The ORIGIN of the Matter...

Well as you all should well know I am a gamer geek, and ORIGINS gamecon is coming this summer to Columbus Ohio. Well I check their site for updates pretty regularly and I found the "Unofficial guide to ORIGINS" I thought I would link it here so all you people who read this will go and meet myself, and all the other random humans that I run around with. If you are a cute gamer girl I do have an opening for positions involving dating... I will be taking applications all four days of ORIGINS. Well I can only hope. Anyone interested in going to ORIGINS and meeting all us Random Humans from BlackroseWorld or RandomHumans.com let us know and we can arrange it. More people more fun...

On the legitimacy of fart jokes

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Magic 2HG Champs Recap

As promised, I have collected the audio posts from BlackroseWorld.com and put them in one handy-dandy package. Enjoy!

1) Introduction

2) Deck Registration Complete

3) Round 1: RandomHumans vs. Super Mario Bros.

4) Round 2: RandomHumans vs. I Hate This Game

5) Round 3: RandomHumans vs. Jarheads

6) Round 4: RandomHumans vs. The Josh Weinandy Experience

7) Round 5: RandomHumans vs. Nerf Shamans

8) Round 6: RandomHumans vs. Echo-Hippe

9) Round 7: RandomHumans vs. Uber Death Naga 4/Conclusion

Damn, a Whole Lot of Crap Happened This Weekend...

Hello, all you happy people. Did you miss me?

No?

Oh, OK, then...

Pants.

I've...uh...got a secret. Wanna hear?

Come closer...

Closer...

CLOSER!!!!!

I went curling on Thursday instead of playing poker. It was fun. I wasn't very good.

Ahem...really. Yeah, so Gretchen and I went curling with Lynn, Heath, and Lisa (friends and coworkers). It was a "Beginning Curler Clinic" hosted by the Columbus Curling Club (Columbus has a curling club! Who knew?). Heath was the best at it, and I...well, I got really sore. It's more work that you'd think if you've just watched it on TV. Great fun was had, and it's something I could see myself doing again sometime in the future.

On Friday, I saw V for Vendetta with Justin and Gordon. I have but one word for that movie:

HAWESOME!!!!

Hugo Weaving is the man (even though you basically never see his face), and Natalie Portman was very good as well. My new mission...to find a copy of the graphic novel and find out why in the hell Alan Moore had such a problem with it. I know the book was tremendous, but I never got to finish it. Soon, very soon...

If you checked out BlackroseWorld, you know about Saturday's Magic tournament. If you didn't...you are bad. Very, very bad. We finished 4-3, but had a tremendous time. Two-Headed Giant Sealed is an amazing format, and we will be playing again! (I'll be throwing up a cross-post to both blogs with links to each audio update soon.)

On an unfortunate note, I probably won't be hitting the online poker bottle as hard over the coming weeks, due to a weird funk that's affecting my ability to focus and play my best. I need to limit my online poker time and see where it leads. I'll probably play in the random WWdN tourney, but that's about it for now. It's a good thing, methinks and mehopes.

Until next time...

Pants.

Ohio 2-Headed Giant Champs

Today, Josh and I will be taking on Ohio in the Magic 2-Headed Giant Champs event here in Columbus. Josh, Jamie Sue, and myself will be there, with Jamie lending her moral support (the word on the street is that a homemade RandomHumans shirt will be making its debut). Check out BlackroseWorld for audio updates from the tournament.

Go Go Random Humans!

Pants.

Mmmkay...

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Originally uploaded by porcelainpuppet.

Random and corny!

Emily picture madness

Get your fix here

WWdN Tournament Tonight!

Justin and I are playing in the WWdN: Fishy McDonK Invitational tonight on PokerStars. The buyin is $10 + 1 and the password is "monkey". It's in 3 minutes! Join now and deliver the beats!

Update: We've both been eliminated - Justin in 25th, me in 14th. 85 players showed up, but only 9 places paid. Oh well. JP and I both hung in there and gave it a go, but it wasn't to be. See you next week!

Roar

Roar
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little-pants

What happens when you Stun Gun yourself? at directionzero

What happens when you Stun Gun yourself? at directionzero

Oh !@#$ i am crying.....

E=mcpants

Please remove embedded dachshund

Attack of the Hellhound
Originally uploaded by osiris.

Rory is teh funny


Pants.

Not so random...attack of the baby pics!

Come get your Emily fix folks!
Flickr: Archive of your photos posted to Flickr on 2nd March 2006

A "Poker Champ" Falls...

Last night on PokerStars, an "invitational" tournament of sorts was held. From Wes (Boobie Lover):

"Poker Champ is getting a lot of publicity from the blogosphere recently. Mostly this is due to his audacious tone, grammar, and liberal use of derogatory terms and phrases. One of the most outlandish things he has said is that there are no female poker players that can play worth a damn.

So what a better way to showcase his playing ability than to have him go up against fellow female bloggers? I've set up a tournament on Pokerstars for this to occur."

As I'm not female, I sweated this tournament while working on some other things online. From Maudie's blog:

"Mrs. BadBlood, Joanne, Gracie and myself played with the lone male challenger with a gaggle of railbirds chirping away on the sidelines."

"Then there was The Hand - three remaining - me, Joanne and him, I had nearly 5k in chips, blinds at 75/150, I had QsTs. I'm first to act and raise up to 600 to go. That guy calls, Joanne folds. Flop comes 2h Ks 8h. He checks and I attempt to steal the pot with a bet of 700. He pushed for 1010.

I had nothing but a backdoor flush draw and a froggy straight sketch. I knew he'd paired the King at least. BUT - it was a paltry 310 for me to call - nearly 10 to 1 the pot offerings, if I've done the math correctly (and we all know how stellar I am at that). So I said what the hey, and tossed the 310 in. A spade landed on the turn, and I thought, ooooo, let's have another. And, sure enough, another came.

I knocked the guy out with a runner, runner suckout. It wasn't until a few hands later when I glanced at the chat from the railbirds that I had to open up the hand history to look at the hand - yup, I knocked him out with a suckout flush alright - a runner-runner-straight-flush to be precise. Der... I didn't catch it when it happened."

It was quite beautiful. (Suckout like a champion today!*) Tequila Mom (Poker Champ's screen name on 'Stars - wierd isn't it - you should see his avatar) was trapping with the short stack on nothing but top pair. When you push like that, you can't expect a fold, so you have to just take whatever comes. I personally don't see trapping there. You protect your hand with aggression and if you get called, so be it.

Dave Westbay has a screen shot here.

Pants.

Congratulations to Joanne for winning the tournament! I leave you with a few words from her, posted before the tournament at CardSquad:

"I'll be honest - I don't want to play. I have no desire to give this person a moment of my time and he certainly doesn't deserve any recognition that may come from this. I have nothing to prove to myself, and regardless of the outcome I don't honestly believe that he will see anything in a different light. That said, I am too stubborn to stay away and will show up at the time of the game and do what I do.

What I do believe in is this - race, sex, age, and religion do not affect anyone's ability at the poker table. I also believe that women shouldn't be treated the way that they are described deep within his archives, and I will personally be donating (and doubling) any of my winnings to my local battered women's shelter.

That is why I am doing this.

If you want to donate as well, please contact me through this email link."

(For the record, I'm tossing in a donation. If you want, email Joanne for more info.)

*If you were there last night or read "Poker Champ," you'll get this.

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