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Golden Star Sparkling Tea

Have you ever had a meal that was begging for some Champagne but you didn’t want to drink alcohol? What if I told you that there’s a Jasmine Tea sparkling drink that tasted a little like Champagne? I drink a ...

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Commerce Casino Updates Players Cards

It’s been a while since I’ve done a tournament at Commerce so I decided to try their “Hold’em Series.” Their first of 17 tournaments was a multi-day $500,000 guaranteed one but I got there too late on the last day ...

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Chikan T-Shirt?

A co-worker was wearing this t-shirt so I asked her what the writing was. She didn’t know what it says but I got the idea from the graphic that it was something about Chikan. In case you’re not familiar with ...

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PHP strtotime Bug Workaround

If you’re not into coding in PHP, skip this post and read the next one. A few months ago, I was working on some PHP code and found a bug in the strtotime function in PHP version 4.3.11. It’s been ...

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Foot Pies For Sale?

This is one of times when it’s probably a good idea to leave the Spanish translation off of the sign. It took me a couple of days to figure out that “Pies” is Spanish for feet. If you want to ...

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Honda FCX on the road

The Honda FCX, which has been around since 2007, was sighted on the 405 recently. Apparently, it’s a prototype and not available directly to the public. This one looks like it’s a dealer test car. The FCX is a hydrogen ...

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Redbox Comes to LA

Although the original company was partly owned by McDonald’s, Coinstar bought them out and created redbox. It’s only very recently that they have put their new DVD rental machines (made by Flextronics – also manufactures Zune, Xbox 360) at Southern ...

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Legends of Poker at the Bike

After my disappointing performance at the last series of tournaments at the Bicycle Casino, I decided to keep trying at the Legends of Poker tournaments. First, I tried the re-buy $300 tournament ($200k guarantee) with no luck.  The week after ...

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High Speed Robot Video

When I watched this video, I was thinking how robots will probably replace surgeons and operations that now take hours could be done in seconds by robots. There will be no such thing as intricate detailing by humans in any ...

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