I want to change my profile picture. Does that happen on your side, or on mine somewhere?

| New and Notes

 - To get your pretty picture to display, you currently need to put in a title - I might be able tweak the code a bit to insert it no matter what, but don't hold yer breath.

 - The NHL is looking to have their 3rd consecutive lockout in as many collective bargaining agreement expirations.  Sometimes those asshole players and owners make it hard to be a fan.  Assholes.

 - Back playing WoW again to warm up for the release of Mists of Pandaria.  I moved Docnorvell from Dalaran to iMike's server (Eldre 'Thalas or some shit?) and joined his guild.  So far good peeps, good guild rewards, good times. Man, those heroic dungeons really up the ante and require some well orchestrated combat tactics - a far cry from the grinding of old.

 - The company just picked up the tab on a 7 day boot camp for a security certification in November up in SF (San Mateo).  Totally weird to be working for a company that appears to value their employees enough to pay for training.

Way to insult Elzar's hard work enr0n. JEEEZ!

Tomorrow at two, we will roll ALL the dice! I'll try to set up the hangout at 1:45 or thereabouts. Remember to print the two files from this folder. You'll need them both and nobody wants to watch you while you look for printer paper, search for your USB cable, set up your printer driver, have some weird problem because the Postscript settings are jacked up, realize your printer is out of ink, etc, come on bro.

It's gonna be awesome! Even though I forgot to buy a dungeon master robe.

| Douchebaggery

Yeah, I know man. Was just giving you some 3rd party shit. :D

| Webination

I am definitely not trying to say the site looks bad, in fact I like the look. I guess I wasn't clear about that, sorry 'Zar. I was just pointing out some tuning that would be nice to have.

I still pop into Minecraft periodically and play for an hour here and there. I built a circuitous path from iZar's Wiznard tower to fArt tower. I avoided the jungle BS, but added some significant extra distance. I have also been ranging for Ender Pearls. Mother Truckers. I never find Enderman close by when I need to. And when I do find some of those tough bastards, I get accosted by a bunch of other mob asshats at the same time generally far from my spawn point.

The mini-coop S are fun little buggers, although they lose a lot of pep once loaded up with people and crap. Mom's is always a joy to tool around town with, plus the mileage is pretty reasonable. Rear seating is just a smidgen tight.

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| First World Problems

Don't listen to AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRON's lies. The site looks great.

In other news, looks like we'll be getting a second car again this weekend. I think I've fallen in love with another Supercharged Mini Coop. So freaking awesome.

Other runners-ups include a 1976 Mercedes that iMichelle is in love with. It runs, looks straight, probably will need ongoing attention and love to keep it going but it's only $2500 which is nice, compared to the Mini at $12.5k. I'm pretty certain we could pocked the extra 10 G's and be perfectly fine.

Cars in Question (Mercedes is google image search, Mini Coop ACTUAL PRODUCT OMG):

Gaming-related: I've started playing through Half Life 2 again. Wow, such a great game. Even the graphics hold up after all these years. That whole Ravenholm sequence is freaking amazing horror-style gameplay.

World of Tanks: Still addicted. Stupid game. So fun.

Minecraft: Still logging in. Need to find some time to mine out a few thousand blox to complete the shell of my project. Then beautification. Then I can help Elzar get to The End.

| Nixon's Knee

(The site looks great E-ric, thanks for maintaining it and sprucing it up!)

iWife and I got in our first game of 1960: The Making of the President (bgg) this morning and we both really liked it! Lighter than Twilight Struggle, but similar enough that I'll see if I can spring TS on her down the road. I won as Nixon by a fair amount, but it truly was a learning game because we had NO familiarity with the cards and there's some interesting mechanics like a "debate" round towards the end of the game and managing your campaigns focus across a few different areas. Great game though, so glad it went over well.

| Version 0.2

Yeah, it was a quick fix to the problems of the old blog.  I spent most of the night trying to locate where and how I would add the poster images to the template, er, 'layout' it's now called - this old dog is having a hard time reading web code anymore....  The images are related to the displayed 'posted by' name, which is different than it used to be on the old template.  Been moving and creating new images when I get some time and motivation.

Agree about the background, but again it was a quick and dirty, and it of course looks great on my giant monitor :)  I do like the overall warmth of the look though; takes me back to CayucosCon and puts me in a generally relaxed and gaming mindset.

It looks like crap on the iPad unless you turn it sideways and I don't think Safari plays nicely with the scrolling of the background, so it is what is is.  Since the site is probably viewed more in Safari than anywhere else I might put some time into solving the issue, but then again, maybe not.

| New Locale

Pleasantly thoughtful h4X0rs in fact. If I were to give one suggestion to said h4X0rs, I would say: they should crop the left hand side of the image off to remove the excess background kitchen area of the image, cropping just short of iZar's right shoulder. This would also bring in Motobyke, Pump & r00d more into the right hand side of the frame. Otherwise, looks good on ye olde desktop. Not so much on the iPhone... The whole page scrolls, instead of the text frames only.

Also, most of the Avatars are AWOL, aside from r00d and eLzar. Bad links maybe?

Love the new look! It is intentional, right, and not the result of some malware h4x0rs?

Ticket To Ride Pocket is free again for the next 5 days if anyone had failed to grab it last time.

Also, BGG's current contest is for Dreadball, so there's a chance for you mini-maniacs to have a chance at the game. If I win it I will pick up the hobby of painting.

| ohh

Like the new look to the site! Also, not getting anymore malware warnings.

| mucking about

seems there is something mucking about in the forgotten AT site.  looking into it.

Keep Calm and Carry On

| Fire Balls

I had the same malware warning about 2 months ago. eLzar and I chatted about it and figured it was erroneous. A few days after, I stopped getting the message and haven't seen it since. I suspect it is a false positive, but who knows.

Pump: I have been looking at a new kindle too; however, I am looking at the Paperwhite ($139 no ad variety). I already have an iPad and while I really like it for a lot of reasons, it is not really the best for reading books/PDFs and I can't use it for takeoff and landing on flights (damn FAA). It's just a bit too heavy to hand hold in a reading position for too long. Plus, the screen washes out in the sun. I suspect the Kindle Fire suffers a similar set of limitations.

FYI: For the first year, Fire HD 8.9: owners can pay $50 once for 250MB/month. After that year ends they go to a traditional data plan by AT&T. Monthly plans normally cost $15/month, totaling to $180/yr.

Yay DCC!

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I got a scary warning about the site just now too! I usually check on iOS but at work I'm on windows. Scary!