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Check out this Honda ad.

Then go read about how they did it.. It apparently isn’t CGI and it isn’t trick photography.

Quietness of the blog due to:
1) Haven’t come upon any gaming news worth talking about, though I’m hunting down some Priest info.
2) Shadowbane wrapping its tendrils around my brain. Which is actually blog worthy, since the big server patch Friday does seem to have helped the game. Must write that bit..
3) Helping out with an apartment remodelling has been sucking the energy out of me. I can barely get up out of a chair I’m so stiff
4) My grandmother passed away so been dealing with family stuff a lot

I haven’t forgotten Dragonchasers, though! I shall return!

http://laacz.lv/f/swf/hestekor.swf

WARNING: There’s sound involved, in case you’re at work. Click on the heads…

Been pretty quiet around here, eh? Well, that’ll end soon. I’ve got a few rants germinating in my head, and I’m over the initial learning curve hump in Shadowbane so I should have some time to do something other than work or research SB. I finished listening to the audiobook version of Orson Scott Card’s Speaker For the Dead and I’ve been thinking about that a lot, too. Thoughts are swirling around in my head but nothing’s quite coalesced yet.

The hinges screech in annoyance at being disturbed as the door slowly swings open for the first time in months. Dust sifts down from the lintel, motes catching the sunlight that streams in from outside. A cloaked figure shuffles in, stooped with weariness, oblivious to both dust and sunbeams. Flopping into the nearest easy chair (and thus creating a new whirlwind to dance with the sun) he blinks at the empty room. “Aye, its good to be home. A bit of sprucing up and this’ll do nicely.”

Posts I owe the blog:
Robin and the King review
Six Wives of Henry the Eight review
Gushing about DAoC
Gushing about BTVS
Sobbing about server moves

Title says it all. There’s nothing worse than spending 9-10 hours a day doing something you have no interest in. Blech.

Ack, it’s been a week since my last confes.. last update. Better bring things up to date.

I was sick last Friday and over the weekend, so not much happened worth talking about. At the same time, we were moving our servers from one data center to another, and since I was home sick when the move happened, things did not go well. I came in to work on Monday to find that one site had been down all weekend, search wasn’t working on the other, and two servers hadn’t been reconfigured.

Suffice to say, work’s been fairly hellish this week. 🙂

But, next week, I’m on vacation! Not going anywhere special, but still, a chance to chill out is very welcome.

Game-wise, I’ve been renting a bunch of games from Blockbuster, though none worth noting. I became obsessed with Warcraft III and played through the campaign of that. It’s a tribute to the game that when I was done, I still wanted more. And now, this week, I’ve started a new character in Dark Age of Camelot… a highlander mercenary on the Nimue server.

Suddenly, I’m enchanted again.

So that brings us up to date. Oh, I’ve gone back to reading that D&D book, The Ice Crystal or The Enchanted Crystal or The Enchanted Ice or whatever it is… I needed something to read that wouldn’t keep me up at night, and this is doing the trick quite nicely. Got Parke Goodwin’s Robin and the King on deck, though!

Why do so many people look forward to summer? What the hell is pleasant about this weather? It’s like you need a knife and fork to cut chunks out of the air to breath in. I just don’t get the appeal at all.