I shouldn’t take any delight in Miss Teen South Carolina’s embarrassment, but I will because it’s funny.
First, the video.
Next, a response.
Finally a map from The Morning Toast that should help explain what she was trying to say. Click on the image to see it full-size.
From xkcd. Click on the image for a larger version.
I have once again gotten to the urge to play an MMORPG. This time I’m looking into free MMORPGs. Free is good and I won’t feel guilty about paying a monthly fee when I go a long time without playing the game. I was hoping for something with pretty low system requirements so that install it on my laptop as well, but that’s not a requirement.
The ones I’ve decide to take a look at so far are:
Any suggestions?
John and I recently finished out second play through of Gladius. I wrote a lot about it after we finished it the first time. I liked the game a lot more this time around than I did the first. Although we spent more hours on it, it seemed like we went through those hours much faster. We played through a different character’s story, but I don’t think that’s made much of a difference. It’s definitely worth playing if you like strategy RPGs. I wish they would make a sequel.
I’ve really been enjoying listening to a CD set by Pearl Jam called Live at the Gorge 05/06. I love Pearl Jam and they are a great live band, so I knew I had to have it. It’s 7 CDs long and is a recording of 3 concerts they did at the Gorge Amphitheatre in September 2005 and July 2006. I think that these shows were bookends on all the touring they did from 2005 to 2006. Since I bought the set from the Ten Club’s website, I got a limited edition postcard set.
I’m always worried about giving too much away, so I’m not going to say much about Stardust. We went to see it over the weekend and I had lots of fun. Michelle Pfeifer looks pretty good for her age. Witches, magic, action, adventure, special effects, humor, and a gay pirate are all so much fun. I think I want to see it again.
Lately, I’ve been watching:
I really have one this time. Actually, we have 2 DVRs that we can use and we got one of them for free. It’s the best solution for now. So far everything is working well. I’m glad that I can conveniently record TV shows. If I miss a show, I won’t have to get them on iTunes or wait for them to come out on DVD or …
I’m currently recording 6 shows each week and when the new season starts that number will probably double. I hope I can find the time to watch it all. I should go ahead and buy a spindle of blank DVDs and block out my Christmas holiday.
I finished watching season 2 of Dead Like Me. Dead Like Me was a Showtime series about George Lass, an 18-year-old girl who dies and is selected to become a grim reaper. The reapers take the souls of people and guide them to the afterlife. It deals with life and death issues, so it can be a little morbid at times. Everybody seems to be depressed about something at some point. However, I think it has enough lighter moments to balance it out and I really enjoyed watching it.
I think I liked the first season slightly more than the second, but they are both really good. Recently it was announced that they are making a movie based on the show. Awesome!
A little over 2 weeks ago I accidentally kicked a box that was in the middle of the floor with my left foot. I can’t remember if it hurt a lot when I first kicked the box or not. Since then my 3 middlemost toes have hurt a little when I walk but a lot when something touches them. I tried to ignore that and tell myself that I would be in a lot more pain if it were something serious. Well, it never got better and over the weekend it actually started getting worse. I went to the doctor today just to make sure everything was going okay and fortunately nothing is broken. The doctor thinks they are just bruised. He even gave me some pain pills to make the hurt go away. Hopefully everything will be better soon.
Today is the first day of classes at Mississippi State University. When I was in school I was always excited about the first day of each semester and I still am even though I’m not in school anymore. It was ten years ago that I had my first day of classes as a freshman here at Mississippi State. Man, I’m getting old.
Lately I’ve been experimenting with the look of the website and the new features of Movable Type. I had created a style using a style generator and thought would be okay with a few tweaks, but then I realized that it looked like crap in Firefox and Safari. I want to keep blogging while I figured out what I wanted to do, so I’m basically going back to the default style / templates. Hopefully the plain white won’t be there for long, but I don’t know how much time I’ll have to spend on this over the next few days.
I would say pardon my progress, but I’m not sure that what I’m doing can be called progress. Also, I hate those “Pardon My Progress” signs. There’s so much construction happening on campus, the progress gets in the way sometimes. The Student Union on campus is being renovated. It makes navigating around that part of campus a little bit of a pain. There was one one of those “Pardon My Progress” signs outside of the Union a while back. Not only are they inconveniencing me, but they’re being smug little smart asses about it. At least they’ll be finished with that building soon.
The 10th Wonder Podcast is one of my favorite podcasts. It’s devoted to the show Heroes. The podcast is produced by Mississippi State University students. I first found out about it in MSU’s student newspaper, The Reflector.
Recently, they put out an open call for contributors for the website who would write about all the latest Heroes news. I offered to be one and some of the stuff that I’ve written has started to show up on the site. Check out the site and the podcast.
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