- Frantically trying to finish up the blog post for tonight. #
- Starting to organize my bog. I hope this doesn’t hurt. Much. #
- I barely have internet at the apt. 3rd Edition of Cocoa book came, so might as well get to busting that out… and Boom Blox… #
- Why is Twitter down whenever I’m not on? It’s so interesting: I have yet to be affected by a Twitter outage just yet. #
- If I prop up my computer to the window, I can get the internetz. #
- 2 hours without iPhone, and I’m still alive. #
- Ooo. That was lightning. Time for it to raiiiiiin. #
- Wooooooooo SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO very productive. This is what happens when I don’t see people after dinner. Completely lost in my work. #
- Moto V360: iSync works with you, and so I am happy. #
- PAX might get cancelled for me and Derek. I don’t know why I didn’t do the math. $410 flight + >$200 housing… almost $800 budget? Darn. #
- @alexargo Can’t *ya* feeeeeel it? Okay, that’s enough caffeine for today. #
- Going to Cincinnati. This weekend and next. Alex, darn you and your wedding. (I kid… j/k, even) #
- Random: GLaDOS has a myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/gladosaperturescience This is also my first time going to a myspace page. #
- I’m bleeding on the cutting edge. And when that edge doesn’t make me bleed, I get something sharper. -JK #
- Yet another reason Jabber/XMMP ROCKS. FB has seen the light. #
- XMPP. Wow, I’m drugged up on caffeine. #
- Hooray. I spelled caffeine right, though. This can only mean that the caffeine is wearing off. #
- You know you’ve made it on Twitter (heck, anywhere online) when you get spammers following you. I made my first block earlier today. #
- While listening to the Guitar Hero song track: "One" by Metallica came on, and I started to cringe subconsciously. #
- @alexargo I’m trying to flush out all the personal crap before I move onto some serious content. Which may start with Part 3.2. Video Games? #
- Running on about 4 hours of sleep. Eating a donut. #
- http://guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com/ Yeap. I’m about two days late on the uptake. #
- To Techdirt: Please make shorter paragraphs. To this day, I mindlessly skip through your posts because of how thick the content seems. #
- Heck, use pictures once in a while in your feeds, too. #
- I’m kinda in pain. I might have to pull that doctor’s appointment forward if I can. #
- So no PAX. Does this mean Gen Con instead? #
- YES GTA 4 REVIEW http://tinyurl.com/6by8vf #
- Getting more and more paranoid and frustrated: I feel like the insides are going to explode. Sidenote: I’m going to not Twitter this anymore #
- Wooooo! More bloooood work. Heh. #
- Derek: "Man, I worry about you. Don’t die… No res inc." #
- 8 vials. 5 mL each. *New Record!* #
A Sidenote
If this post makes it up successfully, I will have made three posts in a 24 hour period. If people can define a recession as an economic downturn for two quarters, I can define the “return” to blogging as more than two posts in a 24 hour period.
Or something like that. And now for something not all too completely different.
World of Warcraft
This game has been a… “game changer” in a couple of instances in my life. It has made me a hermit, lost me the A in a very A-able engineering class, and helped me keep friendships across state lines. Needless to say, the online phenomenon that is WoW has changed my life for the better and for the worse.
I recently picked up the game a couple months back with the intention of enjoying the game’s content from 60 to 70. Which I did. A bit too much. I even started the insanity that is the 25-man raids. (I had run a 40-man before, but it was quite a while ago.)
I had quite the fun. But then at one point, it started to become work. I had to get the items. It started to become that addiction that I had once gotten rid of.
And this WoW business… it’s amazingly addictive. Take away everything… the professions, the pvp, the thinly veiled dress-up game… but keep the social always-on aspect of it, and it’ll still be extremely addictive. This is, of course, assuming you have actually passed the tipping point of knowing other people that are willing to play as much or even more than you.
[And here it comes: the obligatory reference to some web application] It’s like Facebook. But prettier. And instead of profiles or other personal information, you have… the Frozen Shadowweave Set.
And there you go. And so I quit. Maybe I’ll return with the next expansion. I don’t doubt that it is a possibility, but I hope to have something even more exciting to look forward to in the coming months.
And no, not Rock Band. Well… maybe.
Rock Band is delicious. The question is about the Wii version of this game.
