Saturday, March 25, 2006

I bet they debate whether or not God rolls a perfect 20 every time

Man, I was up till 4:30am this morning working on history assignments that are due today. Thankfully I only have one little 2 page paper left to write.. but I am balls tired. BALLS.
AndersOn! Man, Get it Right!

We're not all Swedish/Norlandish expats dude, some of us come from the sunny land of Scotland! My email should have been onote@ to Jon's enoto@. Bombadier hunh, sounds pretty hot. So, given that you're all B-17 now, have you seen 'Memphis Belle?' It's pretty cheesy and patriotic and stuff at times, but a cool recreation of a flight over Germany... nail biter. Carrie can't bear to watch it because of the tension. I guess being the bombadier means that I'm also the chief medic... 'is there a doctor in the house?' 'Why yes, what seems to be the problem young lady? I think we'll need to remove your shirt to investigate...' But doctor, it's my leg that's the problem... Yeah yeah, whatever. Cool (garbanzo) beans Eric, so where are we stationed?

So Eric, are you ever going to return my calls? Whenever I ring you, you're 'on the phone' I mean it's cool if you don't want to hang out with me anymore, I mean, I like to play FUN games, not like Carcassone. oh shit, now he's MAD.

I think Eric definitely needs his HPGU reset. From what I understand you have to poke something into a little hole in his backside to reset it. Maybe that's why it never needed resetting while Aaron and Eric were living together down in San Diego, I heard that's what you guys were doing all of the time there.

I've not had time to read everyone's post yet, so I'll update this when I do.

Happy Belated B-Day Art! Good luck on job search Rudy! (My advice is with Eric on this one, send it so that they can't lose it - because they always will if they can. - I know you've probably already done it, but thought I'd get my two cents in anyway.)

Myke
What Are You Talking About?

You're totally the Port Waist Gunner Man! And ALWAYS have been!

(actually I was trying to think of everyone's name as I posted before bed, so I forgot the least important Action Team member, you. As the campaign moves foreward, I'm sure you will wish you had joined the Navy with all them Village People)

I stand by my hatred for Giganten. Any game that I can try to destroy and end up winning in the end, regardless of forgetting a crucial rule, is a piece of shit. As for Germans, yeah, I still hate them and their long run-on sentence words. Puerto Rico can suck it. I will NEVER play that game again as long as I live!

It's funny you mention that I can never listen to a church podcast, cause the Dice Tower, while a great show, is actually put on by two American missionaries stationed in Korea. They are gamers first, absolutely, but the word of God creeps into the show every so often. but they don't preach, so it is listenable for the gaming stuff.
Appearently I joined the navy.

Man, all that belly aching about how Carcassone is stupid. "Puerto rico is lame." "Germans suck." "I hate you guys." Yet now you like it because some 'expert' on the internet told you it was cool. What a daft prick. I bet you still hate Giganten. That is a good game. Ill have to check out that podcast. Sounds pretty cool. If you start listening to a church podcast, thats it! Jon and I will have to fly down and reinitialize your HPGU (humanity point generator unit).

Rude: You know Johnny is quite right. the outside postings are just as a reference point without a face or a voice to go with it. I have heard so many horror stories of how they deal with the huge inquires. Aimey had a few good ones from when she worked for Levi's for a bit in HR. If you didnt follow the rules to a T, round file. If you sent an attachment, round file. If you show up in person and drop it off, round file. Almost none of the positions were filled from the internet. They just used the resumes as a frame of reference against the internal promotions, latteral internal movement and the networking hires. Make sure you dig around their HR portion of the website. Sometimes they will tell you how to send it over. Online postings are balls.

D>M>
I love how ryan is the "tail gunner". Hmm, how appropriate.

