Jonathan Wilkins

here's my picture for the Darkstalkers Tribute Book

Just had a hand... biggest single win ever... and am not sure I played it correctly. I was nervous because I was playing at a higher limit, .25/.50 NL, than I normally do. I tend to rarely go above .5/.10.

I'm on BB with $29 on the table. I get dealt Kings. Everyone else folds except two players. One calls, the other raises $2.50. I call, the other player folds. I'm acting first, of course. Flop comes out 2 5 6 rainbow. I figure the other guy's hand probably didn't improve either, so I bet $2. He raises to $8.50. Yikes. I almost fold, but something seems wrong. That raise is too big even if he hit trips. A straight seemed unlikely. I've been watching this guy play for a while and he isn't an idiot. He's trying to scare me out. I call.

Turn comes out J. All right, that may have improved his hand, may not have. However, I still think I have the best hand so I bet $3 in hopes of him folding. He calls. River is another Jack. Now I'm nervous he has trips. I think until my time is almost up. Statistically, I'm a huge favorite to win. Finally, I bet $4 in hopes of scaring him out again. He insta calls. I'm screwed, I think to myself. No, I'm not. He had 9's. I win a giant (for me) pot.

Despite the win, in retrospect, I think I played this hand all wrong. What would you have done in this situation?

There is a pool here at Mirage that allows topless sunbathing.

Women are $10 to get in. Men must pay $50. Today, women get in free. Men still pay $50.

Remind me again about how the sexes are equal?

My wife wants to go and tan. I'd like to be with her, and have no desire to pay $50 for the privilege. I have zero interest in seeing random tits - I like my wife's best, to be honest, and you've seen my photography. I can see good boobs any time I want if that's my thing.

Sexual discrimination works both ways.

hey there
July 18 is the Marquis FetishBall and I need to find a male model to participate in a fashion show.
Well I don't actually, it's for Blacklickorish latex

the outfit will fit someone with:
chest 36-40
waist 32-34
hips about same as waist
between 5'11" and 6'4" in height

no cash, but you get an invite for the private party on friday, party +1 (sat), and discount on latex.

contact:
blacklickorish@hotmail.com

The old Belle Mina School near Mooresville

Found this place near my house in Harvest. It has several outbuildings. Last time I was there I was harassed by....yes this is really true...a BUZZARD who was roosting in the building. I never knew buzzards could growl and smell like death. There are more pics in the scrapbook

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/the_atm_vulnera.html

The talk has been pulled from the BlackHat conference:

Barnaby Jack, a researcher with Juniper Networks, was to present a demonstration showing how he could jackpot a popular ATM brand by exploiting a vulnerability in its software.

Jack was scheduled to present his talk at the upcoming Black Hat security conference being held in Las Vegas at the end of July.

But on Monday evening, his employer released a statement saying it was canceling the talk due to the vendor's intervention.

More:

"The vulnerability Barnaby was to discuss has far reaching consequences, not only to the affected ATM vendor, but to other ATM vendors and--ultimately--the public," wrote Brendan Lewis, director of corporate social media relations for Juniper in a statement posted to the company's official blog last week. "To publicly disclose the research findings before the affected vendor could properly mitigate the exposure would have potentially placed their customers at risk. That is something we don't want to see happen."

More news articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Two more days here as Wondersquid takes the dance workshops. She's having a great time. The wife isn't enjoying the smoke, of course, but the pool is a major win. J likes it too.

Vegas, as I've said, is hurting. They're offering low hotel rates, but everything else is overpriced. The days of cheap food and entertainment are over. Once they get you here, their goal is to extract your money. Limits on games have all gone up. Dining is full big city prices. Formerly free attractions now all cost. Service, fir the most part, sucks. Nobody cares, they're all hurting. I overhear employees talking about cut hours and their foreclosures. It's like there's a cloud over the city.

It's not the Vegas I remember from my college days.

Oh, and I bet $20 on the mariners to win today by at least two runs.

I thought I'd make a post regarding this topic since it's come up a bit in my last few blogs (which most of you can't see so HA you're just gonna have to imagine), and kind of set the record straight on where I stand on the all-important subject of penis size.

