Friday, July 08, 2005
Lowlow content, don't say I didn't warn you
Batting cleanup. 1) Okay, can I still just say wow about the Brunson - WPT buyout offer? Insanity. If it works, world poker tour online'll have to be made available to US players to make it worth it (they're currently closed to US gamb00lers), and I don't know how they'd swing it being listed on the nasdaq and all... so its an interesting thing to watch, if only for the high valuation and power that will reverberate among online poker rooms from the positive press jump. I can't see the reasoning behind a 100% premium any other way, I mean... the dvd's are popular and all, but... :) Funny thing is, CNN Money called wpt a risk-no buy a few days ago [love this quote: So it looks like a decision to buy WPT now would be equivalent to calling before the flop with a 2-7 offsuit. In other words, a pretty foolish thing to do since that's the worst possible hand in poker.], and here the stock valuation jumped more than treble. Can you say, hammer? Now I've got to think of a good dirty mean term for their online poker room. ::sigh:: Yes Virginia, this is how asia spends her Friday nites :( 2) Been reading a lot ever since my forced escapade to socal left me bereft of netflix. Since being there, I've read... * good in bed (sister forced it on me, not bad-- i can say i get "chick reading" or "chick lit" or whatever they call those angst-ridden doorstops, no really, its enjoyable etc, but just... i dont get it. i think its cos ive been a tomboy for too long. * the lilith's brood trilogy [dawn, adulthood rites, imago] from octavia butler again (i LOVE octavia butler & the series was a re-read for me) * the jean auel "Earth's Children"/clan of the cave bear series. in so cal/OC there's a huge outdoor swap meet that a pair of my aunties dragged me to that boasted a HUGE used book tent that i bought armloads of books at, the series being some of those... my aunties *insisted* i buy them and im glad i did (on the last/5th one now, shelters of stone), but omigod can she talk more about his extraordinarily large "manhood" sinking into her warm, welcoming "well" any *more*? i guess its just... i dont read a lot of books w. sex thrown in the plotlines (ana also bought zen & the art of motorcycle maint., song of solomon, king lear (folger ed), women who run with the wolves, ... a bunch more. gonna miss reading about jondalar's massive organ tho. 3) Ew, I just threw some weird bug with pincers coming out of its anus out the window when something struck me... The last time I caught a bug to get it out of my space I was talking to red (230am) and I went to the kitchen, got a plastic cup, caught it with the old sliding magazine-insert over the lip trick, and ran outside in my pjs for any drunkard/gutterpunk to stumble by and see me in... I thought about this when I was sliding the window closed & realized I should've just let it out the window like tonite instead of making an ass out of myself shivering in the cold... Anyway, bugs. I have a deathfear of ants. Its something about the whole automaton, hivemind swarm thing, follow the secret scent trail master slave thing. Crawling around all 3-sectioned off and sh!t. Otherwise, I can really go hot or cold on my fear of bugs. Last boyfriend was bugkiller and I'd put up a terrible "ogodgetitawayfromme!!" thing, but being home alone I'd of course be able to do it myself without batting an eye (perhaps a few goosebumps, but that's it). 267 feminists have killfiled me cos of my badgirl admission just there. 4) So what's the deal on blogcomment etiquette? Is it, respond to questions in your own comment box? Email the comment spawner? Respond in a new post? Let it sit there & stew? (mm, stew-- i learned to make ropa vieja in pr last trip. moms 4th husband was named stu. thats it for my stew references today.) 5) Warning, low content, low value poker follows :) Been playing 20NL at GamesGrid lately, sat for four hours and made... $5. lolol. It's more for the fun of bs'ing with all of the microregulars at 1am PST than anything, and a chance to earn more Frequent Player Points (fpps) for entry into the single table shootouts that feed into the weekly $1000 tourney. I've played 8 of them so far, won 2 -- and the "entries" will bank so I can play next weeks as well as tomorrows. Surprising myself on the wins actually since I, well I suck really. :) The fpp's are the same ones you win and clear the 1,000% bonus with, so ostensibly each is worth .20 -- so some lucky cats not named asia are going to split $1k for their efforts and twenty cents. Pretty badass, even not being me :) Also been playing the nightly $500 guaranteeds-- placed 4th once, that's it. But you know me, slogging along every nite in one since I truly am a glutton for punishment. But, with only about say 60 or so ppl playing for $500, and the competition on the grid being what it is (- ak), its a good time to be had imo. That's it. See, told you it was worth it to skip my lackluster poker entry :) 6) Bought an amazing face cleanser. Which sounds weird but I don't usually get excited about "products" etc (imma tomboy at heart, and have to *look* for makeup to put on since its usually buried under towels in the bathroom cabinets), but its awesome and I had to say so, somewhere. :) Its the tomato revitalizing face scrub from bath y body works... part of their b1g1f sale so 2/$16. If it were regular price there's no way I would have picked it up (cheapskate), but I totally would now except the 2 I have'll last a while, I think. No drying, no tightness, but I can see how great my skin feels when I look in the mirror. Has walnut shell powder so its got that scrub-y thing going on, but I can and do use it everyday and haven't had irritation from daily use like I have with other walnut shell facescrubs out there. Anyway, for people who care, there you go. I actually got a large-ish sample from a kit I bought there, and this was my fav (though I think the pumpkin mask smells delcious and is a weekly treat for me now). Also love the white tea y ginger scented stuff; now my soaps/sprays/lotions have me and my pillows smelling sweet at nite. :) I guess there was one upside to being stuck in socal for long-- being dragged to the mall by my sister (people in socal seem to go to the mall like, every week or so-- i cant remember the last time i went to one up here. its a kinda unfair comparison tho, there arent any afaik within 10 miles of here, not incl. sf...) Anyway, that's enuf random splur for now. I have an announcement to post, but want to be lazy and do it later. Stay tuned though, I have an $80 gift for yall (even you freakos who find this page searching for asia carrera and "email addresses for rich men in asia" (!!).) Nite again, aK GamesGrid Poker (and Backgammon!)
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Brunson to buy out World Poker Tour (WPT)??
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