Look Boss! Dee Plane! Dee Plane!
Weee! Fantasy football is fun. Fellas, you don't need to know a lot about football to play fantasy football. The game auto-drafts you a team and all you have to do is change your starting lineup each week according to who you think might do better (against a crappy team, for example). It comes with plenty of helper notes and is really quite kick back. Additionally, it's a fun way to get to know and follow players you may not have otherwise paid any attention to.
If I may make a few suggestions as to league settings?
I've only done this for a few years now, but there are definately some settings that seem to make this whole thing easier for everyone and a lot more balanced so that any one player type can't dominate the entire league.
If I may suggest changing the lineups as follows:
Starting:
1QB
2RB
3WR
1TE
1 K
1 DEF (team defense)
With maybe 7 bench positions?
On Scoring:
QB touchdowns, 4 points.
Yards per point (rushing/receiving), 15 yards.
Regarding scoring "type", I think the head-to-head weekly matchups are more fun as it's a little more like a "real" football game being played each week, but I'm up for whatever everyone else wants to do.
On the Passion of the Baby-J:
I'm afraid I'm with R-man on this one. Mel Gibson is a paranoid, twitchy crazy ass with a bone to pick with the evil Jews. I've always found that particularly oft-repeated line a bit funny, though. "The Jews killed and persecuted Jesus!" As if the guy wasn't a JEW himself. It would be more accurate to say that neo-Roman sympathizers co-conspired to end a perceived threat to their cushy established government jobs. But, that's not quite as emotionally rewarding and not nearly as strong of a lightning rod for a call to arms.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Do each my own, biatches!
It's all good jael - we can have our own opinions on the matter. I admit that I was biased as hell going into it, but I'm also rational enough to be proven wrong. I don't think my biases were uncalled for, but we can just leave it at that. I'm all for gore and ultra-violence in flicks, but I REALLY thought this flick was over the top and made with the intention to incite hate - plus I don't think jesus would have liked this film. :) honestly dude. And as far as "the apple falling far from the tree", Mel Gibson was very selective and careful about what he said about his dad - he never outright denounced his father's bass-akward beliefs. Plus his version of "catholicism" which goes against the vatican by still blaming the jews for christ's death seems kinda border-line cultish. I've had this conversation with peeps at work a shit load when this flick came out, and I swear its like talking to conservatives about bush - no one is going to change their mind on either side. this is our modern world. :)
Futbol!
Even though my greed is motivating me to watch a shitload of footy this weekend, I really don't know enough about it to get into a fantasy football league. Blood Bowel, on the other hand - we can get Art in it and maybe get that going? And some openRPG too! :) I've used TeamSpeak back in my Wolfenstien days and it's surprisingly easy to use/run/etc... would be awesome for lots of gaming action.
PS I'm 2 for 2 in my work pool so far! I think most people are too although like art said, thursdays game was a close one!
In the year 1997 there lived 2 kinds of inhabitants on the planet Earth. They were Yumans and Hobos. -from some 1973 album I'm sampling from right now.
Yumans & Hobos?
It's all good jael - we can have our own opinions on the matter. I admit that I was biased as hell going into it, but I'm also rational enough to be proven wrong. I don't think my biases were uncalled for, but we can just leave it at that. I'm all for gore and ultra-violence in flicks, but I REALLY thought this flick was over the top and made with the intention to incite hate - plus I don't think jesus would have liked this film. :) honestly dude. And as far as "the apple falling far from the tree", Mel Gibson was very selective and careful about what he said about his dad - he never outright denounced his father's bass-akward beliefs. Plus his version of "catholicism" which goes against the vatican by still blaming the jews for christ's death seems kinda border-line cultish. I've had this conversation with peeps at work a shit load when this flick came out, and I swear its like talking to conservatives about bush - no one is going to change their mind on either side. this is our modern world. :)
Futbol!
Even though my greed is motivating me to watch a shitload of footy this weekend, I really don't know enough about it to get into a fantasy football league. Blood Bowel, on the other hand - we can get Art in it and maybe get that going? And some openRPG too! :) I've used TeamSpeak back in my Wolfenstien days and it's surprisingly easy to use/run/etc... would be awesome for lots of gaming action.
PS I'm 2 for 2 in my work pool so far! I think most people are too although like art said, thursdays game was a close one!
In the year 1997 there lived 2 kinds of inhabitants on the planet Earth. They were Yumans and Hobos. -from some 1973 album I'm sampling from right now.
Yumans & Hobos?
ID's and Video Games
The Fantasy Island Football League is 686404.
The Pick Em Football League is 43359.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LETS ALL PLAY BLOOD BOWL AGAIN!!!!!
Lets retire Leather Chaps, Costa Rippers, Shhh.. It'll Be over soon, Smoking Tacos, Tea and Crumpets, and Weapons of Mass Corruption and make some new kickass teams!
Hooray Beer!
The Fantasy Island Football League is 686404.
The Pick Em Football League is 43359.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LETS ALL PLAY BLOOD BOWL AGAIN!!!!!
Lets retire Leather Chaps, Costa Rippers, Shhh.. It'll Be over soon, Smoking Tacos, Tea and Crumpets, and Weapons of Mass Corruption and make some new kickass teams!
Hooray Beer!
Rudy! I think youre being too judgemental and youre conclusions are half biased.
I don't think the movie is a propaganda of Anti Semitism.
The movie is violent, and that creates a hailstorm of critism, but try to see the suffering, absolving sin and tolerance rather than the physical torment. Also keep in mind, the focus of the movie was on the most violent and darkest time of persecution for Jesus.
Equivalating Gibson's father to Mel is translucent and flawed. Here's some of Mel's own words.
"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenseless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do; absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental proportion."
Rude, rather than seeing the movie as a biblical source, I think people should see the movie as Mel's own interpretation of what he has learned in his life. He picks out quotes from the bible that he associates with and what is most important to him, as we do.
For example, Mel quoted the gospel luke "love everybody including your enemies because if you just like people who like you, what good is that?"
This is just a Pin-thread in the fabric of the bible that can be chosen from. But Mel chose it because he believes it. And so goes the whole movie.
I'm not to convince you to like it or saying youre wrong rude. Think as you may, but to me, it's the first attempt at creating a non-censored, visual portrayal of the events that occured to Jesus, rather than your cartoons or dumbed down stories. It also triggered an emotion which made me cry, when I saw Jesus suffering that I couldn't have imagined purely from reading the bible. I personally think that's all there is to it and all the criticisms and the attack on the movies are unfounded and fluff.
