According to Josh

I finally got around to picking up a new computer last night. So far I’m pretty happy with it. Its using the Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz processor, an ATI Radeon HD4870 video card and 9GB of DDR3 Ram. My old system was pretty sluggish when running Holdem Manager and more than 12 tables so this should be a big improvement.

My only complaint so far has been with my auto hot key scripts not working properly. The exact same scripts worked perfectly on my old system running windows xp sp2 and my laptop running a 32bit Vista but won’t run on my new system which is Vista 64bit. I spent some time playing around with wickks scripts which allow you to control poker stars with a joystick or gamepad but eventually settled on using a program called table ninja which seems pretty sick so far.

Now that I’ve got a new system I’m planning on picking up a few PC games in the next bit for much needed breaks from poker. I’ll probably get WarCraft 3 + expansion as I played it quite a bit when it was originally released. I’m mostly looking forward to Starcraft 2 but who knows when that will come out.

I wish there were more techno songs about playing video games and talking to friends over ventrilo. Bass Hunter - Dota

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Poker Content:

Poker has been going ok for the first half of month. I haven’t been putting in nearly enough volume but have continued to run fairly hot. The 2+2 Team Tournament Leaderboard Challenge #6 is starting in a week. Hopefully this will be just what I need to get motivated to put in more volume.

Small Brag: I’m currently in the top 10 of the sharkscope leaderboard for average profit over last 500 games for my usual stakes which is kind of cool. I guess I’m not nearly as bad as my opponents think

Despite just making a small brag about my irrelevent results over a small sample size, I highly recommend this article about not tracking your results.

Random Content:

Mike Doughty has announced another west coast tour this spring and will be playing in Vancouver, BC May 14th. I’ve never had the chance to see him perform live so I’m definately going to attend. If you’ve never heard of him I’d highly recommend downloading/purchasing his albums “Haughy Melodic” and “Golden Delicious”.

Here are Youtube Links to 2 of his songs off of Golden Delicious:

Fort Hood
27 Jennifers

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Misc. Thoughts

- Pepsi should sell Grape Crush in 2 litre bottles or 12 packs. I am tired of purchasing the 24 can variety pack and only receiving 6 cans of Grape. I don’t mind the Orange Crush but seriously.. who drinks cream soda.. ugh.

- The lonely Island releases there cd “Incredibad” tomorrow. Their most recent song “I’m on a Boat” featuring T-pain was just on Saturday Night Live and is pretty funny. I have managed to listen to the entire cd through entirely legal means already and while enjoyable, there is a definate lack of “the heist” and “stork patrol”.

- Shaw Cable sucks. My internet connection has been horrible as of late and is beginning to cost me money. I lost my connection Saturday during the $109 6 max tournament on the bubble and again last night while 8 tabling. Luckily I have a neighbor who has generously provided free wifi access to the public.

- The Vancouver Canucks have now won 2 games in a row after a 9 game home losing streak and Mats Sundin is beginning to contribute. Yay.

- The Grammys. I don’t really pay much attention to who wins the awards and only watched it for the performances which didn’t disappoint. Carrie Underwood was hot. M.I.A was so pregnant she looked ready to burst while on stage with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T.I. performing “Swagger like us”. The best performance was probably Lil Wayne & Robin Thicke doing “Tie my hands” from The Carter III.

- The new season of “Survivor” starts later this week. I don’t understand why I haven’t gotten bored of this show despite watching since season 1.

What I’m listening to:

Mike Doughty - Fort Hood
Incredibad - I’m on a Boat
Girl Talk - Lil Wayne - A Milli + Weezer - Say it ain’t so

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