So WoW... the two guys I play the most with these days are Jojo and Jim ("Dash" Jim, not "Princess" Jim). We're all the same level and working on the same quests, and our abilities complement each other -- as shaman I fight and heal, Jojo's our tank warrior and Jim deals most of the damage as our hunter. Now I've worked with Jim and Jojo for over ( Read more... )

Friday was my birthday, and I had lunch with a bunch of work friends at Red Robin. Drew and Nina came as well. Ah, and the return of The Princess GagtmCouple of years back, a group of us went to RR and Jim put his name down for a table. Now Jim's a somewhat fussy and cantakerous character, and I hit on this idea for a gag. I quietly went to the ( Read more... )

I'm having a lyssabits moment. I watched a Tivo'd episode of Alias last night, and right off the bat I thought it was a rerun. See, here's undercover Sid, pretending to be from Buffalo, NY while talking to an American bartender in Europe. Nice guy but he's a patsy for some evil eurotrash. I remember the dude's face when it first aired. Sid's work endangers ( Read more... )

The hallway's verb of choice this month is "nut up," and in the tired and puffy eyes of my peers I "nutted up" today by buying World of Warcraft. I need to get a level 12 horde character (no more, no less) built up on Mal'Ganis in time for some event Friday night. So nerdy. But there's a lot of people from my org that are playing including some ( Read more... )

Gackt has got to be the dumbest, most inutile made-up pseudo-Western name in all of j-popdom. And I don't get his whole androgynous thing. (Maybe it's just his take on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust phase?) Then again, theatrical gender-bending isn't all that crazy coming from the culture that invented kabuki ( Read more... )

I like saying wiki. It's a funny word. Wiki wiki wiki.

My new addiction is Wikipedia. I've edited several craptastically written articles on there. It's a good non-technical distraction. Writing, that is.

Check out this Wikipedia traffic graph. Insane.

It only took ten years... this week, evil Disney issued my absolute favorite movie evar on DVD ( Read more... )

Been thinking of digital detritus lately. Useless files, pictures, downloads, multiplying and spreading like a plague in our computers and our lives. Fortunately, virtual entropy is easily overcome by its physical counterpart. One hard disk failure later, I am 160 gigabytes less burdened. Surprisingly, I'm not bitter -- the files I lost weren't ( Read more... )

It seems all the cool kids are playing World of Warcraft these days, including half the people on my floor, and I've been trying to find a copy to no avail ( Read more... )

So I said to self, "Self, you like the cold, don't you?" Self nodded. So I said, "Prove it, bitch." Self looked me in the eye and said, "I'll go through this winter without turning on the heat ( Read more... )

I'm officially a fat bastard. Again ( Read more... )