I don't think the movie is a propaganda of Anti Semitism.
The movie is violent, and that creates a hailstorm of critism, but try to see the suffering, absolving sin and tolerance rather than the physical torment. Also keep in mind, the focus of the movie was on the most violent and darkest time of persecution for Jesus.
Equivalating Gibson's father to Mel is translucent and flawed. Here's some of Mel's own words.
"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenseless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do; absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental proportion."
Rude, rather than seeing the movie as a biblical source, I think people should see the movie as Mel's own interpretation of what he has learned in his life. He picks out quotes from the bible that he associates with and what is most important to him, as we do.
For example, Mel quoted the gospel luke "love everybody including your enemies because if you just like people who like you, what good is that?"
This is just a Pin-thread in the fabric of the bible that can be chosen from. But Mel chose it because he believes it. And so goes the whole movie.
I'm not to convince you to like it or saying youre wrong rude. Think as you may, but to me, it's the first attempt at creating a non-censored, visual portrayal of the events that occured to Jesus, rather than your cartoons or dumbed down stories. It also triggered an emotion which made me cry, when I saw Jesus suffering that I couldn't have imagined purely from reading the bible. I personally think that's all there is to it and all the criticisms and the attack on the movies are unfounded and fluff.
From a post over at rpg.net about what jon was saying about that thar game:
From what I've heard, Hasbro signed an exclusive contract with Walmart for the first X copies. However, the first printing wasn't enough alone to cover that, so Walmart hasn't even gotten all of it's stock yet.
That's a bummer. I had zero interest in the game beforehand, but now I'm all "ohhhh!" must be a good one! People on the forums are saying it's pretty fun and that the pieces alone are worth the money. But fucking walmart? What a bummer - that's the last place I'd really wanna do busyness.
Passion of the Jew - Honestly Johnny, I went in seeing that movie (or d/ling it at least) with plenty of preconcieved notions about how sucky it would be. They were all fullfilled. Gibson comes from a crazy sub-set of catholicism. His dad is practically a nazi (doesn't believe in the friggin' holocaust!? WTF?) Etc etc...
My main beef with that flick johnny is that it seems like an obvious piece of propaganda. Jesus was a man of peace, correct? This film wasn't about peace, it was about gettin' you all pissed off and upset inside about what them "crazy jews" did to jesus. It focused on the violence committed against him (over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again) but it didn't give any insight into why the hell the son of god would allow that to happen to himself. I know the bible johnny - I'm catholic. I know as a filmmaker, if you wanna make a movie thats all about the gorey details of the jews killing jesus - go for it! But just because it was graphic as hell, doesn't make it "good" in my book. I think Jesus is one hell of an interesting character from history, and I'm sure someday someone will make a decent movie about his existance, but "the passion" wasn't it. It just felt cheap as hell to me.
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
"Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war." -Hutton Gibson
From what I've heard, Hasbro signed an exclusive contract with Walmart for the first X copies. However, the first printing wasn't enough alone to cover that, so Walmart hasn't even gotten all of it's stock yet.
That's a bummer. I had zero interest in the game beforehand, but now I'm all "ohhhh!" must be a good one! People on the forums are saying it's pretty fun and that the pieces alone are worth the money. But fucking walmart? What a bummer - that's the last place I'd really wanna do busyness.
Passion of the Jew - Honestly Johnny, I went in seeing that movie (or d/ling it at least) with plenty of preconcieved notions about how sucky it would be. They were all fullfilled. Gibson comes from a crazy sub-set of catholicism. His dad is practically a nazi (doesn't believe in the friggin' holocaust!? WTF?) Etc etc...
My main beef with that flick johnny is that it seems like an obvious piece of propaganda. Jesus was a man of peace, correct? This film wasn't about peace, it was about gettin' you all pissed off and upset inside about what them "crazy jews" did to jesus. It focused on the violence committed against him (over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again) but it didn't give any insight into why the hell the son of god would allow that to happen to himself. I know the bible johnny - I'm catholic. I know as a filmmaker, if you wanna make a movie thats all about the gorey details of the jews killing jesus - go for it! But just because it was graphic as hell, doesn't make it "good" in my book. I think Jesus is one hell of an interesting character from history, and I'm sure someday someone will make a decent movie about his existance, but "the passion" wasn't it. It just felt cheap as hell to me.
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
"Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war." -Hutton Gibson
(You grow up with that shit as your father, youre bound to be at least a little fucked-up too!)
BITCHES! :)
Friday, September 10, 2004
I'm not kidding. I didn't want to spoil the depictions and was not referring to the storyline. I think if you believe in Jesus and don't mind being drawn emotionally, go watch it. As for Rudy who so brilliantly puts it *gettin' his ass fuckin kicked *... kudos, but I don't think that was quite the point. Theres definitely some prenotions you have to have going in but I think the movie suggests "how" jesus dies (for us) and not "why" Jesus dies (the assumption you have to believe).
amended: whatever fuck... don't watch it if you don't want to! =D
What about getting back into blood bowl or something interactive like that rather than Yahoo football? just a thought.
amended: whatever fuck... don't watch it if you don't want to! =D
What about getting back into blood bowl or something interactive like that rather than Yahoo football? just a thought.
The hockey is dead, long live the hockey
Okay, so big surprise, the hockey season is basically over before it has started and I am sad. Okay fine. I need to move on to other things. One of those will be supporting the Long beach Ice Dogs, and the other will be trying to get into football.
This will prove virtually impossible, BUT something that will help immerse me in the football world will be Fantasy Football. I have set up two leagues at Yahoo Sports, one for Fantasy Points Auto Draft Stylee and the other for the Pick 'Em Stylee. They are both named "The Action Team" and their passwords are "actionjackson". Please join. They are setup very basic, Art will dominate over everyone, and most of us will be clueless, regardless we should all play!
Please join and tell me cause the league is due to start the 2nd week!
Okay, so big surprise, the hockey season is basically over before it has started and I am sad. Okay fine. I need to move on to other things. One of those will be supporting the Long beach Ice Dogs, and the other will be trying to get into football.
This will prove virtually impossible, BUT something that will help immerse me in the football world will be Fantasy Football. I have set up two leagues at Yahoo Sports, one for Fantasy Points Auto Draft Stylee and the other for the Pick 'Em Stylee. They are both named "The Action Team" and their passwords are "actionjackson". Please join. They are setup very basic, Art will dominate over everyone, and most of us will be clueless, regardless we should all play!
