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$1 Million Challenge

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The following comes directely from the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) website:

The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims.

At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the “applicant” becomes a “claimant.”

To date, no one has ever passed the preliminary tests.

They also have a forum where they post the correspondences between the applicants and the JREF. Some are quite amusing. It’s quite disturbing to realize how many people are out that think they can do something paranormal. Of course, there are a lot of people out there who just want to get rich as well (those are the ones who actually write intelligently, the crazy ones you can barely read what they write). I suggest you check out the forum and read about the applicants, it’s been keeping me enthralled for the past couple days.

Stumble Upon

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I found the coolest extension for firefox. If you use firefox, you will probably know what an extension is, if you don’t you will have no idea what I am talking about.

For me, when I go on the internet, I like to find random pages and just check them out, this is part of the reason I read fark. Well, the extension I found happens to make this easier and finds a lot more sites I like. It’s almost like a focused google search which only pulls up links on topics I am interested in. It’s called StumbleUpon. There are additional features, such as adding friends, so you can share webpages and even your own blog page. I’ve been fiddling with it for the past two days and I definitely think I’m going to keep it.

A couple things

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Okay, first, I know that the page looks broken right now. It’s because of the coding that I needed to put in for the Poker link on the left. That link will get me an invitation to a bloggers only poker tourney this upcoming Sunday. After the tourney, I’ll remove it.

Next, last night Nikki & I played in a $10+$1 buyin over on Pokerstars.com. As you know, usually we play at UltimateBet but the thing is…Wil [IMDB] Wheaton [WWdN In Exile] is a player over at PokerStars and he’s hosting a weekly tourney. The person that knocks him out of the tourney gets the following weeks tourney named after him/her. That’s pretty sweet. Oh yeah, there’s the prize money too. Last night the winner walked away with over $400. So, how did we do? Well, not so good. Nic went out fairly early. I hung in there. I had a couple “minimum” goals that I really wanted to accomplish: 1) Crack the top 50 (there were 152 entrants) 2) Last longer than Wil.

So how did things turn out? I finished in 49th. Wil finished in 54th. So I did it, I beat Wil. Now, I wasn’t the one to knock him out, so there will be no “WWdN Robbie Robb Invitational” next week. In fact, neither of us actual ever ended up at the same table as him. He was placed at a low number table from the beginning and I was at the table right next to him. It was unlikely that I would ever get moved to his table unless something really wonky happened at my table where 4 people went out all at the same time or something.

This was Nikki’s first time playing on Poker Stars. She, like me, prefers the front-end of UltimateBet over PS however there are some REALLY nice features that I wish UB would adopt. With PS it is possible to have the tournament summary emailed to you, as well as your hand statistics for pretty much any hand or series of hands. So in short, UB = prettier, easier to navigate. PS = more function. There’s also the “apparent” (as in we all think it is there but UB denies it and there’s really no way to prove it) propensity to deal ‘action’ hands where out of 10 people, 2 or 3 may have pocket pairs and someone else has Big Slick. This is to generate a ton of pot action, thereby increasing the rake that the company makes. We’ve all seen it. PS doesn’t seem to have this – at least not in tourneys. I’ve still got some cash left in my PS account so I’ll probably play for some bucks over there again. I’m looking forward to the next WWdN tourney. Maybe I’ll get to take on the man himself.

Interesting

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While reading Fark, I came across this article about a plasma pencil. Now, it’s a little different than what you think. The article talks about its use in the medical field and I thought it was quite interesting and would be amazing if it did become used in mainstream medicine.

Check it out here.

Not that many of you would remember…

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I used to silkscreen T-Shirts. My friend Travis and I started up a small silkscreening company back when we were in high school. The idea was to do some of the smaller contracts for various high schools. To call our venture a success would be a bit of an overstatement. I think by the time we shut everything down we had probably ultimately lost a bit of money. We did a few contracts – the two that immediately pop to mind were the Laurier S.S. Music trip and the South C.I. Red Feather shirts. One successful, one not so much. There were others too. No big contracts. A few hundred shirts tops. For some reason we were NEVER able to pull our shit together and finish the contracts ahead of schedule. Don’t get me wrong – we weren’t late either. We always ended up pulling all-nighters the night before the contract was due screening and curing like madmen, mainlining Coke (the soft drink, not the narcotic) to stay awake. We also had a small retail line that actually sold a fair amount of shirts down at Grand Bend one summer. Our personal favourite design we never sold any of beacause it wasn’t really a “Grand Bend” type of design but we each had a couple of the shirts for ourself. (It was the “Werewolves of London” design. Hella Cool.)

