Mr. Don goes to Washington
Pictures up over there (DC Easter 05). More complete synopsis later.
Archive for March, 2005
Now taking all bets
Who lives longer Terry Schiavo or the Pope? Current line is even. Which one of these right wing relics will join Regan first?
Heck, maybe we can make a betting calendar too.
March comes in like a lion and out like, well a rainy/snowy lion
Spring in Rochester, the grayest four months of your life. The past week has actually had a few blue skies, always a welcome change. Of course we’re about 10 degrees below the average temperature, and it snowed for the first day of spring. Whoopie. In happier news, I’m headed out to DC for the holiday weekend (4 day weekend, USA USA!) to visit my sister (the official smart child of the family now) with my parents. I’m actually going down again in April for the annual Alpha Beta volleyball tournament, another new right of spring.
Random thoughts:
- I hate Pat Summit. Have ever since she got the cover of SI the week Hasek carried the Czech’s on his back to a hockey gold medal. I know no one likes hockey, but even less people care about college womyn’s basketball. She ain’t exactly easy on the eyes either.
- This week I found Wrestlemania 8 on bittorrent, so I had to download and watch it. Let me just say, that I may personally have to take down an endangered species just to get back at the WWF (those panda loving motherfuckers) stealing the acronym from wrestling fans everywhere.
- Also, I think if Clubber Lang and Ivan Draggo boxed each other, Draggo would win in 6 rounds via knockout. Discuss
A memorable Poker loss, because nothing else is happening worth talking about
In Confessions of a Winning Poker Player, Jack King said, “Few players recall big pots they have won — strange as it seems — but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career.” Seems true to me, ’cause walking in here I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can’t stop thinking how I lost it.
-Rounders
So I’m sitting in my Friday game, it’s early but I have a good chip count, and get dealt A8o at the small blind. I make my call, and the big blind checks her cards, thinks about raising, but just checks. Flop comes up As8sXs (forget the last, but all spades). Now I’m sitting top two pair, I bet aggressive to scare off flush draws, big blind calls, everyone else folds out. Perfect, got her heads up. Turn is a blank, I bet check-raise here for a healthy amount, call. River comes up 10s, now I’m worried about the flush again, so I check, she bets minimum. Perfect, she doesn’t have it, and I still have two good pair (dead man’s hand, ironically enough). I raise her again and get called. I flip over my pairs, she laughs and flips over…
KsQs. She had the nuts since river (I was beat badly the whole time for those just catching up). She slow played it perfect, and I lost pretty much everything in front of me. Add on to me folding what would be the nuts 10 minutes later, and it was my worst poker performance in about 6 months. Just when you think you’re building momentum, your luck changes.
New look
I’ve touched up the site, and it’s still a work in progress (for some reason firefox doesn’t like my link tags now). It’s all xhtml now, and hopefully the pictures on the left will be updated often. What do y’al think?
Sorry for another nerd blog, but I must confer my thoughts. If you design web pages, please stop using table layouts. I mean it, if you find yourself nesting a table within a table to get something to look right for your flow, stop, and kick yourself right in the box. Because that’s what you’re also doing to anyone who has to deal with your site down the line.XHTML cleans up your html, it lets you separate content from design. It makes printing your websites a snap. No more font tags, no more tables nested 8 deep. It’s the web as it was meant to be. Look at CSS Zen Garden and be awed at what’s possible.
Luckily, Microsoft is joining the party, albeit three years late. Whidbey (the next Visual Studio) will allow xhtml strict output, and ie7 will start supporting web standards, thank god.