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 Going back a bit again, over the Thanksgiving weekend Amy picked a second movie for us to watch. Robots. I’d thought it looked cute when it was in the theater, but we never got the chance. So we watched it. And I was right. It was cute. A few crude jokes I could do without, but for the most part it was a fun little movie. I am remembering not enough of it right now, but it was fun. See, I really have to get better at writing these up right after I see the movies rather than weeks later. My memory is really bad and fades quickly. Right now I am in an airport waiting for a flight and a few feet away from me is a guy asleep on one of the seats snoring loudly.
Oh, the movie? Lets see. Little robot goes to the city to make it big. Gets disillusioned. Then when all seems lost things get better. See, typical robot movie. :-) There was one part that when I saw it I thought to myself, “I must remember to mention that when I write this up!”
But of course I do not remember what that was.
![]() A couple weeks ago Chad suddenly sent an email asking “Sam, what has your cousin Jake been up to lately- making WPT final tables by chance?” and enclosed a link with the picture here and some interesting quotes:
Would a Legend Win the Legends of Poker
(BJ Nemeth, Cardplayer.com)
Day Four: The Final Table
The final six players who would play for more than a million dollars the next day in front of the WPT cameras were:
1. Todd Phillips $1,900,000 Seat 2
2. Alex Kahaner $1,855,000 Seat 6
3. Kenna James $1,540,000 Seat 1
4. Jake Minter $1,525,000 Seat 3
5. Tim Phan $1,085,000 Seat 5
6. Kevin O’Donnell $500,000 Seat 4
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The blinds skyrocketed to $100,000-$200,000 ($20,000 ante) after the break, costing the players an average of $120,000 per hand. Here were the chip counts at the break:
1. Kenna James $3,680,000
2. Alex Kahaner $3,380,000
3. Jake Minter $1,320,000
Rather than going on tilt, James increased his chip lead after the break, coming back to again hold more than half of the chips in play ($5,200,000).
In hand No. 112, Kahaner raised to $500,000 from the button, Minter moved all in with A-5, and Kahaner immediately called with A-9. Minter was dominated, never improved, and was eliminated in third place, earning $333,600.
(via Chad Hunter)
Indeed, looking at the picture I did immediately know that the Jake Minter in the article was indeed my cousin, although I had not heard this news through the family grape vine. Yup, this was Jake Lightning Minter, the very same cousin who had given me my stuffed bear “Red Bear” when I was a newborn and he was six months old. Yup. That one.
Anyway, congrats to Jake and continued good luck on such endeavours!! Next time let me know when you’ll be on TV and I’ll be sure to Tivo it! :-)
 Over thanksgiving break we watched an Amy chosen DVD for the first time in many months. Her Netflix movie at the time was Roger Rabbit. She had already watched it, but she really wanted us to watch with her. So we did. I missed a few seconds here and there, and we had an interruption during the final credits, so I almost considered not counting it, but in the end rationality prevaled. I did watch the movie. It does count.
I hadn’t seen Roger Rabbit since I saw it in the theater I don’t think. I’d seen parts of it, but never sat down and watched the whole thing. Given that the last DVD I watched before this was Fantasia, it was a lot of fun seeing “half the cast of Fantasia” near the beginning. And there were some other bits I didn’t remember from the first time around.
I remember really liking it when it first came out. NOw I just sort of thought it was OK. I think Roger himself is annoying. The part that was the most fun for me was actually just all the cameos of the Disney and WB cartoons. That was fun.
Anyway, twas an OK movie choice and a good way to spend an evening.
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Sometime Sunday night, Nala died after several months of illness. He’d been getting progressively thinner, less active, and more dried out. We were able to slow things down and give him a little bit longer by changing the kind of light he had and doing a lot more misting and a lot of extra hydration. It helped some, but not enough. Poor guy. He was with us a decent length of time for an anole though, especially since we have no way of knowing how old he was when we got him. He was a present from Amy to me two Christmases ago. He’s followed me through three houses! A lot of the symptoms looked like they may very well have just been old age.
He just got thinner and thinner and ate less and less and slowed down more and more. Over the last two months we came home at least three or four times and thought he was no longer with us, but then when we reached in to check he would look at us and blink, and decide that he wasn’t quite gone yet. This time it was clear over the weekend that he was in his last hours. But he still managed to go from one side of the terrarium near the water dish over to the other side and up into his favorite fake plant.
He died in his favorite fake plastic plant that night and I buried him, along with the plant, in the back yard.
He was a cute little guy.
Goodbye Nala.
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