Thanks for the tips Johnny. Yeah, this inquiry of mine was mostly BS (how many people are going to apply to be WoW GMs (million?) and then, thinking about it, how shitty is that job. Sit there and respond to people's tickets for 40 hours a week? Ugh. BUT, still gonna send an app in anyways! ;)
I agree with your PVP assessment. I had a 60 hunter on a pvp at the end, and they were a friggin' blast to play. I also had a few pvp mages, they rocked, and I felt how painful warlocks at high-end pvp got! Nuts! Only classes never played past lvl 10: 'lock, pally, and shaman. I'm gonna wait for the expansion before I start up wow again.

For all the crap people talk about the WoW community, I've always found some interesting people ingame to chat with. Plus, being the BIGGEST mmo out there right now (maybe minus the Lineage games, but ugh, no thanks!) no matter how many times I've run the game, most of the fun is with interacting with people.


WARNING: Long boring rant about Eve-Online. I'm worst writer ever.

Which is/was my concern with Eve-Online. Everything I read says: Join a good Corp("guild".) But, how do you find a good one, etc etc etc. It's such a weird game. SUCH A GOOD GAME THOUGH TOO! Ugh. Pvp/Combat et all, it's about system management. Super tactical. You have to keep in mind range, various electronic warfare ("webbers" which stop a ship that's moving, "warp scramblers" which kills warp engines so peeps can't jump out, etc), you have to watch your powergrid (pretty much your lifeblood - out of power, you aint shootin shit or running), friggin gotta watch your shields, armor. SO MUCH SHIT! I love it.
There's the whole mining aspect. I tried it for a minute, but it's pretty boring. Shoot mining laser at asteroid, fill cargo hold, take cargo to refine, sell your crap, repeat. Of course, there's drones that can help, mining ships, haulers to haul your loot back to a base so u can keep mining (u need a friend for that), player pirates who will come by and scoop up your shit (sounds funny to me), players who will just try to kill you (if your in a unsecured space, where all the good minerals are anyways) etc etc.
Trade game: There's research, playing the market, building shit to sell (market is 99 % player driven, ie everything is made by players with a few exceptions), courier missions that players put up (sometimes scams, ie they'll be waiting somewhere on the route to gank you, although maybe not so often/easily avoidable) etc etc. I've spent hours just staring at market details comparing prices, looking at price history, ugh - so fuckin' bizarre that it sorta interests me.
And a shit load of other things. But what's hard to get into is the fact that the game is completely wide-open. There's really no set path. After that long and boring tutorial (which is essential to even get a basic grasp on how to play)you're kinda thrust into space with a "WTF do i do now" feeling!

LONG STORY SHORT: There's not a whole lot of "chatting" going on as a solo-player in the game. You've gotta join a Corp I guess, but I'd have to play for awhiles anyways to get a feel for the different people/places/things in the game etc.

whatever. that's the longest most useless post ever. sorry!
(didn't signup for either game, too tired. Killed time doin some Advanced Wars, heh.)
Hey Eric,

If you email me what's happened in each mission beforeyou post it live, I can recreate it in my flight simulator quick-like and take screen shots and edit them in photoshop for dramatic effect.. that might be fun! Sounds like a cool game already. Can't wait until I can sucker Haylee into playing board games with me. Hehe..

Friday, March 24, 2006

Actually doesn't matter really what you put on your email.

The resume and coverletter is the most important and 99.9% it goes in the round file bin. What you gotta do is if it's a big company, get the name of the HR, if it's direct get a name of the hiring manager and call them (note i didn't say harass) and more than just inquire if they got your resume, but make it brief and capture why they should hire you.

If they really like your resume, they'll usually call you within 2 weeks. if not, either follow up, or your SOL.

I've been watching a few good movies lately, most of it didn't make it big time. Sideways, Hero, an unfinished life, proof, weatherman, pink panther. some were pretty good. proof was just a knockoff.

F wow... not that it's a bad game, it's a great game, but I find the PVP servers are the only thing that's worth playing, but then the farmers and hard core AV runners just ruin it. They get all the good shit and just kicks your ass left and right. You almost can't survive running solo unless youre a hunter or rogue which is 70% of the lvl 60 classes on pvp servers.
Action Team Annie Joins the Fight!

