This is based on U.S. info, so use all lobes of your brain. This can be more difficult than it looks - it just shows how little most of us really see!
There are 25 questions about things we see every day or have known about all our lives. How many can you get right?
These little simple questions are harder than you think-- it just shows you how little we pay attention to the commonplace things of life.
Put your thinking caps on. No cheating! No looking around! No getting out of your chair! No using anything on or in your desk or computer!
Can you beat 20?? (The average is 7) Write down your answers as you go.
Let's just see how observant you really are.
1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
2. How many states are there in the USA? (Don't laugh, some people don't know)
3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
4. What six colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
5. What two numbers on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
6. When you walk does your left arm swing with your right or left leg?
(Don't you dare get up to see!)
7. How many matches are in a standard pack?
8. On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white?
9. What is the lowest number on the FM dial?
10. Which way does water go down the drain, counter or clockwise?
11. Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
12. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
13 On which side of a women's blouse are the buttons?
14. Which way do fans rotate?
15 How many sides does a stop sign have?
16. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left side?
17 How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
18. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
19. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
20. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
21 On which playing card is the card maker's trademark?
22 On which side of a Venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?
23. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?
24. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?
25. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise?
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Setting Rosser Straight
(The ultimate NSFW post.)
I understand these things are subjective, eye of the beholder and all that, but come ON.
Kelly Monaco
Kara Monaco
Amber Campisi
Lindsey Vuolo
Divini Rae
Aliya Wolf
Nichole van Croft
Shae Marks
Karin Taylor
Eh, I can stop at nine. Particularly since #9 is...
Raquel Gibson (that sound you hear is Butch kicking his own ass)
And that was just off the top of my head. Basically what I'm saying here is...
Jennifer Walcott?
Bitch, PLEASE.
:)
I understand these things are subjective, eye of the beholder and all that, but come ON.
Kelly Monaco
Kara Monaco
Amber Campisi
Lindsey Vuolo
Divini Rae
Aliya Wolf
Nichole van Croft
Shae Marks
Karin Taylor
Eh, I can stop at nine. Particularly since #9 is...
Raquel Gibson (that sound you hear is Butch kicking his own ass)
And that was just off the top of my head. Basically what I'm saying here is...
Jennifer Walcott?
Bitch, PLEASE.
:)
Friday, June 16, 2006
A Swift Kick in the Pride
The good news for my wallet is that my credit cards are paid off.
The bad news for my ego is that I needed my parents' help to do it.
I've always valued my independence. I suspect it comes from being both an only child and a latchkey kid growing up, but for most of my life I've been able to fend for myself pretty well. I pretty much taught myself to cook (I make a mean Caesar salad) and I got used to things like laundry and cleaning bathrooms and such just from having to do it anyway growing up. Being male, I can also improvise like nobody's business -- a couple of my tricks while in college were making a TV stand out of a couple of cake cooling racks and rigging a malfunctioning door lock.
The details of how I got into this particular fix are irrelevant, though my plumbing mishaps over the past couple of years (toilet replacement; terminated water heater) had a lot to do with it. My mom knew I was running into trouble, but I was determined to climb out of it myself... my independent streak walks hand-in-hand with some serious stubbornness. Plus, I'm of the mindset that I'm 31 years old; I shouldn't need to ask my parents to help me pay off my credit cards. Add all of that together and you've got one serious humbling coming.
Mom had been checking up on my progress, and I happened to mention last weekend that I was making zero headway with one card because of an interest rate that crosses the border and is full-fledged obscene. So she told me she was putting the money to pay them all off into my bank account. I didn't want her to do it, but I didn't say anything because, well, I probably couldn't have stopped her. (Plus, if I tried to stop her, she'd come down here and kick my sorry ass.)
The money showed up on Tuesday. I paid the accounts on Wednesday.
So that's out of the way. Fewer bills I have to worry about every month.
It's nice to know they've got my back.
The bad news for my ego is that I needed my parents' help to do it.
