I’m liveblogging from Yahoo HackDay and it’s pretty tight so far. I’m in their cafeteria and the concert just finished; they got Beck to do a show for 400 geeks in Yahoo’s courtyard, which was awesome. Free beer, Guitar Hero on a 20 foot screen, and tons of smart people inventing shit before my eyes. I’ll be checking back in as the evening prgresses (the Thing goes until 2:30p on Saturday, and it’s only 9:40p on Friday right now… so yeah, I’ll be up all night checking in with the Sceizzer and my Poker Pals. BTW– wwhazz, you’re comment was alsmot certainly flagged for moderation cuz it was about gambling, which it thought was spam. I apologize on behalf of the intelligence of the WordPress filter. HOLLLARIT, gents, I’m lookin’ to win a 32″ LCD TV prize to come up with some Cool Shit™.
[UPDATE 1 (10:12PM)]
Here’s our ideas:
- PlaceBlog: add comments to an address somewhere in the world.
- MosaicOnline: Create a mosaic from flickr photos (of a specific tag?) online
- Literature Road Trip: User contribution system where you store where novels and short stories take place around the world, and when you plan a road trip it tells you what notable pieces of literature occurred at somewhere on your journey.
- Talking Card: Upload audio file and take a picture off Flickr and then put them together where the picture is animated to talk along with the audio.
Still talking but we’ll need to get started before midnight if we want to finish by tomorrow.
[UPDATE 2 (10:59pm)]
I have seen the King of Guitar Hero play Bark at the Moon in Expert mode and I kneel before him. Trivia Note: He is asian.
[UPDATE 3 (11:53pm)]
TalkingCard it is, I’m started on the backend, our new late-night buddy Mo is on the Flash front end, and Ben is doing experiments on client-side photo mosaic techniques. MOre when we know. On the iPod: Hicktown, by my other late-night buddy Jason Aldean. This one’s for you, wwhazz.
[UPDATE 4 (1:56am)]
Problems abound as we hash out the details of this stuff.
i have mixed feelings about this hackday. a lot of exploitation going on… but it sounds like they’re making it worth it… private beck show = perfection in booking. so anyways, good luck, project sounds fun. i’ve seen something like it before, but the one i saw was complicated and had crappy results, so there is certainly innovation to happen there. long term, could the knowledge that such a project can be completed in one night without sleep be used against developers like yourselves? will you consider this project in the future when determining timelines for your own subordinates? prestiguous win though… get them pictures talkin. i of course want one of myself saying HOLLLLLLLLLLLLARIT!
I want one of Quince saying hollllllllllllarit!
I want one of Quince saying gimme a hotdog.
During madddddd’s wedding reception I went over to check on Q and I really gave him a hot dog. Guess what? At first he was afriad of it, but then he loved it.
Madd’s worries are very valid. Hey construction dudes, were gonna have Kid Rock play a concert and then were gonna see who can build a house in one night: BOOM!!! New Orleans in back on the map.
Im done working for the man.
Update?
Cal, you should plan a vacation down to Dago after the big test. You deserve it, yo. We can read Steven King novels by the pool. Hell, we can see Steven E down at the pool.
Food stores running low, and we were led down a path by a vagabond from Yahoo who tried to sell us some bum nuts. Don’t know if we’ll have enough time at this point to error-correct.
Cal, this place is lousy with travel nurses. Pssssssssst they got skrill. You could spend your days mastering suduku.
mit did research, can you use any of this?
Bed time good luck.
In mike news, just took 2nd in a 20 turbo: $843.
Stay in bed, baby.
cheddar bob: idiot or genius?
tonight started out way better than most nights. then i had a bad rush bigger than most bad rushes. leaving me down less than most barely down days. the american eagle. that ride will fuck your titties up. ask a girl.
i remember at cal’s house warming bar-B-Q, that greg offered cal a hot dog, and at first cal didn’t want greg’s hot dog, but then he loved it.
kill me now
GIT R DUN!
