SJ wants Diamond to get free parking at CET properties.

But he doesn’t drive here?

That’s the joke!

Yes he’s covering my wasteful carbon footprint.

^This. So much this.

I can actually park for free with my platinum. But yeah, it's still ironic.

Just yours, though, Da_Nit. I'm only one man.

I don't plan on having any kids, either, so that has to count for something.

As some of you might know, I hang out at Ellis Island a lot, as they serve good cheap beer and food close to the mid-Strip. Ellis Island runs karaoke quite a bit, so I've had some time to develop an opinion on it.

I'm an indifferent karaoke singer, but I'll get up there for a song or two if I'm with people who are into it. I know my range so I'll always stick to low variance crooning near the middle parts of the register: things like Don't Fear the Reaper, Desperado, Ring of Fire, and What I Got. If I ever get drunk/brave enough, I'd like to try (and likely fail) Thunder Road, Godzilla, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town and (especially) Alice in Chain's Don't Follow.

Last night, some not-untalented gentleman was singing a well-known number that was a love song written by a woman for a man--I wish I hadn't forgotten the title of the song--and he changed the actual lyrics so that he could be a straight guy singing to a woman. Now excuse me, you drunken oaf, is your name Alfred Yankovic? No? Then don't ever change the goddamn lyrics.

Stop your amateur bollocksing with an established and well-loved hit, and go ahead and be secure enough in yourself to portray yourself as having a different sexuality for 3 1/2 minutes. What? Are all your inebriated dudebro friends going to be like, "We thought he was straight, but apparently this very song has turned him irrevocably gay."

Lol Alfred Yankovich well played

Yeah I guess I don’t feel the CET perks are really worth the effort.

Thank you for covering my carbon footprint I’ve been particularly wasteful lately. My stupid company sent me to Paris and than England within a few weeks of each other for mostly pointless meetings that could’ve been done by conference calls and could’ve easily been done in one trip together with just a little planning and I work in operational planning for Christ’s sake. Even worse I was in France a week before on vacation. Tried to convince them to schedule my trip at that time but no, instead I flew back a week later.

Also it’s good that you’re not contributing to overpopulation. That being said we could use some smarter offspring in the next generation to help offset for the rest of us. Sure you don’t have any bastards running around? I think I’m in the clear but for years I was afraid I might find a basket left on my doorstep.

I would sing "You Oughta Know" for Karaoke at Ellis Island. That **** is FIRE. Do they have fish and chips?

I wish that I could go to Europe. I've only ever been to Hanover Germany once. That's the equivalent of making your one lifetime trip to the USA to Cincinnati. Not to put either city down too much; they both have their charms, but they're not exactly international tourist destinations.

As far as the bastards go, none for me, just the standard pregnancy scares that we've all been through.

Do they ever! It's one of their better specials.

Another short session and another losing one. No hands of significance to report. At some point last night I realized that I can recall picking up no more than two full houses during the entire month of October. Part of that is me not playing enough, but the rest of it is missing a lot of boards. That's especially not good at $1/$2, which is heavily weighted towards value betting well, something that I'm good at, if I can only catch some cards.

Flamingo: 2 hours:
(-$115)

The Great Carrot Top Dissonance

Carrot Top has taken his share of belittling from critics and fellow comedians over the years. His style of prop comedy has been roundly mocked, along with his appearance. I'm not going to post it here, but you may remember the infamous picture of him with his shirt off, showing a physique that is almost compulsively ripped, along with a face that looks like it's had some work done on it, either by a surgeon or by an assailant.

Here's the dissonance: I have now recorded--to the best of my memory--the reviews of 14 consecutive tourists who have loved Carrot Top's show. That is set off against zero tourists who hated it or were even just indifferent.

Set the null hypothesis at this: Carrot Top has, as many of his critics and fellow comedians claim, a mediocre show. If you picked out an audience at random and sent them to a mediocre show, the review percentage for great, mediocre and bad respectively should be somewhere around 25%, 50% and 25% for a balanced range.

My reviews come from ticket holders who ostensibly would have been favorably predisposed to the act, so I would think that their range would be unbalanced in response to a mediocre outing: say 45% would still love it, 35% would think it just okay, and 20% would hate it.