Please join and tell me cause the league is due to start the 2nd week!
This is a long-ass post, but it's pretty good, I think
The blog looks all screwed-up on my monitor, whassup with that?
i played Neverwinter NIghts, but found the single player sort of uninspiring. The multiplayer component looked fun, though. I'm not sure how well the main campaign supports multiplayer. I did fool around with it quite a bt when I got it.
(In fact, during the time that I was spending a lot of time with the editor, I was listening to these two albums--one by Bob Dylan, one by Yo La Tengo--over and over. To this day, hearing either of those albums reminds me sharply of sitting at my desk messing around with that game.)
Campaign-style play with a GM might be cool. It's easy to build basic maps and stock them with monsters and loot. Scripted stuff is easy for code, but it's still more in-depth than any of us would get into. But if you're planning on playing with set groups you can just hand-wave the scripting and chat out everything.
I'm torn on whether it would be better to use NWN or try something like openRPG, which is a free program whose purpose is to enable tabletop-style gaming; it's basically a chat program with automated die rollers and simple grid maps.
The big problem for me is that since I've since switched over to Mac, I would have to pick up the OS X version of the game and expansions. Like all Mac software, it'll probably be full-priced until kingdom come. So I'd pretty much have to jump on somebody else's PC.
walmart is the greastest hambuger
Remember that cool hexy Hasbro game I mentioned the other day? Heroscape? I tried ordering it through Nerd Planet. When I went in today, the owner told me that he wasn't going to be able to get it for me; it's impossible to get for the small guys because the mammoth guys (WalMart) have all the stock. But he's also not going to be able to stock this very cool-looking game when it is available because (drum roll): the wholesale price of the game is $38. WalMart's price: $39.99. You gotta love it.
If I have to buy this shit through a megachain, I'll wait for Toys R Us to get it.
last thing I promise
I forgot to mention that I stopped by Strategicon last Sunday. The experience literally made me sad. The attendance was the most anemic I've ever seen, with barely anybody walking around. The lobby was like a ghost town. There were plenty of vendors in the dealer room, but besides my girlfriend and I there were about eight other shoppers. It was terrible.
We've said it before, but I'll say it again: it's bizarre that LA conventions suck so bad. WTF man? STFU.
update: Holy shit is that photoshop friday good, especially "Mystery Date."
The blog looks all screwed-up on my monitor, whassup with that?
i played Neverwinter NIghts, but found the single player sort of uninspiring. The multiplayer component looked fun, though. I'm not sure how well the main campaign supports multiplayer. I did fool around with it quite a bt when I got it.
(In fact, during the time that I was spending a lot of time with the editor, I was listening to these two albums--one by Bob Dylan, one by Yo La Tengo--over and over. To this day, hearing either of those albums reminds me sharply of sitting at my desk messing around with that game.)
Campaign-style play with a GM might be cool. It's easy to build basic maps and stock them with monsters and loot. Scripted stuff is easy for code, but it's still more in-depth than any of us would get into. But if you're planning on playing with set groups you can just hand-wave the scripting and chat out everything.
I'm torn on whether it would be better to use NWN or try something like openRPG, which is a free program whose purpose is to enable tabletop-style gaming; it's basically a chat program with automated die rollers and simple grid maps.
The big problem for me is that since I've since switched over to Mac, I would have to pick up the OS X version of the game and expansions. Like all Mac software, it'll probably be full-priced until kingdom come. So I'd pretty much have to jump on somebody else's PC.
walmart is the greastest hambuger
Remember that cool hexy Hasbro game I mentioned the other day? Heroscape? I tried ordering it through Nerd Planet. When I went in today, the owner told me that he wasn't going to be able to get it for me; it's impossible to get for the small guys because the mammoth guys (WalMart) have all the stock. But he's also not going to be able to stock this very cool-looking game when it is available because (drum roll): the wholesale price of the game is $38. WalMart's price: $39.99. You gotta love it.
If I have to buy this shit through a megachain, I'll wait for Toys R Us to get it.
last thing I promise
I forgot to mention that I stopped by Strategicon last Sunday. The experience literally made me sad. The attendance was the most anemic I've ever seen, with barely anybody walking around. The lobby was like a ghost town. There were plenty of vendors in the dealer room, but besides my girlfriend and I there were about eight other shoppers. It was terrible.
We've said it before, but I'll say it again: it's bizarre that LA conventions suck so bad. WTF man? STFU.
update: Holy shit is that photoshop friday good, especially "Mystery Date."
False gods! All worship before the altar of your master KEHHHH THOOOOOOO LOOOOOO!!!
Yo! sup dawgs. So my homeboy Cth-loo rolls up on that punk ass JC and goes BAM! That's right bee-ach! How you like that shit? Wacha gonna do with that crown of thorns son? Then he gets all crazy on 'im wit that tentacle shit and all. And I go Damn! you one crazy mothafucka Cth-loo. Peace.
(this is why I don't post often.)
Yo! sup dawgs. So my homeboy Cth-loo rolls up on that punk ass JC and goes BAM! That's right bee-ach! How you like that shit? Wacha gonna do with that crown of thorns son? Then he gets all crazy on 'im wit that tentacle shit and all. And I go Damn! you one crazy mothafucka Cth-loo. Peace.
(this is why I don't post often.)
Man, i think the people who run blogger are idiots. When you go to the blogger page to sign-in for this here blog shit, they have an article called "blogs vs. 60 minutes" which talks about how bloggers are uncovering that the documents that 60 minutes ran about bush skippin' out on nam duty were possibly faked because these genius bloggers recognize the fonts in the memo as being from ms word! OMG SUPAR SLEUTHS! The blog they mention is called "Little Green Footballs" and its one of the MOST disgusting ultra-right, ultra-offensive political blogs out there. If you ever go to that shit-blog and read the comments the users leave, they're the most hateful, ignorant, racist, false shit you've EVER seen. NO SHIT. and blogger.com is using that as some kind of legitimate source. Plus, the whole argument that the fonts and format of the army memo was made using ms word (even though it was written in the 70s) assumes that bill gates' Word invented all these typefaces and font and layouts. It's total bullshit, and it's already been discredited, but what the fuck. i get so fucking pissed off.
i hated "the passion." comeone jael - that shit was garbage. it was 2 hours + of jesus ***spoilers*** gettin' his ass fuckin kicked without any reasoning of WHY it was happening to him or why he just took it all. Mel Gibson's a tool. ***end spoilers*** :)
i hated "the passion." comeone jael - that shit was garbage. it was 2 hours + of jesus ***spoilers*** gettin' his ass fuckin kicked without any reasoning of WHY it was happening to him or why he just took it all. Mel Gibson's a tool. ***end spoilers*** :)
Passion of Christ:
Saw that movie on the plane, thought it was pretty good actually. No spoilers, but it's definitely worth a rental. Van helsing on the other hand sucked really really bad.. I think Jon mentioned liking it on a previous blog. If so, Jon, youre nuts. The movie Stinks!
