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"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends." (Anton Ego: Ratatouille)
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"Zombies, Run!" Review : a running game with bite!
Warning: This review contains very minor plot spoilers
I have come to love running.
I have discovered that lolloping along outside in the morning's weak sunshine is a great way to relieve stress by the bucket load. The trees blow in the breeze and the paths bend and twist around the houses as the kilometres drop away. This early in the morning birds sing and the roads are silent. In my ears music is playing gently through my headphones. I often experience new sights and meet all sorts of early morning people and creatures not seen at later times. One morning I came across a giant bumblebee, clearly a queen, crawling on the path. Yes, an early morning run is a great way to experience the unusual…
A robotic voice cuts into the music, "Warning… Zombies Detected!"
and then
"Warning… Zombies 15 meters!"
"Shit!" time to sprint.
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Nike+ SportWatch GPS Review
"Way to get out there!" my watch gleefully announces. I watch its face, awaiting any further messages from its GPS ROM that has tracked my every move for months. In any other circumstances that might be a disturbing thought, but here the watch and its sister satellite high above my head record my movements like the Goddess Nike made flesh.
Nope, nothing else, not today.
I was hoping for a "crowd goes wild", which means a personal best, or "great finish" which means that the last km was the fastest.
Oh well.
I stop looking at it and enter my house.
Running is a funny business. It is the most simple and easy of sports to take up; all you need is a pair of shoes (and these days there is a whole barefoot running clique who claim you don't need even those) and yet, and yet, never in my life have I run more than 100 meters. Not that I was shy of sports; fencing, martial arts, marital arts – you name it. However, my first day's attempt to run down to the gym was a disaster once those 100 had passed. My body simply stopped me flat and demanded to know what I thought I was doing, was I being chased by a hungry lion? Or avoiding an imminent meteor strike? No? Then why the hell are you doing this to us? It asked, gasping.
In the past such stern questioning, not to mention the following sensation of aching lungs, were enough to stop me. But, not today because I had caught a bug.
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Dear all,
Announcing the opening of a new Basho website!
I have been writing reviews of books on this site for something like 5 years, also I […]
Stephen Hawking – "The Grand Design" book review by Basho
I'm an avid reader of New Scientist magazine. In fact I get it every week. The headline will usually be about something "quantum" or allude to some current or near "breakthrough". Of course real breakthroughs are hardly on a weekly schedule. I know this, but still I buy into it. It is a classic marketing technique that tempts impulse buying. New Scientist covers about Quantum are the geek equivalent of putting Princes Diana or perhaps Jordan on the cover of a ladies magazine or putting Bruce Lee on the cover of a martial arts magazine. In each case the marketers know what make people pick up the edition, what buttons to push.
It is this technique that got me to buy this book.
A few weeks ago my wife started a Skype chat to me at work. Normally this signifies that I need to pick something up on the way home or that I forgot to turn the iron off, or similar. However, this time she was definitely excited about something,
A Sudden Dawn: Book Review
The story of a simple Buddhist priest travelling from India to China in the 5th Century doesn't sound like something that would make for an interesting novel, but the after effects of this solitary man's journey still reverberate today. In all parts of the far east, the name Bodhidharma is still very well known. In Japan, for example, little girls have Bodhidharma key-chains and all sorts of other cultural influences and footprints can be found. And not only in the geek fringes or the religious halls, no his is a visage often seen in paintings; most of the time shown as an old priest with a particularly fierce expression of concentration, and it is for this ability that he was most highly prized. Bodhidharma didn't bring Buddhism to China or Japan, but he started a school of Buddhist thought that spoke to something deep inside the Eastern people that heard it. Spoke to their marrow with a simple and unselfish message of compassion, dedication and submission.
This effect changed them forever.