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and threw America into the war, America called on it's citizens to combat this new global foe. Men joined the ranks of the military in record numbers, most enlisting in the standard fighting forces of the Army. Some, took the challenge of the Airborne, and others the Marines. Then, some truly unique men enlisted in the Air Force. Some were assigned to the 8th and stationed in England for the purpose of flying bombing missions across the channel into Europe. You, are one of those men.

Crew of The Action Team Annie

Captain Hess - Pilot
Lieutenant Andersen - Bombardier
Lieutenant Lee - Navigator
Lieutenant Mangual - Co-Pilot
Master Sergeant Munro - Engineer
Sergeant Nikisch - Radio Operator
Sergeant Petersen - Ball Turret Gunner
Sergeant Killen - Port Waist Gunner
Sergeant Takara - Starboard Waist Gunner
Sergeant Walsh - Tail Gunner

All you need to do to make it home, is survive 25 missions... Good luck, gentlemen. And good hunting.

Mission One, coming soon! Or is it?

(I have no idea how to write a narrative, so this will probably suck balls... me no write good)

I bought Carcassonne to play with Leslie and it's fun! Ha! The joke is on Jr0n! I purposefully hated the game all those years ago when we played in order to enjoy it now that I own it and rub it in your face! Huzzah! The Dice Tower Podcast is really turning me on to Boardgamegeek.com and some really great games! Battle Line, David and Goliath, Street Soccer, B-17, Ambush!, Blokus, Lost Cities, etc. All fun to play!
Hey Rude, good luck with the job posting. I've always sent in my cover letter and resume as separate .doc files with the email giving the gist of the cover letter. So yeah. Mostly what Eric said. As for your MMORPG dilemma, I really have no idea. Maybe you should pick up a cheap used game and play that for a month instead?

Enron: we gettin' together Saturday?
Awesome eric, thanks for the info. LOLZ its actually for GM jobs at blizzard for Wow. hehe. It was posted on thier mainsite, so BLAH, don't think it will happen, but fuck it, might as well try. They're in Irvine and who knows. If it pays more than what I make now ($0.50 an hour) would be an intesting thing. So let me apply with the millions of other yahoos. ;P

Here's my current gaming dilema:!: Pay 15 bucks and play wow again for a month, or pay 20 bucks and play eve again for a month. Need something to kill my non-reallife time, and as cool as the new Elder Scrolls game looks (that would be 50 bucks) god, just can't imagine myself enjoying a non-online crpg. Action games (or console emu-games) sure, but lately when I've tried some off-line rpgs, I just get bored and depressed hehe.

WoW: They opened a shitload of new servers, so that intial "new server" funness would be around for a minute. BUT, I think I've done every races/classes beginning quest lines AT LEAST, and GOD it sounds boring.

EVE: Such a DEEEEEP game, only barely scratched the surface in the 14 day trial, BUT space is a lonely place, and Eve did a good job of emulating that solitary feel. Still, just the economy of the game alone is so deep and interesting. And the pvp was tits. GOD! But there's is SO much zzz downtime, ugh, dunno.

I've got the account pages opened for both, and don't know where to click submit. I can't afford both atm, so who knows. Someone make a new awesome game quick!
All of the Above

< IMHO>
Send your cover letter, resume and salary history in a word doc, all as one file so that none of the parts can be separated from the others. Then send in the email, the gist of your cover letter, with the .doc attached. Have the subject line be the title of the position you are going for.

Then contact the person you sent the letter to, or someone in the hire/fire department and try to speak with someone to verify that they recieved your letter, and ask when they may be making a decision on the position. This way, they know your name, they (hopefully) looked for your resume with you on the phone and can associate your resume, voice, and name, which will (hopefully) have sticking power.

Then, call back later next week to check in, and keep your name out there.

Unless you don't really care about the job, then just send it in email and fuck it.
< /IMHO>

So Say We All
advice: was thinking about applying to a job and they prefer you to email your resume. It says, send a 1. cover letter, 2. resume, 3. and a salary history. So, my question, how would I email this? Would the body of the email be the "cover letter" and then I'd attach the resume as a .doc file or something?

what say you all?

