Month: September 2008

  • Holy Thunderforks!

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3YF6p2EBlo[/youtube]Last thursday we were wiping repeatedly on Archimonde in Mt. Hyjal, and for the most part I just wanted to go to bed. After Hurte sniped me with some Dragonforce lyrics ‘through the fire and flames’ (the bossfight involves avoiding just that) I ended up on youtube and stumbled across this video. It’s a ‘misheard […]

  • Down Down Down

     Stock market down something like 700 points on news that nobody in Congress wants their unpopular political hot potato bailout on their heads during an election cycle.  I’ve personally lost about $65 today out of my paultry IRA & 401k accounts.  Maybe if I had more investments, I would be feeling something other than schadenfruede.  […]

  • Dead Space Videos

    Mim linked me some videos from a sci-fi game coming out this Halloween called ‘Dead Space‘.  I am totally not playing this game, because I am far too wuss for the survival horror genre.   I never played Doom 3 and I was traumatized as a young child by Space Hulk, but if you’re into […]

  • Dragon Age Videos

    The September BioWare newsletter came out yesterday, and it doesn’t have too much to read, but there is a link to some updated video on the Dragon Age website.  I had previously kind of written off Dragon Age as another overly bump-mapped single player fanatasy after the E3 video earlier this year; however the ‘Origins’ […]

  • Attack of the Word Press

    After two months of dragging my feet, the wordpress squid.org is out the gate here.  My company has been in the process of transitioning servers and sites from our Seattle network operations center down to Portland where we have lower expenses and better control over support.  Squid.org was the first site to make the transition, […]