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[Carlos del Vaca]

I am now back from Vegas.

More details!  SPILL

[CortJstr]

More details!  SPILL

There's really nothing to tell. I went to see Penn & Teller w/ a guy who lives out there now, lost some money at craps, and saw a couple of cover bands. That's it, really.

[pmcd9]

I occasionally watch Penn's You Tube Channel.  He's a pretty interesting guy.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Did they do the bullet catch?  Their version of that is the most mystifying magic trick I've ever seen.  I have no goddamn idea how they do it.

[CortJstr]

Did they do the bullet catch?  Their version of that is the most mystifying magic trick I've ever seen.  I have no goddamn idea how they do it.

They did. And the one guy they pulled up from the audience wouldn't give them straight answers. Whenever they'd ask him if something was real or whatever he would say "it would appear so" or something like that. Not that I can blame him.

I'm more interested in how they did the bit with the joke books.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Not familiar with that one.

BTW, I don't feel the need to start a new topic for this:  I met Jough weekend before last in Chicago.  He has the photographic evidence.  The tale of my Chicago weekend is on ye olden FoolBlog of olde.

[CortJstr]

Not familiar with that one.

It's their way of showing that John Edwards etc are fakes. They hand out joke books to the audience then figure out what particular joke each person will select. For the first guy Penn explained how he did it but for the other two it was more confusing.

[theinevitable]

I have never had so many problems with my papers coming out too long. I guess my brain is more full of ideas than it used to be? Also, who decided 12 is standard font size? 10 is so much better looking on the page.

John Edwards is a fake because he cheated on his dying wife. I didn't know he did mind-reading stuff too.

[smick]

...crash my bike during a race.  

I managed to hit a deep rut left by the motorcross races that take place on the same track.   Usually you have to time them, and sail through them without pedaling as they're deep enough to let you through, but too deep for you to spin your pedals while going through.  I hit this one at an angle, which jerked my front wheel very suddenly 45 degrees to the left.  Whoopsie-daisy-owl!

I totally rolled on the bike while clipped into my pedals.  I was also fairly certain there was a bike right behind me, ready to run into me.  Somehow during the ensuing scramble to not die and then get back up my chain came off.   In the time it took me to shift it back onto my chainring, I went from middle of the pack and gaining places to DFL.  (A Technical term: Dead fuck*ng Last)

I rode hard afterward, and while being alone for a good portion, I caught the tail of the race and finished ahead of 4 or 5 people.

Not an awesome finish, but I feel pretty awesome about what I did with a really shit situation.

[Choop]

wrong john edwards dude, google "crossing over"

[pmcd9]

Also, who decided 12 is standard font size? 10 is so much better looking on the page.

10 pt probably looks great to your youthful eyes, but 12 is probably better for your middle aged professor.

[CortJstr]

10 pt probably looks great to your youthful eyes, but 12 is probably better for your middle aged professor.

I think it depends on the font. To me Arial in 10 and Times New Roman in 12 look about the same size. But Arial 12 looks huge and TNR in 10 is a little small for comfort.

[dejavroom]

Not an awesome finish, but I feel pretty awesome about what I did with a really shit situation.

Now we drink! We feast! We spit in the face of death for another day! BAH!

[greenkoolayd]

Did they do the bullet catch?  Their version of that is the most mystifying magic trick I've ever seen.  I have no goddamn idea how they do it.

i wonder if its anything like they show in 'the prestige'?

[lprkn]

10 pt probably looks great to your youthful eyes, but 12 is probably better for your middle aged professor.

Now we drink! We feast! We spit in the face of death for another day! BAH!