Today I turned on CNN and there was this huge debate on whether or not Public breast feeding was OK.
I don't even understand how there is any argument. I find it very bizarre the human culture has developed to a point where people are so ashamed/afraid of the way we were all born. Almost every "civilized" society has rules regarding the covering of ones' body, certain societies take it to huge extremes to the point where public nudity would get one a death sentence. It's hard to imagine we live in a world where presenting yourself in the manner with which you came into this world would get you taken out of it.
Even in the United States, you can go to jail for being nude. Imprisoned for not wearing clothing. As far as I'm concerned, whether you're a religious person or an evolutionist, it should be understood that God/Evolution created you without clothing, so why the big deal about it?
Obviously I appreciate clothing as they keep me warm and make me look cool, but I have just always found it odd that society has this bizarre preoccupation with nudity. I was watching this documentary where this Muslim guy was talking about how he loves religion and saying that we need it else our women would all be walking around "dressed like whores." This is an interesting theory of course, but it makes me wonder, do they not recognize that Allah, God, or whoever made man naked? If he wanted us to wear clothing perhaps it should grown on trees?
I've brought this up with some people and usually get a response of "WHAT YOU WANT PERVERTS WALKING AROUND FLASHING PEOPLE ALL THE TIME?" or, re: breastfeeding "YEAH WELL PEOPLE NEED TO WHACK OFF TOO BUT THEY DONT HAVE TO DO IT IN PUBLIC" (this might actually be a fair argument).
Obviously, I don't want perverts running around with their wangs flapping in the breeze, and I think it's nice that people generally prefer to be clothed, but rather I wonder what it is that makes it now seem "normal" for societies to have rules punishing people for having their bodies exposed within eyesight of others.
Anyone else ever find this weird? Or am I a huge pervert freak?
So this year I've been playing 2/4 PLO almost exclusively (some 3/6 to fill tables). I've played about 60k hands or so and it's been going surprisingly well. I was kind of a fish when I first jumped right into 2/4 but I've sort of impressed myself at how fast I've adjusted to the game, and would say that as of right now I'm either one of the best running (more likely) regulars in the game, or that I have a fairly significant edge over the field.
I feel my "edge" more in PLO than I ever did in hold 'em interestingly enough, and it only took about 4 or 5 ~30 bi swinging days for me to get used to the swings. I've always been overrolled so maybe PLO was made for me.
I'm really nervous/excited about how well I've been doing and how comfortable I feel. I plan to aggressively move up and cycle in 5/10 and 10/20 tables as necessary. I talked to another PLO reg who got SNE last year solely from PLO and think that this is a reasonable goal for me as well. I'd only need to put in 80k hands a month which is certainly doable, although it's worth noting that PLO hands go MUCH slower than NLHE, so it takes about twice as much time hour wise for me to get that many hands in.
Here's a graph from my desktop that is unfortunately missing about 60% of my volume from the laptop at PCA/Foxwoods.
As you can see there are a lot of swongs, but I'm pulling 5.8ptbb this month so undoubtedly running good. I've only been one outted once and have one-outted others twice.
My heads up game is pretty weak, but I've been trying to work on it more. It's tough though as I'm always 16 tabling. This graph is almost 100% 16 tabling 2/4 and a little 3/6.
In other news, I got some sick jams for all of you.
A 2000's classic:
A sick new Jay-Z song that should have got radio play but didn't:
A sick freestyle over an old sick biggie beat:
I originally made this blog post to point out I'm giving serious consideration to "quitting" NLHE in liue of pursuing SNE and my feeling that my edge is actually greater at PLO despite me picking up the game only in the last six months.
I just wanted to make a quick blog post to say how amazed I am at this Pilot who safely landed a plane with failed engines on the Hudson River and had ZERO FATALITIES.
I can't imagine the amount of skill, courage, and calmness under pressure necessary to facilitate this but I really think this is one of the most amazing news stories of recent times. This guy is the definition of hero and deserves like 6,000 international medals of honor as far as I'm concerned.
I can't even wrap my head around it, it's such a miracle and beautiful thing.
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