Pretty Kitty from Guild Wars

Pretty Kitty
Originally uploaded by FlipSide3.

This is actually just a test post for my blog, but what else is new. This is a shot of my pet in Guild Wars. It's funny what screenshots I manage to get. Who knew you could practice photography in virtual worlds.

You Can't Touch This Guild Wars Video

I think the title says it all.

Black Dye

I'm an avid fan of the online game Guild Wars and I've played enough to know that the picture above is actually interesting. When you first start the game, you begin in a newbie area where the grass is green and the monsters are so tough. While running around with a freshly created Ranger (name Old Hippie Dude, btw) one of the monsters dropped the item in the above picture.

Now the item says it is worth only 1 gold piece, this is the price the in game vendor will buy it for. Black Dye is actually worth around 9,000 gold, if you can find the right buyer. I almost fell out of my chair when the stupid bug dropped it. Still haven't sold it yet, but it's inevitable that I will.

Super Mario Brothers Race at LAN

This is AWESOME!

From Digg:
Watch as two Mario Time-Trialer's battle their way through the NES version of Super Mario Brothers at a LAN event, the crowd goes WILD!

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The Amazing Ozawa

Ryan Kawailani Ozawa is now my personal celebrity. I started listening to his podcast, HawaiiUp, on a whim last year. My sister had just returned from a honeymoon in Hawaii, so I think that may have triggered my initial interest. The first HawaiiUp episode I listened to had Ryan recording in his car during his drive home. I found it unique and just the right amount of quirky... I was hooked.



I think all of us in this world need a source of stories outside our own life. Most pick movie stars and gossip shows. I enjoy hearing about the exploits of a family in Mililani. So the Ozawa family and Ryan himself are my celebrities, and my gossip magazines are his blog, videoblog, podcast, flickr pages, etc...



Recently the Ozawa couple (Ryan and his wife Jen) hit the big time with their podcast, the Transmission. It was a fan podcast about the ABC show Lost. My wife and I being huge fans of Lost, we became huge fans of the Transmission (okay, I became a huge fan and my wife enjoys the rumors secondhand through me).



The Transmission climbed to high ratings in iTunes and had fans from all over the globe. At least one of the cast members from the show even called in to say hello. Unfortunately the Transmission became more of a burden than a blessing. They decided to end on a high note before it suffered from life overload.



The loss was noticed though. It was mentioned on my other favorite podcast, TWiT, and even had an article written about it in Wired News. If you ask me ABC should have paid them both a full time salary to keep the show going.



Anyway, I can live with the loss of the Transmission as long as the Ozawa family is happy (and gets plenty of rest). As always this post is for my own memory rather than for anyone else, thus all the links.

Projectors, that old itch.

MAKE has a review of a cheap projector by Hasbro of all companies. Could this be the solution to the 3M UNT surplus disaster that is still causing me pain? At $282 it is still $132 more than what I shelled out for the 3M monster... but then the 3M is just a horribly large paper weight and this "ZOOMBOX" would actually work.

The Putty!!! SO MUCH PUTTY!!!

I love Silly Putty, but this is a bit over the top!

From Digg:
What do you do when you work for google and you get bored? Order silly putty of course!

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