Oh if anyone has a chance, watch this documentary/movie. "When I turned nine" Jung Sun Kyung Kim Suk
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003445552/pname-When-I-Turned-Nine/Section-videos/code-k
It shows how even a nine year old can be so compassionate, understanding and intelligent and makes me want to be better. I find myself envious of a nine year old! wow. Just a little asian culture for u guys.
Johnny
Saw that movie on the plane, thought it was pretty good actually. No spoilers, but it's definitely worth a rental. Van helsing on the other hand sucked really really bad.. I think Jon mentioned liking it on a previous blog. If so, Jon, youre nuts. The movie Stinks!
Oh if anyone has a chance, watch this documentary/movie. "When I turned nine" Jung Sun Kyung Kim Suk
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003445552/pname-When-I-Turned-Nine/Section-videos/code-k
It shows how even a nine year old can be so compassionate, understanding and intelligent and makes me want to be better. I find myself envious of a nine year old! wow. Just a little asian culture for u guys.
Johnny
Big up! Respec! Boyahkasha! to MAD MAGAZINE?
Check out this scan from a recent Mad Magazine: Here! (from Atrios)
"If Jesus ran against Bush."
Check out this scan from a recent Mad Magazine: Here! (from Atrios)
"If Jesus ran against Bush."
FOOTBALL!! OMFGWTFSTFU WEEEEEEEEE!!!
What a great game last night.. down to the wire and the last second kick, even. I would have really have liked to have (how many haves can I have put into one sentence?) seen the Patriots get their collective asses kicked.. but you can't always get what you want, have have.
(LOL)
Oh, it's friday... new Photoshop Phriday is out with a theme of "board games"..
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2364
Late,
~ Cap'n O.
What a great game last night.. down to the wire and the last second kick, even. I would have really have liked to have (how many haves can I have put into one sentence?) seen the Patriots get their collective asses kicked.. but you can't always get what you want, have have.
(LOL)
Oh, it's friday... new Photoshop Phriday is out with a theme of "board games"..
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2364
Late,
~ Cap'n O.
there's some videos up over at gamespy for some call of cthulu survival horror xbox game HErE! In the past, to see any videos on gamespy u had to go to fileplant and wait in ridiculous lines, etc, but now they have direct links to watch right away - coolness... (the game doesn't look THAT amazing to me, but since it's the coc world, maybe its cool, no?)
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Yeah... happy birthday to us! Fuckers... one more step towards Sauron on the corruption track.
Hey, Johnny! Are you going to be back home next weekend (the weekend of the 18th), or are you still going to be overseas? Let me know if I could come up there, I'd like to check out a few places that weekend and if I could stay with you it'd be a fun-tastic time. I'll bring my cell phone with Strip Poker on it, you'll love it!
Mike... are you alive or is your corpse festering in some hole? If so please contact me from beyond the grave, I would like to eat your brain to attain your studying skills.
Hey, Johnny! Are you going to be back home next weekend (the weekend of the 18th), or are you still going to be overseas? Let me know if I could come up there, I'd like to check out a few places that weekend and if I could stay with you it'd be a fun-tastic time. I'll bring my cell phone with Strip Poker on it, you'll love it!
Mike... are you alive or is your corpse festering in some hole? If so please contact me from beyond the grave, I would like to eat your brain to attain your studying skills.
aol sucks! :)
ya mens - sorry i ever suggested you guys join aol's free trial for my free ipod. i had to call an 800 number to cancel, and you're forced into talking to a salesmen who reminded me an awful lot of a stripper begging for a lapdance. What a bunch of sloppy fucks they are. :( Maybe I'll win the futbol pool! Wouldn't buy an ipod with the dough, though...
ya mens - sorry i ever suggested you guys join aol's free trial for my free ipod. i had to call an 800 number to cancel, and you're forced into talking to a salesmen who reminded me an awful lot of a stripper begging for a lapdance. What a bunch of sloppy fucks they are. :( Maybe I'll win the futbol pool! Wouldn't buy an ipod with the dough, though...
NevahWizbang Knights
You fellas have both expansion sets as well? SoU and HoU? I think they really improve the game a lot. Also, something to keep in mind.. there are a LOT of community-made modules available for download a play!
FOOTBALL ON IN TEN MINUTES... WOOOOOGOOOOPOGOHHOIOSDUGF(#$&*(&#@!!!!
*fart*
You fellas have both expansion sets as well? SoU and HoU? I think they really improve the game a lot. Also, something to keep in mind.. there are a LOT of community-made modules available for download a play!
FOOTBALL ON IN TEN MINUTES... WOOOOOGOOOOPOGOHHOIOSDUGF(#$&*(&#@!!!!
*fart*
happy birthday to us!
hey jon, happy belated birthday! there was usually a con that weekend of your bday we went to, so i think it slipped my mind a little - not too much though! and to me, happy birthday me! YA! No-prizes for the both of us!
I just saw the Batman Begins trailer, and it looks pretty good! Better than the Grayson trailer... :(
alright - rock off bitches!
hey jon, happy belated birthday! there was usually a con that weekend of your bday we went to, so i think it slipped my mind a little - not too much though! and to me, happy birthday me! YA! No-prizes for the both of us!
I just saw the Batman Begins trailer, and it looks pretty good! Better than the Grayson trailer... :(
alright - rock off bitches!
cells phones:
eyereck: Never underestimate the corrupt elite in the poorest of countries, ironically, a class with certain lustful appeal. I'm not sure where to get these, being discontinued for so long. A search on the net resulted only a few russian/spanish sites that carried them, which would be a last alternative. Presumably, a few used dealers in the US would carry them? I'm doing a search and hopefully I'll find something. If you can find a dealer that carries em, let me know.
eyereck: Never underestimate the corrupt elite in the poorest of countries, ironically, a class with certain lustful appeal. I'm not sure where to get these, being discontinued for so long. A search on the net resulted only a few russian/spanish sites that carried them, which would be a last alternative. Presumably, a few used dealers in the US would carry them? I'm doing a search and hopefully I'll find something. If you can find a dealer that carries em, let me know.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
I'm In!