I've always valued my independence. I suspect it comes from being both an only child and a latchkey kid growing up, but for most of my life I've been able to fend for myself pretty well. I pretty much taught myself to cook (I make a mean Caesar salad) and I got used to things like laundry and cleaning bathrooms and such just from having to do it anyway growing up. Being male, I can also improvise like nobody's business -- a couple of my tricks while in college were making a TV stand out of a couple of cake cooling racks and rigging a malfunctioning door lock.
The details of how I got into this particular fix are irrelevant, though my plumbing mishaps over the past couple of years (toilet replacement; terminated water heater) had a lot to do with it. My mom knew I was running into trouble, but I was determined to climb out of it myself... my independent streak walks hand-in-hand with some serious stubbornness. Plus, I'm of the mindset that I'm 31 years old; I shouldn't need to ask my parents to help me pay off my credit cards. Add all of that together and you've got one serious humbling coming.
Mom had been checking up on my progress, and I happened to mention last weekend that I was making zero headway with one card because of an interest rate that crosses the border and is full-fledged obscene. So she told me she was putting the money to pay them all off into my bank account. I didn't want her to do it, but I didn't say anything because, well, I probably couldn't have stopped her. (Plus, if I tried to stop her, she'd come down here and kick my sorry ass.)
The money showed up on Tuesday. I paid the accounts on Wednesday.
So that's out of the way. Fewer bills I have to worry about every month.
It's nice to know they've got my back.
Saturday, June 3, 2006
I'd Love To Know...
...what MP1 had here.
Party Poker
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $0.50/$1
10 players
Converter
Party Poker
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $0.50/$1
10 players
Converter
Stack sizes:
UTG: $17.13
UTG+1: $13.50
UTG+2: $36.25
MP1: $11.25
MP2: $25.39
MP3: $21.50
CO: $42.63
Button: $24
SB: $49
Hero: $21.25
Pre-flop: (10 players) Hero is BB with K♣ K♠
3 folds, MP1 raises, 2 folds, CO calls, 2 folds, Hero 3-bets, MP1 caps, CO calls, Hero calls.
Flop: K♦ 5♥ 7♦ (18.5SB, 3 players)
Hero bets, MP1 calls, CO calls.
Turn: 8♣ (10.75BB, 3 players)
Hero bets, MP1 calls, CO raises, Hero 3-bets, MP1 folds, CO calls.
River: T♠ (19.75BB, 2 players)
Hero bets, CO raises, Hero calls.
Results:
Final pot: 23.75BB
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Bits and Pieces
- They rearranged the first five or so aisles of the supermarket I shop at, but I'm still wondering why you'd have the pasta in a separate aisle from the pasta sauce.
- YAY
- Tonight I went shopping for shoes 'cause, well, I need shoes, and since I dislike buying shoes even more than I dislike buying regular clothes, I've probably never noticed this before. But the men's shoes? We get one aisle down the side of the store and the back. That's IT. I'm amazed I found anything.
- Let me make sure I've got this right. This guy is now one of TV's newest heartthrobs? Would you have put odds on that 20 years ago?
- YAY
- Tonight I went shopping for shoes 'cause, well, I need shoes, and since I dislike buying shoes even more than I dislike buying regular clothes, I've probably never noticed this before. But the men's shoes? We get one aisle down the side of the store and the back. That's IT. I'm amazed I found anything.
- Let me make sure I've got this right. This guy is now one of TV's newest heartthrobs? Would you have put odds on that 20 years ago?
Sunday, May 21, 2006
A Couple Of Vague Recollections
(Since I can't get tourney hand histories from Party, I don't have any numbers.)
Thursday night's tourney was the first time where I felt like just about everything I've learned about playing poker hit me. I never got A-A. Not once. It seemed like I got 9-9 a lot. I'd played tight-aggressive almost throughout, but not to the point where I couldn't get any action (though I should have slowplayed my flopped quad 10s) I got K-K cracked early when my opponent rivered a Broadway straight, but this transgression would be avenged...