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Don't know!

Well, Yeah I'll be in the united states, but the $$$ situation is a no go, so scratch me off that list!

Re: The herky-jerky camera of BSG. Yeah enron, that's pretty much a staple of the show. Learn to embrace it. I used to hate it too. I can't remember the 1st tv show or movie that totally used that (over used that) - might have been Law n Order back in the day. But I remember I hated it too. Nowadays, I see the reason it's used (it's an effect basically - gives thing that psuedo-documentary feel - extra "life" to scenes) and when it's used correctly, doesn't bug me at all. Maybe it's so common place I don't even notice it these days. BUT, put at bad-ass BSG scene back to back with a old school bad-ass Star Trek Next Gen scene or something, and I think you can really see the fluidity/life that kinda direction can give to a scene. For sure, that process was overused when it sorta "came out" and every shitty movie was using it, but in BSG, the story is SO the star, and for the most part that style of direction really fits the show. Go rent the mini-series. It's a fuckin' incredible show, and in these days of instant tv-showage (thx to tivo/torrents/etc) it's worth watching the whole frakin' series. :P

Gardena Park!

Never been a South Park fan, but I recently saw that "trapped in the closet" episode over on youttube and then I just saw the new episode re: chef. Hey, pretty funny show! HAHA WELCOME 2 THe 90s! LOLZ
MYKE
DENNIS


Are you going to be in the US during Memeorial day weekend? If so will you be interested in Kubla or not?

Answers people. If you dont know say, "I dont know".

jrOn: I dont know what the drill is for this weekend. Either Sat or Sun I am helping Stephanie move into her house. Blah. At least she hired movers. I would like to game. When my gf gets home I will ask her when. 750, eh? I think I can swing it. Now that I have the driller and I can jack Marshall with da 'dorfs go fishin', I think it will actually work out well for my group.

D>M>
Hey, by the way.. I'm learning more and more goodies about photoshoppery, digital imaging, painting and all that stuff. Here's something I came up with right quick for a virtual flights squadron that I fly with a couple times a week. They have molded themselves after the 332nd Fighter Group, "Tuskegee Airmen", of whom I have immeasurable respect and admiration for. Anyway, here's what I came up with:

More or less, it just comes down to the auto-draft picking me a whole bunch of really good guys. The only thing I've done was to fill three roster slots on my team that were guys out for the year. I feel bad that these guys, who bleed Hockey, are gaming their hearts out to win and I'm the "I dunno what the hell I'm doing, LOL" guy stealing their fun. =/

As a bit of a review of Fantasy Hockney as a game system, I don't think it's very well put together. There's GOT to be a better way to make it (and keep it) interesting over 5 months of play other than to mindlessly plug in who is playing and who is not for any given day. Without putting on my thinking cap for a bit and coming up with something better, I don't have an offering or suggestion.. but there's got to be a better way. There just has to be something more than Spreadsheet Jockey Online.

JMHO.
Wow, it sounds like that Fantasy Hockey is a really well put-together piece of work. I'm surprised that it isn't announcing me as the current leader -- I never made a team at all, which seems like it should give me the edge over the birthday boy. (Happy birthday!)

Actually I am gonna make a new version of Fantasy Hockey for you guys. There are five guys on a hockey team right?

OK here we go.

BIRTHDAY BOY
THE LAS VEGAS GOATEES
Goalie: Jones
Forward (?): Joens
Halfback (??): Jeons
Power Player A: Jsoen
Power Player II: Jnose

TOTAL POWER: 25

ENRON
THE S.F. VIBRATORS
Gaoler: Magnus
Players 2-5: Fagnus, Bagnus, Eagnus, Sagnus

TOTAL POWER: 25

ROUND 1
Birthday Boy is Heads.
Enron is Tails.

The flip was: Tails.

Enron wins!