- Never played Nevarwintar Nights online before. I know there is an option to create a module and then play in it, and I have tinkered with the module creation tools a bit tonight, but they look scary. It also looks like we can just start playing from the beginning of the game together online, which would kill me because I just started playing myself. There are also some modules that have been released that automatically download when you update the client.
Whatever we choose I am all for it! Now, I think that means that Art, Eric and Jon have the game, and everyone else needs to buy it, which will never happen, even though I think it is cheap now. Do it!
- Also, what exactly are the cell phones for Johnny? Who can you sell them to? What could the Burmese want with $300 cell phones?
- I started reading the complete tales of Sherlock Holmes a while back and just couldn't do it. Everything that he wrote about has been stolen and reused since it seems, and it was a little bit choo choo for me. There were no surprises and no twists. Admittedly, I read only like the first 2 1/2 stories...
- I stand corrected, Battle Royale was 600 pages long. Still, I will never get that time back....
- Never played Nevarwintar Nights online before. I know there is an option to create a module and then play in it, and I have tinkered with the module creation tools a bit tonight, but they look scary. It also looks like we can just start playing from the beginning of the game together online, which would kill me because I just started playing myself. There are also some modules that have been released that automatically download when you update the client.
Whatever we choose I am all for it! Now, I think that means that Art, Eric and Jon have the game, and everyone else needs to buy it, which will never happen, even though I think it is cheap now. Do it!
- Also, what exactly are the cell phones for Johnny? Who can you sell them to? What could the Burmese want with $300 cell phones?
- I started reading the complete tales of Sherlock Holmes a while back and just couldn't do it. Everything that he wrote about has been stolen and reused since it seems, and it was a little bit choo choo for me. There were no surprises and no twists. Admittedly, I read only like the first 2 1/2 stories...
- I stand corrected, Battle Royale was 600 pages long. Still, I will never get that time back....
Schedule, Schmedule!
Heh.. I'd be down for a once a week hook up with you fellas. The only thing that would interfere with such an endeavor would be my unholy addiction to the NFL and potential baby-related events, I 'spose. Right now I have Thursday evenings carved out of my schedule for my once a week computer-geek-a-thon (wife approved, no less!) that I usually use to go flying online, but I'd be totally into trying to get together with y'all if it interests anyone. Hell, even if it's just 3-4 of us I think that would be fun, no?
Late,
Cap'n O.
Heh.. I'd be down for a once a week hook up with you fellas. The only thing that would interfere with such an endeavor would be my unholy addiction to the NFL and potential baby-related events, I 'spose. Right now I have Thursday evenings carved out of my schedule for my once a week computer-geek-a-thon (wife approved, no less!) that I usually use to go flying online, but I'd be totally into trying to get together with y'all if it interests anyone. Hell, even if it's just 3-4 of us I think that would be fun, no?
Late,
Cap'n O.
Games are Great!
Dear god, when Rich got burnt that time it was beyond gross. He seriously had the worst burn I have ever seen. Any longer in the sun and homeboy would have been at the hospital in the burn ward.
Rude: I won't touch those deals with a ten foot pole either. They make that money back, on your sorrow. It is so easy to miss something and get screwed. Even though I am poor and would LOVE an iPod, I just can't do it. Besides I could never line up anyone else with that kind of pain. Be careful if you proceed with that plan. Stay on top of it like white on rice.
Eric: I still have my original Star Wars mini's we bought back in Senior. Never played with them. I still think Star Wars is cool. Even though Lucas is a boner. I have been seriously considering getting the original trilogy on DVD when it comes out this month. I may preorder it on Amazon. The only thing holding me back, besides money, is that it is the 'Special', look Han is a nice guy and NeVAr shoot-zors first, Edition. I wish they would put out the unmodified version. Oh well. I have been eyeing the Wil Wheaton book for a while. I guess he is kind of a regular guy geek type. Anywa I have found the spellcheck on Blogger a bit suspect at times. Not a large enough dictionary. You know I think they use an Explorer dictionary though. I think it is local. SO iguess it is more of an Internet Exploder issue.
That Transformers thing sounds wierd. Live Action? I hope Speilbergo knows what he is doing.
Art: We played around with NWN in its first version, but it started while Iw as preparing to move to SF, Jon to Boston. So it never went anywhere. I would love a group action thing, but if our Blood Bowl League indicates, it is rediculous trying to get all of us to play anything online. Everyone had totally conflicting schedules. Maybe a NWN session would change that. Of course some of us would have to invest.
Steve, I'm Steve.
Dear god, when Rich got burnt that time it was beyond gross. He seriously had the worst burn I have ever seen. Any longer in the sun and homeboy would have been at the hospital in the burn ward.
Rude: I won't touch those deals with a ten foot pole either. They make that money back, on your sorrow. It is so easy to miss something and get screwed. Even though I am poor and would LOVE an iPod, I just can't do it. Besides I could never line up anyone else with that kind of pain. Be careful if you proceed with that plan. Stay on top of it like white on rice.
Eric: I still have my original Star Wars mini's we bought back in Senior. Never played with them. I still think Star Wars is cool. Even though Lucas is a boner. I have been seriously considering getting the original trilogy on DVD when it comes out this month. I may preorder it on Amazon. The only thing holding me back, besides money, is that it is the 'Special', look Han is a nice guy and NeVAr shoot-zors first, Edition. I wish they would put out the unmodified version. Oh well. I have been eyeing the Wil Wheaton book for a while. I guess he is kind of a regular guy geek type. Anywa I have found the spellcheck on Blogger a bit suspect at times. Not a large enough dictionary. You know I think they use an Explorer dictionary though. I think it is local. SO iguess it is more of an Internet Exploder issue.
That Transformers thing sounds wierd. Live Action? I hope Speilbergo knows what he is doing.
Art: We played around with NWN in its first version, but it started while Iw as preparing to move to SF, Jon to Boston. So it never went anywhere. I would love a group action thing, but if our Blood Bowl League indicates, it is rediculous trying to get all of us to play anything online. Everyone had totally conflicting schedules. Maybe a NWN session would change that. Of course some of us would have to invest.
Steve, I'm Steve.
NeverWinter Botswana
Eric, have you picked up the two expansion packs for NWN? I found them to be HUGE improvements over the original game, especially Hordes of the Undertoad. Great replayability value with those. You guys ever get online and do NWN as a group? That would be kickin rad to be able to do something like that with everyone. I haven't gone online with NWN before, but it can't be that tough I wouldn't think.
