Entries Tagged as 'Lists'

Blog spam

Foton pinged everyone who reads AFKGamer to provide the 5 things people don’t know about you. I’d say he’s a slacker for not asking people directly but he says right there in the title that’s he’s always afk. I’m using that as an excuse for why it took so long to write this.

1) The biggest thing is that I am closet romantic. I mean this in the “I expect a resolution to this” kind of way. I don’t like the unrequited love stories where everyone decides to be miserable without each other: they should kill each other, get together, or get on with their damn lives. Pining bitches get shot.

2) I can’t sleep alone with out noise. I have to fall asleep with either the TV going or some kind of music going. This trip has only exacerbated the problem, as now I can sleep through CH-47s, C-17s, and continuous small arms fire all at the same time. The current music of choice is And I Feel Fine… which the lovely and talented Otter got me for Christmas.

3) Why I can say humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a. When I was in high school, one of the girls I was interested in would only go out with me if I could pronounce the name of her state fish. Needless to say, I learned it very well and we got along famously. Very happy memories there.

4) I am Superman, and my Kryptonite are Watermelon Twizzlers. I can be reasonably self-controlled about almost everything but these things. I have a very special bag that my grandparents sent me that I will be devouring on the plane ride home for happy times indeed.

5) I’m scatterbrained. What, I am. If I don’t write it down, it’s probably not going to happen. Plain and simple. Now, I may have five separate plans for accomplishing the same thing, but at least I wrote everything down so I can get it done.

Light Reading, Third

Quick listing of what I’ve read since coming to Iraq:

  • Saturn Rukh
  • This Rough Magic
  • Going Postal
  • Cobras Two
  • The Eyes of the Dragon
  • The Green and the Gray
  • New Voices in Science Fiction
  • Tomorrow Sucks
  • Paying the Piper
  • Redliners
  • An Oblique Approach
  • In the Heart of Darkness
  • Destiny’s Shield
  • Fortune’s Stroke
  • The Tide of Victory
  • Old Nathan
  • The Sea Hag
  • Northworld
  • Killer
  • Hell’s Faire
  • March Upcountry
  • March to the Sea
  • March to the Stars
  • We Few
  • Beyond World’s End
  • Spirits White as Lightning
  • The Chrome Borne
  • Thrice Bound
  • Werehunter
  • Oath of Swords
  • The War God’s Own
  • Wind Rider’s Oath
  • Into the Looking Glass
  • The Hero
  • Cally’s War
  • Watch on the Rhine
  • Warp Speed
  • The Quantum Connection
  • On Basilisk Station
  • The Honor of the Queen
  • The Short Victorious War
  • Field of Dishonor
  • Flag in Exile
  • Honor Among Enemies
  • In Enemy Hands
  • Echoes of Honor
  • Ashes of Victory
  • War of Honor
  • At All Costs
  • More Than Honor
  • Worlds of Honor
  • Changer of Worlds
  • Service of the Sword
  • Mutineer’s Moon
  • The Armegeddon Inheritance
  • Heirs of Empire
  • Crusade
  • Insurrection
  • In Death Ground
  • The Shiva Option
  • The Stars at War
  • The Stars at War II
  • The Excalibur Alternative

A little low for five months…

Shout out to the peeps

I have a new webcomic at the top of my list. Chopping Block is dedicated to the proposition that “serial killers are people too.”

Naye joined the Wordpress ranks over at Naye’s World, so go find out which kiddo is next in trouble. <3 Naye.

Fat list of WoW blogs

With the gazillions of blogs out there, you know that one or two of them have stuff to with WoW. There is one thing in common for most of the blogs which makes Baby Uruloki cry, we’ll discuss that later. So, here’s the list in alphabetical order with where they are in the game. Instead, here are three alphabetical lists of the the living, the dead, and dying.*

Living

Dying

Dead

Most of these I found after following links from other blogs. The alternate post title was “I go link chasing so you don’t have to.” Pretty much all of the blogs have very cool custom templates at the very least, if not WoW related. Also, a lot of the better blogs are run by folks that are doing MC on a consistent basis. So, that explains why I have Jayd posting here, to give myself some credibility. ;)

*Living is updated within the last month, Dying is two months, Dead is anything past that.