Hand 1 (It Pays To Get Lucky... Literally)
About 160 or so players left. 140 get coffee money. I'm in the big blind with K-K. MP raises, CO+1 calls, folded to me, I re-raise. MP short stack goes all-in, CO+1 calls, I call. We both started out with above-average stack sizes, so no need to push just yet.
I hit my set on the flop and push into a dry side pot. I've got CO+1 covered and she calls, flipping over her cracked Aces. MP says "I picked a bad time to go all in" and shows A-10. I bust both players and am assured my first MTT cash.
Hand 2 (Brain Freeze)
In middle position with A8o, which is a hand I despise most of the time. My stack is just below average at this point, which is actually a vast improvement over where I usually am (the rail.) Reason being is that I got good cards early and was able to pick up chips for once, so I could survive getting in behind and the dry stretches, which I must have been in the middle of to do what I did.
I make my standard raise of 3-4x the big blind. Player next to me calls, and seat 10 either min-reraises or smooth-calls; I don't remember anymore. Now, normally with A8o, I'm done after that (A6o-A9o are four of the worst hands in poker IMO). But something tells me that I need to win this pot.
So I push.
The player next to me folds. Seat 10 has me covered and calls immediately with... K-K. I feel weak and sheepish.
Flop: J-J-A.
Turn: J.
River's a blank and I've hit a two-outer to donk my way to top three in chips.
Why only two outs? Well, Seat 6 (the player next to me who folded to my push) said he also had A-8. Another player said, "nh, but shoving preflop with A8?"
I didn't say anything. They don't need to know that I don't know why I did that.
Hand 3 (Battling Blind[s])
Not long after I double up a player who was all-in in the big blind with Aces, this hand comes up. It's late in the tourney at this point, maybe around 25 players left. I'm in the big blind, and it's folded around to the small blind, who completes.
Flop comes 3-K-x. Check, check.
Turn: 3. SB bets, I raise, SB calls.
River's a 5. SB checks. I push my last ~T45000. SB thinks for almost 30 seconds and folds. She says "nice bluff."
I say, "if you say so" and muck my Q3o.
Hand 4 (The Leak)
I'm not used to playing a big stack. A couple of weeks ago I won a play-money SNG on PokerStars despite winning exactly one pot before it got down to four-handed. There, like at the final table on Thursday, someone must have sprayed me with some Good Cards OFF! or something. I haven't learned how to win with utter crap yet - my conscience won't allow me to play a hand that bad.
When we got to the final table, I resisted the urge to type "holy crap" into the chat box. Act like you've been there before and all that.
Blinds are 10k/20k with 500 antes. It's folded to the small blind, who completes, and I check with Q-4. Flop is a King and two rags. He makes a modest bet. I can't put him on much, but I'm not a big fan of my hand, and I call. Turn is an... 8? Another small bet from the SB and I call.
The river Ace is... unfortunate. He checks, I bluff at it (which is likely why he checked) and he calls, probably thinking if he comes over the top, I'm gonna fold. He didn't need to hit it because he already had an Ace, but it sealed my defeat. I should've folded to the flop bet and not called off 40 percent of my stack with Queen high. I need to not do that in the future.
After that it was waiting for a spot to make a move. I get A-3 UTG with about T140,000 left and push. It's folded around to the big blind, who calls with 4-4 and you know the rest.
Thursday night's tourney was the first time where I felt like just about everything I've learned about playing poker hit me. I never got A-A. Not once. It seemed like I got 9-9 a lot. I'd played tight-aggressive almost throughout, but not to the point where I couldn't get any action (though I should have slowplayed my flopped quad 10s) I got K-K cracked early when my opponent rivered a Broadway straight, but this transgression would be avenged...
Hand 1 (It Pays To Get Lucky... Literally)
About 160 or so players left. 140 get coffee money. I'm in the big blind with K-K. MP raises, CO+1 calls, folded to me, I re-raise. MP short stack goes all-in, CO+1 calls, I call. We both started out with above-average stack sizes, so no need to push just yet.
I hit my set on the flop and push into a dry side pot. I've got CO+1 covered and she calls, flipping over her cracked Aces. MP says "I picked a bad time to go all in" and shows A-10. I bust both players and am assured my first MTT cash.