R U DEAD?
man, i couldn’t find the one i saw before… the people at SST used to take the CEO’s picture and make it say stuff, but it was really lame software… it looked like how they did it was put smudge tools on either side of the mouth and just smudge it many different directions, and then a few different from there, and also keep track of the reverse video to get back to where you started and just follow a binary try of smudge videos. end result = lame. the mit people tried to do it for real… end result = complicated case for case. conan obrien = just pay a guy to pretend and put a circle matte filter over the mouth and just do that shit freestyle. technology should be able to solves americas non-talking photos problem. we can rebuild him. his name is harry ballsaak
you guys should be able to call beck over for advice. “hey man, that was an awesome kazoo solo… what do you think about our packet compression?”
CAL IS TESTING. WHAZZ IS APPROACHING DEADLINE. )#%()(^*^$)(* SO MUCH HAPPENING!#^)(*#^
I just woke back up.
pretty sick tourney in 20 minutes. $10 with 2400 dudes with 25k added… juicy as fuck promotional giveaway basically. then on top of it all $5k ticket to ongame classic to 1st + cash. very good value tourney. highly recommend to all players.
so it seems that the filter known as the LSAT just filtered out poor cal. it was awful. 200 pencil dicks in a dimly lit basement hotel confrence room for 7 hours with one 10 min break half way through.
the test only takes 3 hours but we started/finished late late late. it was a circus with bellmen bringing in/taking out extra tables and chairs and lamps for more light. nobody knew when/how to pass out/collect the books when we should get a break… what you could and could not have… it was seriously a mess. apperently everyone who signed up actually showed up and this threw them all off…
and as far as the test goes it was way hard! too hard for me. i find out how i did in 3 weeks. can’t wait for that.
anybody have any ideas about what i should do with my life now that i’ve been filtered out of law school? don’t answer that jerks.
# W-whazz Says:
September 21st, 2006 at 12:57 am
Cal, forget the LSAT. Become the scientist’s apprentice. He will teach you Omaha hi low and Bichon Frise husbandry. You will dine on Milios or Jimmy Johns (Big Mike’s Super Subs is now Milios or Jimmy John’s…it became BOTH) and Frisbee golf in a magical forest.
# W-whazz Says:
September 21st, 2006 at 1:15 am
Cal, the skeezer has two computer screens. On one, you will play cards and on the other he will regale you with videos of exploding toilets. He also has a lap top, so you can work on your own special cal projects. Sometimes he will drink vast quantities of Captain Morgan’s and you will fan him with a towel, maybe even take control of a runaway tournament he registered for and passed out. Day will become night and night will become mid afternoon. You will dance in St. Paul and when it is all said and done, you will bend the very laws of mathamatics that created the MADD SCIENTIST…you just might bump into Arlo. AND THEN YOU WILL BE READY… to become KING of your very own small world.
Just come kick it down in San Dog, dog. You need a vacation. We’ll make juice. And shit with tofu in it.
Consider homemaker: House husband is a sweet gig, man. These nurses, they make money, but they can’t clean and cook. You can. They are everywhere down here: EVERYWHERE. You can’t walk the dog around the block without one latching on to your honker.
whazzmaster posted:
“[UPDATE 4 (1:56am)]
Problems abound as we hash out the details of this stuff.”
And then it was quiet…
Did you win anything? Did someone open a portal to hell? What happened at hackfest 06?
I think I’m going to look at every on-line poker site, make a list of every turbo tourney and do nothing for the next two days but pound green tea and play them.
I used to be very good at them (I won pokerroom’s 1st ever turbo 2 Halloweens ago) but now, since I’ve tweaked a few things, I think I might be great.
A lot of people bitch about them, a lot of players think they are a joke, but what they fail to realize, is that all tournament poker is sort of a joke on a pure poker level. All you do to win is figure out how to exploit the different tournament rules.
Speed is a new form of poker and right now,after reading a few articles on strategy and seeing how people play, I’m way ahead of the pack. Some players still refuse to believe that there is more than just luck to it.
Let the haters hate.
Madd has a black belt in omaha hi low, I think my black belt might be in speed poker.
I’ll keep ya’ll updated.
