bluntly calls the broadcast of advertising for
online poker sites as the equivalent of advertising for, well read the
exerpt below-- and the advertisement of such is clearly a felony.)
{Casino City background: http://www.igamingnews.com/index.cfm?page=artlisti… )
Quote from DOJ cease & desist letter from Casino City case:
"...the
Department of Justice, as a public service, would like you to be aware
that the entities and individuals placing these advertisements may be
violating various state and federal laws, and that entities and
individuals that accept and run such advertisements may be aiding and
abetting these illegal activities. Broadcasters and other medial
outlets know of the illegality of offshore sportsbook and Internet
gambling operations, since, presumably, they would not run
advertisements for illegal narcotics sales, prostitution, child
pornography or other prohibited activities."
(From Casino City V US DOJ, Civil Action Number 04-557-B-M3 in the US District Ct, Middle DIstrict of Louisiana PDF: http://www.igamingnews.com/articles/files/CasinoCi… )
Interesting times we are in! Yay for Esquire, lets hope they push the envelope and not back down. :)
aK"
imma dork, I know. and nothing is a buzzkill like DOJ and online poker
in the same sentence, so lets forge ahead of my adhoc "love" essay
here...
2) Full Contact Poker forum. Since, well two reasons. I get to read positive comments about gamesgrid listening to customers like this one: "Gamesgrid is now the first site to allow 200BB buyins for NL games." In that thread I found a link to a gridder's blog where he's posted about his vfp and bonus payments:
"Well I just signed up for GamesGrid yesterday and the 10 hours ends
tonight. I knew I played a few hours yesterday and multitabled some.
They update your hours and pay out your FPP bonus everynight at 1:00 AM
EST. I woke up this morning and my 140 FPP had been converted into $28
and reset back to 0. I now have $4,972 bonus pending. I also checked
out my VFP page and somehow yesterday I played 12.2 table hours! I
already qualified for VFP this week.
Here was the breakdown of my table hours ....
6.4 hours of $1/$2
4.5 hours of $2/$4
1.3 hours of $3/$6
So as of now I will get an additional bonus of (6.4 * 1.5)+(4.5 * 3)+(1.3 * 4.5) = $28.95. Not too shabby!!!!!"
Thanks dna4ever-- and thanks to GamesGrid Poker getting affiliate banners and trackable links via www.gamesgrid.com (eight days a week and please drive thru, come again)-- please be sure to use dna4ever as your GG referral ;)
You know you want a gamesgrid banner of your own. So here's the link again: Get your GamesGrid Poker banners here! :)
Meanwhile, back on the farm-- the second reason I like FCP is b/c I find this whole forum war thing funny.
The whole community clash thing, notwithstanding the common background
of poker or Dan's challenge, just "mine against yours.".Seems Bill's been hit with it as well, blogs versus forums... and of course we can't forget the recent blogger rss war.
Dan's down 200k
(though, having his assistant post updates to FCP via a Treo 600 was a
cool byproduct), and Wynn.com puts a cookie on my machine when I visit
the forums, but it's a nice place.
3) Being dreamt about.
That's it for now, maybe next time I can be a little more comprehen-sated.
aK
GamesGrid Poker
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