What? You want more? Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman are great. Seriously. <3’s and butterflies. Most of the time I even like Will Smith. But the movie doesn’t work. It goes from funny to wtf to emo over it’s scant 90-some minutes.
Wanted is based on the Millar mini. I’ve read a couple. I’m going to get the rest now. It was a little nutty, a little funny and a lot of action. I was excited from start to finish.
Also worth not noting is that my favorite area theater was sold a few months ago to some new company. They switched to Coke products. Coke is horrible. The service has declined and it’s the only iMax in 100 miles.
I love the Olympics. Well summer Olympics anyway. Which is odd considering I was an avid skier every summer for over 10 years. Kerri Walsh and Misty May are ridiculously amazingly impossibly good. 84th consecutive match win, 2 short of their previous record of 86. Both have over 90 career tournament wins. They are, without question, the best players in the world - and they’re going to China.
Don S. Davis(IMDB) passed away on Sunday from a “massive” heart-attack. Don was best known for his role as Major General George Hammond on Stargate SG-1, but his career is nothing if not prolific. Lots of info is coming in from various fansites right now and I am shocked that I never saw his art before now. Oh, and he had a PhD in theater. What can ya say? Some people just put in 110% all damn day.
Sunday night means Sunday sunraid - our weekly roll-up of Gruul, Mag and whatever else we might be interested in as the week draws to a close.
Our first Gruul kill was on Dec 12th, 2007. Yesterday marks our hojillionth kill and 2nd [Dragonspine Trophy]. That’s 158 days to you and me. I lost the roll on the first one but last night karma came up big as I dropped a natural 100 and crossed another “won’t replace until post-Lich King” off the list. I’m exceedingly pleased. The DST is a big bump and the clock is ticking on nub raid content as we progress through T5.
Oh, and we dropped Karathress for the first time last week. I’ll add some screens when I get home.
Mother’s Day was on Sunday and this year we (my parents and I) celebrated at grannies along with my uncle and his wife. Somehow in lieu of a restaurant I ended up cooking. Fortunately it gave me yet another chance to throw something together with the Alaskan Halibut from late last year. Props to Bobby Flay for the Fish & ’shroom recipes.
A note of caution: Unless you can find HUGE button caps swap them out for modest-sized portabella. I had 2x more filling than could ever fit in 24 mushrooms, which was already 50% more than the recipe needed. I also used some romano-flavored breadcrumbs which amped up the aroma significantly and played off the gorgonzola nicely.
My bad, did I forget to mention that I was a food nut? Yeah. I like good food.
As of last Monday it’s become the former, not latter. No new news beyond that, just income and whatnot.
I’ve got a slew of WoW stuff I just never pushed, I’ll get to that at some point. I’m still struggling with a good and simple way to manage graphics. I’ve got the wow stuff in a folder with the perl album scripts ran against them and it works ok to generate blog-sized thumbs for posting, but the size of everything is kind of a pain. Stuff I’m posting nowhere but in the blog are actually going in the Wordpress uploader thing which seems to be working fine. At least those will be “easily” portable.
Maybe Picasa web albums or Flikr or somesuch would work. Bleh.
I covered our antics on the Sunday following the patch, but neglected to mention TK on Thursday. For those of you playing our home game yes, Void Reaver with invisible orbs does, in fact, suck ass. We diverted to Solarian who I was promised was “easy”. Yeah, so they were right. Welcome to the 1st 1st kill of the streak.
1st Kill - Astromancer Solarian
1st Kill - Astromancer Solarian
Nothing overly amazing lewt-wise, we had some shards and some equippers, same old song and dance. So fast-forward past Sunday’s Magtheridon 1st and to the Tuesday Serpentshrine raid. What? What you say? Is that our 1st Morogrim Tidewalker kill? Yeap.
1st Kill - Morogrim Tidewalker
1st Kill - Morogrim Tidewalker
A nice surprise in the cracker-jack box for our 1st - grats me. [Talon of Azshara]
The WoW 2.4 patch hit, launching the Isle of Quel’Danas content and a slew of fixes/nerfs/bugs/etc. More on that stuff later, but for now, I’ll lead off with our first Magtheridon kill. Why yes, yes he is EZ-mode trivial now, we know. We could have killed him before, we just couldn’t get the bodies in front of him. At any rate, he’s dead now - suck it.
From what I’ve read and/or heard, Blizzard noticed the people just plain weren’t doing Mag anymore or (as in our case) never had done him and wanted to encourage more kills. I get that, I really do. As we enter the home stretch towards Lich King the mighty bliz wants to make sure there’s not a repeat of Burning Crusade with the vast majority of their players never seeing what had been described as some of their very best work. Works for us. I got me a [Pit Lord's Satchel] with a natural 100.
The upgrade is done, but some plugins and theme crap have to be updated/fixed. Also, I seem to have deleted something, somewhere. Not sure what, yet. The new version has a much-improved (and non-plugin) media manager thing so I’m slowly converting some of the blog-only graphics to that so some links may be toast while I complete the move.
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