Poker is the new Duke Nukem World of Warcraft

Poker is actually a pretty interesting game. The foundations of Game Theory are laid on poker, or let's say Morgenstern and Von Neumann used Poker for their first model for a game. Actually, I should be really into Poker, because it involves some of the most interesting topics in maths, probability theory, game theory and also a bit Markov Chains. It's not just luck or gamble, it's actually pretty scientific. However, to me Poker is just the new Duke Nukem or World of Warcraft. You see, back in the days, when I used to go to my school's computer lab, I saw all those nerdy people playing their ego shooters over LAN and whatever else. They were like, well, how can I say? It was just plain weird and disgusting to watch. They were like zombies. Nowadays, you see those same people grown up playing Poker. It's just nerdy! Nowadays, you see every baker(we use baker in Persian, nothing against bakers) plays Poker, everyone talks about blinds and whatever else, everyone has a Poker round with friends, and you watch these people and you feel back in your old computer lab with the nerds playing their shooters or strategy games.
I believe that for Duke Nukem, you needed to have some type of science too, and World of Warcraft was definetly scientific with strategy and such, but effing hell, Poker is just such a greasy, nerdy, rubbish thing these days, it's just unbelievable.
I personally try to study Poker for my own reasons, to try to apply game theory, but I just can't get over playing once in my life at a table or whatever else. It's just...ugggh..

The photo starting my career in photography

castroni, originally uploaded by Jordi Vendetta.

I still can't believe that ANYONE likes a photo of mine...so..
here it is...this photo is actually among the favourites of a person who can make photos and some online-rome-map-groupwhatever wants to use this photo..or considers using it or whatever.
so..thank you for believing that I can make photos..we all hit the bullseye once!

check out Schmap and The guy who likes my photo

Jay-Zeezee's American Gangstered

I neither liked the American Gangster movie or the album too much. Movie was simply soso, somehow not mine, although good actors and everything, but I didn't buy Denzel being Franck Lucas. The Jay-Z album was lyrically great, but you really felt that the guy worked for around 3 weeks and not more on the album.
But here's the deal..he realesed an a-capella album too, something he did with the Black Album too which led to the Brown Album, the Grey Album etc.
Now, this time, people have been flipping. There's the Cookin Soul remix with Elvis, over to American Godfather with parts from the Godfather movie, Daft Gangster, Real Live Gangster...damn!!
Eitherway, more or less are remixes are here linked and ready for download.
I personally liked the K-Def(great old school producer for Lords of The Underground etc.) and the Shuko&Gunner Marvin Gaye meets Jay-Z versions best. Daft Gangster was alright, Cookin Soul(The Elvis version) pretty good, The American Godfather interesting in concept but those two simply outstanding.

Kevin Nottingham's collection of American Gangster remixes

Estimat Frank

I don't know where to start, I don't know where to end. I always had faith in you, I always believed in you, I always thought that you will cut it in the end and all of the stuff said about you, regarding tactical inflexibility and whatever else was just rubbish.
I knew and expected you to be better, the best possible coach this team can have and your level of tactical knowledge good enough.
So please tell me, how could you blow it that bad last night?
Ok, you gambled on Ronaldinho's pride. Well, the guy has no pride, but either way, you gambled. But why didn't you take him off once you should have realized that he is not working?
Henry was not fully fit, fair enough, you didn't play him. But why didn't you bring in Gudjohnsen as an example to help out Eto'o in attack, to hold the ball for him, to play in his path, to do something apart of letting him die upfront alone against Cannavarro and Pepe? Why didn't you react to the fact that Yaya, who btw. was one of few players outstanding and playing like a man, being pressured by Van Nistelrooy and Robinho, to the man-to-man defense of Baptista against Xavi or anything else?
Why didn't you try to solve the problems but instead of that brought in Giovani, who wasn't the cure of the problem?
Why Frank? What did you try to prove with playing Ronaldinho for 90 minutes against Ramos, knowing that he is lost? Why didn't you tell him to switch sides with Iniesta, to move at all, to do something, anything? Why didn't you react??
You let me down, you let us down, you went from Frank White to Frank Elsner.
If you have enough and want to retire then do it, but you don't need to blow a game like that, because in the end, you took the decisions of that game and you blew it, as sorry as I am to say it.
I'm not over this defeat and I won't be for some time. Yesterday you officially declared that an era was over.

S'acaba una era

London Calling for Ronaldinho

And I heard that he likes theatre..



btw. doesn't he look like Scarface?

For thousand reasons

For Messi
For Last Season
For Eto'o
For Milito
For the two chulos Schuster and Mijatovic
For Getafe
For Cannavarro
For Henry
For Ronaldinho
For Antena 3
For Tomas Roncero
For Rijkaard
For Barca
For the people who pay your wages
For the fans
For Jose Maria Aznar
For Marca
For Fabian Ortiz
For that Rabbit
For the end of the cycle
For history
For your pride
For the shame of last season
For Txiki
For Manuel Vazquez Montalban
For Sant Jordi
For everything said about you since last year
For Partido Popular
For the fascists
For Zapatero
For the record
For Me and all other socis
For Rashid
For 1000 more reasons...

The Dutch Frank White

I talked before about Rijkaard's role and compared to movie characters. I guess he has found his role now, he is Frank White.


He is a good and nice gangster, with warm heart, but he's still a gangster.



I'm extremely bad in photoshopping btw. but I'm good in knowing Biggie lyrics by heart. If anyone could do this one with Rijkaard and Eto'o's face on it, he or she will have a special place in my heart.



I grew up a fuckin screw-up
Got introduced to the game, got a ounce and fuckin blew up
Choppin rocks overnight
The nigga Biggie Smalls tryin to turn into the black Frank White
We had to grow dreads to change our description
Two cops is on the milk box missin
Show they toes you know they got stepped on
A fist full of bullets a chest full of Teflon
Run from the police picture that, nigga I'm too fat
I fuck around and catch a asthma attack (*heavy breathing*)
That's why I bust back, it don't phase me
When he drop, take his glock, and I'm Swayze
Celebrate my escape, sold the glock, bought some weight
Laid back, I got some money to make