Grrrrrrrrr…
Turbo #1: I build my stack to 10K and push with AJs, get called by someone with 10K and some change and A10. 20K pot when chip leader has 12K. 10 on the flop. 184 of 406 for no skrill.
Nh, heather286, nh.
#2: Pushed on the flop with a flush draw. Got two callers. Missed. Blip, blip, blip game over.
#3: Pushed on an A high flop w AK… flush draw hit. Twho hands later I push with a flush draw and lose to AK. Say la vee. Plan for world domination might take a rain check.
But I’m still kicking in 2 turbo and I’ll play in one more later…
#4: Ran AJ all in to AA. Rebuilt with a flurry of all ins only to push with AQs and lose to JJ. I even flopped the flizzush drizaw.
#5: About 30 off the money I get min raised in the blinds. DICKFIGHT! We’re both healthy. I have K10 and push. He calls with QJ and the flop is 9QA and no help comes.
Really though, this is all part of the plan. My last tourney of the night is at 1:20, so I got some time to chill. Belly just made strawberry milkshakes, so I’ll have me one of them and watch TV.
10 Things I Hate About You is on TV. Any of you hojo whazzers remember seeing that? I remember going to a midnight showing at University Square 4 with a hojo squad. We got off work, ran to the living room, pounded Jameson and then watched the movie. I know Sarah W was there and I’m pretty sure Paul was there. Cal, were you there? Z-monkey?
My last terrrbo goes off in 10 min. It’s a $20. The others were only 6ers so I’m down $50 bones on the night including entry into this one. I’ll only post again if it’s good news. otherwise I went to bed 50 bucks less rich.
cal, be a corrections officer at alcatraz
use your knowledge to exploit those without your knowledge. fuck them. they don’t even know as much as you.
H.U.S.T.L.E.
slang crack rock, or acquire a mad jump shot.
cal, get this…. they even make you strawberry milkshakes!!@)(&%@#()*&%@BBQ
cal, just be pretty. life is too short to work.
maybe go work in the coal mine with your dad, and your 2 brothers that never had your girly ambition.
maybe you could be the guy that invents flying cars. people. are. waiting.
calgon sponsorship in next marathon?
2 step career:
1. wear floppy brown hats.
2. sell floppy brown hats.
remember. if you get overzealous and try to sell before you wear, your customer will shun you. the key is in step 1. the wearing of the hats. there is must importance in step one. never forget step 1.
run for public office.
start and manage a charitable organization.
feed all the kids in the world with spoonfuls of happiness!
i don’t think i have a black belt in PLO8… i’m more tank abbottish in that i can impose my will on anyone with any belt in that game because i play like a clown with a machinegun that shoots knives made out of butter. there’s just nothing you can do, but they keep signing up. every once in a while someone brings toast… and is like, hahahah thanks for the butter. enjoy your toast asshat. tomorrow, i eat YOU!
yes! i will buy many floppy brown hats and sell for a profit! wwhz i will come to san dog in november. gf in tow.
cal
oh man this det/stl game is way too close!
ok i’m gonna watch lost dvds now. bye whazzmaster
Twins win the divsion!!!! Twins win the division!!!!
BYE!
1. Cal, will my dog’s dander send you to the ER? I just thought of that.
2. Plan for world domination is not going well. I made up my entry fees with a nice 2-4 session last night. Today I’ve down 3 turbos and all three have been shitty.
1. $33 on Party. Early I call a min raise with 107s in the bb. The flop is 10 high and the dude pops a 180 chip pot 300. I’m 1000% sure he has nothing, so I check raise him all in. He calls with KJ and turns a J rivers a K. He then tells me he knew I had nothing. Classic.
2. $2 turbo rebuy on pokerroom. 10th place. Too stupid to even talk about.
3. $6 turbo party. UTG pops it 100, five call. I’m in the BB with 1010. Push. Only UTG calls with J10 and hits a J. I was out before the water for my tea was even boiling.
4. To make matters worse, Belly has been sick in bed for the last 4 days and now I have a pounding headache and my throat is closing. Countdown to sickness: 2 hours.