Kick Ass Movie Review : Basho has a problem with this one
Kick Ass is a film that draws a line in the dirt and invites you to place yourself on one side or another. Or, rather, it hands you the stick and asks you to draw your own line. The super hero action genre is ripe for satire as Superman, Spiderman and Batman are leftovers from the 50's that have had to move from their post WWII, Reds under the Bed, pro America trope to trying to come to terms with modern times. Many movies have travelled this territory by satirising the ridiculous background stories, powers and cringeworthyness of modern super heroics such as the recent Watchmen. And perhaps unintentionally in the form of the Spiderman movies, which are so beyond pathetic that the only thing I can remember is a wet T-shirt.
In Kick Ass we have all the elements of a standard "super hero" journey. The voice over, the sad life in school, the lust after the school's best looking chick, the bullies and the obsessive compulsive masturbation fantasies. Yep, all present. Geeks must truly have inherited the earth, and must be earning millions, for films to try so hard to show them in such a positive light. Then the first person dies and it is the only person in the film who doesn't die violently. It is Kick Ass's mother, who drops dead in the opening montage. Nothing is made of this and she sort of fades from view. Nothing changes for the "hero".
My Spidey-sense started tingling at this point.
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ : Book Review
The first line of Philip Pullman's novel reads:
This is the story of Jesus and his brother Christ, of how they were born, how they lived and how one of them died.
Despite the use of the definite 'the' in the first line of Philip Pullman's new novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, it is not actually claiming to be the real back-story of the influential spiritual leader. Rather it is a telling of a myth; a fable. And in doing so makes us face what the story of Jesus really means. All stories of the Gods are the subject of myth and they all have within them the patterns that stretch directly into the mind and subconscious. As with other tales of half remembered, but not forgotten, ancient wisdom, the story of Jesus has meaning beyond the telling. His is the hero's story told again and again through the ages, and its lessons are to be read and dwelt upon over many tellings. So, as he steps though the doors of his life – the foretold stages of his journey – we step with him and arrive on the other side together.
The layers of understanding, which come with changing from child to man, are ones I remember clearly. At 10 I was always told that Jesus was also a God. Or was the Christian God himself in a certain form. This lesson led to my childlike wondering of, given the immense creative powers ascribed to this God, how it was that Jesus allowed himself to be nailed up in the first place. Why did he not use his godly power to save himself? Such are the practical thoughts of the child.
To an adult, the answer to this question is Gnostic and illuminates the spiritual level, understanding and beliefs of the speaker. The story sold to me at my Sunday school was that Jesus let himself be executed because he wanted to save us. This was something my young mind could not understand and, I presumed at the time, I would have to 'grow up' to realise. In the same sense that one finds an answer to Santa Claus's apparent ability to travel around the world in one night, I did. In the sense of coming to an understanding of the churches' view of Jesus, I did not. Growing up involved coming to terms with the world, my limited place within it and to walking some of the steps of the spiritual journey within myself. Together with the practical teachings of my schooling, the categorisation of reality scientifically defined in certain ways, this meant that the Christian God did not fit into my life.
Dell Alienware M11x Review: Portable Gaming Heaven?
When I was considering taking a year off, I started looking around for a computer that I could take with me on my travels around the world; a laptop. I started with the tiny and cheap eeePC, the first of the netbooks, and I was happy with it. That is until I tried to run my camcorder software, which stubbornly refused to work with such a low end graphics card. So I turned to a Samsung Q45. The provided me with a machine that covered my travelling bases. However, since returning from Japan, I have been getting tired of it. I need a new machine. I need a (little) monster that can do everything.
So, I need a new laptop, one that covers all my specific bases. What those bases are has an influence on what I think of the machine in this review so I list them here.
1. It must be portable. This is the most important thing in a laptop. The machine must be light enough for me to be able to carry it to work every day. I have an 80 minute journey on the intercity train into London from Ipswich so a laptop cannot be too large in size or I will not be able to fit it in the small space afforded. Sometimes I see a person with a 17inch Macbook on the train. If someone sitting next to them wanted to use a laptop as well, they can forget it. Fur will fly before you manage to squeeze two machines into that space. Then, I have a 1.5 mile walk from Liverpool Street to London Bridge. So any machine of mine must be light enough to not hurt my shoulder after this distance. These are the portability tests I will be using. They are a little more "real world" than just weighing the machine, as would some other reviewers, but that it how we roll on the OC.
