Well of Souls

You know you're playing too much WoW when...

2007-04-11T10:33:00.000+10:00

while on the train, you look out the window and you think you see this on the side of the tracks

and then think to yourself, hmmm herb gathering...

Peacebloom

Twilight Imperium

2007-04-02T10:05:00.000+10:00

Went away for the weekend with my good friends Davin, Jason and his brother Mark, to play Twilight Imperium.

For those not up to date with Board games, it is an epic game, requiring at least a day to play with 4 players, and depending on the speed of play can take even longer.

Jason won both games, but neither games were easy wins, and each game came down to the wire.

Well done Jas!

My Violent Acres Catchphrase submission

2007-04-02T10:03:00.000+10:00

My Submission for this

Well, here goes....

"No Retards Allowed!"

I may add to this as I think of more.

Cya

Chris

Would you like Caffeine with that?

2007-01-28T10:34:00.000+11:00

This is what is wrong with america (well 1 thing anyway).

Dosing Dohnuts with Caffeine

Smokers

2007-01-17T13:11:00.000+11:00

I hate cigarettes.

I've never smoked one, and never plan to. they stink.

There is only one thing worse than a smoker, and that's a smoker who drops his butt on the ground, uses his shoe to put it out, then promptly walks away. And to top it off, there is usually a rubbish bin right next to where they are standing.

Shuffle, damn it!

2007-01-16T09:27:00.000+11:00

I love my iPod, it is the reason I bought an Apple iMac (24" too) to replace our home/family computer. It is fantastic, the quality of the audio, the simplicity of the controls, the video quality, the capacity of it (80gb is just enough atm).

But,......

It has one major problem, the shuffle feature. At current count, i have exactly 4628 songs on my iPod, now taking a "very" rough average of 4 minutes per song, that totals 18,512 minutes of music, or a tad under 2 weeks of non-stop rocking. I have about 2.5 hours of commute time each day and also listen to it at work, when i am trying to focus on some coding problem, so lets call it 5 hours a day. 5 hours out of 300 hours of music, 5 days a week, means that in 12 working weeks I can listen to my entire music collection back to front.

How is it then, that when I hit shuffle, i hear the same stuff almost every day, guaranteed?
I'll admit that there are a few songs on there a couple of times, but the songs I'm hearing are not those ones, they are the crap annoying songs, that I ALWAYS skip over. The shuffle feature should be smarter than me. If I skip a song more than twice, don't play it again! If a song has been played in the last week, don't play it again. If a song has a low or very low rating, only play it like once a year.

In so many ways, my iPod has made my day-to-day life better, but in a small way it falls short of the utopian music device.

Those who want to, will. Those that don't, won't.

2007-01-14T16:28:00.000+11:00

Read this post at Violent Acres.
A peaceful marriage is not always 50/50

And it got me to remembering my last job, and how at pretty much every monthly staff meeting (where everyone in the company attended, about 20 people), someone would bring up how "we all need to do that bit more around the place". By that they mean, wash dishes, put lunch things away (we had lunch provided for us by the company, bread, fillings, drinks etc) etc etc. Just basic clean up after yourself stuff.

Now pretty much most people would do this anyway, but it was the few who didn't, and most probably didn't do it at home either, that would just dump their dirty dishes in the sink, and leave that ham out on the table to go off overnight.

We had numerous signs up around the place "your mother doesn't work here, so do it yourself" type things. which i'm sure no one ever really paid any attention to, and they made the place look more cluttered in my opinion.

Back to my point, ever staff meeting someone would bring this up, and we would end up wasting about 30 minutes of this meeting discussing said topic. so multiply 30 mins by 20 people and you have about 10 man hours of wasted time, discussing dirty dishes.. (and they wonder why they never made money).

It is at these meetings that I came to the realization that in life, those that want to do it, will, and those that don't, won't. Now I'm a doer, whenever I come to the kitchen sink at work, i'm always discusted at how people can just dump so many dishes and walk away, make an absolute mess and not clean it up. but i'll always leave the kitchen with it being a little bit cleaner for the next person.

What I won't do, is winge and moan to everyone, or put up pointless signs that no one reads. If they don't want to keep their work place clean, up to them.

I'd hate to see their homes.

Why Bother M$?

2007-01-10T14:47:00.000+11:00

Just read this link at engadget -

Microsoft confirms Zune will play games by July 2008

2008! July 2008!!!

You gotta wonder why they even bother:

any excitement that may come out of the announcement will be gone in 1.5 years
anyone "thinking" about a zune will say, "I'll buy an ipod now, because it plays games now" - lost sales
If it's going to take 1.5 years to catch up to where apple is now, you gotta wonder why MS are even trying in this market
Are MS saying that there will be no new Zune devices in 1.5 years? (apple release new models every 6-12 months), or are people who buy a zune now going to be stuck with a device that "can't" play games.