Also, have you guys ever used teamspeak? You can set up voice-communications over the internet fo-free, even. www.teamspeak.org is the address for the client/server apps, I believe.
Anyway.. just a thought. Maybe set up a once-a-week night to hook up for some NWN gaming goodness as a group or something.
Eric, have you picked up the two expansion packs for NWN? I found them to be HUGE improvements over the original game, especially Hordes of the Undertoad. Great replayability value with those. You guys ever get online and do NWN as a group? That would be kickin rad to be able to do something like that with everyone. I haven't gone online with NWN before, but it can't be that tough I wouldn't think.
Also, have you guys ever used teamspeak? You can set up voice-communications over the internet fo-free, even. www.teamspeak.org is the address for the client/server apps, I believe.
Anyway.. just a thought. Maybe set up a once-a-week night to hook up for some NWN gaming goodness as a group or something.
Hey yall!
It seems I missed quite a lot. I actually saw the blog I wrote on the 4th and it was in invisible text! I was in the executive lounge in Hong Kong when I texted that message. It's a Dial up connection so der data packets must have gotten lost! I'm back in the same lounge on a different terminal, so hopefully this works.
- I put storm and swords on hold, not wanting to breeze through it too quickly. I'll have to continue the third book soon! Meantime, I just got myself the entire sherlock holmes series. Not having read the SH books, I'm quite excited.
- Singapore airlines is awesome. Singapore is awesome. I think I learned alot about B-Sness and about Asia. I won't bore you guys with the details blah blah, but it was great! I also stopped by Burma for 2 days. Poverty stricken- country. It's really sad. Remember civilization by Sid Meir? Imagine every civilization is in it's modern age with industries and rails, and a country still using spears and phalanxes.
- I'm looking for 500 and 1000 units of Samsungs STH-N275 and N375 model cell phones. It's a discontinued model and is very difficult to find. But it's supposedly still available in the US. I can possibly sell them, at roughly 320 a piece, so let me know if you can find em, refurbed, at a cheap price.
Well that's all I feel like writing at this moment. I'll talk to you guys laterz!
Jael
It seems I missed quite a lot. I actually saw the blog I wrote on the 4th and it was in invisible text! I was in the executive lounge in Hong Kong when I texted that message. It's a Dial up connection so der data packets must have gotten lost! I'm back in the same lounge on a different terminal, so hopefully this works.
- I put storm and swords on hold, not wanting to breeze through it too quickly. I'll have to continue the third book soon! Meantime, I just got myself the entire sherlock holmes series. Not having read the SH books, I'm quite excited.
- Singapore airlines is awesome. Singapore is awesome. I think I learned alot about B-Sness and about Asia. I won't bore you guys with the details blah blah, but it was great! I also stopped by Burma for 2 days. Poverty stricken- country. It's really sad. Remember civilization by Sid Meir? Imagine every civilization is in it's modern age with industries and rails, and a country still using spears and phalanxes.
- I'm looking for 500 and 1000 units of Samsungs STH-N275 and N375 model cell phones. It's a discontinued model and is very difficult to find. But it's supposedly still available in the US. I can possibly sell them, at roughly 320 a piece, so let me know if you can find em, refurbed, at a cheap price.
Well that's all I feel like writing at this moment. I'll talk to you guys laterz!
Jael
Hey, I recognize that girl on top! She got dan-bashed in Kill Bill 1. Funny you guys mention Battle Royale, I was just looking at that in the bookstore not four hours ago. I've heard varying reviews of the movie, from roxx0r to suxx0r.
Oh, I picked up a CoC "Investigators" deck a while ago. Pretty cards, small print, had better things to do than read the rules... I'm up for playing sometime.
So yeah, basically I like to write content-free posts.
Oh, I picked up a CoC "Investigators" deck a while ago. Pretty cards, small print, had better things to do than read the rules... I'm up for playing sometime.
So yeah, basically I like to write content-free posts.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
battle royale with cheese
never read the manga, but i saw the film battle royale. it's pretty cool. ultra-voilent dark action flick where you see a bunch of japanese school kids gore the fuck out of each other. i can't imagine it being 800 pages long though... ugh. as an under 2 hour gore-fest, pretty cool.
sorry im so out of the loop, but where u been eric? by aol for me!!!!!! just kidding bro.
never read the manga, but i saw the film battle royale. it's pretty cool. ultra-voilent dark action flick where you see a bunch of japanese school kids gore the fuck out of each other. i can't imagine it being 800 pages long though... ugh. as an under 2 hour gore-fest, pretty cool.
sorry im so out of the loop, but where u been eric? by aol for me!!!!!! just kidding bro.
Here I Am
Hey, everyone! It's me! I'm back! Blah blah blah. Enough with that:
- I don't want any promo crap from free iPods. I mean yay for you Rudy, but man, once you open your door to all that promo shit, you are done for, they never let you go!
- That Hasbro battle game Hero Scape looks kinda cool, Jon. Also Betrayal at the House on the Hill looks pretty fun!
- Speaking of Hasbro and Transformers....
- The Call of Cthulhu CCG game is awesome! Denis and I bought some, okay, A LOT of cards and have played a few games now. The mechanics are good, the art is good, the Lovecraft theming is good, and the smell takes me back to insane M:TG booster pack opening mania! I would suggest picking up some if you have the inclination!
- Paranoia XP came out, and of course I picked it up. It is basically a reprint with updates to the 2nd edition Paranoia from '87. Funny, goofy, and good to own.
- Star Wars Miniatures also came out, and of course I picked some up. Good sculpts, very similar rules to D&D miniatures, but all that really needs to be said is that there are Stormtroopers up the wazoo! I thought I was over Star Wars completely and then these come into my life and a little bit of the passion that laid dormant in my system since the release of the Episodes I & II: The Travesty's, has bubbled to the surface and I feel a little bit more like a kid than I did yesterday. These mini's got me thinking how great they would be for a game of West End Star Wars, not that that will ever happen, but still... I look forward to sending my kick ass New Hope rebels against some stormtroopers! Gotta get em all!
- And finally on the product review front, I picked up THE WORLDS LARGEST DUNGEON!!!! It is teh greastest! 880 pages of small-ass type (probably 7 pt) dungeon descriptions as well as 64 pages of maps! The book is heavy, the art is good, the text is clear, and the dungeon is fun! There is a cohesive storyline that ties the whole dungeon together but still allows many, many, many sub story's along the way. The best part about it: unless otherwise noted in an area description, the dungeon has NO LIGHT SOURCE. Pitch black. So cool.
