Dorsey's Misanthropic Journal

5:55PM

I decided to bite the bullet and sign up for facebook in order to keep up with my now former coworkers. So if I've forgotten anyone let me know.

10:21PM - googlebomb

Expelled

11:59PM

Typical online poker... I go all-in with pocket aces and get a call with ace-three offsuit. I lose because he has the ace of hearts and hits a flush. Not two minutes later in another game I get three-four offsuit in the big blind with no raise. I hit quad threes against a player who thinks his fullhouse is the best hand and he goes all-in before I can.

4:48PM

Set it on fire and collect the insurance. That's pretty much my motto lately. From here on my job is just going to suck harder and harder, and it's now a race to find a new job before the urge to smash my face against a wall becomes overwhelming. right now I'm working on a resume for pretty much the first time ever, with all of one job to fill it, to start a job search which I've never really had to do before.

God, my life is just so awesome, I don't know how I stand it.

4:38PM

For those of you in Raleigh, Does your tap water taste funny? A couple of days ago I noticed the water at work had a dry, kinda gritty aftertaste to it, but I assumed it was just the pipes or something. Then the other day I drank some unfiltered water at home and noticed the same aftertaste. A couple of people have told me that their water also has a weird taste to it. Given the distances between these points I suspect that it's city-wide, but I don't see anything in the news about it.

12:21PM

Ugh. 30.

2:47AM

Hah, this is rich... Now that the Obama "plagiarism" nonsense has clearly backfired, the Clinton campaign has decided that the best way to deal with the gaff is to simply deny it.

"It's not us making this charge, it's the media."
-Hillary Clinton, on KITV

Bull. Shit. I guess I just imagined Hillary's obviously planned comment about "change you can Xerox." And it goes without saying that I must have imagined the boos that followed.

Now I don't know if there was a right way for her campaign to extricate themselves from their misstep, but saying "we didn't do it" is most definitely the wrong way.

3:46PM

Stick a fork in Hillary's campaign, her bid for the nomination is pretty much done. Her campaign is just a headless chicken that hasn't stopped moving. Their focus has shifted almost entirely away from "why you should vote for me" to "why you shouldn't vote for my opponent".

And they aren't even doing that very well. Case in point, this whole "plagiarism" nonsense which is just too ridiculous for words. To stick to her guns on such a transparently phony charge shows just how desperate and out of touch she really is. It's time for her to pack it in.

5:45PM

Look at me, I'm "liveblogging" from the regional poker tourney. I hate pocket 7s.

Update: I took out one of the biggest donkeys in the whole place. It felt good.

I'm now in the top 30 out of the original 100.

1:05AM

It seems that I have the plague. My head felt like it was swelled to twice its normal size. Fortunately SCIENCE! allows me to blog and IM without even getting out of bed. Technology is awesome.

5:26PM

This is a test post from my new Nokia N800. I'm trying to get the hang of typing on the touchscreen. It's easier than I thought it would be.

2:34AM

I give you Mitt Romney's "JFK" speech in a nutshell:

In a speech Romney was forced to give because he feared unfair discrimination, Romney did not stand against intolerance. Instead, he simply asked that it not be directed against him, a man of faith. You can be intolerant, but do it to them, over there. They're even more different.

In other news, we have reports that Jews and Muslims have joined the fight in The War on Christmas[TM]. The skirmish erupted last Friday in New York. The first shot was fired by the Jews when one of them launched a flagrant "Happy Hanukkah" in retaliation for a simple "Merry Christmas" from a friendly group of Christians. Shocked at such a brazen display of bigotry and religious oppression, noting that Hanukkah is "the day that the Jews killed Jesus", the Christians were only exercising their right to self-defense by punching the Jews repeatedly. Unsurprisingly a young Muslim man, the traditional ally of the Jew, rushed forward to aid in their oppression. Fortunately the numerically superior Christians were able to beat him down as well. Unfortunately after they were done bravely standing up for their rights and beliefs, the Christians were the ones led away in handcuffs.

6:52PM - My poker rankings

( Let me show you them. )

4:20PM - All my love to long ago

For the Doctor Who fans I have only two words:

Time Crash

5:09PM

Google is such a fucking pain in the ass sometimes. They insist on listing old, out-of-date information about our company, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to undo that. I tried making changes, but they interpreted my changes as new, wholly separate listings which wouldn't be so bad except that when one does a search the old, incorrect listings are the ones that come up.

This article nicely sums up my frustration with Google.

11:34PM

You can tell the poker gods are pissed about something when you lose to quad queens *twice* in the span of about 20 minutes.

2:27AM - I'll take it

As you can see from the picture, I got third place in the regional poker championship. By finishing in the top six I am now qualified for the national championship, in addition to the national tournament of champions for which I was already qualified. I guess now I have to go to Vegas in November, since I've now got two shots at getting into a WSoP event along with several cash side tournaments. I also won a pretty nice chip set. What I didn't win is anything that will lessen the cost of the trip. So far all I've actually done is qualify.

It's funny because I had the absolute worst season at the place where they held the championship, with a months-long cold streak that's lasted pretty much since I won the TOC there last season. It had me really doubting my skill, but I think this finish shows how drastically just one or two good hands can change the situation. I got a decent payoff from a guy early on when I flopped a full house on the first hand I that I raised. After that my raises got respect. That respect later allowed me to raise with a weak hand, miss the flop completely, yet still get a guy to fold AK when he did hit an ace on the flop. Without the earlier win, that fold just does not happen.

9:57AM

You know what's worse that a wrong number at 4am? A wrong fucking address at 4am.

3:08PM

And now, a special Independence Day message:

2:56PM

ok, see when I said I really needed something good to happen to me, what I most certainly didn't mean was that I wanted something catastrophically bad to happen instead. And yet, that's what I got.

That's just swell.