A Quantum Immortal

Yay, I’m getting a super birthday this year!

This week started with my Kung Fu team moving to a fresh new dojo and celebrating it with a 2.5 hour practice.
Yesterday we played some 2 headed giant Magic: The Gathering game.
Today I’m having a Release Drink (שתיית שחרור)!
Tomorrow there’s another practice.
Thursday I’m doing an “Out Trip Form” (טופס טיולים יוצא – לפעמים אנגלית זה נוראי). Aya is organizing some secret game. She won’t tell anyone the details, but I managed to guess it 🙂 You’re all invited, by the way.
Friday I think I’ll celebrate with my family
Sauterday, we’ll christen our new surfing half-board (בוגי).
Sunday, I’m getting reassigned to the Kirya, then vacation for 2 months, then I’m a true civillian!

That’s all folks

After playing some poker one on one versus Aya on the train today, we played some Texas Holdem tonight. Since we’re not playing for money, I keep an imaginary balance of my wins/losses. If I pay 10 imaginary dollars per game, I’m currently at -30$ total 🙁

Shimi and Aya won the Holdem games, and it was, as poker nights are usuelly, as very funny night. My personal favorite activity during poker games is trying to guess other players’ cards, telling them what I think they have, and advising (commanding 🙂 them on how to proceed. For some reason, it seems to convince the other players I actually know what I’m talking about. If I did, I wouldn’t be at a -30$ balance, wouldn’t I?

Sad but predictable.

This always happens with Starcraft, even at lan parties.

1. Everybody has a different starcraft version, some might not play nice with others.
2. We tried playing over the internet with hamachi (lan simulator). I think this failed because Starcraft doesn’t let you configure the network interface to listen on, so it probably chose the real NIC and not the fake one hamachi created.
3. While 2 of us have real Battlenet keys, the others could not connect to BN. Spawnning the game didn’t help (and why would it, actually?)

At least in lan parties you can give everybody the same copy of the game and this usually works at the end (after an hour of hard labor).

Bummer.

I always said the game is not interesting, compared to chess and Go.

This Slashdot post confirms it – someone solved Checkers (שש בש), by creating a big ass database containing all possible positions…

I’m planning to play some Starcraft with friends this weekend. This prompted me to look at Starcraft vids on Youtube, and found this amusing one.