- I have been reviving Neverwinter Nights too. It's fun now that I have given it a second chance. Maybe because I am playing a kick ass fighter along the lines of Felix, rather than a suck ass monk like Fared. I love Great Cleaving my way through batches of zombies! My best so far is a 7 kill great cleave on some zombies as I ran from a mummy after I stole some armor from his sarcophagus.
- As I spell checked with blogger, it flagged "Hasbro" and wanted to replace it with "Hackberry". Funny.
- Games are good!
- So is Art having a baby! Holy teh shit! My dad sends his greetings, salutations, and congratulations!
- I plan on returning to Fire and Ice, or whatever the fuck they are called, but for now I have been diverted yet again to other books. I read this real piece of shit Battle Royale. A japanese translated book about some future government program that takes one class of junior high students a year and sends them to an island to kill each other. Hilarity ensues. Time spent reading 800 pages I will never get back. Then I read Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton. I good read if you are interested in career changes, creativity, successful nerds in the public eye, Wesley Crusher, and ST:TNG. Good stuff. I also read Pour Your Heart Into It, the story of Starbucks by the CEO of said company. Excellent! Good insight to the company, business in general, and one hell of a propaganda piece for the entrepreneurial spirit! Also, a bunch of other uninteresting crap too.
- Longest. Post. Ever.
Hey, everyone! It's me! I'm back! Blah blah blah. Enough with that:
- I don't want any promo crap from free iPods. I mean yay for you Rudy, but man, once you open your door to all that promo shit, you are done for, they never let you go!
- That Hasbro battle game Hero Scape looks kinda cool, Jon. Also Betrayal at the House on the Hill looks pretty fun!
- Speaking of Hasbro and Transformers....
- The Call of Cthulhu CCG game is awesome! Denis and I bought some, okay, A LOT of cards and have played a few games now. The mechanics are good, the art is good, the Lovecraft theming is good, and the smell takes me back to insane M:TG booster pack opening mania! I would suggest picking up some if you have the inclination!
- Paranoia XP came out, and of course I picked it up. It is basically a reprint with updates to the 2nd edition Paranoia from '87. Funny, goofy, and good to own.
- Star Wars Miniatures also came out, and of course I picked some up. Good sculpts, very similar rules to D&D miniatures, but all that really needs to be said is that there are Stormtroopers up the wazoo! I thought I was over Star Wars completely and then these come into my life and a little bit of the passion that laid dormant in my system since the release of the Episodes I & II: The Travesty's, has bubbled to the surface and I feel a little bit more like a kid than I did yesterday. These mini's got me thinking how great they would be for a game of West End Star Wars, not that that will ever happen, but still... I look forward to sending my kick ass New Hope rebels against some stormtroopers! Gotta get em all!
- And finally on the product review front, I picked up THE WORLDS LARGEST DUNGEON!!!! It is teh greastest! 880 pages of small-ass type (probably 7 pt) dungeon descriptions as well as 64 pages of maps! The book is heavy, the art is good, the text is clear, and the dungeon is fun! There is a cohesive storyline that ties the whole dungeon together but still allows many, many, many sub story's along the way. The best part about it: unless otherwise noted in an area description, the dungeon has NO LIGHT SOURCE. Pitch black. So cool.
- I have been reviving Neverwinter Nights too. It's fun now that I have given it a second chance. Maybe because I am playing a kick ass fighter along the lines of Felix, rather than a suck ass monk like Fared. I love Great Cleaving my way through batches of zombies! My best so far is a 7 kill great cleave on some zombies as I ran from a mummy after I stole some armor from his sarcophagus.
- As I spell checked with blogger, it flagged "Hasbro" and wanted to replace it with "Hackberry". Funny.
- Games are good!
- So is Art having a baby! Holy teh shit! My dad sends his greetings, salutations, and congratulations!
- I plan on returning to Fire and Ice, or whatever the fuck they are called, but for now I have been diverted yet again to other books. I read this real piece of shit Battle Royale. A japanese translated book about some future government program that takes one class of junior high students a year and sends them to an island to kill each other. Hilarity ensues. Time spent reading 800 pages I will never get back. Then I read Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton. I good read if you are interested in career changes, creativity, successful nerds in the public eye, Wesley Crusher, and ST:TNG. Good stuff. I also read Pour Your Heart Into It, the story of Starbucks by the CEO of said company. Excellent! Good insight to the company, business in general, and one hell of a propaganda piece for the entrepreneurial spirit! Also, a bunch of other uninteresting crap too.
- Longest. Post. Ever.
free ipods... HMMM
have u guys heard of freeipods.com ? Apparently its legitate - here's a WIRED article about it:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html
Any of you guys heard anything else about it? Here's how it works: I go and signup, and I have to pick 1 promotional item to do, which are a bunch of various free-trials like AOL, Columbia House, Blockbuster's Netflix ripoff, etc. I then need to get 5 people to ALSO join one of the promotional trial things. Once myself and 5 other people have joined a trial (u get credits depending on the service) I get a free ipod in the mail. The AOL trial you can quit out of it within 50 days and not pay a thing. Some of the other ones, I think u have to pay something (the blockbuster one, u have to stay on a month after the 2 weektrial - a tooth whitening one, u need to pay $7 bucks shipping - the columbia house ones are like they always are, get 10 cds for price of one, etc..)
What do u guys think?
Here's my referal code if anyone wants to do it, heh - but I understand if u don't. I'm on the fence with it, although the wired article makes it seem pretty legite.
http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8829586
HMMMM...
Steve?
have u guys heard of freeipods.com ? Apparently its legitate - here's a WIRED article about it:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html
Any of you guys heard anything else about it? Here's how it works: I go and signup, and I have to pick 1 promotional item to do, which are a bunch of various free-trials like AOL, Columbia House, Blockbuster's Netflix ripoff, etc. I then need to get 5 people to ALSO join one of the promotional trial things. Once myself and 5 other people have joined a trial (u get credits depending on the service) I get a free ipod in the mail. The AOL trial you can quit out of it within 50 days and not pay a thing. Some of the other ones, I think u have to pay something (the blockbuster one, u have to stay on a month after the 2 weektrial - a tooth whitening one, u need to pay $7 bucks shipping - the columbia house ones are like they always are, get 10 cds for price of one, etc..)
What do u guys think?
Here's my referal code if anyone wants to do it, heh - but I understand if u don't. I'm on the fence with it, although the wired article makes it seem pretty legite.
http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8829586
HMMMM...