2. It must be powerful. My passion is being creative in my spare time. I write, I paint, I make films, etc. My current laptop runs Office just fine, but it struggles when rendering films in Sony Vegas. In fact I often have to leave it overnight to complete a high quality version of a film and it crashes with alarming regularity. So, my new purchase must be able to power through rendering in Vegas and in my new suite of Adobe Premiere. The other aspect to this is that I used to be a gamer, a big gamer. As raid master of the Hooded Nomads guild I ran a high end rig to support operations in Star Wars Galaxies, Crysis and Eve. I need those FPS! My current machine, as fine as the processor is, cannot even run Mount and Blade. I want something that will nail both requirements.
3. It must have a long lasting battery. My Samsung has a good battery, but nothing to write home about. I can squeeze out something like 3 hours in Windows 7 (which is excellent at battery management compared to Vista). However, Cesca –my wife- can make her Macbook Pro last all damn day. Any machine I buy will have to outperform the Samsung and give a £2000 Macbook a run for its money. A tall order.
4. It must output to a TV. While small screen gaming is sweet on the go and on the lap, I want to be able to run this baby by a bigger screen for when at home. I have a LG 26 inch 1080p LCD TV, so we shall see what picture we can get up.
5. It must be good value for money. Cheap, like the budgie, is the motto. I don't want to spend £2000 on a laptop, I don't want to buy anything that expensive that could be dropped! The price/performance ratio is a vital metric.
So with those 5 requirements in mind, what to buy?
Vista to Windows 7 Upgrade: Basho's Experience
There is a popular, and perhaps even factual adage, which goes like this:
"Never upgrade a Windows product; always do a fresh install"
Today I put that to the test. I have been Installing and configuring Windows since the days of 3.1. My first exposure to the product range was Windows 2, which my father had on his PC. My first professional exposure was the task of migrating 3.1 to Windows 95 at Spandex Plc in Bristol, way back when I was only a 14 year old IT intern. Since then I have developed a career in IT and now, at 32, have a Chartered IT Professional award from the British Computer Society. I say this, because it is important that my background and knowledge level is clear.
This is as much a guide as anything else, so in that spirit here is what you need to do to upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium.
Things to consider.
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The American Conservative: Rand Paul's Unnecessary Israeli Security Guarantee
Submitted by Invalid10 on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 15:59http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/rand-pauls-un...
...In fact, Sen. Paul went a little beyond that and said that the U.S. should publicly "announce to the world" that an attack on Israel would be treated as an attack on the United States. There are several things wrong with this idea. First, it isn't a true reflection of what U.S. policy has been and what it presumably will be in the future. The U.S. has no formal defense obligation to Israel, and attacks on Israel have never been treated as attacks on the United States. Especially because of the strains on our military and our current fiscal woes, it doesn't make any sense for the U.S. to extend yet another security guarantee to a prospering client state that can already provide for its own defense. The U.S. needs to reduce allied and client dependency on the U.S. We certainly shouldn't be adding any new security guarantees.
More to the point, making this announcement would be unnecessary. Israel has the most powerful military in the region, and it possesses its own nuclear deterrent. No state that would be deterred by such an announcement is going to launch an attack on Israel, because it is already deterred from doing so by Israel's military arsenal. Those militias and groups that are still willing to launch strikes on Israel would still be willing to do so after such an announcement. The only things that this announcement would achieve would be to link the U.S. even more closely with Israel in the eyes of the world and potentially to make Americans targets of these groups.
