July 22, 2006

Mr. Lobe

Here -> Fabulous -> Calgarian -> Here

See you in some time.

July 20, 2006

Electroplankton

Summer is the best time to go bug hunting and fishing in AC:WW. The range of varieties available is extensive. Fishing becomes most exciting because you can catch things like seahorses, blue marlins, clownfish, and even:

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Sharks! :o It's cool because when you see their silhouette under the water you actually see their dorsal fins.

On an even cooler note, tonight I just saw another one of these dorsal fins sticking out and caught it expecting another shark, perhaps a hammerhead. But instead this thing came out:

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The huge thing at the top left, bigger than the coelacanth beside it. It's an ocean sunfish, and according to Wiki, they do often get mistaken for sharks because they often swim close to the surface, so the game got it right to that aspect.

Apparently the sunfish also occationally breach from the water, and sometimes the float sideways near the surface so that birds can come down and pick food off it. The breaching is probably a method of expelling more parasites from its body. :S

July 16, 2006

Signet of Recapture

PotC2 = strangely cheesy plot elements carried out entertainingly well.
Pickle Barrel = wtf crumble top apple pie
University courses = chosen, unofficially. Because the actual registration hasn't happened yet. Which brings up another problem, which is that I'll be on vacation during the registration day, so I'll need to find a computer and hope that I haven't left any information behind.

I ordered from Dominoes on the Dough Raising Night (Jul 13) and I'm thinking it wasn't as profitable as would have been expected. I spent quite a bit of time reminding the cashier what the Dough Raising Night was about, and he kept doubting my assertion that I was ordering the $23.99 combo from the Dough Raising Night specials and NOT the $22.99 special they had going on normally. At first he thought I was making up a combo. :( Oooh well, I'm sure MDHS has more than enough money. X_x

July 07, 2006

Hello, Master Togo

Factions has the sweetest eye candy ever. In fact, I have so many pretty wallpaper shots from Guild Wars they got designated into their own folder. Guild Wars is the awesome-wallpaper-maker.

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The first one is from the Monastery Outlook, which is the little tutorial area in the beginning, and the other two are from outside Cho's Estate, which is a mission I haven't done yet.

Actual size are of too large to upload and I'm too lazy to save it as a smaller size. :(

July 05, 2006

I'm attacking Cyrus the Unflattering!

Since I'm going to be receiving a copy of Guild Wars: Factions pretty soon, I had to sift through my huge screenshot folder in a feeble attempt to clear out some room. About half the pictures were of my character dancing with other random characters/guildies, in formation or scattered about. I guess I was really camera-happy. I think it'll be the same this time around >.>

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The Bloodstone and its shiny magnificence. Because Hablion is cool.

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A guild event: attempt a synchronised jump. Something Zaheer refused to do.

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Because everyone likes sucking up to the Mad King.

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runnign to granite citadel 1k u pay firts

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The scourge of Northern Shiverpeaks missions.


Zaheer's partay on Sunday was full of Strikers and Tetris. That's a good thing.

Edit: Today's dictionary.com Word of the Day is Apotheosis :O

July 01, 2006

Reunion

> I beat Lv. 139 of Canada.
> The end guy is hard.


It's nice to be free from being totally governed by Britain, those silly Alaska-yielding fiends. I mean friends. The Americans didn't even appreciate getting Alaska. They just wanted it for the heck of it.

The news of the British North America Act, 1867, was nervously received in Washington, DC. It would create, on July 1, 1867, "one dominion under the name of Canada," and this led to expressions of "grave misgivings on the establishment of a monarchial state to the north" in what Canadians then called "the republic to the south." (See McNaughton's Short History of Canada.) U.S. Secretary of State William Seward thus urged, and the United States Senate thus approved, the treaty authorizing the purchase of Alaska from Imperial Russia for US$7,200,000 on April 9, 1867. The United States took possession and the American flag was raised over Alaska on October 18, which is commemorated as Alaska Day.

The purchase was unpopular in the United States, where it became known as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox." Alaska celebrates the purchase each year on the last Monday of March, calling it Seward's Day.


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