playfulswitch

Return of the Cat Blogger!

2009-10-15T00:38:07Z

I tried to stop cat blogging, but Kook and Scooter are just too cute sometimes. I caught them in bed together today. I didn't over-react or shame them... It's purrfectly normal...

Dore Alley

2009-07-26T17:06:49Z

Today is the Up Your Alley Fair, or "Dore Alley", as it is often referred to. I've heard it described as "What the Folsom Street Fair was back in the day." I'll be there, wearing my Leather Levi Weekend shirt.

Statistically Significant Other

2009-02-04T18:53:45Z

XKCD Strikes again!

...and the universe implodes

2008-08-28T20:13:34Z

Best Spam Ever!

2008-08-26T19:29:39Z

So, there is a spam floating about with this as the subject:

"Last Man on Planet not Blown by Paris Hilton Demands Explanation"

We may need spam awards. "The Spammys"?

Extreme Organ Freezing Knife Play Anyone?

2008-07-24T19:37:15Z

Britain on alert for deadly new knife with exploding tip that freezes victims' organs

Holy Glory Hole!

2008-07-07T17:10:37Z

Seems like I had to blog this, since I am The Playful Switch.

Good xkcd today

2008-07-01T05:03:12Z

Vegas So Far

2008-06-26T18:53:39Z

Played $1/$2 no-limit at Madalay last night. Up as much as $100, down as much as well. Walked away up $27.

Played in the 9:00 AM no-limit tournament at the Excalibur today. $35 buy-in gets you $300 (eke!) in chips, no rebuys. The blinds go up every 15 minutes. I lasted an hour. My first hand with 2 face cards was also my bust out hand.

A little thing...

2008-06-21T19:37:59Z

I spend a lot of time at coffee shops. Being self-employed gives me the freedom to call anyplace with wifi my office for the day. One of my faves is Bean Street in San Mateo. About the only downside is that there is just one table with an outlet. Today I discovered a row of shinny (maybe even new) outlets under some shelves along the wall. It means every table in the place is within reach of an outlet. It's a small thing, but it makes my world a better place.

JetBlue Sucks

2008-05-09T00:16:30Z

I used to love JetBlue. Their people were friendly, their rates low, their website useable, and they really seemed to be trying harder. Today I got my regular monthly 'True Blue Rewards' spam, the one that I never bother to look at. This time, I decided to look. Hmmm, no reward points, that seems odd. So I look on their website and find that they expire after a year. Bleh. That's kinda' sucky.

I decide to tell them so. I notice the handy 'Tell us how we're doing' thingy. It asks my what I want to comment about, and I choose 'True Blue'. It asks me what about True Blue, I choose 'Other'. It asks me for my personal data. Bleh, I'm already logged in to the site. That's lame. It then asks me for my flight number and confirmation number! What the!?!? I leave 'em blank and it promptly tells me that they are required.

Yeah, they've really lost their way. Too bad.

My Baby Gets Paid to Read Porn!

2008-05-08T21:28:04Z

OK, not porn exactly, but erotica. Still, a pretty sweet gig. The LA Weekly just published her combined review of Do Me and Sex For America.

I'm so proud. :-)

The Earth Moved Again

2008-04-18T12:46:06Z

The San Francisco Bay area is home, so I have experienced a few earthquakes. I'm in the Chicago area at the moment, and I woke up last night to a shaking bed. The shaking stopped and I went back to sleep. The first words spoken to me this morning: "It's all your fault, California boy!"

Bad Choices For Your Safeword

2008-04-07T04:39:37Z

"Green"
"I'm fine, really"
"Is that all you've got?"
"You're a pussy"
"I'm a pussy"
"Thank you sir! May I have another?"
"Have you put on weight?"
"Quit trying to hit me, and hit me."
"Bring it!"
Yawning
Anything in a language you don't actually speak
The name of your top's ex
Mathematical theorems or proofs thereof
Poetry, especially limericks
The Barney Theme Song
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

She's f*cking Matt Damon!

2008-03-01T02:53:51Z

How I fixed Poker Stars Faultless Software

2008-03-01T02:14:03Z

A while back, I began having issues with the Poker Stars software freezing up. It always happened between the first and second hand that I played. First hand was fine, but then it stopped responding for a bit. It wasn't uncommon for this result in my second hand being folded and me being listed as 'Sitting Out'. I gave the support folks a very detailed description of the problem, including the fact that is was accessing the disk while it was unresponsive. They responed with and email that said "our software has no faults." Yeah..... right.....

Anyway, the other day I figured it out. I keep a lot of hand histories (1000 days worth). The folder (wow, I call them folders now) where the hand histories are kept had a lot of files in it. What if I moved them all someplace else? The answer: The problem goes away. My guess is that between the first and second hand the software is looking through all of the hand histories and deleting the one that are older than the user has specified. The default value is small (I can't recall, but perhaps 30 days), but if the user (me) makes it big, say 1000, then the software has to access lots of files to see how old they are. Seems like a good job for a worker thread...

Study: Spanking may lead to sexual "problems"

2008-02-28T17:52:57Z

USA Today has this story which says that getting spanked as a child may lead to sexual "problems" such as "engaging in masochistic sex, including sexual arousal by spanking."

If you are suffering from this "problem", let me know. I can help. ;-)

Bike Jockstraps - Sucky Sucky Sucky

2008-02-02T01:28:20Z

I recently had a vasectomy (ouch! and ouch!). As part of the aftercare, I was supposed to wear a jockstrap for a while. I ran out to the local sporting goods store and bought a two-pack of Bike athletic supporters, the elastic kind, not the kind with a cup. The cloth and elastic on each one started unraveling almost immediately. Sucky sucky sucky.

XKCD

2008-01-30T06:32:29Z

Whipartist turned me on to xkcd recently. These two are great:

Read this one...

...then this one.

Warning! You may find yourself unable to stop there. You may feel compelled to read many, many more.

Cheers!

South Park Me

2008-01-11T18:02:47Z

Make your own here

Product Review - Fireplace Logs

2008-01-11T17:25:09Z

Java-Logs rock!

The fire is is pleasing to watch, and to listen to. They don't smoke much and leave very little ash behind.

Enviro-Logs suck.
These things are smokey and smelly and leave a huge pile of ash behind.

Presidential Candidate Quiz Results

2008-01-07T17:29:51Z

86% Dennis Kucinich
85% Mike Gravel
82% Barack Obama
81% Chris Dodd
77% John Edwards
77% Hillary Clinton
76% Joe Biden
75% Bill Richardson
41% Rudy Giuliani
35% John McCain
31% Ron Paul
25% Mike Huckabee
25% Mitt Romney
17% Tom Tancredo
15% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Looks like I agree with Iowa, when it comes to the viable dems.

The New Bubble

2007-12-10T01:11:01Z

I think it's official now...

Teen Sex Videos!

2007-12-07T03:49:00Z

In my never-ending search for teen sex videos, I finally struck gold. Check this out:

No, really. Check it out. It's really good.

Exotic Erotic Ball

2007-11-01T04:04:02Z

Hillary and I were performers on the Fetish Stage of the Exotic Erotic Ball.

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