Dumb Yet Fun Things To Learn

[Tarryk]

Couple things I've seen recently that I've been learning. Neither is particular "ooo cool", but they're easy to practice and just fun little things to know.

The first is something I've been seeing while watching World Series of Poker on youtube links. I keep watching the pro's do that one-hand chip-shuffle, where they separate a stack of chips and then perfectly shuffle them together without even looking, with one hand. I went "ooo neat", grabbed my poker chips, and started trying it while watching the poker game. After a couple hours I had it mastered to a 10-chip shuffle. Very neat trick, looks way harder than it is, but it does take a trillion practice attempts.

I thought I would make a youtube how-to video on it, but naturally, someone already has:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QH0IA8AD6M

The second is folding shirts. I just remembered seeing something posted from a couple months ago that showed this trick, and last night while getting clothes out of the dryer, I thought I'd try it on memory. After a few attempts I got it almost perfect, so it's going to be my shirt-folding style from now on, because it just looks slick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzelsebUc0

So there you are. Dumb, unpractical, useless crap to try in your spare time. Because we all have our vices.

More later.

[Innari]

*blinks at the chip shuffling* Wow, now I need to start playing poker to do that...good god I've not played in ages.

[Dantwin]

Wow.. Thats actually pretty sweet.
Even I'd like to learn the poker part, but the shirt thing is just nifty! xD