If the U.S. made such an announcement and followed through on it the next time there is a conflict between Israel and Hizbullah, for example, the U.S. would be committing itself to involvement in a conflict in Lebanon that serves no discernible U.S. interest. If the U.S. makes the announcement and then doesn't honor the guarantee being made, other U.S. security guarantees that may be necessary elsewhere in the world could be undermined. The worst-case scenario is that providing such a guarantee to Israel could make a future Israeli government more aggressive in its behavior towards one of its neighbors, and that could end up pulling the U.S. into a war that it wasn't seeking and shouldn't be fighting.
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i like how people are so used to treating presidents like kings
that they all forget war power resides with congress.. which is what rand is working to restore.. which is why he is kind of playing a game here because by the time a decision has to be made, it will be up to the congress
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Is closer to the mark. Even kings had to deal with hostile aristocracies. Even kings had some check on their power.
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Let us unite, not divide. BUT, I have no clue what Rand
Let us unite, not divide. BUT, I have no clue what Rand was talking about, now.
I'm just quoting what can be found in the U.S. Constitution:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Wouldn't it be the time, TODAY, for our Senators and Congressmen TO START GIVING SERIOUS THOUGHTS TO THESE LINES ABOVE, BY NOW ?
THEY MEAN SOMETHING. THEY ARE STILL IN THERE, IN THE TEXT, dear People.
HAVE WE forgotten WHAT they mean?
I am sorry for the Israeli people if they have warmongers in their government creating resent or hate against them, from all around them, at their neighbors'.
Are The United States of America RESPONSIBLE for that?
Is FRANCE?
Is ITALY?
Is POLAND?
Is LUXEMBOURG?
Is MONACO?
Are THE CAIMAN ISLANDS?
Just as I am sorry for *us*, here, in America, with a government and Congress TREADING ON the texts that this country was founded upon, WITH ALWAYS MORE MUD -OR SHOULD I SAY, FILTH- PILING UP ON THEM, BY THE MINUTE.
So... stated things like "... that the U.S. should publicly "announce to the world" that an attack on Israel would be treated as an attack on the United States..."
make no sense to me whatsoever. Refer to previous Constitution quote, above.
"an attack on Israel" ...
Really ???
Then, what about:
"an attack on Germany",
"an attack on France",
"an attack on Italy",
"an attack on Spain",
"an attack on LAOS",
"an attack on CUBA",
"an attack on NORTH KOREA",
"an attack on CHINA" ?
I DID NOT KNOW that "the United States of America" was the new name for:
Bottom lines of my point:
Isn't THE EXECUTIVE POWER ***OF THIS COUNTRY*** QUESTIONABLE ENOUGH, BY NOW?
HOW MUCH ***MORE OF IT***, will it take before our "representatives", START CARING AGAIN ABOUT THE WORDS PUT IN THE FOUNDING TEXTS OF THIS COUNTRY?
Just... HOW MUCH?
WHERE IS IT WRITTEN in the U.S. Constitution that ANY specific country ought to be reserved ANY special treatment WITHOUT THE PEOPLE having ANY word to say about it ?
yet, ISN'T IT WHAT IS PRECISELY, EXACTLY, ACTUALLY, ***CURRENTLY***, HAPPENING
Obama gives $70 billions to Israel
S. 2165 : United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012
Please, someone, anyone, point me out to what I missed.
Because I MUST HAVE missed something.
"Cyril" pronounced "see real". I code stuff.
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." -- Confucius
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That doesn't make any sense.
When Nixon supplied Israel with weapons in 1973, the ragheaded oil barons made Americans suffer at the pumps in retaliation. We don't have any business getting tangled up in any potential skirmishes between Israel and its backwards neighbors. I'm assuming Rand is saying an attack on Israel - as in an all-out attempted invasion of Israel and not something as petty as militia warfare. Either way, it makes no sense. I hope Rand's just pandering.
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Rand knows no one is going to attack Israel
That's why he said it. It was an empty declaration to shut down the repugnant Israel-firsters in our government and media.
Why is that so hard for some people to see????
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Im not sure if thats why he said it, but I find it very odd that THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE is now coming out against Rand saying he has OVER STATED his support of Israel, when they have been Israel firsters since their inception!lol What does that say?