Tune in next week for another exciting edition of Fantasy Hockey!!!!!!11one

Oh yeah, I am younger than Aeryk, but older than Ryan. My birthday generally falls on a convention. WHICH DAY IS IT!???? (I like to create fun activities.)

Aimed at Enron

Good news! I am working both days this weekend! I would love to get to your place one of those evenings and take back Whitey Snakebitey and his epic bottle of Bacardi, however. Perhaps I will serve you a serving of green pecan-encrusted salmon with a side of defeat. Is Saturday night good for you? I am almost done assembling my fine Stormblade unit. That takes me up to 750 points of Cygnar. I say we kick things up a notch!!! (To quote a fat, sad-looking chef.)
Uhm, yeah. Sorry about that. I actually peeked in on Hockney in the last day or so and noticed that I'm somehow back in the lead again. I haven't updated my roster since about mid-december. =/
More betterness...

O: Anaheim, California, Los Angeles, whatever Angels vs. Clevland Indians. And what a gem of a day it was. Although I didn't know it at the time, that was also the first time I saw a condom. Although it was in zepplin format. Those drunk fools were funny as hell. I think they had a role in perverting my innocent mind.

The past few hours Piccolo Pete and Mexican Hal have been going through my mind. Mexican Hal, with pimentos and shit. Ahhh.. good stuff.

Elzar what was the name of that puzzle solving game you had on your old Mac SE? That was a good one. We used to sit at that one for hours.

All: Okay. I am a little frustrated. I have been very attentive with my fantasy hockey team, while all members shall remain nameless, a certain jArk has not been attending to his team for a very long time so that usually a third of his player are not playing and yet he still leads the league. FTW Mate? GRRRR! That and my goalies have decided that stoping the puck from going in the net is optional. Oh yeah, and my players are done playing two way hockey. Suck it Trebek. Maybe I will have better luck next season.

Bortz

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

"Your Momma's Tits Taste Like OJ"

LOL.. I remember being at that baseball game but I don't remember anything else.. even who was playing. Was that a Dodger game we were at? I just remember some drunk ass in the stands yelling at the visiting team's outfielder.. and that was the gem of the afternoon.
happy b-day art! cool shit! i'll call you friday to wish you a more personal happy birthday (WINK WINK OMG)

eric: whoa grats about the lil one being on the verge! awesome man!

my bday: 9976

really considering moving back home to save a ton of money on rent so i can save some dough and go to europe and shit places like that. if i do i will play games with you all (oops, they all live in sf now!)
bday: 9-22-75

Is everyone moving to San Francisco? WTF?
Your Momma's Tits Taste Like OJ

Elzar: Make sure you wear a pair of your best F. Boots for the birthing so that when that bad boy comes out purple you can declare, "That's no son of mine" and 'gas peddle' that kid back in there with maximum waffle traction.

surReal Estate: SF prices are rough, but I think a descent home can be had, although in the mid to upper end of that price spectrum. Then again, I have never gone and looked at the actual conditions of these house and condos. I just dont do much home shopping up here. These places are of course in good neighborhoods. Also the peninsula and east bay are also more financially affordable oppertunities, while reamining near SF, that have good neighborhoods, bigger yards and less density than SF. Also SF has a wide spectrum of options: Condos, Live/Work lofts, Flats, and Single Family Dwelings.

Andy Murray.. Whoa! Kind of late in the season for that move. Some of the ESPN postings were calling that it was bit uncalled for. That John Van Boxmeer should have been axed, but Murray was a scapegoat/player motivator move. Some people called for Dave Taylor's head. Faulting him for some of his moves (i.e. JR and Rbotallie). Ouch. Thoughts?

BDay: 11.04.74

O: Happy sweet, old-ass naked day. Draw me some nice blasphomous crayola artwork for old times sake. Lomeli's style. Viral infection in JP's colin butt

I keep looking at BSG at the video rental store, but I never seem to pull the trigger. I watched part of an episode recently on TV and I have to say I was severly annoyed at the camera work. They have this nasty habit of doing this mini zoom-in thing on peoples faces during heated conversations. Uggg, it just irks me. Its like I am watching a bad b-movie. Something a 13 year old with a camera would do. DO they do that all the time? Or was this a one time cameraman with a nervous tick thing?

