Over the next bunch of orbits I was absolutely card dead. I won the blinds once raising from the button with pocket sixes but that’s about it. I was being not so slowly being blinded off without there being much of anything I could do about it. Amazingly I still snuck onto the final table [...]
Entries from July 2010
One Rainy Evening (Part III)
July 29th, 2010 No Comments
One Rainy Evening (Part II)
July 27th, 2010 No Comments
Things were less pleasant as the action continued. The best hand I saw in the next few orbits was a pair of snowmen out of position in a hand that the Eurodonk managed to double up on. At the same time, the Ice Queen was showing why I’d feared her as she snapped up [...]
Tags: Poker
Endings… we’ve had a few…
July 26th, 2010 No Comments
So today is officially the day after the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
Therefore it’s also officially the first time I haven’t attended the festival at all in over ten years, probably fifteen. It’s hard to describe how sad I am about that.
To some people the festival is a fun period of time where they go out to [...]
Tags: Fringe · If I had a Million Dollars · Stupidity · Work
One rainy evening… (part I)
July 25th, 2010 No Comments
***Warning: Heavy Poker Content***
It’s been ages since I’ve played any poker, either live or online, but I had a rainy evening free this week and fired up my laptop for a little fix. Browsing the tables I found a reasonably small scale SNG that like wouldn’t keep me up too late if I went deep. [...]
Tags: Poker · Stupidity · Writing
The return of Three Quick Hits
July 24th, 2010 No Comments
First off, word on the street is that the upcoming release of Community Season One on DVD will include a short comic book featuring the exploits of in world B-Movie hero Kick-Puncher (the hero whose punches have the powers of kicks) that will also feature scantily clad comic heroines based on certain leading ladies. Sadly [...]
Tags: Blog · Link · Nerdiness · TV · Writing
A father for us all…
July 23rd, 2010 No Comments
The other day I was at the drugstore trying to choose a birthday card for my team to give to our boss when I noticed a familiar face peeking out from the kids birthday section. The shining silver mouth, the oddly expressive eyes and the almost batman like points of his head were all [...]
Tags: Nerdiness · Nostalgia · Robots · Toys aren't just for kids · Transformers · TV
Soupy Summer
July 16th, 2010 No Comments
Apologies for absence, last school term was hellish. So many blog entries half finished as a major crisis erupted with a project. For those who might still check this site
on occasion, my sincere thanks. Here’s a super awesome recipe or two to get back into the habit.
Some people are of the opinion that soups other [...]
Tags: Cheese · Engelbert Humperdink · Food · Poppycock · Spicy · Summer · Summer 2010