Live-blogging WWdN Change100 Invitational

Posted on Wed 19 April 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker

No tourney next week, so I guess I've gotta do good this time around. Except doing good means actually making a decision on all hands, and since I started late tonight that's not how things went... I sat out the first four hands, including when I was big blind, and …


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Holiday shopping for a MiniDV camcorder

Posted on Mon 17 April 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal

Over the weekend I ordered a Sony DCR-H36image0 HandyCam camcorder from Best Buy Canada... the unit was on sale for $50.00 off, the shipping cost was $0.00, and its going to arrive within a couple of days. We have to have something to capture all of the images …


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Live-blogging WWdN, presdlee invitational

Posted on Wed 12 April 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker

I was there last [STRIKEOUT:night]week when Wil got all of his chips in with jacks against presdlee's aces... I met my own demise when I raised to 5X the BB with QJo at M9 and ArtOfSuckout decided to call when he was holding the mighty 58s -- and caught …


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Walk to work with me

Posted on Mon 10 April 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal

I took these photos about a week ago to document my walk to work. I skipped the first half, which takes me through residential neighbourhoods, because heck, you've all seen houses and pavement before. But for those of you who are still wondering why we would pull up stakes and …


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Theatre of the macabre

Posted on Sat 01 April 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal

Lynn and I went to see Carnival Diablo last night at the Mine Mill Navy League Hall. Most of Sudbury's goth teen population was there -- probably about 150 attendees in all -- but I think our quasi-yuppie style mixed with Lynn's big baby belly at a late-night carny revival show was …


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Semi-live-blogging WWdN #21, jg-2323 invitational

Posted on Tue 28 March 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker

Last time around, I ended up taking third place in this damn tourney (incurring the wrath of SirFWALGman when I dared to call his all-in, representing 40% of my chips, from my position in the big blind with A8o and ended up sucking out against his ATs. Ah well... we …


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Baby shower from Jamie's point of view

Posted on Wed 22 March 2006 in Family • Tagged with Personal

Courtesy of Jamie Roberts, here is an awesome (and completely unsorted) set of photos from this past weekend's baby shower! Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version of any given photo.

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That's just a teaser, there are many more below if you click the "Continue reading" link...

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Live-blogging WWdN #-something, pink floyd in the house

Posted on Wed 22 March 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker

Ugh, I'm twin-tabling (thanks to deciding to play a warm-up sit'n'go) and trying to live blog, this should be ugly!

8:30 - farmboy03, hacker59, SirFWALGman, denials, smalldog, cailin deas, Rogue23 are at my table. Tough sledding ahead!

8:35 - I try to limp in and am chided (after a raise …


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No "Hot Coffee", please, I'm Canadian

Posted on Fri 17 March 2006 in misc • Tagged with Coffee

I took a peek at the stats for Coffee|Code today, and was a wee bit surprised to see that Hot Coffee code was the top search string that brought people to my site. Jeez, and here I was thinking that all these people were enthralled by my tales of …


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Stop me if you've heard this one before

Posted on Wed 15 March 2006 in misc • Tagged with Poker

Yup, tonight I'm live blogging WWdN #18: Fishy McDonk Invitational Part Deux, which is just like last week's live blog, only this time it's personal. Or something like that.

Last week, for the second week in a row, I bowed out of the tournament due to a short-stacked hammer. To …


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