Regardless, I posted a comment on their site saying the same thing and it wasnt posted!
Now thats PROOF! My name had "tea party" included in it also.
Many view the tea party as a threat, which I guess to liberals, liberal water carriers and neoconservatives it would be.
Rand, like Reagan~ will not need liberals and neocons to win anything and will not seek their support.
He needs the heartbeat of America and just like Reagan- will get it, and is as we speak. Like all GREAT politicians, Rand sets the pins up perfectly(like with Clinton the other day)- THEN knocks a few down on purpose- to keep certain factions away. Rand is smart and has his ear glued to his fathers voice, and always has. Rand has learned from his fathers mistakes! OR WERE THEY MISTAKES???!!!!
"Some do not see", oh they SEE!lol
You'd better believe they see.
"OH NO! He has a SON?" Neoconservatives and Liberals EVERYWHERE!
Rand Paul 2016
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Wow, on top of everything else, he's omniscient, too?
Incredible! How did you find out about his powers of omniscience? Why - that isn't even human. He's beyond human!
Next are you're going to tell me is that his sh*t doesn't stink?
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No, it's just plain common sense.
Who's going to attack Israel and their 300 nuclear weapons? Iran? Iran hasn't attacked anyone in over 100 years. Iraq? Lebanon? Egypt? Not a chance! They may be a little crazy over there in the Middle East, but I doubt they're prepared to commit national suicide.
Besides, if anyone was going to attack Israel, don't you think they would have done so already especially given the numerous horrendous inhuman attacks committed by Israel against the Palestinian people?
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Logical fallacies
If the amount of weapons a country has is reason enough for others countries not to attack it, then how do you explain WWI & WWII?
Btw, Iran has the support Russia and China which obviously outmatch Israel in all forms of weaponry.
All it takes is one stupid move. Besides, if you believe in Christian prophecy, "WWIII" is inevitable.
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If there is a WWIII
It'll be Israel that starts it.
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Palestinian rockets,
which are usually provoked by Israel in order to justify an attack on Gaza, don't count.
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Two elderly women in northern Illinois have died after contracting West Nile virus.
Poverty is prevalent in rural areas across the U.S. That's according to a published report, which says it's not just an urban issue. Some northern Illinois ranked near the middle, while others fared better in the rankings.
Tuesday's extreme heat is resulting in some weather-related closings. That includes an early dismissal for the Rockford Public School district.
In 2010, WNIJ aired a series on the alarming number of heroin deaths in northern Illinois. The primary concern centered on teens and young adults. Despite efforts to curb use of the drug, the situation is getting worse in some areas. Observers say parental intervention is vital to stopping the spread of heroin. But getting the message through can be a struggle.
The federal judicial system in northern Illinois could be another victim of a drawn-out sequester. Court officials and prosecutors say they will feel the pinch.
The deadline is looming for automatic spending cuts at the federal level. While lawmakers wrangle over ways to avoid the so-called sequester, those who rely on federal funding are wondering how they would be affected. That includes companies, agencies and many others in northern Illinois.
Dry weather has been the norm for the region. Forecasters say the precipitation expected next week might not be enough to reach truly healthy levels.
Leaders from throughout northern Illinois pitched their most important transportation projects to two Congressmen yesterday. Republicans Don Manzullo and Bobby Schilling will recommend priorities for federal transportation funding to Governor Pat Quinn's office.
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Is there any optimizing and tuning techniques for linux machine. I am running mandrake 10.1 for quite sometime and its gets slower after couple of days, say 10 days. Now ...
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Optimizing and Tuning technique
- 06-01-2006 #2Originally Posted by AceAll
What web browser do you use?
Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, etc. all should have an option in their specific toolbars for amounts of cache or mem dedicated to recently viewed pages. If you dedicate too much RAM to this, pages load slower on the large networks (www) because your machine's cache is being run through numerous times, thus causing pages to load slower. This is one of the reasons I <3 Firefox. . . its tabs feature is specifically designed around this, and tends to quickly "recycle" the stale pages, even when you don't specifically request it to.
if you have it installed try:
yum update firefox
in a terminal . . . afaik, Fedora Core 4 won't allow you to go beyond version 1.0.# (where " # " is some number), whereas MEPIS works with the Fx version 1.5 .#
(one of the reasons I'm running it)
Just some thoughts.


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WETHERSFIELD, Connecticut — Connecticut employers added 4,800 jobs in December, helping push down the unemployment rate a notch, to 6.4 percent, the state Department of Labor announced Monday.
Connecticut's employment increased by 26,700 jobs since December 2013, to nearly 1.7 million. And the unemployment rate ticked down from 6.5 percent in November.
The jobless rate was down 1 percentage point from December 2013, but still substantially higher than the U.S. rate of 5.6 percent in December.
"Connecticut finishes 2014 on an encouraging note with more than 80 percent of nonfarm jobs recovered from the Great Recession, almost 94 percent for the private sector," said Andy Condon, head of the Labor Department's research office. "Employment gains were widespread across most industries and regions, although wages are slower to recover.
The employment increase for November was revised downward by 1,700 jobs from the initial count issued last month.
The jobs gain was led by the leisure and hospitality industry, with strong gains in accommodation and food services.
The Labor Department pointed to a "surprisingly solid gain" in manufacturing.
Don Klepper-Smith, former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's economic adviser, said data through November show Connecticut ranks 40th in the U.S.
"This one stat clearly underscores the very weak nature of our economic recovery in Connecticut thus far," he said. "We're growing, yes, but only in 'modest fashion.'"
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last month I fell preg I was stoked then a few days later had a miscarriage, I had a feeling something wasnt right but it still was incredibly hard, against friends advice havent been using birth control im hoping I will fall preg, I am so scared that it wont happen everything else in my life is going good, Im with my dream man, have others fallen preg straight after a miscarriage?Im 32 so dont want to muck around, I have 2 other kids who I fell pregnant with literally straight away, Im just terrified cause I want this so bad and finally life is sorted enough to make plans!
Miscarriages are just a natural part of life. Your doctor will let you know when it is safe to try and become pregnant again. Usually they have you wait one to three cycles depending on the situation.
I was 30 when I started trying to have children and didn't end up having my first until I was 36.
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Sep 13th 2010 4:43PM It's obviously Old Blanchy's head.
MMO Roundup: Last week on Massively {WoW}
Aug 25th 2010 5:38AM WoW could never be caught in a lawsuit like that though. Not with the "Spend time outside of Azeroth with your friends" on the loading screen.
The Queue: In which Amy Pond is profiled {WoW}
Apr 22nd 2010 1:08PM Mmmmm, sweet Scottish soulless ginger.
Choose My Adventure: Now we are 8 {WoW}
Apr 2nd 2010 8:29PM I say he needs a cat, but he has to get it from Teldrassil.
Know Your Lore: The Bronze Dragonflight, Page 2 {WoW}
Mar 17th 2010 9:39PM People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, time-y wimey stuff.
The Daily Quest: PvP edition {WoW}
Feb 27th 2010 6:54AM Batlleground Marks haven't taken bag space in quite a while.
15 Minutes of Fame: Wasting no time gaming {WoW}
Jan 26th 2010 5:21PM 3rd ACR? Worked with them a few times. Good folks.
Teen runs away to meet older WoW soulmate [Updated] {WoW}
Jan 5th 2010 11:04PM He was disbarred a couple years ago, if I remember correctly. He can only make noise without substance.
The Queue: Fantastic! {WoW}
Jan 4th 2010 6:59PM The scarf did put in an appearance at the end of David Tennant's first full episode. It was hanging with the coat in the background when he was walking out of the wardrobe area.
The Moviewatch 2009 Highlight Reel, IV {WoW}
Jan 1st 2010 5:54PM Not even an honorable mention for Shepiwot and the "How to Paladin" Series? Not saying it's great, just unforgettable.