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Going over some old files I had on the webserver, I came across the single greatest picture that may well ever be taken. I’m somewhat saddened by the fact that I could not bear witness to the result of this meeting of the minds. I’m so glad that I exist, as the confluence of events necessary to bring the particpants in the photo together without me being involved would possibly be the subject of a major motion picture. One of those “based on the ramblings of a madman…” motion pictures. Anyways, on with the show…

–whazz on, sweet prince

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For once I really liked an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. It’s a retrospective on Brett Favre’s 200th consecutive start for the Packers. From the article:

It will be a sad, sad day in Wisconsin in Brett Favre retires. We should definitely value each game from now until then as The Time When Football Was Good in Wisconsin.

–whazz on

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Just a short notice that I’m moved all-in for $21.04 on my pinnacle.com account on the Green Bay Packers -7 this evening against the St. Louis RAMS~! I am betting $21.04 to win $20.43. Good luck to all involved.

–puttin my whazz where my mouth is

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Can’t decide whether I should post this now or tomorrow, but I’ll at least get it all down on paper. Long story short is that I’m all-in on my Pinnacle account this week. If the Skins or the Chiefs can’t pull it off today then I’m fairly screwed. But, as I noted last week, I’ve had quite a good run so far this year so I’m looking at the progress as being excellent. The thing that irks me though is my performance in the office pool. I was running close to first but after last week’s disaster and the early returns from this week I’m really not keeping up.

In other news, I fucking hate the mongoloids on pokerroom.com and their fucking miracle draws. Hey GMC, remember what we were talking about on Saturday? Well, I was on the button, blinds $200-$400, I had pocket 5s and everyone folded to me. I called $400, the small blind raised to $800, and the big blind folded. He had approximately 2000 chips and I had 1000 left after limping in. I moved in and he called. His AQo against my 55. Flop KT3, turn rag, river: a fucking Jack. What a fucking surprise. Just like the other 8 or 9 times in the last 2 days I went out fifth place after putting all my money in with the odds behind me. I can’t win on that fucking site. How the fuck better am I supposed to play. I have my money in the fucking pot when the fucking odds say I have the better of it. The question is: how many CONSECUTIVE coin flips can I lose? I don’t expect to win ‘em all, but I expect to win ONE FUCKING HAND when I have the best of it, mathematically, so many times in a row. Again, I fucking hate those mongoloids and their miracle fucking draws. $100 in $5 tournaments is almost gone due to thaT FUCKING shit.

Now, back to football. I have just one simple question there as well: can the motherfucking Washington Redskins move the fucking ball? Can they score at all? Or will their godawful quarterback just fumble and take sacks all game? Jesus these idiots fucking suck.

Final $5 of my pokerroom.com account: I had AT against the chip leader who called my all-in with J7. JACK-FUCKING-SEVEN. Flop was of no consequence, neither was the turn. The river? A SEVEN! Happy fucking day, asshole! You were the lucking shithead to complete The Fucking of Zach by Pokerroom.com! Congrats, shiteater!

So now I took my one remaining dollar in my account, won three blackjack hands to make it $8, and I’ve got one last chance to play a $5 tourney.

Fucking shit. Three straight downs on the goalline and the Skins can’t score. Ooop, they’re going for it on fourth. I’m sure they’ll fuck it up too. I fucking hate these losers. They are the Raiders for 2004.

Well, there’s 5 people left in my tourney. I’m second in the chip count. Let’s see how I get screwed this time.

Here’s how it ended: I had AQ chip leader had JT with 3 people left. We had about the same amount of chips. Flop was QT5 rainbow. I bet big and he reraised. I considered an all-in, but decided to smooth-call. Turn was a J and that’s all she wrote for me. Can’t complain on that one; I clearly misplayed top pair top kicker. Or did I? I can’t decide. With a rainbow on the flop like that and only an obscure straight draw available, should I have just moved in on the flop to take the pot there, or was I correct to try to extract more from him on the turn? Wirkus, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts. You too, GMC.

Well, I was going to post my results in table form, but for simplicity’s sake I’ll just give you the ol’ long story short: I have $20 in my account, and it will be placed on the Green Bay Packers tomorrow night. I’d rather all-in on the devil I know.

