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C-Low is one of the best dice based street gambling games there is. I have been know to play some mean C-Low in my time, in ghetto situations (random fact: I am in a gang)

Here is how you play:
Gather your homie in a circle, everyone places a set betting amount on the floor. Dollar bills work great.

Everyone rolls one die to determine the rolling order. The higest rolling player goes first, then second highest, etc.

The point of the game is to roll 3 dice until you get a matching pair of three of a kind, what ever happens first. You keep rolling until you get double or triples.

If you roll doubles, your score is value of the dice opposite the pair. Triples (”trips”) beat any doubles. The highest trips win.

Special dice combinations:
1-2-3: “crap out”. auto lose. You are out of the game, your money is gone.
4-5-6: known as “c-low“. Auto win. The game stops, you win all the money. Other players lose their turns.

Game Play Example (5 players)

Player one:
roll 1: 1-4-3 = no matches, roll again
roll 2: 3-5-2 = no matches, roll again
roll 3: 6-6-2 = MATCHING PAIR (6), FINAL SCORE = 2

Player two:
roll 1: 3-3-3 = TRIPPLE 3’s (”trip3″), final score = 333

player three:
roll 1: 5-6-1 = no match, roll again
roll 2: 1-2-3 = SPECIAL DICE COMBO! crap out. Out of the game, no more rolls

player four:
roll 1: 4-5-6 = SPECIAL DICE COMBO! C-LOW! AUTO WIN! no other player is allowed to roll, you take the $$$

player five:
does not get to roll, player four got a c-low.

its that easy!

Wait! What if 2 players recieve the same score? (4 and 4) or (222 and 222)

This condition is called a “push”. The players with matching high scores stay in the game, all other players must double their initial bet. If the buy in was $1 for the first round, the buy in for round 2 = $2 (the losing players now have $3 on the floor, the winners of the first round only have $1 on the floor). The game starts again, giving all players another chance to play.

Why am I posting rules on how to play street gambeling dice games on a mainly tech related blog? Simple, I no longer have to carry dice around to hustle suckas with! Say What? damn straight, with MotionX Dice, a free app for the iPhone, I have a sweet pair of dice to play c-low (or yahtzee) with when ever I want. All you have to do is change the setting to 3 dice, and shake the iPhone.

If playing illegal dice games on your iPhone doesn’t make you feel thug enough, you can always pour one out for the homies with another free iPhone app.

click here to see mor pictures from my 28th birthday party

damn I cant wait until friday…

I like YouTube a lot. Recently I have started to record bands at shows and posting them on YoutTube.com. My plan was to build a collection of videos that I dont have to host, and can eventually incorporate into notPopular.com as content.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I read a lot of blogs. I came across a Chris Parillo posting about revver.com, so I checked it out.

revver.com is a site like YouTube.com, you upload your videos and they host them, but with a twist… revver pays you! Cash, clams, scrills, monies, dollars… anyway you want to call it, it boils down to a bigger bank account for you!

You get paid when someone watches your video to the end, and then clicks on the advertisement that gets displayed when the clip finishes.

Sure revver isnt as big as youTube… yet, and not everyone is going to click the advertisements, but if you are going to upload videos to a website, why not get paid for it?

I support revver.com over youTube.com. Competition is good for us all.

I like ebay, I have been using it for about 8 years now. I really like the "buy it now" feature. On November 30 I used "buy it now" to get a Honeywell VisionPro Digital Thermostat. I paid right away using paypal, paying the full amount that paypal calculated.

4 days leter I get an email from ebay saying that a non payment report has been filed against me. I went and checked my paypal account, knowing that I paid this guy, I found out that he had refunded my money… odd.

In the ebay litigation forms I reported that I paid the guy, and he refused my funds. The guy responded that I didnt sent enough money to him. what? I paid the amount that paypal said I owed. After a bit of back and forth, The guy said that I didnt include sales tax. No where in the ebay auction did it say that I needed to pay California sales tax. I told the guy that, and He still insisted that I pay it. Ok, Im an American, I'll pay my taxes. I told the guy to send me the total amount that is due, and I will pay him. His response was, "use the botton on the auction that says pay now". So I do that. It took me to paypal with the dollar amount was already populated for me. I pay that amount. 3 days go by, no word from him. I think Im in the clear. I check my paypal account, HE DECLINES MY MONEY AGAIN! Again stating that it was not enough. I had 1 day left to clear this up or ebay was going to flag my account as a non payer, something I don’t want.

Through some google searches, I found the company that I bought the thermostat from. I called them up and talked to the guy about the situation. He went into a speech about how I have not been paying the right amount, and that I need to pay taxes, blah blah blah. I told the guy to just tell me how much everything with taxes would cost me, and I would send him the money later that day via paypal. He said he would email me the appropriate amount (not the amount that I agreed to pay on ebay).

I got home from work, the email was there, It was for $9 more then what I had agreed to pay. I paid it because I didn’t want to hurt my ebay rep, but I think it’s a bunch of crap. If the guy needs to charge sales tax, he needs to state that in his auctions.

No positive feed back from me. The companys name is All Thermal. The guys ebay name is thermalresources

On a side note, I got the thermostat 2 days later, It rules. This guy is still ripping people off on ebay though.

HOT DAMN! Friday was intense. during the 11th hour, problems with my home loan came up. I spent the

whole afternoon transfering funds, waiting hold to credit card people, banks and loan officers. I

think everything will work out.. if every one cashes their checks in the propper orders. After I

got that all cleared up I was spent and left work early.

I got to walk through my house again yesterday, It wasnt as pink as i remember it. Thats a good

thing! I think the lady just had alot of pink decorations that made the pink fixtures stand out even

more and made it feel like a flood of pink. I should have the keys by wednesday.

Teddys garage got cleared out as best as it could for the show. Plague: The Red Letters, went first.

I would say there was about 30 kids in the garage, moshing and having fun. The walls are padded in 3

inch foam to cot down the noise, it also acted as a foam bumber to bounce off of. it ruled. They

played a short set and xdeathstarx went on. I think it was all of maybe 15 seconds before blood was

poaring out of a gash on my cheek. I had bend down to adjust my mics volume just as kevin swung his

bass guitar. I felt the head stock go into my eye socket. It was one of those moments where you just

know that your bleeding… and i was. It added to the chaos though. Every one was going nuts. The

padded walls got knocked down, the overhead lights were ripped down. bodys were flying. I was

bleeding. it was the best show i had ever been to, let alone played. It was a good way to see Teddy

off. I wont see him again for 4 years.

After all of that, we went into thommys house and shome how i ended up wrestling with beejay. I made him tap both times. the first one he tapped because he puked. My elbows are raw from carpet burn. I miss wrestling. maybe i should train. who knows.

…after that we all (30+ of us) went bowling in murieta for free at the bowling alley that sarah works at. I couldnt roll because of my burning wrist hurt disease, so i hung out with eden and krissi. They are awesome people. We didnt get home from the bowling alley until 4:30 am. I was spent.