Steve?
Art, that is so nauseating, it has to be true.
This upcoming Hasbro game looks fun in a brainless way. I especially like the hex terrain... all sort of RPG uses come to mind for it. I've got a copy on order from Nerd Planet... should be out in a week or so.
The new blog title made me laugh.
This upcoming Hasbro game looks fun in a brainless way. I especially like the hex terrain... all sort of RPG uses come to mind for it. I've got a copy on order from Nerd Planet... should be out in a week or so.
The new blog title made me laugh.
Monday, September 06, 2004
SO Burned, or My Adventure on the Strand
So me and my friend went down to the beach today to ride bikes on the strand. I actually parked real near eric's house (that street up the way that's safe from tickets) and we walked down to the strand in search of a bike rental place. Well, we were pretty much inbetween Hermosa pier and Manhattan, so we headed south towards Hermosa. That was an epic walk. We get there, there's a fair settin' up, and for the LIFE of us, we couldn't find a bike rental place. SO, we decided to head a little further south... "little" turned out to be friggin' KING HARBOR! We had all but given up hope when a guard at King Harbor told us there was a bike rental place only 3 lights down. The longest 3 blocks I've ever walked in my life. Rented some cruisers, and headed back north on the strand. We went all the fuck the way to the end of Marina Del Rey/beginning of Venice. We crashed on the beach there for awhile, then headed back. I don't know how many miles that is, but it is epicness... oh fuck, and I didn't put any lotion on cuz I'm naturally "dark" and now my friggin arms are on FIRE! We rode back near eric's place to my car, threw those pieces of shit cruisers in there and returned 'em. Heh - btw, after we got the bikes, we headed back to Beach Hut (noticed they're now open 7 days and open later each day -score!) and once we were back near Beach Hut we noticed bike rental places like EVERY OTHER FUCKIN' BLOCK! OMG HAX! Hehehe... quite an adventure. My nipples are chaffed to all hell. Good times though... (and my ass hurts, ouch!)
So me and my friend went down to the beach today to ride bikes on the strand. I actually parked real near eric's house (that street up the way that's safe from tickets) and we walked down to the strand in search of a bike rental place. Well, we were pretty much inbetween Hermosa pier and Manhattan, so we headed south towards Hermosa. That was an epic walk. We get there, there's a fair settin' up, and for the LIFE of us, we couldn't find a bike rental place. SO, we decided to head a little further south... "little" turned out to be friggin' KING HARBOR! We had all but given up hope when a guard at King Harbor told us there was a bike rental place only 3 lights down. The longest 3 blocks I've ever walked in my life. Rented some cruisers, and headed back north on the strand. We went all the fuck the way to the end of Marina Del Rey/beginning of Venice. We crashed on the beach there for awhile, then headed back. I don't know how many miles that is, but it is epicness... oh fuck, and I didn't put any lotion on cuz I'm naturally "dark" and now my friggin arms are on FIRE! We rode back near eric's place to my car, threw those pieces of shit cruisers in there and returned 'em. Heh - btw, after we got the bikes, we headed back to Beach Hut (noticed they're now open 7 days and open later each day -score!) and once we were back near Beach Hut we noticed bike rental places like EVERY OTHER FUCKIN' BLOCK! OMG HAX! Hehehe... quite an adventure. My nipples are chaffed to all hell. Good times though... (and my ass hurts, ouch!)
A Schwarm of Gourds
Jon & Rude: Yeah I think I am going to skip out on the novella. To much of a tease. I always skip the extra preview chapters at the end of each book anyway. Anyway I am reading a cool little book called Crypto. About how the use of encryption become a commercially available in the 80s. At one time only the NSA had access to crypto, and they didn't want citizens/corporations getting access to it. Without it the internet would not be a commercially viable entity.
Elrock: Workin' with the format again eh? I like the little ESPN action but isn't the default of "NHL" a little more than depressing. I have been trying to grab a little World Cup on TV. I figure that maybe all we see for a while. Anyway I like the longer blog area. Some of our recent posts have been getting long winded and require a good bit of scroll. What ever happened with your ventures into the "Seven Kingdoms"? Did you give up on the books or are you still cruising through them?
D>M>
Jon & Rude: Yeah I think I am going to skip out on the novella. To much of a tease. I always skip the extra preview chapters at the end of each book anyway. Anyway I am reading a cool little book called Crypto. About how the use of encryption become a commercially available in the 80s. At one time only the NSA had access to crypto, and they didn't want citizens/corporations getting access to it. Without it the internet would not be a commercially viable entity.
Elrock: Workin' with the format again eh? I like the little ESPN action but isn't the default of "NHL" a little more than depressing. I have been trying to grab a little World Cup on TV. I figure that maybe all we see for a while. Anyway I like the longer blog area. Some of our recent posts have been getting long winded and require a good bit of scroll. What ever happened with your ventures into the "Seven Kingdoms"? Did you give up on the books or are you still cruising through them?
D>M>
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Finally finished A Swarm of Fjords today. Pretty sad that I was the first one to start reading it and the last one to finish it. Oh well, I read Harry Potter V over a year ago so at least I'm ahead on that.
That was a great book. (Mild spoilers.) All the setup in the first half sagged a little, but the end was awesome. Both weddings were great, I really liked how the Daenyrys stuff finished out. I loved the chapters with Arya and the Hound. The epilogue was great. I always feel a little bad for anyone who's the main character in the prologue or epilogue of these books.
It's good to be done with that for a while. When I finished the first two, there was only a mild sense of closure followed by me immediately picking up the next book. But now... I think I'll skip the novella and all that and move on. (There's also a graphic novel, have either of you guys checked that out?)
Next up: Wolves of the Calla! Dark Tower book V. The seventh and final book is coming out really soon, I'm excited to finish off that series.
That was a great book. (Mild spoilers.) All the setup in the first half sagged a little, but the end was awesome. Both weddings were great, I really liked how the Daenyrys stuff finished out. I loved the chapters with Arya and the Hound. The epilogue was great. I always feel a little bad for anyone who's the main character in the prologue or epilogue of these books.
It's good to be done with that for a while. When I finished the first two, there was only a mild sense of closure followed by me immediately picking up the next book. But now... I think I'll skip the novella and all that and move on. (There's also a graphic novel, have either of you guys checked that out?)
Next up: Wolves of the Calla! Dark Tower book V. The seventh and final book is coming out really soon, I'm excited to finish off that series.
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