Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Owning a Tivo is practically a religious experience. I currently own three Tivos and can't imagine life without them. I've written about Tivo quite a bit. Those that say that their generic cable-company supplied DVR is just as good as a Tivo just haven't been enlightened and don't know what ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Apparently, there's going to be a comedy on ABC called Better Off Ted debuting midseason.
I know that the name of my blog is a play on the phrase better off dead and I don't have any ownership of that, but I thought the name of my blog was clever and ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I upgraded my Tivo. I bought a 1TB hard drive. The Series 3 comes with a 250 GB hard drive that can hold 32 hours of HD. Verizon is about to add another 27 HD channels and are expected to add another 20 or so by the end of the ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
U.S. water polo team upsets top-ranked Croatia!
I played water polo in college. If you are unfamiliar with water polo, I like to describe it as a combination of ice hockey and basketball played in a pool. I think the offensive strategy is similar to basketball, but instead of a basket, ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
I had an interesting hand in the $0.25/$0.50 cash game I played after the tournament finished last night. I was dealt K9 in the big blind. There were a few limpers and I checked my option.
The flop comes [6 6 9]. I bet about half the pot and everyone folds ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
The host would be me.
I had poker at my house last night. We had a good crowd; 17 people showed. There weren't a lot of memorable hands for me, which hopefully means that I played solid poker. I'm just glad I won. I had a rough couple of days playing ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I've been a Windows PC user forever. I have never owned a Mac. On the off chance I found myself in front of a Mac, I was always confused about how to do routine tasks, frustrated that there was only one mouse button, etc.
Why do I want an iMac so ...
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