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Freezing Waves in Newfoundland

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

You know it’s cold when the waves turn to ice as they hit the beach. Watch this video from Newfoundland where the ice piles up onto the beach.

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Broke My New Bike

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Riding my new Davinci Melbourne across the Burrard Street bridge early this morning in the dark I switched gears. I could feel the chain slip and gave it another revolution before thinking maybe the chain came off. I did what I normally do. Move the front derailler in and keep pedalling and hopefully the chain would catch and I could keep going. Looking down I couldn’t see anything in the dark. Three more revolutions and then resistance. *Crap*

Keep on reading to see the results.

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Corrupt SD Memory Card

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I’ve had a couple of SD cards fail on me and have gotten tired of creating little plastic coasters for my shot glasses. After sifting through all the crap on the net about “SD Card Failure”, “SD Card Not Found”, “Recover SD Card”, I finally found some good info on re-formatting a dead SD card. (more…)

Poker Chip Tricks

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Over the holidays I have stated to play more and more poker with my little nieces and nephews. They have been playing for years and know all the strategies and statistics. So they usually take all my money. In my search for some pocker tips I’ve found these videos that I thought were cool.

I will probably still lose all my money to them, but maybe I’ll be able to impress them with a few parlour tricks in our next game.

This video shows how to flip poker chips from one hand to the other.

This next video is a bit simpler, but almost as cool. This poker chip trick shows you how to shuffle the chips with one hand.
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