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10/02/2011 21:11 #55230

Casinorama
Category: games
Last night (e:matthew), (e:Mike) and I went to the Seneca Casino last night. Gambling at the slots sucked. Sometimes I win a bit, even if I am going to lose. This time I consistently lost $20 worth of plays on the penny slots. Even though it was the penny slots we were playing 50 lines at a time.

Actually, I was exaggerating - there was on win, this was it. How the frick is this a win? I can't understand how the machine works at all, which makes it seem all the more suspicious.
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The best part was the Mega sized mozzarella cheesesticks. The worst part was the cigarette smoke. I had no idea what it was like to be in a place where thousands of people are smoking cigarettes indoors.

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We opened the glowstick fairy wand, but had no chance to show it off. Its kind of a sad end to the fairy wand.
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vincent - 10/03/11 23:43
Although the funny part of your post is that there is actually a Casino Rama that does exist. It's North of Toronto on the way to Cottage Country.
vincent - 10/03/11 23:42
Just wait until the snows flies and that place is even more smokey. The slots anywhere these days are just set on "Suck" Canada is even worse if you can imagine that concept. A few years ago I could hop on a plane and get some fun out in Vegas as their payback settings were descent. Now with the depression, they're almost as bad as they are here.

I just go there for the Steakhouse and the Pan Asian place Koi, if not I'm just hanging out across the street at Starbucks. The place is run shitty and the people that work there are just borderline belligerent when it comes to natural customer service. I remember my Dad tell me how the people around Pittsburgh actually Wheeling WV were trashing the place down there and how they would never go back to the Seneca Niagara Casino.

When it think of the place I basically place it as a OK casino facility with a nice hotel but with East Fremont St Clientele.
tinypliny - 10/03/11 09:53
I don't get any of the machines. When I was in Vegas I had earmarked 25 cents to gamble. But time slipped past (because we were travelling through Vegas to the Grand Canyon) and tiredness got the better of me. I had my last chance at the airport. But I spent 20 minutes figuring out how to play and it was time for the flight back so I didn't lose the 25 cents in the end.

10/02/2011 21:03 #55229

Looking at 3D images cross eye style
Category: images
Apparently I don't cross my eyes all the way when using the cross eyed method for viewing stereoscopic images.

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tinypliny - 10/03/11 09:54
You look zombie like. Crossing my eyes gives me a severe headache. Can't do it.

10/01/2011 16:43 #55224

Toro For Restaurant Week
Category: food
Sameer, (e:terry) and I ate at Toro for restaurant week the other day. I think they might have the best calamari in town. Its not greasy and its topped with parmasean cheese slices and peperoncini.

Sameer was going for the madmen look with a tie and a martini.

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enknot - 10/03/11 09:59
You have perfect hair. That makes two of us. ;]
tinypliny - 10/03/11 09:54
He has perfect hair. I am so jealous.
tinypliny - 10/01/11 21:26
There is a Toro in Toronto?

10/01/2011 16:38 #55223

Floofy Poof
Category: pets
He is so puffy when he is cold.

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tinypliny - 10/01/11 21:27
He might be an allergy trigger. Just sayin.

10/01/2011 15:22 #55221

Green Building Tour
Category: environment
We toured a bunch of green properties today. I am pretty sure I want solar panels and radiant floor heat. We were thinking of refinancing, maybe its a good time to look into it.

One of the houses had geothermal. I am still not sure how it stays warm.

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metalpeter - 10/02/11 09:04
The Thing about Miserable is everyone has temps they like and it is also (can't remember the word that isn't good so I'll say it in an odd way) from your perspective point (There it is Relative)... So that day was a crappy day but if you where in the Middle of Winter it would be considered a warm day.... But since we just left some warm weather it becomes miserable....

Now forgetting about temp for a minute you can have a dry sunny cold day where you feel comfortable even though it is colder... That bright sun and nice sky and no chilly wind and bright as opposed to looking like the gates of hell are about to open is a factor in miserable ........
tinypliny - 10/01/11 23:36
Share! Share! Share!
uncutsaniflush - 10/01/11 23:27
As always oh tiny scientist, who am I to disagree with you. But dopey old me doesn't consider 8 degrees Centigrade to be "semi-freezing" I think that "semi-freezing is around .5 plus or minus C degrees.

I'm sorry that you had a miserable time. I wrote a song once about my "New Miserable Time". Maybe I should share it with the world. Or not. Because I'm too miserable.
tinypliny - 10/01/11 23:03
heh, take any day with overcast skies, semi-freezing temperatures, unresolved conflicts and that is a recipe for miserable. Viewed by someone whose cold just won't leave, it is bonafide miserable.
uncutsaniflush - 10/01/11 22:55
Perspective is a funny thing. I didn't get that the day was miserable from the photos at all. But I am a pollyanna so what do I know? Speaking of illin', the pundits say that George Orwell wouldn't have written "1984" if he wasn't sick at the time. I'm just saying.
tinypliny - 10/01/11 21:28
LOL somehow the pics manage to convey hoe miserable the day was.