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Burning Crusade is here!
Posted on January 16, 2007 by Brian under Games.
For those of you that are not rolling in the cool crowd, “Burning Crusade†is the latest expansion for the World of Warcraft MMORPG. If you don’t know what an MMORPG is you should really stop reading now because it will only confuse you.
I have been looking forward to this expansion since I first started playing. I got hooked on WOW with a few people I work with. We started a small guild, then merged with a bigger one that eventually merged with a bigger guild that finally went tits up and disbanded and now we are back to the glorious Pwndock Saints. I finally got a character up to level 60 (at the time that was the highest you could go) and then started PVP-ing to get good gear and make my character more powerful. Now that the expansion is out I have to level another 10 levels to get to the cap and start the work over again to get my elite gear. I will be participating in Raids and other large group events to insure that I get a great selection of gear that will make my warlock a force to be reckoned with. I am actually looking forward to playing the game as once I reached the 60 level I was worried that I was going to get bored. So far they have made it to where you have so much to do that it is almost impossible to get bored. The game is designed to have no end. You simply grind out levels, if you have a character that has done everything and is the top of its class; you simply create another class of character and do something different. A lot of the quest and gear are specific to a particular class like Warlocks, Mages or Warriors.
It’s remarkable that there are over 8 million people playing this game all over the world. So far I have run into children as young as 10 years old playing this game and today when I picked up my copy there was a very large man that looked to be in his 40’s picking up his copy as well. I probably won’t get to 70 as fast as some of the other people in my guild. But that’s because I have a life! You know the kind of life that provides me with a wonderful wife that lets me indulge in this kind of activity as long as it doesn’t interfere with the real world and suck me in to the point that I am doing nothing but playing the game and not having stupendous, wonderful sex with her. Cause I know for a fact that some of the 8 MILLION other players are not getting laid (masturbation doesn’t count).
So now that I have left you with a wonderful image of a 40 year old fat man sitting at a home built computer with more processing power than the human brain and a 32 inch LCD screen with picture in picture (so they wont miss there episodes of South Park while playing wow) in a dark basement in his mothers home in nothing but a robe, a stained tank top, boxer shorts that say “Once you go Horde you never get Bored†and a pair of “Incredible Hulk†Slippers that have the Crunch sound destroyed by his fat fucking feet…..I think my work here is done.
Happy Gaming!!!
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The 2nd Shift Blues
Posted on January 15, 2007 by Brian under Family, Life.
Well, here I am! Working 2nd shift for the next 5 weeks. I only pray that its 5 weeks and not any longer. I have not had to work past 5pm in over 8 years. I can’t remember the last time I had to work a Saturday or Sunday. I was looking forward to working mornings because I get off work at 3pm and my wife doesn’t have to go to school till 7pm. This worked out really well cause I could get all the household chores done before 5 when my wife gets off work, then she would come home and we would get something to eat or I would have something ready for her to eat. Then since this semester all her classes start at 7pm, I looked forward to taking her to school and picking her up. Last semester she was so stressed because she had to leave work at 5 and try to make it to school by 5:30. It didn’t always work that way and it would stress her out to no end. This time I can take her so she doesn’t have to worry about finding a parking spot or walking a long distance or even being late for class. And I can be there for her in the event of bad weather, say if it rains, I would be bale to show up at her class with an umbrella ready and walk her from class to the car so she won’t have to worry about getting drenched. I know, all you old people are probably thinking “Man, what a sapâ€. But that’s not it! My wife and I have a very unique relationship. One that I wish the rest of the world could have. I think if everyone was like us we would have no divorce and you would find an increase in happy marriages. I truly believe us to be soul mates and the perfect couple. Some of the people we know say that we are strange because we don’t do anything apart. My wife and I think that everyone is strange because they don’t do anything together. We were just talking the other night and I told her that if she all the sudden said that she wanted to go have a night out with the girls; I would respect that and let her. However, since this is not the normal behavior she has exhibited in the last 7 years that we have been together, I would think that something was up. She agreed and said that the same would apply for me. I replied and told her that I would have to have friends that I wanted to hang out with first, I am kind of anti-social and although I have a few people I like as friends, they know me well enough that they never ask me out with them, and they know that if I ever go out I will always have my wife with me.
