Hmmm so i have some sort of GF problem and it seems like it can't hurt to post about it on LP!
here it is.
My aunt usually rents cars, and then let my dad buy them. This is good for my dad since he knows the car he buys are good (my aunt is carefull with them).
Then, my dad has always given/sold me his cars, since i know theyre good.
A few months ago, he called me and told me that, in april, hes gonna sell me his acura 2005 (worth like 6K) for 2500$ (value of my own car, which i would sell). Then my GF says she wanted to buy my car, since her own car is becomming real shit (its a 1990...).
However, my aunt decided to... change cars RIGHT NOW. This is a problem because now, my dad would have to pay for 2 cars at the same time (both his acura he would sell me, and his new car). So he is now considering selling his acura to a random to get 6000$ for it. He says that its not worth it for me to pay higher price than 2500 since the acura's value would drop way faster than my own car's value.
So 2 days ago, my GF told me to ask my dad what hes going to do, because she was going to do some fixing on her car, but if shes going to get my car at the end of the month, then she won't do it (waste of money). My dad kinda told me it was fine, and that hes going to sell me his car now. However, he didn't seem too sure about it (kinda an important decision).
Today, i talked to my dad again, and he said hes not sure at all about it anymore. He explained to me that, my car is perfectly fine for me right now, if he sells his car 6K to some random, he's going to save a lot of money, and i really don't need a luxury car that much since anyways, my own car is working just fine. However he said that if he doesn't manage to get 6K, he is going to sell it to me.
Now i call my gf, and you can imagine she was disapointed. My car is decent (2002 honda civic) and i was going to sell it to her for 2500$. So now shes either forced to deal with her crap car that can't be completly repaired, or buy a new one, which is risky. Also, she's REALLY mad that my dad changed his mind since he "said" that she would get my car for 2500$. She kinda said "hey he promised it and now he changed his mind, thats horrible". She also claims if she had never been offered my car, she would have searched for new cars and shit, and would have been in better shape.
Now she's so mad that she said she won't talk to my dad ever again. Obviously i can't imagine having a GF that won't talk to my dad ever.
I also can't get a definite answer from my dad, he really does not want to rush such a decision.
What should i do, and is my GF right to be this mad?
Also i gotta agree my dad tends to make a lot of nice plans and they sometimes don't happen, however hes also a very generous dad (i rather be promised a lot of things and have some of it happen rather than having nothing promised at all...).
Need to get this out of my chest, been running sick bad latelly. Downswing is @ -35bi right now, over 85k hands. Never had such a bad run, have been studying more and more, cutting down tables, even signed blue fire poker again, nothing working so far. Yeah yeah yeah I know I'm a whiny lil bitch, whatever. Feel free to hate!
45 buyins under ev in 75k hands. Also running bad in cooler spots. I think I've gotten KK vs AA about 20+ times in this sample and AA vs KK once or twice. Dunno how to check it on HEM to confirm though.
Hey guys!
I think it would be a good idea to share with each other some great youtube channels!! Post here your favorite ones with a little description, I will post some of my favorites :D
KassemG - Fun guy interviews people on the street about all sort of things in a very funny way
Spricket24 - Hot and awesome girl talks about different subjetcs
SimplePickup - Guys pickup girls on the streets by making the most embarassing things you can imagine lol (very funny)
PrankVSPrank - Couple make awesome pranks with eachother
A while back I blogged about how one of the differences between 'smart' and less 'smart' people was not just that they were better, but that they had better strategies for thinking. I should of thought of this myself at the time but.. anyway I've come across research on this very thing, in this case applied to mathematics.
