Movie - Munchhousen.

Posted on January 7, 2008 at 11:14 pm.

I recently saw Munchhousen, a 1943 Nazi Germany's answer to Gone With The Wind and The Thief Of Baghdad. It is a pretty good film!

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1 in 3 Arabs is illiterate.

Posted on January 7, 2008 at 3:02 pm.

Today, the Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization reported that nearly one in three people in the Arab world is illiterate, including nearly half of all women in the region.

Original article is here.

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Speaking of WoW.

Posted on January 7, 2008 at 12:11 pm.

Not long after I reached level 70 with my mage character, I found that World of Warcraft was beginning to get boring. Sure there were more instances to visit, and more loot to be had, but I felt like I may have overexerted myself during my push to get to 70.

I played for a few more months our of sheer inertia and then I quit.

That was in March of 2007, I just checked and I even made a post in my blog about it.

Amusingly enough, even with my account canceled, WoW was still a part of my life. I used to check for new fan-made comics fairly regularly. I followed the news about the next expansion in development and I even reviewed the patch notes from time to time.

In August I went to GenCon and got some hands-oh time with the game and even spoke to some of the Blizzard people. Unfortunately I never wrote anything about that conversation because it turned out to be fairly uninteresting.

While off WoW I also tried some other MMORPGs such as Tabula Rasa, which I participated in a beta test of. I also played a lot of non MMO games.

Anyway, about a month ago I came back to WoW. I had enough points on my WoW Visa, to get a few months of free play so I decided why not? Curiously I got this credit card during my non-playing period, which just goes to illustrate that WoW never really went away.

Anyway, since I reestablished my account, I have engaged in PvP heavily and have gotten a bunch of purples out of it. I have also visited a number of instances that I previously never had a chance to go to. Additionally, I did some farming and in doing so acquired some nice enchanting recipes.

Now, 1.5 months later I am feeling burned out again. There is something else too. I am bothered by the fact that once the next expansion comes out, all my gear, all my recipes and everything else I have - will become meaningless and I will have to begin all anew.

And yet... I haven't seen another MMO with as much appeal as WoW. I did play Warhammer Online at GenCon and with enough polish it could become a WoW-killer. This is why I applied to be in the beta test, however, I received no response as of right now.

We'll see.

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DMoMM.

Posted on January 6, 2008 at 10:03 pm.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic has the single worst combat system of all the games I can think of right now.

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Half-Life 2: Episode Two Review.

Posted on January 5, 2008 at 12:27 am.

I wrote this review for Real World Gamer a while ago, when the game just came out. Unfortunately it never got published. Today I decided that it has been long enough and that it is pretty unlikely that anyone will ever publish it. So I am posting it here on my site. Enjoy!

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Book - Wolf Who Rules.

Posted on January 4, 2008 at 5:44 pm.

Just finished reading Wolf Who Rules by Wen Spencer.

Another WOW!!!

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Book - Tinker.

Posted on January 2, 2008 at 4:26 pm.

Just finished reading Tinker by Wen Spencer.

WOW!!!

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Hillary Meal Deal.

Posted on January 2, 2008 at 1:56 pm.

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2008 at 11:24 am.

Happy New Year to all my friends and a big frosty fuck-you to all my enemies!

This year two more entities join the shit-list:

1) The fat fucker upstairs who can't sing to save his worthless little life, but yet insists on using his karaoke machine as often as humanly possible including 4 o'clock in the morning.

2) The city of Niles, that likes to test it's anti-air siren at 10 o'clock in the morning on January 1st. Sure, such a siren is a very important thing, because what if Arabs come to bomb us on their wing-flapping, camelshit-powered ragtag desert flyers?! Still, perhaps we could test the loud fucking thing at 5 PM instead?

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Fuck Whole Foods.

Posted on December 29, 2007 at 1:04 am.

Whole Foods fired an employee who stopped a shoplifter.

Here is an article.

I sometimes shopped there before, but now I will never set my foot in that store again. I also wrote them a letter saying that.

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