The post-mortem on this season will be interesting indeed.

–whazz-in

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I finally finished the unpacking of the office tonight, and am now left with the thoroughly enjoyable effort of going through all my CDs and deciding which ones stay in the A Rotation (i.e., in the car), which ones are downgraded to the B Rotation (i.e., in the CD book on bookshelf), and which ones are thrown in the trash (after being ripped to my iPod).

The initial results are heartening, as I’ve found three CDs that I haven’t listened to in a great while: The Mighty Blue Kings’ Meet Me In Uptown and Come One, Come All and the soundtrack from Swingers. Those three CDs, along with Casperson’s recommended title(see below), have given me some great lounging music for the last few days.

Now, GMC had been telling me for quite a while about the Buena Vista Social Club. He had a bitch of time finding a copy of the CD to buy, and he finally had to order it through Amazon.com. Once I heard the first track I wanted to get a copy for myself, and it just so happened that the Best Buy me and Caspa went to on Wednesday had a copy. I’ve been listening to it for the last few days and it’s great. This may not be breaking news to some of you as the CD has been out for quite a while. But hey, if I’ve never heard it then it’s new to me.

I’m thinking about putting together a fuddruckus/4nyay-ish matted-and-framed collection of CD covers. The ones I’ve got for consideration so far are: The two Mightly Blue Kings CD covers (see above), Dave Matthews Band’s Under The Tabe And Dreaming and Live at Red Rocks, and Oasis’ Wonderwall (single release). I’ve also got several other Oasis CDs that I’ll use the covers from. After that, I may be a little short. I’ll have to dig a little more through my collection.

In my unearthing, I’ve found CDs that I wish I had never purchased. Chief among those found in this category is Limp Bizkit’s TWO CDs, along with Kid Rock’s self-titled album, and Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory. I can’t really stand to listen to any of those discs anymore. I kinda wish I could go back in time and slap myself.

Just found some great compilations from back in the day: The Source Presents Hip-Hop Hits Vol. 1 and MTV’s Buzz Bin. Check out these track lists:

• The Source presents Hip-Hop Hits
1. Mobb Deep: Hell on Earth
2. Scarface: Mary Jane
3. Foxy Brown (feat. Dr Hill): Big Bad Mama
4. Nas, Foxy Brown, Az, & Nature: Firm Biz
5. Westside Connection: Bow Down
6. Redman: Whateva Man
7. Outkast: Elevators
8. Lil’ Kim & Lil’ Ceas: Crush on You
9. Foxy Brown & Jay-Z: I’ll Be
10. Wycef Jean feat. Refugee All-Stars: We Trying To Stay Alive
11. LL Cool J: Phenomenon
12. Crucial Conflict: Hay
13. Notorious B.I.G.: Hypnotize
14. Wu-Tang Clan: Triumph
15. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Look Into My Eyez
16. EPMD: Da Joint
17. Puff Daddy: Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
18. Master P: Bout It, Bout It
• MTVs Buzz Bin
1. Stone Temple Pilots: Plush
2. Dave Matthews Band: What Would You Say
3. White Zombie: More Human Than Human
4. the cranberries: Zombie
5. Gin Blossoms: Hey Jealousy
6. Bush: Everything Zen
7. Blind Melon: No Rain
8. Cracker: Low
9. Radiohead: Creep
10. Us3: Cantaloop (!!)
11. Filter: Hey Man, Nice Shot
12. Danzig: Mother

Hey, Danzig. Yo, old skool shout-outs to Big Show and Los Dogg on that tip. You know my steez. Y’all will never believe what I’m listening to right now. Yup, it’s Pras’ (of the Refugee All-Stars) solo project: Ghetto Superstar. Man, that guy was no Wyclef, but there are a couple of hot jams on here. Maybe nostalgia is clouding my mind, but I think there’s some good things to be had in this swamp.

Earlier I found my long-lost copy of Prodigy’s Fat of the Land. Those guys flamed out fast but I’m still of the opinion that that disc was the shit. Not only perfect workout music, but after a frustrating day at work you could crank it and drive home as fast as possible.