The study is ( Gray, E., & Tall D. (1994). Duality, Ambiguity, and Flexibility: A "Proceptual" View of Simple Arithmetic. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 25(2), pp. 116-140 if anyone has a clue on how the public can access such a thing I'd like some info though I imagine this one isn't publicly available from such a niche journal )
Anyway, this is what happened: They took a group kids (age ~8) and sorted them into two, one "high achievers" and another "low achievers". All of these kids had received the same/comparable educations but ended up in different places as far as ability goes. So, they asked the kids to do simple arithmetic problems and to explain how they did them. There were 4 strategies that the kids used when presented with an addition problem such as:
0 0 0 0
+
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
1. Counting all: This is where you count your numbers up to add or subtract them, literally counting (1-2-3-4..etc) everything up
2. Counting on: Whereupon a person counts from 1 to 4 and then continues from 5-17
3. Known facts: Where the person just knows that 4+13=17 automatically/without thinking because they've done that problem a bunch of times
4. Derived facts: (I will copy this straight from the summary) "This is where students decompose and recompose the numbers to make them more familiar numbers for adding and subtracting. So they may say, "Well, I know 10 and 4 is 14," and then they add on the 3."
ie doing 96+17 by saying "Ok, 96 -> 100 leaves 13, 13+100 is 113"
Now when they did the study they found for each group..
Above average students: Counted on 9%, known facts 30%, derived facts 61%
Below average: Counted all 22%, counted on 72%, known facts 6%, derived facts _never_
The researchers drew two main conclusions: Low achievers are often though of as "slow learners" when they are infact not learning the same things slowly, but literally learning a different mathematics. They view math as a ladder whereupon procedure after procedure is to be memorized and 'stacked up'. They are literally learning a different subject from kids who have an understanding of the big picture of math (something that is critically missing from America's education system, we about always learn math in a very compartmentalized, zero critical thinking way which is why I fuckin HATED math until I took statistics and saw real world problems being related to math).
Experiments have been done, taking these low achievers and teaching them better thinking strategies, and the results were very very good.
So yeah, this is just one example of ways that thinking strategies are at the core of smart vs dumb people. My view is that this concept definitely applies outside of math.
1 - When it comes time to study, all distractions is removed, music is off. The only kind of music that you can actually have in the background is classical baroque music.
2 - Try and think of your study/classroom time as a job, investment in your future.
3 - You can tell yourself i'm only gonna study 5 minuts, has a tremendously powerful psychological effect, because once you start, it's easy to keep going.
4 - Always make a list, what you will learn, for instance "10 new words, this amount of pages" so forth.
5 - Research has shown that you're more alert, tend to remember more, more on the ball in the start and at the end of study. So really sick to take frequent breaks, like 20 minute intervalls. This way you'll have a lot more peaks. (If you're on a roll, you obviously can go on a little longer).
How to easier remember what you read
When we read through it, we only read through it once and when we read through like a newspaper, we go through one article after another, we never stop or rehearse anything.
Some general tips
1 - Pay more attention, be aware that we want to remember the information.
2 - Dimish our distractions, turn off music, put ourself in a place mentally so we are focused on that information.
3 - Lifestyle habits that support good memory, sleep, how we eat, alcohol so forth.
4 - Stop after each chapter, focus on what you read, next step is to think of the main step/points in that chapter was.
5 - Never mind the details that much. Get the gist of it, if you do that, you'll remember everything more clearly.
How to easier remember names
It's hard to remember names because we're rarely paying attention to it, numerous distractions, it's "mundane" and we're usually focused on something else. And we get the name very quickly and early on. Stress and anxiety also makes it really hard to remember.
We also don't rehearse it in our heard right after hearing it.
- Repeat the name several times after hearing it. (Smart to say her/his name out loud after they say it).
- If you're a visual person, picture the name, make a visual image in your mind's eye.
- Make up a story for the name, if you're very verbal, this is most fun. No point making it long, one line is enough.
Sleep tips
- Take things running around in your mind move it on to a piece of paper, things you need to do, worry about, want to do etc.
- Want to make your bed a sleep zone only, no reading, no pc, no tv.
- Do something non-stimulating before bed time, or make a routine before bed, to wind down.
- White noise.
