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EGO Power+ 24″ Battery Powered Snow Blower Review
EGO Power+ 24″ Battery Powered Snow Blower Review By Ben Carmichael on Tool and Product Reviews, Tool Reviews If you’re done fighting with gas-powered snow blowers that stink, are loud, and require regular maintenance, the EGO POWER+ 24″ Self-Propelled 2-Stage Snow Blower might catch your eye. It’s a cordless, battery-powered machine that’s trying hard to prove electric tools can hang with the big gas guzzlers. And honestly?
The Zen of Salmon Fishing in Gaspé, Quebec
Twenty-four hours later finds us, somewhat unbelievably, on an upper branch of the Grand Cascapedia. This is coveted water, admission to which is extremely limited. Unless you’re spending the week at one of the Gaspé’s celebrated, century-old private lodges, gaining entry to the Grand’s prime salmon water requires both luck (for the lottery draws) and handiness with French-accented bureaucracy. And yet we’ve managed to score a slot on the Grand without either.
How To Build a Wine Cellar: 5 Tips
How To Build a Wine Cellar: 5 Tips By Ben Carmichael on Finish Carpentry, Remodeling, Weekend warrior, Woodworking Building a Wine Cellar We recently set out to build a cellar for a client in which we faced a unique set of historic challenges. Here’s our top tips for building out the space. Before we get into our top tips, the house we were building a wine cellar for is a 17th century colonial in an historic local town.
Costa Corbina Polarized Fishing Glasses
They seem like such a simple thing: polarized glasses. But they are so important. I don’t get why so many spend so many hours obsessing over their flies, or their reels, and spend hours getting to a location, only to put on a crummy pair of polarized glasses. As people inevitably point out, those $7 glasses at the 7-11 where you fuel up also claim to be polarized. The key word there is “claim.” All of your preparation won’t help if you can’t see the fish.
A Concord Carpenter
By Ben Carmichael False Albacore Fly Fishing During the Martha’s Vineyard Derby New England fall — the season of leaves, apple cider donuts, the fall migration, and the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby. The Derby — which, after 73 years is, like Bono or Cher, known simply as “The Derby” — captivates the island, its tourists… Continue reading »
Highlights from Microsoft's E3 2018 Xbox Briefing
This morning while Kiwi’s were on their morning commute to work, getting ready for school or just chilling at home, Microsoft held their annual E3 briefing. As always it was a briefing packed full of announcements as Microsoft showed the world 50+ games including 18 launch exclusives.
Pre-Sales for Atari VCS Open 30 May
Share Overnight, Atari have announced that Pre-sales for their brand new console the Atari VCS are gonig to open on 30 May via Indiegogo. THe pre-sale is exlcusive to Indiegogo features the time-limited Atari VCS Collector’s Edition featuring the special retro-inspired wood-front. In addition to the Collector’s Edition, fans will have the option to pre-order the Atari VCS Onyx, a sleek black version.
Culture Jam: Lab-Go or Lab-No?
Let’s let you in on a secret; when you have multiple writers on a website, its not uncommon for said writers to have differing opinions on pretty much everything. You give out a game review and the reviewer loves (or hates) it, and you can bet your bottom dollar that another hates (or loves) it. The same is true when a new product is announced and when it comes to Nintendo’s Labo; let’s just say our opinions are about as opposite as the North and South Pole.
CheckPoint Series to Tackle Mental Health Issues through the Power of Video Games
Whether you’re a Gamer, Geek, Nerd, Noob, all of the above or none of the above, Mental Health illnesses don’t give a shit who you are, it can and will affect absolutely anyone from all walks of life. It’s not something we as Gamers really talk about, I mean it’s pretty hard to talk about Mental Health issues when a prepubescent teen is telling you what they have been doing to your Mum while you’re trying to play a casual round of Call of Duty.
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