OK, just finished the Pras CD and I feel confident that I can say why it was a flop. It is actually interesting as it may have been one of the discs to usher in a new era in Hip Hop albums. A new terrible era. The problem is: too many goddamned interlude tracks. On Ghetto Superstar there are half a dozen random interlude tracks. The main problem with them is that they are boring. Secondary to that, however, is the fact that many of them are several minutes in length. What gave Pras the idea that I was laying down money in the hope that I could hear a bunch of pseudo-celebrities tell Pras how great he is? I hope I didn’t give the impression that I did, because I surely don’t.

Playing Zuma to Prodigy is awesome. Whenever Prodigy tells me to smack my bitch up I make my little frog-man start whoopin ass on colored balls. It all harkens back to the days when I’d play Quake II until the wee hours of the morning in my dorm room while listening to Prodigy. Ahh, the soul-soothing nirvana that ensues when you are being trained to kill by a european electronica band and the programmers at id software. Next up: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues. Be back in a bit…

…back and drunko. I’m drinking the rest of GMC-provided CEDAR MOUNTAIN LIGHT (reading it off tha can). I also downed the rest of the Cedar Hard Cider. I’m watching my OVW Wrestling DVD and getting my iTunes Playlist Creation on. The Future Stars DVD is HIGHLY recommended, as it showcases Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton, RICO~!, Batista, and more all when they were in the WWF’s developmental leagues.

Holler back, players and playerettes.

–whazz on, whazz strong

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I went to get Erin and My Wedding Picture framed today at the place up the street (The Great Frame-Up). It was the 11″x17″ big print that we ordered where we’re on the beach. I brought along some other pieces I was looking at getting framed, too. The final price for all four pieces? $1,094. Mother. Fuck. For one of the very few times in my life, I was struck utterly speechless. I just stood and stared at the estimate sheet with the price breakdowns. Well, I guess I won’t be getting my High Life sign mounted. I scaled back things a bit and downgraded a few options on the wedding photo (namely removing the Museum-quality glass). Final price was $530 for two pieces, with the wedding picture costing $440 itself. I’ll definitely post a picture of the framed version once I get it back (supposedly Dec. 17th). I think that it will definitely be worth the price; I really, really liked the way it was mocked up with matting and frame. We’ll just see if Erin freaks out when she sees it or loves it.

–The Great Whazz-Up

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This year’s Thanksgiving celebration was muted in California. With Whazzgiving postponed for now (though more information will be forthcoming) we decided to make it a day of Pure Turkee an’ Football. The decision was also made to amek the meal a lesson in Back To Basics. Turkee, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, and rolls. That was it. Oh, and some of the worst beer ever, courtesy of GMC. No offense intended, Masta, but it was bad.

Everything came out great, though we were a bit short on the gravy end. I hate buying store-bought gravy to augment what little I can get from the drippings, but on the other end I love being able to fill a bowl with gravy, pour all my plate’s contents into it, and then eating it like soup. Yes, I love gravy that much. I think we got about a cup and a half from the dripping yesterday. KHHAAAAAANN!

On the upside, me and GMC were full after eating. Full. I was laying on the floor groaning while GMC was on the couch sleeping. We couldn’t even eat the pumpkin pie until several hours later.

Later in the evening, Erin and I took in a showing of The Incredibles at the local megaplex. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

Today I spent the morning fixing toilets and playing poker. After several hours I’m up one fixed toilet and down about $10. Not bad, over all.

–be sure to remove the whazz and giblets before cooking the turkey… i forgot

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Two pictures and a download for y’all this morning. I found the pictures on one of my machines at work, so I uploaded ‘em to whazzmaster for your enjoyment.

First up, check out pictures from the judging portion of the costume contest at work.

Next, we had a ship celebration last week at the Crowne Plaza. There were free drinks, Create Your Own Mashed Potato Bowl, and skeeball in the ballroom of a swank hotel. You go, Intuit. Anyways, at one point they gathered the whole Payroll division (engineers and marketing) for a group picture. So go ahead and find Waldo in this picture:

Finally, I received the following email from the Maaaadd Scientist this morning:

I highly recommend you get off your ass and go download that track. It is fairly funny… especially the part of getting a “two-piece at Popeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes!”

– whazz on my friends… whazz on

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