Category: Miscellaneous

The Return Of The Prodigal Son

  • September 17, 2009

There comes an age when we, as men, must say “no” to common sense and reason. When we must embrace madness – the beast inside – and yell: “Go to hell, rational thought!”

This time has come for me, and therefore, for no other reason than to once again drink 55 liters of Lift in 3 weeks…

I AM GOING TO AUSTRALIA AGAIN!

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This trip will be different though, for I will have a student with me. Yes, my brother is going as well, and I can finally train him in the legendary “1000 calories a day” style.

The lunacy begins December 29 (Australia time). Here’s hoping the local Coca Cola bottlers are ready…

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  • September 13, 2009

This weekend is (was?) the date of my 20th year high school reunion. Obviously I am not there, although at least 2 of my old friends will be, and I am hoping they will provide me with photographs so I can verify I am more handsome than any of the other dudes I went to school with 🙂

Um… not much else to say! One of my youtube videos passed 10,000 views this past week though. As the owner of the video I can check the stats, and almost 90% of the views of this particular video originate in Japan, mostly due to it being linked from (presumably) UFO Catcher websites!

I ate McDonalds today for the first time in years (American McDonalds, that is). While it was enjoyable as I was eating it, immediately after I was racked with self-loathing. In other words – it’ll be aeons before I eat USA McDonalds again.

Expect a more interesting post soon…

  • Posted in Family
  • Robert

Warcraft No More

  • August 19, 2009

Today my World Of Warcraft account expires.

I quit for many reasons, primary amongst them that I played too much and the game is a distraction I don’t need going in to what promises to be my busiest teaching semester yet (I am teaching two different courses). Plus, I have to somehow write a PhD thesis during this semester as well.

Secondly, I’ve been playing for 4.5 years. The game is still good; is still fun – in fact WoW is perhaps better now than ever. But over the last couple of months and particularly weeks it was beginning to feel more an obligation than entertainment. Having played hundreds (thousands more likely) of games to completion it’s typically obvious when it is time to put a game down and start another. Warcraft has no end, and will continue to evolve until the servers shut down in 201x. So one has to make their own end to the game, and it’s possible that now I have done just that.

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Of course an expansion will be announced mere days from now, which promises to reveal a wealth of new content to get excited about. My hope is to resist the allure. Time will tell.

  • Posted in Games
  • Robert