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Second episode of my own talkshow, w00t!

Recorded live from the Whoohoonick studios. Today I talk about where the name comes from, news for the hearing impaired, the strike, Charlie Sheen, and answer some questions.

 

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I’m picking podcasting back up! This is the very first episode of “My own talkshow!”

Today I talk about House, Striking, Zaldor, my kid, and whatnot.

 

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The other day I received an email from godaddy with some notifications about my domains.

So hoohoonick.info is going to expire the 7th. Well, we’ll see if I can gather some money to keep that going,but what’s up with the other domain? It has an exclamation mark as well.

Here godaddy uses strong visual symbols, the yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in it, and then terms that insinuate that this would be very essential: “Improvement needed”. As you can see it suggests that I “need” private registration. And what’s with this diagnostic thing?

To me this is all very confusing. And I’m someone that has been playing with the internet and creating sites for almost 14 years.

I’ve never understood why people can be afraid of taking the elevator. I’m starting to understand them.

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One of my fond memories from Holland were the slot machines. They used to be placed at takeaway restaurants, so you could play while you wait for your food. I used to watch my dad do this, and sometimes I even got to push the button. Needless to say I did not hesitate to give them a go when I was old enough.

Now these machines are there to make profit for the owner, so they were programmed in such a way that they would adjust the games so that it would only pay out a percentage of what you put in. The myth was, that this means that if it would have a big payout for someone, it would now compensate for this by not giving anyone else any money until it had its belly full of coins again. I am not sure whether this was really how it worked, but I do now that I used to believe in this, and played using this knowledge. If I was with a friend, they could go first. If they wouldn’t, I wasn’t interested in playing. If I would walk into the takeaway place on my own and the slots were not played, I wasn’t interested. If there was someone there, I would watch them from a corner. They win, I am not interested. They give up without winning anything, I go play. I would never pay for more then five games, and whatever I win would decide whether I would use this profit to play more or cash out.

I remember that, using this strategy I definately got more money back from the slot machines then I ever put in. But also, I realise that this may well be the Barnum effect, as I did not keep track. Fun did not last long anyway, because slot machines were banned from these places only a year or two later. They were still available in pubs, but I don’t drink and gamble.

When I moved to Norway however, I was baffled. Slot machines everywhere. The small kiosk on the corner, the grocery store, the mall, even the god damn ferry had a god damn slot machine. They all had a big Red Cross logo on them, because that’s where the profits were going to. I never played any of them, and they have disappeared as we. I haven’t seen an actual slot machine since my brother’s wedding in 2008, because he keeps one in his home.

Internet gambling is the big though, and it’s not subtle either. Apart from banners and popups on every other site, there’s ads on TV and in magazines for online casinos, pokergames, and whatnot. Slot machines are no exception, and the norwegian site Kronespill Online lists the best of them.

Needless to say, the strategies I used to use, are not going to work on such a site. I think i’ll stay away from it.

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

This is about two things that I love dearly, pizza, and bowling.

Well I used to love bowling, back in Holland where you could buy a drink at the bowling alley. Apropos Pizza and Bowling, you definately need to check out the offer Tony’s Pizza is currently running.

I mean, there’s four options for pizza. You can make some from scratch, you can go to a restaurant, you can warm up some frozen pizza in your own home, or you can simply order some pizza. I noticed that one of the Norwegian pizza places recently added a fifth: They allow you to order a half-baked one, that you finish baking in your own oven, to get something that resembles actual home baked pizza.

Anyways, making pizza from scratch is something for the elite, and even if you know how to do it, it is very time consuming. Worth it if you are good it it, but not worth it if you buy pre-made pizza-dough, same goes for the just add water ones. Going to a restaurant sure is available for everyone, but is very time consuming, and if you consider the fact that you have to pay for transportation and, compared to popping a bottle out of the fridge at home you are actually paying trough the nose for that coke with your pizza, the restaurant is quite the expensive choice, even if the actual pizza costs you as much as getting it delivered.

So unless you are very talented at food making or very rich, the only options for eating delicious pizza regularly is stocking up on frozen pizza, or getting pizza delivered. Getting pizza delivered is a hassle. You have to deal with people on the phone, and if you live in a semi-complicated area you also have to deal with explaining someone on the phone where you live. You have to make sure to have exact change in some situations, and I even remember one case where their card system did not accept the type of credit card I had money on, so I was left hungry, and the guy had to leave with a pizza nobody was going to eat.

The best option definately is purchasing a huge freezer and stocking up on frozen pizza. You can have it whenever, bake it as thorrough as you like, you’re not dependant on people finding your place, opening hours, or money in your wallet, whenever you are hungry you can just pop one in the oven and enjoy after thirteen minutes.

Now if you buy a Tonys pizza from your grocer, you get a coupon for some free bowling, so you can get to the bowling alley afterwards ,for a free game of up to $6.00. Great deal! It has bowling, and pizza. What’s not to like?

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