Monday, August 29, 2005

Jon Stewart video clips
Found some funny clips from Jon Stewart and Comedy Central:
 
 
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Friday, August 19, 2005

Gambling problem or know someone who has one?
Here's a public service.  Do you know anyone with a gambling problem?
 
 
 
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

What! Another free tournament?
You probably don't notice that this is the second time I've posted this because it's a bear to edit after you post with Qumana.  Instead of editing I had to destroy the other post after posting this a second time...
 
It's interesting to see the different combinations and possibilities when you play a game.  One of my favorite games is poker and it's not as hard to figure out the percentages and odds as you might think.  For instance, in Texas Holdem, you have two cards and your opponent has two cards and you haven't seen anyone else's cards.  There will be five cards face up in the middle that you both share.  If you're new to poker, these are called community cards.  So, with 52 cards in the deck and you and your opponent account for four of those cards [once you know what each other has], that leaves 48 cards remaining.  Let's say that three community cards are already out on the table and with your two cards and the cards on the table you have four cards in a row like 5-6-7-8.  If your opponent doesn't have any of the cards you need, you now have eight cards out of the deck to make your straight.  8 cards out of 44.  So, eight divided by 44 will give you the percentage of times you will make a straight on the next card.  If you miss your straight on the next card you will then have 8 cards out of 43 to make your hand.  Now, whether you can do the calculations is another thing, but there are plenty of online calculators to help you find the answer to the problems.  I played in ANOTHER FREE TOURNAMENT and got knocked out on the third hand.  If you don't know anything about poker, you may as well look at another of the posts on this or another of my blogs like:
 
 
I had an Ace of clubs and a King of hearts.  My opponent had an Ace of diamonds and a Six of clubs.   I checked at this website and confirmed that I was about a three to one favorite or approximately 75% chance of winning.  Still, that means one quarter of the time I would lose when we put all our chips in and watched the results.  For you novices, this means that there can be no bluffing because all our chips are already in the pot.  You can check out the odds yourself at:
 
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Still playing with Qumana!
 
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Have you connected on Soflow or LinkedIn yet?
LinkedIn and Soflow are just great.  I suggest registering for FREE and filling out a minimal profile with some spaces containing "More info soon".  Add them to your favorites and figure it out later when you have more time to look over the sites.  It could make a huge difference in your future - business, career, education, etc...
 
These are serious sites for true online networking.  I've found them to be very complementary to each other and to offline networking.  Trust me on this.  Worst case scenario is that you spend fifteen minutes on something and the light bulb doesn't come on for another year or so.  If you have to make a choice, choose LinkedIn, unless you're in the U.K.  But, you really should sign up for both because of the complementary functions. 
 
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...still having fun with Qumana
 
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What Fun!
OK!  Just added a new customer at this site:
 
What font should I use?  What size?  Qumana is so easy that I'm using it one-handed on the phone.  I can't wait for my new headset from http://www.berkeleycomputers.com
 
Have a great rest of the day!  :-)
 
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OK! Let's see what we can learn about Qumana...
What about the different fonts?  How about saving to disk?  What mysteries of Qumana will unfold?  Will it be coherent?  Is it true what they say about black backgrounds?  This is Onyx 24.  Visit my commercial website at:
 
Visit my main blog at:
 
 
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