It is a wonderful thing to open a guy's pants for the first time and know you're in for a good hard breaking.  As a woman, one of my greatest fears is ramping up hotly to the moment of truth, unbuttoning a man's pants, and then mentally cueing that sad trombone sound:  wah-wah-wahhhhhh!  So when something springs out of that hallowed ground that almost frightens me, my first reaction is "oh HELL yeah" and then "omg I can't wait to tell all my friends/LJ this shit."  It's just a girl thing - we do that.  Sorry guys but there are no secrets where this is concerned; it's totally a sisterhood solidarity thing.  If you are markedly above or below average, you can expect that all of your girlfriend's and ex-girlfriend's friends know about it.

However, beyond the madly-grinning shock and awe we are subject to as we get vaginally carpet-bombed that first time around, the truth is that when you get to the point where you have a chronic sore throat and vaguely period-like cramping more often than not (along with occasional minor bleeding if you have a grappling hook/IUD installed in your uterus like I do), you start wishing that your boy was a little less blessed.  What is comes down to is this:  huge cock is rad for occasional weekend batterings, but outright uncomfortable on a daily basis if you're a small girl.

Almost all men with giant dicks have the same complaints.  They rarely get a good blowjob.  They can't fuck someone as hard as they want to without hurting them.  They can't put themselves in a girl all the way.  Anal is out of the question.  PersonaIly I am really fucking stubborn; I spent weeks teaching myself how to relax certain muscles, breathe differently and quite literally stretch out my throat muscles so that I could completely deepthroat David (which was a fucking feat if I do say so myself!).  I was successful, much to his almost virginal delight, but it was NOT a pleasant process for me.  Likewise I love rough sex and don't often complain because that's what ibuprofen and pillow-biting is for.  But damn, it does get to be a hell of a lot of battering so I can't blame other girls for saying "ouch quit it".  (and anal doesn't even apply in my world, ok)

I personally maintain that a decently thick, solid 7 inches - give or take half an inch - is the perfect size, big enough to smile over and look good but not quite Tokyo-decimating.  Anything more than that is going to end up being unpleasant if it's a regular thing.  Likewise, anything under 6 inches isn't going to keep me around for very long because really, wtf for?  I'm all about average to slightly over average and I think most women generally agree with me.  Why I've been recently blessed/cursed by men who obviously spent their formative years sticking their dicks into power lines and and masturbating with nuclear waste, I dunno.  I'm like "yay!" because it's certainly better than the opposite, but I also cry inside a little bit...below my waist and above my knees.

On 7th July I had an MRI....

Last night Damon and I went to a Sacred Spot Tantra class. It was really cool!

It was about an hour and a half drive from where we are in a very pretty and naturalist house. The event was from 7 to around 11 pm and just really amazing. The other people attending were very nice and friendly and our male/female instructor team were really cool.

We are looking forwards to going to more classes in the future!

can someone tell me how I can get a screen dump of my desktop please?

Loudtwitter is no longer working.
There was a crash, and it simply cost too much to maintain.
But the guy might try again.
there's a blog about it.

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for a while, going through a friendslist was like the old LJ and full of actual blogs.
i'll bet no one noticed until they really noticed!
:-)

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I did like having my tweets brought into my blog and kept in once place.
(minus the @ replies -  and at least behind a cut)
but then i noticed in RSS feeds it would all show up
and if it was annoying for me, it must have been just as bad for everyone else.

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i found a new way to import my tweets into LJ.
I will try it for a day and see what it's like.
there doesn't seem to be any cut options or removal of replies as of yet
so i'm guessing i wont like it
but then it's free so one can't complain that much.
and there is an 'unsubscribe' button too.

Last time I shot Jim Rose was way way back in 1992 through 94, back at Seattle iconic places such as the Weathered Wall, Rock Candy and Moe's. So I was very pleased to get called to come shoot the new show of Jim Rose's at the Show box Market last night.

Jim was just as I remembered him in the early 90's quick, funny and always the entertainer onstage. His shows are incorporating local talent in each city that he is in, so here in his old hometown, he pike up acts from The 4 Horsemen/Pure Cirkus, and opened the show with one of the most outrageous Seattle acts, Super Geek League!

The show started promptly at 8:30 as advertised and broke right into an hour long set from SGL. Then with only a very short 15 minute time frame to completely clear the stage of all their gear, Jim Rose took the stage and busted directly into the second half of the show!
Sideshow acts from local performers such as Noel with his freekin' eye-hooks!!!, a human dart board with audience members throwing darts at him, dangerous, scary and funny acts of all types then straight into the full on WWE style wrestling/sideshow/fist fight, no-holds-barred, all out brawl!

This was a very well run, promptly on time and highly entertaining show at its best!

Catch them in YOUR town!

SiNn BoHdi and Noel The Freak!


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