UngsungBlog: A (Fantasy) Sports Blog

A couple quickies:

- I folded pocket Kings to a huge raise, and not only would I have had the best hand before the flop–the other two guys in the pot had 99 and 55–I would have made a full house. The pot was $60 too! Then again, you try throwing in $20 pre-flop (at a $20NL table) with Kings facing two all-ins.

I should point out that this was play money, as online gambling is illegal, and I would never consider breaking US law to gamble online!

- Quick NBA first round playoff picks:

Pistons in 5 over Magic. I’ll give Orlando one win at home.
Cavs in 4 over Wizards. I don’t see the Wiz winning a single game without Arenas and Butler.
Raptors in 6 over Nets. I’m so looking forward to hearing Raptors fans heckle Wince Carter.
Heat in 6 over Bulls. I just can’t pick against a motivated Shaq, even with a less than 100% Wade.
Mavs in 6 over Warriors. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Warriors pull the upset, though.
Suns in 5 over Lakers. The over/under on Kobe’s PPG should be 45, and I’ll take the over.
Spurs in 6 over Nuggets. AI and ‘Melo should be able to steal a game or two against the Spurs.
Rockets in 7 over Jazz. This series should be the most entertaining one of the first round.

- Watching a little kid falling off a piece of furniture should never be funny. Witnessing the tumble and laughing uncontrollably isn’t cool, either, and I know that. However, when your two-and-a-half year old nephew stands on your sofa, rolls forward, lands on a sofa cushion wedged in the gap between your sofa and coffee table, falls through the gap (as if the cushion was supposed to hold his weight), smacks something on the table during the fall, and is able to get up and laugh about it, then you should be allowed to laugh hysterically. If only I had a camcorder ready to record the fall.

(me <-- looks out window to see if anyone contacted the authorities)

- Check out the specs of this crazy computer (link ripped directly from Anandtech). Wow! Dual Geforce 6200 video cards? Crazy! The people over at Michael’s Computers think this guy is ripping people off.

For those of you unaware, this computer isn’t worth close to $1,500, even if a legitimate copy of Windows XP Professional SP2 is included in the install. For all we know, the CPU could be overclocked. “Very fast from experience”? “Will run anything you throw at it with ease”? Look, just because the darn thing loads Internet Exploder in less than five seconds doesn’t make your computer fast. Yes, two Geforce 2 6200 video cards is better than one, but that’s like saying two pieces of gum you found on the street is better than one. I’d like to see this thing run The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion on the highest settings; it’ll probably run 0.3 frames per second. I must say, though, that the case is pretty nice.

Well, this blog was supposed to be about a product I recently acquired, but I think I’ve said enough for today already. Plus, I’m getting my butt kicked at online poker, so I think it’s time to take a break.

Until next time!

by Peter
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Before we get started, a bit of seriousness (maybe…):

I am sitting here, broken-hearted, as I am typing up this blog entry. I must spill my guts and talk about an event that happened yesterday that left me dumbstruck and devastated. It hurt me so much that I had to stop what I was doing for a few minutes to let reality set in. I’m in so much pain that it may take me several days, or even weeks, to fully recover. I thought I would have you in my life, but fates intervened, and now you’re gone. My heart aches, my body hurts, and I gotta say, it really sucks. When it became official, and I knew that you and I were not to be, I felt like I got punched in the stomach and had my foot run over by a truck. Why, oh why, did you have to tease me like that? I wish you had never come into my life!

It’ll take some time, and maybe some beers, but eventually I’ll get over the fact that I will not get the Heat-Cavs first round playoff match that I had hoped for!

(All that above was for your Emmy consideration :P)

No thanks to the Bulls’ inability to beat the New Jersey Nets, the Heat get to play the Bulls in the first round, while the Cleveland Cavs draw an undermanned–a horrible understatement, by the way–Wizards team. The only way I’ll get my dream Heat-Cavs matchup is if they play each other in the Eastern Conference Finals, and I don’t want that, only because that means one of the two teams will make it to the NBA Finals. Yeah, I kinda don’t like either team.

There, I feel better already.

Some family-related quick-hitters (hence the title of this blog entry!):

- I swear my sister has some sort of karmic powers. If I do or say something negative to her, something will happen to me due to negative karma. Case in point: one time, she hit her elbow on one of our dining room chairs. I laughed hysterically, only to hit my elbow against a wall. Screw the “Jim Rome karma”; that has nothing on my sister’s karma.

- I must remind myself to not cook turkey burgers for my mom ever again. I undercooked her burger ever so slightly–we’re talking one nano-millimeter of pink in the patty–and she nearly flipped out. She proceeded to throw her patty back on the stove for a few minutes more. As if that wasn’t enough, she then filleted the patty (cutting it in half along the edge of the meat), and proceeded to nuke the two smaller patties into oblivion. The two halves were charred, and about as tasty as shoe leather!

Now I understand that most people don’t like their burgers undercooked, and ground meat should really be cooked thoroughly, to minimize the risk of illness; I like to slightly under cook my burgers, though, just leaving them barely pink inside the patty (~ medium well, I’d say). It keeps the burger juicy, and the patty gets warm enough to reduce the risk of getting sick. At the same time, I don’t have a problem with people ordering their burgers well done. But badly overcooking your hamburger? Beef jerky would think that my mom’s hamburger was too dry.

- I’ve lots to do this weekend with the family. There’s a birthday party on Saturday, featuring a BBQ. There’s a breakfast brunch on Sunday morning. To top it all off, there is my mom’s 60th birthday Sunday night. By Monday morning, I expect to be visiting Tarzana Medical Center, getting my stomach pumped.

Au revoir!

by Peter
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