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The Intarweb makes me a badass

What a way to make up for a week of no posting: another intarweb personality quiz. Fortunately for my own ego, I polled quite well:

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Everyone’s doing it, Pt III

Via all kinds of people, here is the latest personality quiz to play with.

My results:

Wackiness: 64/100
Rationality: 44/100
Constructiveness: 52/100
Leadership: 50/100

You are a WEDF-Wacky Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you a Menace to Society.

Well, whether you’re actually a menace depends on how you choose to channel your energies. You chew your fingers and have an addictive personality. Properly guided, you can be enormously productive-otherwise you run amok, stir up trouble, and generally have a hell of a good time.

To your friends, you are a source of relentless entertainment. You often get into trouble, but you almost always find a way out. You are strangely popular and feed off others’ energy. You live hard, seize the day, and although your more sober friends would like to see you settled down, you generally have fewer regrets and better memories than they do. Your tenet is that, at the end of the day, one regrets only what one didn’t try. You are right.

You could benefit from outside help in balancing your highs and lows. Or perhaps cutting back on the caffeine.

Of the 82297 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 4.9 % are this type.

Fear me, for I am armed. And wacky.

Everyone’s doing it, Pt II

One of the lists that goes around. Got this one from the Armorer. Didn’t answer a couple, I hope I missed all the right ones for my sake (if Otter finds out…).

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Everyone’s doing it

The old “queue up the music machine on random, and see what comes out” list:

  1. 12 Stones – 12 Stones – Crash (I think the machine has prefence for starting with this one, since it’s first alphabetically.)
  2. Live – Mental Jewelry – Mother Earth is a Vicious Crowd (I love Live’s old stuff, where they were experimenting and finding their own sound.)
  3. Taproot – Gift – Impact
  4. Theater of Voice – The Age of Cathedrals – Orienti Oriens (The old-style acapella Christian hymns are a great relaxer and mind focus when I am working.)
  5. Nick Cave – I Am Sam – Let It Be (Otter music. blech)
  6. Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos – Chant 2 – Cibavit Eos Ex Adipe Frumenti (Another great work-aid.)
  7. Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up the Girl – Amigone
  8. Metallica – Reload – Low Man’s Lyric (One of my favorite Metallica songs.)
  9. Dred Bass – Fully Automatic : Drum & Bass Mixed by Ak1200 – Technology
  10. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American -Hear You Me (A good slow song from a good rock band.)
  11. AC/DC – AC/DC Live – Back in Black (Bah, I hate AC/DC. It’s only on here for a compilation I made a while ago.)
  12. York – Trance Party, Vol 1 – On the Beach (Good for parties, like New Year’s coming up)
  13. American Head Charge – The War of Art – Song for the Suspect
  14. Eminem – The Eminem Show – My Dad’s Gone Crazy
  15. Garbage – Version 2.0 – Sleep Together (Boy, not a lot of that been going on lately… :evil:)

And there you go, a non-WoW, non-politics posts. The non-politics part is easy, since I am hating politics right now, but the WoW obsession must be slaked…

Award shows

Seeing as blogging is an activity I participate in, the 2004 Weblog Awards are cool. However, they seem to be missing a category: Best Gaming Blog. How about next year, Wizbang?

There’s n3rfed, anyuzer, Lum the Mad, Terranova, and Zen of Design just to start. They provide a lot of discussion into the theory and practice of game design, customer (non)service, and other aspects that are related to a phenomenon which a moderate portion of the population indulges in. Hell, there’s a larger population gaming than blogging, so I believe that a Gaming section should be added.

Brainteaser

From John Derbyshire’s 31 March Diary:

Brainteaser. Augustus De Morgan, the 19th-century English mathematician (whose name, as Martin Gardner pointed out, is an anagram of “O Gus, tug a mean surd!”), noticed that he was x years old in the year x2. Which year was he born in? Can anyone reading this blog say that he will be x years old in the year x2? (Whole numbers only here, please.) How about other powers? Can anyone alive say: I shall be x years old in the year xN, for some N greater than 2?

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