So the chances of me running into 14 people in a row who loved the show even if it wasn't great is (0.45^14)*100, or 0.0014%, or somewhere around 714/1.

So my tentative conclusion is that Carrot Top puts on a great show.

Flamingo: 5 hours:
+$128

71,400 percent chance of running into 14 people in a row that love the show!!!!!!!

I like green numbers that > previous red numbers.

Carrot Top fans are like Adam Sandler fans. Their comedy isn’t for everyone but the people who like
It, they ****ing LOVE IT

I'm aware of the Sandler/Nickelback/Dane Cook effect, and it plays a part for sure. But I feel that there's something else intangible in play with Carrot Top, as at least a few of the tourists sounded surprised that they loved the show so much.

Lot of good costumes downtown tonight. My favorite was the middle finger. I couldn't get a picture of the gentleman, as I was in a hand when he walked by, but I did find a good example of it in GIS.



Golden Nugget: 2.5 hours:
+$5

That dudes penis costume has some cum left over on the tip

Yes! And what it is, is this. Scott is very interactive with the crowd in a light hearted way + he works super duper hard at performing a tight, clean, and although corny and pun driven, a fun(ny) act.

He deserves every dollar and every pat on the back, the guy away from the stage is a class act and real sweetheart if a guy

It's odd how a professional comedian has a physique that is basically at pro bodybuilder level. My Lechter-like psychoanalysis postulates that he is compensating for his life's work being taken as a joke, not only by the audience (that enjoy it) but also by fellow comedian's (that loathe it.)


By crafting such a beastly physique he is signalling to others "beware, for I am not merely a clown, an indomitable will is at work here, and I will never submit to the views of others. I will master whatever sphere of work I so choose or die trying."


We can all learn a lot from Carrot Top.

Yes, his case might be similar to NFL linemen named Stacey or Tracey. You imagine what they went through in school until they found an answer for the bullying.

Yesterday I whiffed another freeroll. Tonight I'm heading out for some overnight hours for the first time in a while--looking to start in on a profitable November.

Flamingo "Freeroll": 1 hour:
(-$10)

Re: the Carrot Top survey.

I'd guess your numbers aren't skewed enough toward predisposition to liking the show. (This is, as they say, unencumbered by the thought process).

Not only are the people who buy tickets presumably going to be predisposed to liking him, but they also want to feel value for their money.

Even if the show is objectively bad (not been, not saying it is or is not), I'd guess most people will say it is good for that reason.

Here's hoping for not running into the nuts November for SJ!

I think it is more like anorexia. Just like an anorexic never sees themselves as thin enough, people afflicted like Carrot Top never see themselves as muscular enough. It drives them to do ridiculous levels of exercise, and quite often steroids (which he has almost certainly dabbled in)

We can certainly tinker with the numbers, though I don't think that the bottom line would change by as much as an order of magnitude. In any case, I brought it up as a potentially interesting bit of variance.

Muscle Dysmorphia is definitely a thing, and some of the symptoms run parallel with anorexia.

Last night I found a great table, with drunks and fish galore, and I ran just awful. I felt that my reads were strong and my plays were solid, but the river betrayed me again and again. I was happy with my mental game after getting bashed around. Where before I would have ragequit after 2 hours, last night I stuck around for as long as the game was good.

I'm going to look into playing the overnight more often. I need the potential EV boost now more than ever.

Bally's: 5 hours:
(-$327)

Apparently the beatings will continue until morale improves. Yesterday I didn't wake up in time to pick up cash at the bank, so I sat down with $240 and punted it holding 44 on a J43JQ board.

When I raised V biggish on the turn and he called I was pretty confident that he had a Jx or (less likely) 33, and I thought that JJ, J3 or J4 were unlikely given his preflop open and the lack of combos. The Q hit the river and he checked to me. I had about 1/2 pot left in my stack and put it in, super standard, and I was shown the QJ for a rivered boat over boat. I'm pretty sure that even if he open shoved the river, I would have tank called.

I didn't feel like hitting the ATM for more, so I'll have to chalk that up as a ragequit, though I wasn't particularly angry, as this has been part of my playing life for some time now.

Flamingo: 0.5 hours:
(-$240)