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The new blog isn't 100% yet, but it's good enough to stop the comment spam. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Pin it on an overload of comment spam, a plug-in installation gone awry, and a loss of interest on the part of the blog manager. We'll be back soon. Go play around on MySpace in the meantime...

Four Jobs I've Had In My Life in LA:
Product Manager
Product Manager
Product Marketing Manager
Program Manager

Four Movies About LA I Could Watch Over And Over (in fictional chronological order):
LA Confidential
Chinatown
Heat
Blade Runner

Four Places I've Lived All Over L.A. (With Food Memories From Each):
Beverly Hills: Mulberry Street Pizza
West LA: Cacao
Culver City: The Outdoor Grill
West LA: Hurry Curry of Tokyo

Four LA-Themed Shows I Love(d) To Watch:
Three's Company
The A Team
The Tonight Show
Eye On LA
(ok, so I don't really watch TV anymore, but when I was a kid, I watched a bunch)

Four Places I Would Vacation At In LA:
Beach
Mountain
Casino
City

Four LA-Based Websites I Visit Daily:
Bill Rini
WWdN
The Obituarium
Curbed LA

Four Of My Favorite Foods Found In LA:
The last or second to last chicken dish at Havana Mania
The chicken supper at Uncle Darrow's
Fatburger
Korean food

Four Places In LA I Would Rather Be Right Now:
In Bed
Asleep
Not working
Relaxing

Tagged:
Screw it.

I may have to restrict comments until I upgrade to something better.

I don't know what was going on with the commenting on this blog, but apparently even registered TypeKey users weren't able to sign in and comment. I've turned unregistered commenting back on for the time being. I'll try installing the next version of MT and see if that helps any.

Far beneath the ship
The world is mourning
They don't realize
He's alive
No one understands
But Major Tom sees
Now the life commands
This is my home
I'm coming home

It's a pain in the ass for you readers, but I'm going to require TypeKey registration for comments to prevent the deluge of spam I've been getting the past few days. Unfortunately I haven't quite figured out how to make it work, and at this point I don't care to figure it out, but hopefully I'll get it up sometime in the next month.

Not to put anyone down or anything, but it seems like there's an excess of melodrama out there. Which isn't to say that content theft, art vs. commerce, idiot strippers, huge suckouts, quitting poker, poor table manners, etc. aren't worth talking about, but when something seems to crop up every two months to get this or that blogger riled up, it starts to look like a familiar formula with new dressing. Y'know, like a Goobernator movie. And that's enough to put anyone on tilt.

Ultimately, none of this shit really matters all that much (and I say this even if some of this stuff pissed me off at the time). So take a step back, clear your head, and hit the tables. The come back and share your thought processes and experiences. Help me become a better player by writing about your own games.

One more thing to think about: It might be a sign that poker blogging's jumped the shark when you get post after self-referential post about the "community." Not that it doesn't exist, or that it's a good or bad thing, but sometimes it's just a little over the top.

The second in a series of random iTunes lists in lieu of actual content.

The White Stripes - I Can Learn
The Shins - Fighting In A Sack
Boards Of Canada - Olson
Grandaddy - AMMO
David Holmes - Higher Ground
The Dandy Warhols - (It Dosen't Take A) Genius
David Bowie - Fame
Cyril Neville - Gossip
The Verve - Star Sail
Mazzy Star - Disappear
Cocteau Twins - Pandora
Portishead - It's A Fire
Komeda - Curious
Cocteau Twins - My Truth
Ivy - Kite
U2 - The Wanderer
Stereolab - Fuses
Luke Vibert & BJ Cole - Nice Cave
Placebo - Blue American
Blur - Sing
The Sad Chicken - Leroy & The Drivers

The first in a series of random iTunes lists in lieu of actual content.

A Fascinating Musical Experience - The Monster from David Holmes Come Get It I Got It
Cat Stevens - The Wind from Various Artists As Seen on TV Songs From Commercials
Da Lata - Beija Flor from Thievery Corporation DJ-Kicks
Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time? from Various Artists Popsuperstar
When The Cows Come Home from Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish
The Weight Of My Words from Kings Of Convenience Quiet Is The New Loud
The Deverell Twins from Black Box Recorder The Facts Of Life
Lonely Boy - V. Gallo from Buffalo 66 Soundtrack Buffalo 66
A Silhouette Of Doom from Ennio Morricone Kill Bill, Vol. 2
The National Anthem from Radiohead Kid A
Zither from R.E.M. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Great Divide from The Cardigans First Band On The Moon
Chico's Groove from The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust
Policy Of Truth from Depeche Mode Violator
Renaissance Affair from Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk
Indra from Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy
Black Night Crash from Ride Tarantula
The Funeral Party from The Cure Faith
Singing Softly To Me from Kings Of Convenience Quiet Is The New Loud
On Your Own from Blur Blur

My Masters program is winding down fast, but before I get that sheet of paper I've gone into debt for, I'll have to take the comprehensive exam. I won't bore you with the details, but it basically means I'll be disappearing for ten days over the next two weeks. Look for me to resurface around April 5.

Here's proof that blogging is not the domain of the technologically literate: my mom's photo blog.

Click a photo to see an enlarged version. Click it to close the window.

Pauly's got a great photo on his site, and strangely, it doesn't feature Paris Hilton. Check it out.

Sometimes I'm reading a blog and I realize it's terribly boring. Then I get to wondering if this happens to my two readers. As with my poker game, I hope I'm slightly above average.

Great.

I don't mind driving in the rain, but rain in Los Angeles always causes clusterfucks like this:

Big red diamond #1:

5-6 Vehicle Traffic Collision Blocking Car Pool, #1, 2 Lanes
1 Vehicle is Blocking East Rosecrans On Ramp to North 405 Per 79-60
Roll Ambulance Required

Big red diamond #2:

Solo Vehicle Traffic Collision into Right Shoulder Wall-Red Sedan
Driver of Vehicle on Ll * is in a Red Ford Escort, Struck Right Shoulder Wall, Advsed Accident (Property Damage) Only She is not Hurt

Hope this clears before I head home.

Thirty feels a lot like twenty-nine. Have a good day, everyone. It's on me.

Finally installed MT-Blacklist tonight. Let's hope it lives up to the hype and stops the comment spam dead in its tracks. I'd only had a few instances of comment spam until New Year's Eve when I noticed about 80 comments advertising porn and celeb photos littering the back-entries of StudioGlyphic. Since then I've been deluged with hundreds of comments. It got so bad I turned on comment moderation. Now that Blacklist is installed, comments are back to being unmoderated. If I'm still hit with the spam, I may have to invoke the input code thing that WWdN and Bill Rini have on their blogs.

I hope you all are having a nice holiday.

Drink lots! Eat lots! And stay safe.

Finally made the transition over to Movable Type from Blogger.

One casualty of the move is the loss of all comments.

Another casualty of the move is the loss of all other web content, including images embedded in blog entries. I'm hoping DotEasy will fix that since it was their crappy free hosting service that prevented me from retrieving all those files in time.

So things may be in flux over the next few weeks as I go through the documentation and try out different things.

In the meantime, please update your links to point here:

http://www.studioglyphic.com/mt/

Thanks!

Please bear with us while we upgrade our hosting service and transition to MT.