Victory is mine.
I’m on a trip with some poker affiliates, one of them being Nick from CardsChat. He’s a 19 y/o SEO genius/baller, but he didn’t believe me when I said that UB.com was registered in 1986 according to the whois database. Despite my insistence that I had looked up the domain in the previous few days and I had seen the creation date, Nick STILL insisted on betting $20 that 1986 wasn’t possible. This is despite the fact that he hadn’t looked up the domain in the whois database. Ship the $20.
While I didn’t know this at the time of the bet, UB.com is actually tied for the 18th oldest domain. That’s impressive…
This bet is on the heels of two bets with Eric. The first was when I insisted that a pool shot was makable and Eric insisted that it was impossible. So I bet even money that I could make it and I did. Then Eric said that WordPress Matt’s blog was a pagerank zero and I said that it was a pagerank eight. Of course, a few weeks ago, it WAS a pagerank zero because Matt moved his domain from photomatt.net to ma.tt, but Eric didn’t realize that there had been a pagerank update a few weeks ago and Matt’s pagerank of 8 had been restored by google.
I’m not trying to brag when I say that I win a really high % of my bets, but I do. I think it’s because I only bet when I’m pretty sure I’m right or when I’m pretty convinced that I have an edge, but whatever I’m doing, it seems to be working.
Right now I’m sitting in my hotel room at Tabacón looking out the window at the Arenal Volcano. If you ever get the chance to come here, definitely do it. The hot springs and views are awesome.
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When I was there the volcano was obscured by clouds and I couldn’t get any pics, but the hot springs more than made up for it. Sitting under a waterfall in a geothermic pool and looking up into triple-canopy rainforest, all the while sipping a beer, is extremely civilized.
Mean Gene
May 22, 2008
Geeky prop bets FTW.
ispiked
May 22, 2008
Tabacon…what an incredible spot. However, last time I was there everyone had to be evacuated because Arenal had the second biggest eruption in the last 500 years. The only bigger one was the first eruption since it was dormant. Yikes!
tdawgs
May 23, 2008
When Nat makes a bet with me, I’m wrong 98% of the time.
exstrax
May 23, 2008
UB Networks was a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Tandem Computers
Kajagugu
May 24, 2008