I really love my life! I never thought I would have a life like this. I have the perfect marriage and a great family. If you would have asked me 8 to 10 years ago if this was going to be possible, I would have given you a definitive NO! I saw myself being a single, lonely guy living in a small house or apartment and just having a cat to talk to. I can not tell you how relieved I am that my life did not turn out that way. I am so lucky to have met my wife. She is truly my savior and I could never in a million years ever repay her for that.
Baby, with all my heart and every fiber of my being! I want you to know that I love you and will always love you, in this life and the next!
Well there’s my first post of the year. I am sure that I will probably get flack from my friends about how much of a pussy I am and how corny and sappy my post was. But when you’re in love like I am. You just don’t care!
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Movies to Remake
Posted on November 8, 2006 by Brian under Life, Movies, Wishlist.
In this day and age it’s obvious that imagination has lost its spark. The muse that once was all around us has gone and we are left with remakes of films that at there conception, were considered to be fabulous! Here is a list of the top ten movies that I would love to see remade in my life time;
10. Planet of the Apes Saga
I know that they have already made one of the films but I think in the next few years they should remake the rest of them. The original was considered to be a great film with great effects and makeup that was outstanding for its time. It gave us a glimpse of what the world would be like if evolution took a twisted turn.
9. Death Race 2000
This was, even for its time, a rather cheesy film. It focused around a deadly car race that was considered to be the greatest sport in National History. It was a game that involved racing across specific zones, the more pedestrians you hit the more points you rack up. David Carradine was the bad guy with a grenade for a hand. But this could easily be redone with modern graphics and a perked up story line. Think “Fast and the Furious†meets “Commandoâ€.
8. 2001 / 2010.
Now everyone is probably ready to jump through there computers and strangle me. But give me a chance. I do not want to change a thing on these films. They were what I considered to be Iconic films of there time and they were even better books. I just think that if we are going to move into an age of remakes, let’s remake something that was considered to be outstanding even it is day. Just imagine the imagery that we can create from redoing these movies with today’s computer graphics and make-up artist. (more…)
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GIVE ME THE RUN AROUND!
Posted on October 24, 2006 by Brian under Reviews.
Yesterday I wrote to a company that manufactured my drive enclosure for my portable Hard Drive. I have been using this thing for like almost a year. I wrote to them and clearly explained my issues, my actions and what I needed (see below).
Question: I have purchased one of your enclosures that has recently failed. I tested the HD in another computer and it worked just fine. I found another HD and tested it in the Enclosure and it would not work either. I want to know how I go about getting an exchange for this product or if I can even get an exchange for this product. I was told by NewEgg that it had a 1 year Manufacture Warranty on it and they only covered it for the first 30 days. Please advise.
Today I go to check out my e-mail and they send me this (I will not edit it so that you can see how it was composed). (more…)
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I went to Hell and All I got was $50 bucks!
Posted on October 6, 2006 by Brian under Flickr.
My mother owes me so big she has no clue. Let me tell you how this all began.
My mom calls me as asks me if I want to earn $50.00. I tell her heck ya as long as I dont have to do any physical labor. She assures me that I will have to just sit there and listen to some music for a survey and when its over I will be able to collect $50.00. I tell her i’m down sign me up! she says that she is going to send me an e-mail and it will have the number of the lady I need to call and then the information on the time and the location. I open the e-mail and there is everything that she says I need. Then I see a follow up e-mail and when I open it I feel like commiting murder! My mother tells me in a seperat e-mail that the music I have to listen to is country music. Any one that knows me knows that I hate country music with a passion. But as my wife pointed ouit, its $50.00!
So tonight I get to the Survey place. Sit down and begin to listen to
the obnoxious sounds of country played in 5 second intervals. I had to listen to 700 songs total. We were given little bubble answer sheets like they give you in SAT tests. So i did what I did in my SAT test. I looked at my neighbors test and wrote down what they had. When it was over I thought I was going to have to trample the people in front of me to get out of the boulding. I had to supress the urge to run out of the building and scream at the top of my lungs “My ears are bleeding!”. But in the end. I got $50.00 and I only had to listen to 5 seconds of country music.
If I end up in Hell, I will have to repeat that Survey for eternity!
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