Ever since I played Guitar Hero 1 on PS, I’ve loved the series. And it didn’t matter that I didn’t know the song: I liked the one-to-one mapping of notes to some strange finger combination on the fret buttons. I actually found more musicians and bands to listen to through the entire process of playing 1, 2, 80’s, and 3.
Disclaimer: The only song that I cannot beat on expert is Through the Fires and Flames. And I feel like if I really really practiced, I could. It’s just I don’t feel like dumping so much resource into it. Some people would say “lamer”, but I’m okay with myself. Maybe not.
Sidenote: Moving along, the whole point of this series is to get all this personal crap out so you guys can actually get some meaningful content. Let me continue for just a bit longer.
Fast forward to recently when the Wii version of Rock Band was announced, as well as the news about the whole gimpedness of it all. No DLC. At all. But then, a glimmer of hope was found in the form of a song pack disc, Track Pack Vol. 1.
So it seems like I’ll be buying this. Another $170 thrown towards “Entertainment”. (I’ll most likely be renting the song pack from Gamefly, though.) I better start saving now because my budget just doesn’t allow $170 for “Real-Time Interactive Music Simulation”.
What else… What other “games”
Scramble? No. I hate that game.
Other Wii games? Boom Blox will be coming very shortly. Zack & Wiki is amazing. WarioWare, as I said before, was an incredible party game.
Yeap, that pretty much sums up Video Games.
One More Thing
Right. Portal.
That was one of the most disgustingly amazing games ever. I still do not understand to this day the infatuation with the Companion Cube, but it was like eating sticks of butter. Hmm… butter…
And that ends. Video Games.
And that ends, the three part series on the three of most pertinent things of my life: Twitter, Health, and Video Games. It’s kinda sad, really, but at least I got the ball rolling.
I think now that the ball has started to roll, I need to make sure there’s enough ground for it to roll. The blog is in disrepair (category structure is screwed up, commenting is also screwy, older/newer links are not working correctly) and I intend to fix it. Maybe this week.
Closing
I like sidenotes, tangents, and disclaimers. But I’m realizing how much they break up the flow of the posts. I have to figure out how to do prettier footnotes with little superscript numbers. Bah, more work to do on the blog itself, I guess.
- @magicalstephie LOL. Yeah, I hope not, because I drink like once in a long while. I can count the number of time I drank with my hands. #
- Craiglisting it up at the Union. I won’t have Internet at home until Monday next week. Freaking AT&T… #
- Yes. I know my blog is completely broken with the new K2 updates I did earlier this month. #
- Oh, and another thing: the Wendy’s that is close to where I live is hiring a "mngr". Yesssss… The long awaited return. #
- I’ve started to star less and less items on Google Reader. I think my standards are getting higher for quality content. #
- Wigix is useless. The UI is horrible and extremely busy. I have no idea what I’m doing. I can’t even close my account. #
- People who buy on Craigslist need to do their homework. Once the buyer and seller decide to meet up for the exchange, that should be it. IT. #
- AT&T DSL is the only other option I have other than Comcast. And I *HATE* Comcast. Oh well. I’ll be online starting on Monday at home again. #
- http://tinyurl.com/6k58na I’m so happy I could cry. #
- Yeah, I don’t know why I haven’t heard of the Rock Band update until now. I guess I need to find some good feeds. Or actually write a post. #
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datahand Where have you been all my life? Anybody know how much these were when they were actually sold? #
- Cocoa Programming has shipped. Uh oh… Time to get cracking. #
- Good Bye, iPhone, in one hour. If the rate at which I get back to you online slows down, this is why. #
- Reduced to using Meebo. Freaking port blocking garbage. #
- I need a day off work. I really do. #
- I love not having to click anything while using the tablet. I can just drag the pen around. #
- I liked WPGU. Then I started listening to it wayyy too much, and realized how all radio stations start to repeat at a certain point in time. #
- Nobody’s at the office today. What the heck. #
- Wow. Hliarious. Only even more hilarious because I’m rooming with a Mayer freak. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/611387370c #
- I keep forgetting about Fanboys. It’s gonna be an amazing movie. #
- Too bad it seems to have been postponed twice already. Interesting. #
- I’m finally getting internet. What kind of a web developer am I? The one that hates lame ISPs. #
- Lab Result: Liver is enlarged. Finally, some good news. Kinda. At least I know what’s up. #
- Boom Blox in the mail. Wooo! #