So, what was that it made me wax nostalgic over days past? This. Some company has released a special, dedicated printer that will print full colour T-Shirts using special textile inks. Man…the stuff we could’ve done if one of these babies existed back then. It’s expensive, but the TCO isn’t too bad as long as you could have a market for the shirts. A dedicated person could probably make back the cost of the unit within 4-5 months and be riding a small gravy train after that.

Ikea

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Well, we made it down to Ikea on Monday. We went down to buy a crib and a change table. We ended up picking up a nice crib that converts to a “junior bed” once the kid’s too big for a crib. They have a matching change table but it was sold out (good thing too – i’ll explain below). We also bought a couple stuffed animal things for the kid – a bear and rat. The other thing we bought for the baby was an inflatable hedgehog. It’s cool.

For us we picked up 3 DVD storage shelves since we were pretty much full to overflowing. They were on sale and fairly cheap. We also got a new cutting board. The coolest thing though for us was we picked up a Duvet cover and pillow cases to finally make our bed look like it belongs in the room. I’ve taken a couple pics and will post those soon.

We haven’t put the crib together yet (too hot) but we’re hoping to do it tonight or tomorrow night.

So the reason it’s a good thing that they were out of stock on the change table was we simply wouldn’t have had room in Nikki’s car to get everything home. In fact, one more box would have probably put us past the breaking point and simply wouldn’t have fit.

So, we get home, hop onto ikea.com and proceed to order it online. While online we also ordered a bathroom shelf that we forgot about while we were there (good thing too). The confirmation email stated that someone would call us within 48 hours to let us know the shipping cost and firm up the order. Sure enough, Tuesday we get home from work and there’s a message from Ikea asking us to call. Nic calls to confirm everything and then gets to the part where they tell us the shipping: $171.xx. That’s right, $171 (and change) – didn’t add an extra ‘1’ in there anywhere. To ship two boxes. From Burlington. To London. (Ontario – not England). We politely said thanks, but no thanks.

So, we’re going to keep an eye on the website and as soon as we see that the change table is available again in Burlington we’re going to drive down and pick it up.

And in other news: A big Hello! to Mike a.k.a. Phronk. Haven’t heard from him in ages and he’s finally started keeping his website/blog updated. He raises a good point that applies to me as well as him: we’ve both been “blogging” before blogging existed.

Odds & Ends

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Okay, it’s been a while. For the record, I’m starting to adjust to this whole Tom & Katie thing (or TomKat as the press has so eloquaintly dubbed them – damn press). It’s still wrong. Gotta give Cruise props though – he knows how to pick ’em.

So, one thing I’ve been meaning to write about since last Friday is the movie The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As all of you should know, I’ve been eagerly anticipating this movie for…oh…the past 20 years or so since it was initially announced. Then Mr. Adams passed away and it sorta floated about in limbo for a turn. Then it was resurrected. Then came the trailers. Then came my aprehension. Zaphod’s second head is NOT below the first!

So, movie time rolls around. I’m still a little nervous. I didn’t remember my towel to hide my eyes in the event that the film is so non-hoopy. Anyway, to make a short story that much shorter – the movie was actually rather well done. My aprehension was for naught. This will definitely be on my DVD shelf when it’s released.

Still undecided if they should do a sequel or not.

Whilst on the topic of new movies: Lightsabers
Howstuffworks has put together the handy, dandy guide to the safe operation and technical background to the tool that no household should be without.

Eerie

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Check on this site:
Abandoned Amusement Park
The site itself is in Japanese. There are three pages to the site itself. If you click on the right icon below the bottom picture it will take you to the second page. Repeat to see the third page.

A New Direction?

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We pride ourselves in bringing y’all the must useless information on the internet (hell, it’s in our tagline). Fortunately, most of the most useless stuff is also kinda cool. Unfortunately, we’re not so good at this. My goal with this post is to change that. I’m planning on posting stuff that I come across throughout the day that I find interesting, cool, gross, etc. I’ll also probably throw in my two cents on the link that I provide.

To start off this herculean effort, I bring you this:

Kentucky Fried Chicken is back…and…cool?
So, KFC wants to rebrand itself as cool huh? Well, some of the things they are proposing sound interesting, but ottomans to put your feet up on? Mixed with greasy chicken? To borrow an oft-used phrase over at fark – what could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah, and “Sweet & Spicy Candy Apple Chicken Wings”??? WTF??? Damn southerners…of course, what can I really expect from a society that likes chitlins…

New Look

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So, here it is Spring and with that comes a new look for the site. Again, I don’t entirely like it and I’m not done tweaking it yet (gotta add our pics to each post). Lemme know what you think.