What are you doing right now?

[hardline]

I saw the sound card is not that expensive, that's a pretty good steal for you then

shit, I still use dlt for backups...lol Is that server still running in the safe? how do you deal with heat load?

i take back ups pretty serrious. i have over $100,000 worth of music. its just 4 NAS drives so unless the drive is spinning the heat is pretty low.

 

[RootDKJ]

how do you manage the cables, in the safe and maintain the fire rating?

 

[deadheadskier]

glowin' :grin: GO RED SOX!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I turned $120 into $960 playing cash games and heads up matches now I'm taking $100 of my profit and playing a turbo cash tournement..in a few minutes with a $35,000 guarenteed prizepool..I'm playing the best poker of my life..and just won $36 in a heads up battle..JEA!!!!!! Oh man I'm not getting much sleep..where's the Insomniac thread..

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

I turned $120 into $960 playing cash games and heads up matches now I'm taking $100 of my profit and playing a turbo cash tournement..in a few minutes with a $35,000 guarenteed prizepool..I'm playing the best poker of my life..and just won $36 in a heads up battle..JEA!!!!!! Oh man I'm not getting much sleep..where's the Insomniac thread..

what site u playin on steez, im gettin all these freakin suck outs handed to me on fulltilt tonite

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

what site u playin on steez, im gettin all these freakin suck outs handed to me on fulltilt tonite

Pokerstars..I ended up bringing my $120 to $1700...woo hoo..best poker of my life..Last week I went pretty deep in a tournement with 3,000 players..I had an average chipstack with 60 players left..and I got AA for the first time in 4 hours..I limped in, somebody raised..and I went all-in..the raiser called and had pocket Kings and sure enough a king hit on the river..it happens..

 

[drjeff]

Searching for extra caffiene right now. Late night watching the Red Sox last night

 

[RootDKJ]

Pokerstars..I ended up bringing my $120 to $1700...woo hoo..best poker of my life..Last week I went pretty deep in a tournement with 3,000 players..I had an average chipstack with 60 players left..and I got AA for the first time in 4 hours..I limped in, somebody raised..and I went all-in..the raiser called and had pocket Kings and sure enough a king hit on the river..it happens..

Nice earnings there, beers are on you this weekend right?

 

[Warp Daddy]

YO Steeze -- THERE"s your STOWE trip ALL PAID FOR

Gonna take the Queen for her final post-op check-up she's done amazingly well and does NOT need any glasses at all -- BUT the good news is she'll be cleared for TENNIS ( She plays 3/time week and has been antsy sitting around ) and GOLF and of course SKIING

Think a nice shopping trip and luncheon is in order since i already played golf 3 times this week and don't wanna push the envelope

 

[severine]

Getting ready for the handyman. He's coming at 9:30 to put in the new bathroom ceiling. Hopefully we'll be all set after that, but it also means another day out of the house with the kids AND dog. I've managed completing very little homework this week, thanks to all these disruptions.

In the meantime, at least I washed the dishes this morning.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Up at the crack of dawn for a hike in the woods with the pooches. Naturally, they got covered in ticks, it looked like they were freckled by the time we got back to the car, so we spent 15 minutes de-ticking and brushing. Gonna do the oft delayed HD run with a friend today for driveway sealer and a few other odds and ends, hit the Buckmans ski tent sale to check out bindings and steezy deals and grab some lunch. Markets are giving me butt cramps, so I'm gonna sideline today.

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Up at the crack of dawn for a hike in the woods with the pooches. Naturally, they got covered in ticks, it looked like they were freckled by the time we got back to the car, so we spent 15 minutes de-ticking and brushing. Gonna do the oft delayed HD run with a friend today for driveway sealer and a few other odds and ends, hit the Buckmans ski tent sale to check out bindings and steezy deals and grab some lunch. Markets are giving me butt cramps, so I'm gonna sideline today.

Very interesting Op-Ed piece in today's Times by Warren Buffet......

Op-Ed Contributor
Buy American. I Am.
By WARREN E. BUFFETT
Omaha

THE financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary.

So ... I’ve been buying American stocks. This is my personal account I’m talking about, in which I previously owned nothing but United States government bonds. (This description leaves aside my Berkshire Hathaway holdings, which are all committed to philanthropy.) If prices keep looking attractive, my non-Berkshire net worth will soon be 100 percent in United States equities.

Why?

A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation’s many sound companies make no sense. These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have. But most major companies will be setting new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now.

Let me be clear on one point: I can’t predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven’t the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month — or a year — from now. What is likely, however, is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over.

A little history here: During the Depression, the Dow hit its low, 41, on July 8, 1932. Economic conditions, though, kept deteriorating until Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933. By that time, the market had already advanced 30 percent. Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific. The market hit bottom in April 1942, well before Allied fortunes turned. Again, in the early 1980s, the time to buy stocks was when inflation raged and the economy was in the tank. In short, bad news is an investor’s best friend. It lets you buy a slice of America’s future at a marked-down price.

Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

You might think it would have been impossible for an investor to lose money during a century marked by such an extraordinary gain. But some investors did. The hapless ones bought stocks only when they felt comfort in doing so and then proceeded to sell when the headlines made them queasy.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Indeed, the policies that government will follow in its efforts to alleviate the current crisis will probably prove inflationary and therefore accelerate declines in the real value of cash accounts.

Equities will almost certainly outperform cash over the next decade, probably by a substantial degree. Those investors who cling now to cash are betting they can efficiently time their move away from it later. In waiting for the comfort of good news, they are ignoring Wayne Gretzky’s advice: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.”

I don’t like to opine on the stock market, and again I emphasize that I have no idea what the market will do in the short term. Nevertheless, I’ll follow the lead of a restaurant that opened in an empty bank building and then advertised: “Put your mouth where your money was.” Today my money and my mouth both say equities.

Warren E. Buffett is the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified holding company.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nice earnings there, beers are on you this weekend right?

Hahahaha..no..anyway..I'm going to play a few cash games, sit and gos, and tournaments tonight..with $200 of my bankroll and I'm cashing out the other $1500..that's pretty much my season pass and half my Jackson Hole trip..MSY..Mad Steezy Yo..Hopefully I can continue to play well later today..

I'm done with work for the week..right now I'm at my parents house and I'm going to watch this past Sundays episode of Entourage on their ondemand cable...then I'm hitting up the Farmers market and then..poker..

 

[dmc]

Hittin the pool at my hotel in Vegas...
Pre-season training..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Hittin the pool at my hotel in Vegas...
Pre-season training..

What hotel..put $50 on Black for me..lol

 

[drjeff]

Finishing up work at the office on what turned out to be a real crazy and long day. Definately going to need a cold, frosty malted beverage or two in a couple of hours! :beer:

 

[severine]

About to bake Warp Daddy's Amaretto Apple Crisp.

 

[RootDKJ]

Listening to a bunch of engineers bicker over test dates...

 

[severine]

Moving on to reading The Blackwater Lightship. And don't worry, Warp, I took the shot, too.

 

[hardline]

how do you manage the cables, in the safe and maintain the fire rating?

i bought it tru cyberguys. it claims to have a 30 min rating.

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/SearchDetail.asp?productID=25658

i am also thinking about setting up a offsite backup somewhere.