Life In Russian Village

Interesting photo set from a Russian village.Link

Porn Slappers Whip Drunk

A fight on the Vegas strip between a fat drunk and some porn-slappers.

Friday’s Random Ten - Reggae Edition

1. Everything I Own - Ken Boothe
2. Drown - Poor Rich Ones (Norway’s finest)
3. HarborCoat - R.E.M.
4. Get What You Need - JET
5. Grace - U2
6. Under Pressure - Queen (YES!)
7. I Bleed - Pixies
9. San Jacinto - Peter Gabriel
10. Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens

Two Great Classic Reggae Bonus Videos

Susan Cadogan with Hurts So Good

Althia & Donna with Uptown Top Ranking

The Jimmy Carter of Korea

This is a funny story about former Korean President Roh. It seems tourists are constantly bothering him at his new home.

Since Roh Moo-hyun left office on Feb. 25 and returned to this village in the country’s southeast where he was born, he has become something South Koreans have never seen before: a former president as tourist attraction.

“Today, people were yelling outside from 9 a.m.,” Mr. Roh, 61, told a group of tourists gathered outside his home on a recent day. “Whether in office or retired, a president needs some privacy. All of you coming all the way to see me puts a big burden on me.

“I feel grateful. But I also feel sorry that I can’t shake hands with each one of you or invite you all in for tea.”
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And while past presidents have, like Mr. Roh, hailed from rural areas, they chose to make their homes in Seoul upon leaving office. The other four surviving former presidents now live under heavy police guard in the capital, where some meddle in domestic politics but none mingle with ordinary people.

Mr. Roh, in contrast, rides his bicycle through Bongha, a village near the city of Kimhae. He plants trees and cleans ditches with farmers. He keeps a blog. And he has visitors, thousands of them, every day.
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“I am extremely busy,” he said. “I’ve got lots of things to do. When I was president, I slept at least six hours a day, no matter what, because it was my duty as head of state to keep in good health. But last night I slept less than five hours, staying up until 1 a.m. working. I feel free.”
Source

I enjoyed this story. It seems Roh has become the Jimmy Carter of Korean ex-Presidents. Carter was very unpopular when he left office and is also well-known for being accessible in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.

Poker - Running Bad…

James McManus reminds that everyone runs bad at poker from time to time.

One version of running bad combines good cards, strong play and hideous timing. Opponents draw to long shots and hit them consistently; meanwhile, you’re making tough but intelligent laydowns just before your miracle card hits the board. And you’re managing to lose 90 percent of the races: A-K versus Q-Q, J-10 versus 5-5, A-7 versus Q-J. Whichever way you want the coin to land in these 11-10 propositions, it lands the other way.

When you do hit a hand, you don’t get paid off. You get dealt pocket kings in the big blind and watch everyone fold. Or you make a hefty raise with the kings, somebody calls you with 9’s, and a 9 flops. (When you’re running good, a 9 also flops, but so does a handsome red cowboy.) Or you turn a set of kings in a four-way pot, make a small bet - fold, fold, fold.
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How long can this go on? Weeks and months. Some folks believe that bad luck (usually their own) can last for a couple of years - how else did they get broke all those times? Pokeraticians assure us that the luck of the shuffle evens out in the long run. The question is, how long? A lifetime?

Like bank interest, running bad compounds itself by making it harder to play your A game. In your mounting frustration, you fail to take into account that you’re in a pot against a very large or a very small stack, the owners of which are less bluffable than the owners of average stacks. You call raises by solid players in early position with hands like 8-8 or A-Q, or call a hefty reraise with a suited A-K; having made these loose calls, you don’t get bailed out by the flop. You start drawing to long shots yourself, trying desperately to get even. Source

Air Disaster Videos

This is not a website for those who are afraid of flying.

‘The Crashman’: An Experiment in Applied Internet Ballardianism

About Those Credit Card Applications …

A bit scary this.

You should probably buy a shredder today.

I get a heck of a lot of credit card applications in the mail.
A bunch for Visa, quite a few from Mastercard and tons of them from American Express.

I almost always tear them in half and throw them away.

Sometimes, if I am feeling particularly paranoid, I’ll tear them into little bitty pieces.

Is that good enough? Could a determined and dexterous criminal gather all the bits, tape them together and apply for a card in my name? Would a credit card company balk when confronted with an obviously resurrected application?

A test was in order, and when the latest application arrived from Chase Mastercard, I was equal to the task. Source

North Korean Brewmasters in Kuwait

Kuwait: Farwaniya securitymen arrested three North Koreans who converted their apartment into an alcohol factory and seized 186 bottles of alcohol, 34 brewing barrels and gallons of alcohol. Securitymen also arrested an Asian expatriate (inset) who was
openly selling alcohol in Al-Hasawi area. Source

Alcohol is haraam in Kuwait.

Bull Shark Attack in Oz

Police have praised the bravery of a surfer who dragged his 16-year-old friend to shore after he was fatally attacked by a shark on the NSW north coast. The pair were bodyboarding off Ballina’s Lighthouse Beach when the shark struck this morning, fatally mauling the 16-year-old boy from Wollongbar, west of Ballina. Source

Boy Sees Girl

Boy Sees Girl Photo