http://www.chrishalverson.com Sometimes Poker, most likely not Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:22:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the big news this past week in gaming circles was the release of Will Wright's "Spore". Of course, the bigger news was the draconian SecuROM DRM that they force install on your PC during the install. You may remember SecuROM from the Sony rootkit debacle a while back. SecuROM ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200809/omfg-ea/ As planned I avoided the madness that was the Minnesota State Fair. I hardly knew it was going on to be honest. The people watching and Sweet Martha's Cookies are about the only things that have any draw and I can go to the store and pick up a bucket ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200809/2008-09-05/ I try really hard to keep politics off here, but you can't tell me these are accidents and/or that there isn't a liberal bias in the media. This was from cnn.com on 2008-09-04: And thanks to Easycure for another example of the Liberal media bias that "doesn't exist": I'm not saying McCain is the ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200809/cmon-now/ If you're heading to the Minnesota State Fair (or any other place where there's lots of people), you may find this Fair Bingo card set useful. Enjoy! http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200808/to-those-going-to-the-fair/ Blogging to you live from my deck. I took the day off today since it's now the middle of August and I still have about 5 weeks of PTO to take. Oy, it's going to be hard to fit it all in. Again. I do this every year, you'd think ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200808/notes-from-the-deck/ It's been a while since I've given any sort of update, so let's back track a bit. I'll expand on things as time goes on. Oh, I changed the RSS feed URL to use Feedburner, so if that tripped up things for you, sorry. Looking at this blog I see I've ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200808/a-short-update/ From Tao of Poker: and the one and only professional poker player Chris Halverson. I thought I was seeing a ghost. A blast from the past. It took long time friend and blogger Pauly to pull me out of retirement and play in a blogger tournament. As a world reknown Professional Poker ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200808/congrats-to-pauly-for-5-years/ Congratulations Jon. There wasn't a prouder family at graduation last night. Here's to a bright future. http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200706/graduation-congratulations/ Felicia: Sorry, I had to remove you from my links because you never post anymore Iggy: Are you ever going to post again? AlCantHang: POST! My friend Jason: Do you even blog anymore? And the main way you know it's been a while since you posted last: There's been a couple of posts on ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200607/im-still-alive/ Wow. No, not WoW, although that's been consuming about every waking hour that I'm not at work, but "wow" as in, "my new computer is freaking fast" wow. I ordered a Dell refurb last Sunday and it showed up on Thursday. I left work early and got it setup and I'm very ... http://www.chrishalverson.com/archives/200604/new-computer/