In an odd coincidence earlier today I read an article about how poker was becoming a popular television event in the states and now I've just finished watching a program, where a Danish television crew followed a guy, who was mentioned in the article, to Las Vegas, where he was competing in the poker world series.
The guy's name is Gustav (or Gus) Hansen and he's a professional gambler, but unfortunately he didn't do so well in the competition, so the beginning of the show was a lot more interesting than the last bit. But there's something fascinating about gambling and the life of gamblers, so the first bit was pretty entertaining.

Speaking of television I saw half of the first episode of The Surreal Life yesterday, and obviously it's pretty stupid. But the thing that freaked me a bit was Emmanuel Lewis. What happened to the poor guy? He looks really weird now. I also thought it was funny that they were insulted to get lumped in with the Survivor contestant - even Vince Neil was kinda pissy about the Survivor girl arriving. Like Corey Feldman and Brande Roderick are better celebrities than reality show scum.

I've been unemployed for a week now and it's getting weird not having anything to do. Obviously, I have a couple of projects I'm working on, but getting up at nine and just sitting round the house all day is odd. So I started playing an online football manager game, which is bound to suck hours out of my schedule. It's like regular football manager games, but it's online and using flash and I know others who play it, so it's a lot cooler than the regular games (which I couldn't install anyway, because my CD drive is busted). The only problem is that it's played almost in real time, so it takes for ages between games.

For the record I have actually been looking for jobs, but there isn't really anything worth applying for. And there were a couple of segments on television this week about how 50% or 75% of all university graduates are currently unemployed, which was fairly depressing. So I think the plan is to send out applications to places I'd love to work who don't know they need someone like me yet, and then hope for the best. So hopefully I'll be able to get around to writing a killer application this week, so I can send it out to a couple of cool companies before Christmas.