Hand 2 (Brain Freeze)
In middle position with A8o, which is a hand I despise most of the time. My stack is just below average at this point, which is actually a vast improvement over where I usually am (the rail.) Reason being is that I got good cards early and was able to pick up chips for once, so I could survive getting in behind and the dry stretches, which I must have been in the middle of to do what I did.
I make my standard raise of 3-4x the big blind. Player next to me calls, and seat 10 either min-reraises or smooth-calls; I don't remember anymore. Now, normally with A8o, I'm done after that (A6o-A9o are four of the worst hands in poker IMO). But something tells me that I need to win this pot.
So I push.
The player next to me folds. Seat 10 has me covered and calls immediately with... K-K. I feel weak and sheepish.
Flop: J-J-A.
Turn: J.
River's a blank and I've hit a two-outer to donk my way to top three in chips.
Why only two outs? Well, Seat 6 (the player next to me who folded to my push) said he also had A-8. Another player said, "nh, but shoving preflop with A8?"
I didn't say anything. They don't need to know that I don't know why I did that.
Hand 3 (Battling Blind[s])
Not long after I double up a player who was all-in in the big blind with Aces, this hand comes up. It's late in the tourney at this point, maybe around 25 players left. I'm in the big blind, and it's folded around to the small blind, who completes.
Flop comes 3-K-x. Check, check.
Turn: 3. SB bets, I raise, SB calls.
River's a 5. SB checks. I push my last ~T45000. SB thinks for almost 30 seconds and folds. She says "nice bluff."
I say, "if you say so" and muck my Q3o.
Hand 4 (The Leak)
I'm not used to playing a big stack. A couple of weeks ago I won a play-money SNG on PokerStars despite winning exactly one pot before it got down to four-handed. There, like at the final table on Thursday, someone must have sprayed me with some Good Cards OFF! or something. I haven't learned how to win with utter crap yet - my conscience won't allow me to play a hand that bad.
When we got to the final table, I resisted the urge to type "holy crap" into the chat box. Act like you've been there before and all that.
Blinds are 10k/20k with 500 antes. It's folded to the small blind, who completes, and I check with Q-4. Flop is a King and two rags. He makes a modest bet. I can't put him on much, but I'm not a big fan of my hand, and I call. Turn is an... 8? Another small bet from the SB and I call.
The river Ace is... unfortunate. He checks, I bluff at it (which is likely why he checked) and he calls, probably thinking if he comes over the top, I'm gonna fold. He didn't need to hit it because he already had an Ace, but it sealed my defeat. I should've folded to the flop bet and not called off 40 percent of my stack with Queen high. I need to not do that in the future.
After that it was waiting for a spot to make a move. I get A-3 UTG with about T140,000 left and push. It's folded around to the big blind, who calls with 4-4 and you know the rest.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Downs And Ups (Or, A Dollar Spent)
You know how good it feels when you find money in your pants you didn't know you had?
Well, I'd pretty much stopped playing at Party Poker just because I don't really like playing there, but I logged in and saw that I still had a couple dollars left. So I entered one of their dinky $1 tourneys.
1177 players total.
And this is what happened:
Yep, that's seventh place. Cashed for about $35. I doubt the IRS will be coming after me. :)
Got bounced when, a while after losing half my stack to a river Ace, I pushed with A-3 and got called by 4-4. Got an Ace on the flop, but there was a 4 with it.
More hands later when I dig them up and aren't so sleepy.
Well, I'd pretty much stopped playing at Party Poker just because I don't really like playing there, but I logged in and saw that I still had a couple dollars left. So I entered one of their dinky $1 tourneys.
1177 players total.
And this is what happened:
Yep, that's seventh place. Cashed for about $35. I doubt the IRS will be coming after me. :)
Got bounced when, a while after losing half my stack to a river Ace, I pushed with A-3 and got called by 4-4. Got an Ace on the flop, but there was a 4 with it.
More hands later when I dig them up and aren't so sleepy.
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