Archive for February, 2008
Overheard In The Office – Lights Out!
You know how most geeks like to have the lights off at work? So yesterday two people were walking by my officle and I heard one say the following to the other:
It’s dark over here, they can’t have the lights on over here for some reason. I think it’s too expensive or something.
No lie.
Tears Get You Nothing
Nothing that anyone else can’t get just by walking up and asking anyway.
Turns out anyone can get $500 for the same computer. But when she rang up the new computer it came up $1899 instead of $1999, so I got an extra $100 – w00t!
Next step… upgrade to Leopard. Given my Apple noob streak I don’t have high hopes for that going without problems.
Subliminally or Subconsciously?
First comment made me laugh (and think of someone in particular) and the second comment was dead on about the experimentation.
The embed seems to be a little weird. It’s not embedding the specific argument linked above but rather the top arguments or something, which is NOT what I want.
WoW It’s Hot, Hot, HOT!
So I was playing WoW this weekend and the kid (he’s 5) was watching me, asking me questions here and there. After arguing about what character he wanted to be and settling on a female gnome mage that looks like Princess Leia I let him play for a bit. I helped him get started with the first quest and then let him play on his own. He managed to get to level 2 and figure out a few things:
- Red names are bad, they need to be killed even if they are 5 levels higher than you
- Green names are people you can talk to and they talk back
- Yellow names are friends but you can shoot them if you want
- Playing a mage is as simple as click, shoot, shoot, shoot, loot
- Minimap navigation and that running into trees makes you go sideways
Speaking of WoW, when I play for a few hours the computer gets very, very hot – too hot for it to sit in my lap while playing. What’s up with that?
Went to see Playhouse Disney at the Target Center. Got home just in time for the kid to throw up blue cotton candy on the bathroom rug. Sweeeeet. Thank god he recognized he wasn’t feeling well at the right moment or I would have had cotton candy vomit all over a 3-day old computer.
Recent Creaminess
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- Wow so working late on a Friday isn't bad enough I have to deal with effing twins traffic?
- @geardaddie I have that already but it's lacking that certain je ne se quois.
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