D>M>
It's official. Another orbit around the sun is complete.

My wife and daughter bought me a really swanky Raiders watch and a cool pen that looks like it's carved out of wood. We're going to dinner tonight at teh Macaroni Grill for some good times and crayola tablecloth madness. Actually, I'm wondering if you tech and art-types would have some recommendations for me on a drawing tablet? I've been poking around a little and it looks like the Wacom Intuos3 6x8 is a nice unit, but I really don't have any experience with these things and am kind of looking for advice and/or user experience.

Elrockenstein.. baby any day! That's great news man. Starting about.. now.. you will never get a full night's sleep again. Heh. My little alarm clock is waking up earlier and earlier now that the sun is starting to rise a bit earlier each day. What used to be a sleep-in until about 8am is now shrinking back past the 7am barrier, with a wakeup between 4-6am for oil change and comfort. It is, however, the coolest thing ever being Dad. Don't be alarmed when Wylie comes out purple at first. Heh. The whole 'birth' experience was a bit surreal. I still can't believe Michelle did it without so much as an aspirin. Yikes.
Happy BDay ORugs!!!!

- I need everyone elses BDays so I can officially become more of an adult and put them in my "date book". Don't you all wany BDay greetings from the blog? Do it!

- BSG is the best show on TV, bar none. It is the best show since Firefly and Arrested Development. Funny how Fox can take great shows and drive em into the ground, and Sci-Fi of all channels, can maintain a breakout hit and support it, and even have a marketing campaign to generate interest in making a 3rd season (filming in April!!!). Ah, Fox. Were it not for my addiction to the Simpsons, you would be dead to me.

- It is official, the baby can be born any day now. < TMI> As soon as Leslie hits 2cm dialation, we can induce whenever she is ready. She is already 30% effaced, which is weird.< /TMI>

- I have this solo wargame, Ambush!, that I am going to start playing in the back room, which in honor of Peter, Mike, and Dr. Garbanzo has been cleaned up again. In Ambush!, you control 8 fighting men of the US army in France 1944, and it has a very heavy roleplay aspect to it. Each mission, you enter the map from one area, and then must slowly scout the rest of the map to find your mission objectives. All sorts of crazy shit can happen in the meantime, which you look up in an event book. Kinda like a chitbased, wargame themed, Heroquest. So, the Action Team is going to suit up and take on the Normandy campaign as soon as I get around to it. God save Pvt's Walsh, Anderson, Petersen, Mangual, Nikisch, and Killen. And since this is an alternative universe, Lee and Takara will join the ranks without being sent to internment camps instead! I'll keep you posted as to your various fates.

- Later, B-17: Queen of the Skies will be coming from eBay. Then The Action Team can take on the duties for flying a B-17 though our 25 missions before we are either killed, or sent home in victory!

- Dungeon Twister is a good game. Though one that can generate many "Go Paul" moments. Speaking of Paul, his dad is the landlord of our neighbor two doors down. Apparently he is a bit of a Slum Lord.

- Hey Enron and jr0n, are there still "nice" parts of SF and the surrounding areas that one could purchase a home for a reasonable price? Reasonable being being somewhere between 400 and 700k?

Monday, March 20, 2006

Teh Bloggah, TiVo edition.

Finally got some time to catch up on my backlogged TiVo'ed shiz.. and just caught the season finale of BSG.. HOL-EEEE SHIT! Wow.

The Colbert Report has certainly gotten a LOT better since its inception. The interviews, especially. There are still some of those 'cringe' moments during the interviews where things just don't go real smoothly.. but part of that is Colbert trying to be a character instead of himself, which some times breaks down in mid-interview as well.. and kills the feel of the show a little bit. Anyway.. it's still very funny and definately worth the 15-20 minutes per show if you get the chance.