- Insomnia can be a symption of some physical illness, so smart to check with your doctor for chronic insomnia.
- Exercise or work, but not too close to bed time, get some daylight.
- Try to go to bed around the same time, wake up around the same time, your body loves that shit.
More thoughts on memory
Problems people have with memory are things like names and faces, numbers, birthdays and anniverseries, shopping lists, cards they been playing so forth.
Not really a problem at all, just miss-using the memory they have.
Analyze, self analyze, sit down, make notes on what do you remember? What don't you usually remember? Where do you generally have your forgetting experience. Like an investigation, self check. Corporated within that check, is your memory.
You link something to an image, and it's locked. You drive a car to the mall, you come out, you forget where your car is, why? Because you were thinking about other stuff, what you were going to buy etc. But if you for a second look at the enviorment, a plant, a wall, a bush, a house, then go in to the mall, you don't even have to think about where you parked your car.
How To Release Your Inner Genius
1 Realize the power of your brain
Everybody has the potential for genius. The human brain is far more powerful than a super computer, it's potenatial is still not known. Everytime they put a boundary on it, it busts through it and keeps going further and further.
2 Make your brain your hobby
So once you're aware, what are you going to do lol? You know you've got it, so the second step is a very simple one, making it a hobby.
As soon as you do that, your brain is like a young child, what happens if you focus on a young child? It flourishes. The minute you go into a library, attend courses, read books on it, the brain will reward you in ways which even you now wouldn't believe would be so.
3 Use your left and your right brain
Left Dominance is words, numbers, lines, lists, logic, analysis.
And the Right Dominance tends to be Rhythm, colour, shapes, maps, imag-ination and daydreaming.
Creativity, is NOT, as nearly everyone thinks, right brain activity, words involves logic, analyzis, songs, so forth. Both sides of the brain needs to be used in harmony, then you'll get an explosion of creativity.
4 Daydream
The nice thing about daydreaming, it has been considered a sign of incompetence, a sign of bad academic potential. But we've now found out it can make you or break you.
The greatest minds, daydream big.
A big difference of "waste of time daydreaming" and the genius, brilliant daydreaming which everyone can do. Making that dream come through.
5 Recap
Have the attitude that you can, belive that your brain can, and then daydream whatever you want to come true, then work to make it come true, and that's brilliance. And everyone can do it.
it is for my class project in introduction to entrepreneurship.
we were given the assignment to make a youtube video and grades are distributed throughout the groups based on the number of hits your youtube video gets, kind of silly but any hits from LP would help a lot! thanks.
Got a pretty annoying problem. Recently i've switched ipoker skins since william hill is being gay and doesn't allow rakeback anymore. How do i export the notes I've took at that site? Just the location of the note file would suffice.
A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, according to state media.
Moyo has been charged with bestiality. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said. Photo: ALAMY1:15PM BST 26 Oct 2011
"I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with (the) donkey," Sunday Moyo told the court, according to The Herald newspaper.
Moyo, 28, was arrested in the town of Zvishavane, about 185 miles south of the capital Harare on Sunday.
He said he had paid $25 for a prostitute, and was surprised Sunday morning when he heard people accusing him of having sex with a donkey.
Moyo has been charged with bestiality and remanded in custody. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said.
Hey guys, this is just a personal project of mine, if you're going back to your studies or working part time, then take a look at it and their might be an entry that might help you out.
Feel free to pass it on to other mid-stake guys who maybe couldn't make the move abroad and are looking at options.
I had a blog similar to it on TL, but it was deleted and this one is related directly to players taking time off.
It's been 7 months since my last blog; not to say that my life hasn't been blogworthy in that time, it's just been super hectic and annoying since Black Friday. Ok, where to begin...
I had just started to become a winner in online cash again and was grinding 2/4 and 3/6 with shots at 5/10 from January through April of this year with mediocre success (+20k or so on limited volume); but the point was that I was balancing my poker portfolio a lot better than I had in the past. With a nice mix of MTT's, online cash, and live cash. Anyways, that online income stream got taken away from me obv and I'm lucky (I guess)to be living in Vegas and have live cash to fall back on.
