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NOVEMBER 22, 2005

A family member asked me last week, "Who do you write the blog for?" My answer was, "for anyone who wants to read it." That got me thinking. I wonder if the people I read know who reads their blogs? Not that they will see this post and see that I read their stuff, but maybe I can turn a couple of my readers onto some good stuff elsewhere. Yes, I read alot of poker stuff, but I also read some other interesting blogs on a regular basis.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2005

What a story yesterday on NPR. Howard Dully shares the story of his life after having a lobotomy at the age of 12. It was tragic, interesting, and disturbing at the same time. Courage awards to Howard for telling his story, confronting his father, and living a strong life. Thankfully, today we have medications. I broke my self-imposed poker vacation last night around midnight.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Nicholas Negroponte of MIT's Media Lab introduced in Tunis today a working prototype of a $100 Laptop.The device is stripped-down, with an power-generating crank and seven-inch screen, for basic word-processing, Internet and communications. It has flash memory instead of a hard drive, and an AMD processor running at 500 Mhz. Networking will be via Wi-Fi so they can share a network connection.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2005

I was there the night Vinny Lambiase took his winning Act 1 ticket to win an Act 2. He was at my 10-20 table and had gotten up to go play it leaving $1k on the table. They eventually picked up his chips and bagged em. Then just a few weeks ago I was at the same (or nearby) 10-20 table when Vinny walked up beaming.he had just won his Act 3 to get his $10k seat into the World Poker Finals main event.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2005

For years I had been a big believer in using the rising and falling tides to generate energy. This new technology, wave farms , are going to installed off the shore of Portugal - the first commercial wave farm will use the movement of the sea to generate 2.25 megawatts of electricity—enough to meet the energy needs of more than 1,500 homes—from three 459-foot-long Pelamis Wave Energy Converters.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2005

Just watched the Palm Pictures documentary Ferlinghetti a bipoic of beat poet and artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Along with Peter Martin, Ferlinghetti started City Lights magazine and later, City Lights Books , famous for publishing Allen Ginsberg 's Howl. His interesting take over the decades of political, social and cultural issues are intricately documented in this film, made up mostly from videos of Ferlinghetti himself.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2005

I saw the movie Jarhead tonight. I had known it wasn't an action filled war movie going in, it was about characters. Dissapointingly though, I found it shallow. I'm sure the book was better. Quote that summarizes it all: "Four days, four hours, one minute. That was my war," the Marine sniper Tony Swofford tells us. "I never shot my rifle." There were some good scenes, but all-in-all, I wasn't impressed.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2005

Have the girls over today. Reorganized the appartment. Listening to them tell me how they "don't have any homework!" Why is it that I know they are full of it? What a day though. 60F Sunny. Last of the leaves coming down (they bright yellow ones). Pats beat Miami and satisfied the -3 spread. I'm only in a cheap weekly/season pool. Sports betting is not my thing, although I have been in 1'st place until last week.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2005

Today was a winner! I spent the afternoon working on Pies. I made 2 Steak Pies , stick to your ribs-comfort food. I made 2 quiches. Then I played a little poker (kind of pokered out this week with WPF winding down and all). I've imposed a poker-break on myself. Capped off the night watching an eclectic movie. It's All Gone Pete Tong. It took me a while to like it, then I loved it.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Next weekend I'll be staying at the W in Times Square. It's nice to be sponsored, I'm being treated to the whole gig (spoiled) to play in a big game. I've got saturday afternoon free, so I'm trying to find a museum to visit. I stumbled on the museum mile. Looks like that would be a worthy expedition. Lord knows I am not a shopper. My buddy is opening a new poker club.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2005

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound And a wave broke over the railing And every man knew, as the captain did too, T'was the witch of November come stealin'. From the lyrics of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald , by Gordon Lilghtfoot It's been 30 years since the wreck , and the lyrics reach the deepest feelings of humanity. They tell a story while invoke feeling and pain.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Melissa is always looking for something to hang on my fridge to keep me in the mood. Gobble Gobble. Playing cash satellites is getting old. The only good structure is for the $500 buy in or higher, but then you get some decent players so the edge is removed from the initial equity. I got to buy Sam Grizzle a $6 soup and then see him drop $2k in the 75/150 stud game while he ate it and tried to establish his "table image".

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NOVEMBER 3, 2005

Where has he been? Everywhere there is a poker room. AC, Vegas, CA, Europe. Probably left a trail of intrigued people in his wake. He is a character.a lovable character. Type of guy that loves action. Grew up in the pool halls of New Bedford/Fall River. Always making a deal. He is the one guy I know that can get knocked out of a tourney on the first hand and make more money than the guy that came in 15th.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2005

Yesterday turned into another experience of Bubble time. It was the $500 Limit HE, at one point I was down to T400 with blinds of T200-400, and I came back to last until 47th. Seven out of the money. I'm not sure I can put that many hours into poker without a return. Two days, almost 20 hours, two bubbles. No time to earn the buy-ins back. Damn! Playing well too.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2005

I gave up and decided to go home and get healthy. A miserable cold during a major tourney is not +EV. Slept for a few days. Might be better tomorrow. Tags: poker drivel.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2005

I think I put back the two holes in my belt that I stopped using because I was sick a couple weeks ago. New York City sported the most expensive food I've eaten in ages, but it was unbelievably good. Luckily I was being backed in a private tourney and camped out in someone else's hotel room, so I basically had an all-expenses-paid weekend in the big apple.

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