Distraction.. man this show is just too great. If you haven't caught it, it basically comes down to being a game show with very easy questions but the whole time the contestants are trying to buzz in and answer the questions, they are being submitted to some VERY distracting shit. For example, one round had all the contestants wearing electro-shock dog barking collars. At first, every time they'd buzz in they'd get popped before answering.. and then mid way through the round they just started randomly electrocuting them. LOL.. I also am fairly fond of the nudist leapfrog racing and the round where the contestants buzz in by downing a full shotglass of hotsauce and slamming it on the counter. The final round for the 'winner' is a round in which they have 20 seconds to answer 4 questions, but if they get one wrong (or don't answer them all in 20 seconds), then the prizes they've won start getting crushed by anvils, blown up by explosives, trashed by the losing contestants.. or whatever. It's definately a high pressure moment. Heh.
Oi

Uggg... SO tired. I am not a big fan of Mondays. Blah.

So judging by the overwhelming interest in Kubla by The Action Team members, it would seem likely that it will only be jr0n and eNron attending. Unless certain members other than Elzar speak up (ie Dennis the posting Zombie, Ice 'I have the dreaded Avian SARS mad cow polio anthrax jaundice cold flu' Lee, Myke Moto Merkin, fArt, and Rude Dog).

Rude, I like the podcast. Sounds like a lot of the crappy ones out their. Personally, I think we need to catch ourselves on the mic producing a random stream of conscienceness instead of trying to produce a polished product. None of really get organized enough for anything other than random kernals of greatness in seas of mundane conversations. Either we do that or we put the real Action Team movie, the Conan series, and Rhino Fury audio to podcast. Then we would be the coolest podcast out there.

jr0n and I sort of went berzerker on terrain lately. I picked up some static grass that I think is the source for GW grass, but cheaper. One quarter the price cheaper. GW is a bunch of markup jarks. Anyway hills, aka pecan encrusted green salmon are nearly complete. I am working on a sweet house and some fences/walls. Jr0n started playing Cygnar again. Only thing I have to say about that is F the trenchers. They are some bastards. He is threatening to get some long gunners too. Assholes.

Three cheers to the new rule. Three cheers to inflicting myself to future punishment. Three cheers to posting at work. Idiot!

D>M>

BTW, if you every have the opportunity, I highly recommend picking up some Hobgoblin beer. It is so choice. That and it has a sweet D&D name. You can skip Fiddler's elbow though. It's only okay.
Blog from the Bog

Yes indeed, as I sit here in the bog, I am typing up a blog for you and working on other things which rhyme with it. Yesterday I spent all day trying to figure out how to make a Stormtrooper a) not shoot the begeebus out of me when he sees me (i.e. a pacifist Stormtrooper) and b) walk forever between three predetermined points in a tiny little room in Jedi Knight II. I was insanely happy when after 10 very frustrating hours, I managed it. Why you may ask, and the answer is simple - my continued efforts to pass off game modding/level building as academic reconstruction. Soon my Pompeian house will be filled with people (hopefully not looking like Stormtroopers anymore). Still it was a strange way to spend a Sunday.

Saturday was games day with Eric and Peter. A good time was had by all: Especially due to Dr. Garbanzo and "Stab"manda Sharpe, hunter of Lovecraftian creatures.

I second the second rool... though I realise that I will probably be amongst the most punished.

Myke

Sunday, March 19, 2006

New Action Team Rule

Fust rool, es: The Laws Of Germany.

Second rool, es: If at any time any Action Team member has contributed such a low blog count that their face has actually dropped off of the current page, that member should be punished in some way that is to be determined by all non-offending Action Team members.

Remember, kids, we are NOT the IN-Action Team.

Action action!

(I'm looking at you Enron who sleeps not 20 feet from a computer every night, and occasionally with a laptop in his bed, as well as Mike, despite his busy schedule, as well as Denis who I think hates me now, and Ryan, who I KNOW hates me now.....)