5. That butter and toast thing was the best metaphor I’ve ever seen. May I have it?
w-whazz…. i think the #1 destination for what you are looking for in game selection is at stars. that’s the word on the street.
dude, if you can find a situation in life where that metaphor is in any way meaningful, feel free.
cal, are you really watching lost dvd’s or was that a joke? sometimes your “west coast” sarcasm goes over my head.
Got one: 5th for $500.
cal, you should go work for the others
$20 cannonball on PR in 24 minutes. i’m in. $30 ploiter in an hour. time for mario to 2 step in and hollllllllarit “FIGHT!”
talk whazzmaster into being your partner and you can run the white men can’t jump hustle at tennis. but you are *2* white men, so you’ll make double the money.
11th of 33 from 79 in the baller. didn’t play a hand until it was 200-400.
7th of 17
son of a fuck. 15th. lost 2 in a row on rivers where i was 4:1 fav when money went in. fucking bull shit. the world of turbos.
top 10 paid. 15th gets a thank you for working an hour, and a bill for $22. somehow it makes sense though, i’m pretty sure.
a dude at the end had his aces cracked to lose half his stack… then cracked aces to win it back… then busted to aces. all in 3 straight hands. i got a chuckle… then as i stood laughing, just calming down, and someone gets be with the butter. i could not believe it. i could not believe it was butter.
turbo tourneys skill is a filter non press situation as well. just like in the rolling thunder movie with tom cruise where there is that huge wreck and he has to accellerate through it. there are reasons not to do it. many good reasons. but if you cant drive through that cloud knowing you know everything you COULD know and used it all as well as you could, and are completely content with pushing that pedal down and letting the pieces fall… you can’t win. it is impossible. because someone else might be willing to do it, or worse yet, some idiot will do it accidentally and win. cinncinatti kid quote, “it’s all about doing the wrong thing at the right time”. so true. the smart move is always being the idiot. cal, email the LSAT people and explain these socioeconomic talking points and argue you failed on purpose because it was the logical thing to do. HOLLLLLLLLARIT. doing OK in the ploit.. just got rivered by gutshot when i flopped trips and nut low. bah. got 3k, should have 5.
ok, i quartered the guy…. still got the other quarter to go. fuck this idiot. i will END him.
Just woke up from a nap. The sickness took a lot of the wind out of my sails, but I still made some cash. I down loaded stars, but it’s gonna take a while to sort though it all.
For now I took a play out of cals playbook and rented some tv on dvd. We’re watching season 1 of My Name is Earl.
wow… venture bros on right now… wow… wwhazz, you saw that painting i made where there was the dolphin in the reddish liquid with a being floating in the above water portion in an orbish something…. it was a little weird. almost exactly the same looking. they ripped my shit off. facists.
that whole scene with brock in the water… the angles, the horizon line, the perspective size differences… everything was the same. 7th out of 23 from 45 in the ploit at the break.
#!^!#$^!@#%!@#%!@$^$! T88 flop and and my 8T runs into TT all in. leaving me with 123 chips on the buble. (#&)(@#^*)@(#^
cold fucking deck. bleh. theres no money today grandma. maybe you can put me on a plan? i NEED your charity.
normal tourney dynamics = war with guns. turbo = war with nukes. some people like to pretend like the written strategy of war pre-nukes still holds it value post nukes. the books needs to get re-written and re-read… but no one wants to write it, and no one sees a reason to read it. fish tank. just take their money. cal could do it. just need experience and open mind.
but i can’t get experience until i get the job! ah living.
but also, there is a skill to keeping your car at a certain speed behind the pace car at the lowest RPM possible to conserve fuel. the more of those angles you got in your bat-belt, the easier it becomes to spot out, set up, and otherwise exploit those afraid of the cloud of smoke. afraid of the unknown. afraid of the truth.
shana hiatt is in litigation with WPT. they say she can’t work for espn and show her titties over there. those are OUR titties. but i think espn will still get to use em’. shana hiatt’s titties have a profound socioeconomic shifting power. they CAN make you. they CAN break you. you can’t hide. you can try to run, but you know they’ll catch you… they’re HUUUUUUUUUUUGE. nut up and face them. huh? i lost 10k… whatev… man… rounnnnnnnnnd. juuuuuuuuuuuuuicy. shaaaaaaaaaaaana.