Unfortunately live poker is a beast that makes you think you are a losing player when you're not and vice versa. So now I'm currently grinding 5 days a week about 30 hours a week at 5/10. My results have been less than stellar (breakeven since the wsop) and I can't put in any more hours right now because of family obligations. So life is pretty tough right now with no steady income stream and no tournament scores to help (not to mention a black hole of tournament makeup from being backed for the last year so even a small 6 figure score wouldn't help me).
Also, I sold the GT-R mostly because I wasn't crushing it anymore, but also because (You were right Ket) it wasn't as fun to drive as my Evo was. But I got a white '05 Mazda RX-8 and it's more fun than the Evo was imo(RWD!!!).
Ok enough with the bad and out with the good:
My wife is about to graduate and is finishing up her student teaching in a First grade classroom. She graduates in January and then will go on for her Master's while teaching in an elementary school here next year. When she has her master's after the 2012-2013 school year we will re-evaluate the financial situation and if we are struggling at all or online poker hasn't come back we may look into International Teaching where she would teach at an English-speaking school in Europe and I would play online poker and life would be cool. But until then we are just waiting it out in the states.
I have a SC/BW background so thought this would be my first forum to join! Not great at BW, reached C+ several times on Iccup so bit of skill but not a lot. Student, 23.
Started getting very interested in poker a few months ago, read a couple of beginner books (Holdem for dummies and Full tilt tournament poker book). I play on 888, lost a bit of money in my first few months playing being a bit overly ambitious with terrible bankroll management, took a break have come back more recently a bit smarter however now I seem to be a break even player (which is an improvement from losing) and looking to improve from there. I play the 1/2c NLH tables on 888, usually 4 at a time to keep my interest. I find my ABC poker is fair, I tend to lose money from tilting and being impatient mainly so I'm working on that.
Ideas on where to go to improve would be cool, curious about some poker software, wondering if poker tracker is worth looking into.. so yeah any feedback or questions or anything about anything would be neat!
Some of you may or may not know, but I've mentioned on here that I have a relative (grandmother) who is a huge MLM victim and wastes thousands of dollars in multi level marketing "Business opportunities". One of her long-time swindlers/con men (a disbarred lawyer who has spent time in prison, but is charismatic and clearly without a conscience) convinced her to join yet another MLM.. somehow under the pretense that *I* will handle this opportunity for her.
Yes, without consulting me she literally shelled out the several hundred dollar joiner fee & committed to the monthly distributor fee (dunno how much, usually its 40-200 dollars a month in these scams), with the idea that I will do the "business" for her.
I didn't even know what to say when she told me yesterday, and now she's given my phone number to the disbarred lawyer (MLM scammer). He is going to call me and brief me on this "opportunity".
What the fuck?
I am trying to figure out how to turn this into a positive thing. Maybe I can somehow maneuver into such a position where the ole grandma will trust me more than this con man, but dunno....
What's my play tomorrow when this motherfucking scammer calls? I can't just tell him to fuck off because he holds a strong sway with my grandmother, as does the idea of MLM in general, and I'm sure he'd appropriately label me an enemy of his financial interests.
I don't think I want to become a scammer myself.
I am just awe-struck that she signed up for this thinking I would take over when I've told her how unethical and amoral MLM is.. Of course she doesn't understand because she is incredibly naive and ignorant.
All of this is kind of whatever, I guess, but she mentioned that they convinced her to buy more of their stock, which is literally lighting money on fire. I honestly think she is losing rational control of her retirement money. Will I be to blame when she is broke in whatever number of years down the road?
This is a pretty interesting talk about google and fb and how they filter information. I may just be a tinfoil hat wearing fool but this is kinda scary for me and I feel it is very wrong. What do you guys think?
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