eHarmony...has lots of ugly people!

If you think about it, online dating makes a lot of sense. The internet has revolutionized the way people can connect to information - products, news, etc. It seems the internet would be an extremely efficient way to connect to a significant other.

I'm always seeing commercials for eHarmony so I thought I'd try it out.

It's interesting, you fill out the profile and then the system connects you to people it thinks you may like. Unfortunately, I don't like ugly, obese, desperate 30+ somethings. I don't know how to tell eHarmony to stop sending me those matches.

I feel bad because I keep hitting the "Close Match" button, which basically is a rejection of the poor girl. Some of these girls must get A LOT of these rejections. So I felt bad and stopped hitting that button, but then all the matches just pile up and become unmanageable.

I'd have to say about 50% of my matches have semi-interesting profiles. And then of those 50%, about 2% are attractive. So, of every 100 girls, there's only 1 that becomes very interesting. Of course, every other guy must think the same thing so we all try communicating with the same girl...

Not sure how you win at this game yet, but I'm gonna keep playing and I'll give an update on this at a later date!

TalkTalk.co.uk Phone Company

Check out this new UK based phone company, TalkTalk.co.uk. TalkTalk is unlike any other phone company I've heard of, these guys offer free broadband with their phone service! They have different plans for just UK Callers, UK & International callers, UK & mobile callers, and UK, International, & mobile callers, each of which can provide savings to the customer.

And with all the plans, except for the Talk1 plan, you get free internet broadband service! The highspeed broadband deal delivers up to 8MB of download speed, and up to 40GB of monthly usage. But it's just not about free broadband, their regular phone plans can save you money with free landline calls on evenings and weekends within the UK, unlimited calls to other TalkTalk members, and unlimited anytime calls to 36 international destinations (this depends on the plan you choose).

TalkTalk also has plans to reduce the costs of dialing mobile phones! This is something that they are working on and will be announcing some time in the future.

If you are currently with BT, Tiscali, or NTL/Virgin, you may be able to save money while improving your service by switching to TalkTalk.

Minivans Rock!

I've been thinking about minivans lately. I see commercials detailing the massive amounts of features these minivans have now, like back seats that can swivel 360 degrees, multiple LCD televisions, etc. So what if we can hire a driver to take my friends and I around town in our new minivan. We can swivel one set of seats to face the other, and place a little card table in between. Now four people could comfortably face each other and play a game of poker. We could put the movie 300 in the DVD player, drink martinis, and play poker while our driver cruises us to a fancy restaurant for dinner.

Why isn't this possible?! I'm going to make minivans popular among housewives and 30 year old playas!!

Poker Zealot

Yes, I can't help but really love this game. I think it's a great game of mental toughness, patience, concentration, even acting...

I've recently found this incredible site: FlopTurnRiver.com. It's not a gambling site, it's more of a poker community, reviews, and poker information site. You can't actually play poker there, but you can read all about it. And everything they offer there is complete free. You can spend several hours everyday perusing their site and not make a dent in a month. But below are some of the highlights.

If you're new to FlopTurnRiver or poker in general, you should start in their Beginner Poker section where they have some beginner essays to introduce you to the site and the game. There's also a beginner section in the Poker Forum called the Beginner's Circle where some of the more advanced poker players teach and advise the beginners.

FlopTurnRiver offers higher level poker strategy essays and tournament strategy essays if you are looking to learn and improve your poker and Texas Holdem skills.

Some other highlights include over 40 free instructional poker videos, several articles on poker tells, no deposit poker rooms, comprehensive poker room reviews, and of course, the very active poker forums that feature over 600,000 articles.

But for those who are interested in actually playing some online poker, you have to check out FlopTurnRiver's poker bonus code section, where you can get extra special bonuses such as their Full Tilt Referral Code, Ultimate Bet Bonus Code, and PokerStars Marketing Code. These special codes give you extra bonus dollars and perks above and beyond what you can get anywhere else!

Well, that's my review of the highlights of FTR, check them out if you have any interest in poker!

The blog is back! Long live the blog!

This blog is back to life!!! Yay! We're bringing life back to dead blogs! My name is Slumpy and I've assumed ownership of this blog. So be sure to note that starting in 2008, all entries are now made by me and not your previous owner. All of the old entries will remain here for past readers and out of respect for the previous owner. Check back as I begin to post my own thoughts!