whazzmaster will be out for the count for 2.6 days recovering. i hope you new orleanders are happy.
the new WPT chick has fitness boobies like that chick in club dredd. that movie is a well thought out production throughout. mucho el propos.
i love being in the upper middle of the pack behind the pace car in heavy traffic, slow down to leave to a gap anticipating the best explosion… when some idiot red lines it to close the gap only to stand on his break 2 seconds later when he hits traffic, just as it starts to move a millisecond later, and i’m shooting by him on the right a trillisecond after that and he’s dead in the water in the asphault. and every time i still look in my rear view mumbling comically to myself “DUDE! WHAT. WERE. YOU. THINKING?!?!?!” i’ve come to the conclusion: you weren’t.
and moreso, the assumptions you were operating on are an OBVIOUSITY of a state of error unless standing on your break as i OWN you is in your list of “acceptible outcomes”. hahahahah. SHIPE IT!
flomax: “here’s to guys that want to spend more time HAVING FUN and less time in the MENS room”. fuck all that. the fun is IN the mens room. HOLLLLLLLLLARIT! cal knows what i’m talking about. why would these dudes want to piss less? and why would the pill be called flomax then… should it be minflo? did market testing show that more people would warm up to a potential purchase of flomax, but not minflo? you could have gone with “urine-b-gone”… but some pet stain cleaner chemical company beat you to the punch. gotta stay on your toes in this market. someone else will shoot through the smoke balls out ahead of you.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. ploit with 120 people. 14 left and i’m in 2nd. i have 25k. other dude has 25500. avg stack is 10k and top 10 pay. i have AA2K suited. on the turn i have nut low overpair on board that doesn’t make a straight, and both flush draws. all in for 50k pot and dude rivers a 2 which counterfeits my low, and gives him a set with his 22 top pair no kicker. i mean come the christ on. so he has 50k and i’m out on seriously the 10th fucking bubble in a row. i am insanely pissed. then the next tournament i have 10k in about half way through looking to dominate and i lose the next hand on the river too, which knocks me to 3k at the break. FUCKING. JOKE. i have been dominating for 2 days and getting FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED on the bubble. )(#@^*&)#@(%^*#!)(%*@#^)(&@#%(*&^#(*&@#(%)&
(@#*&%(#!%&)!(% then i talk crazy shit, get A2KQ double suited, talk shit and dude tells me shut up and i already see it… i raise… tell him to make me… he re-raises with fucking jacks, no low draw, i flop top 2 with 1 low card and this fucker catches a flush with one of his Jacks. FUCKING. JOKE. (!#@&%0(!@%&*
it’s like i drove through the smoke perfect, then died a lap from the finish from lung cancer. didn’t see that coming. is it even believable? who am i to ask… i’m dead. FUCK
buttered flomax in the house! yes lost dvd’s!like buttered toast. bellgirl we won yesterday! i couldn’t believe it this morning when i checked the score. it’s a miracle!
i’m so tempted to “cancel” my lsat score… they said over and over: you have nine days to cancel. nine days to cancel. nine days to cancel. but i’m not… just going to hope! if the answers consisted mainly of answer choice “D” I did great! c’mon “D”!
Hey Whazzmaster…
Zach, I don’t mean to shit in your Easter Basket, but there is already a site that lets you record a message & include a picture. We used the same technology to start a viral campaign of monkeys dressed like hookers & businessmen. I do really like the idea of Literature Road Trip. Anyway, I hope you won.
Also, on a hojo note, I attended the nuptuals of a one Mandy Davis to a Thomas Marks this past weekend in Monroe, Wi. The highlight was one of Tom’s friends who was in the wedding is a cop & gave one of the bridesmaids a DUI a few months back. I also drank a few cans of Huber in your honor wwhazz….when in Rome. Wirki (that’s how I pluralize Wirkus) I hope you’re feeling better.