IRL Archive

  • Finishing what I start

    Finishing what I start

    Remember how I told you I was a pretty avid console gamer? Well, yeah, about that… I have a small problem when it comes to videogames: I never seem to finish them. My attention is caught, I plunk down the cash (or, more recently, massive...

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  • Roar of the Atlantic surf

    Roar of the Atlantic surf

    Here is why I haven’t been blogging or chatting or on anything but Twitter for a week now (since Softi requested it):

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  • John Mulaney

    John Mulaney

    “But then sometimes I’ll hear about a drink special that sounds borderline dangerous. Like a friend will call me up and be like, “Maaan, we gotta go to O’Halligan’s tonight – it is nickel shot night!” … Yeaaaah, I’m pretty sure we’ll die if we...

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  • Furthering the internet’s love of bacon

    Furthering the internet’s love of bacon

    Ladies and gentlemen, let me just say up front that I am in full agreement with the internet of at least one thing: I love bacon. Bacon is delightful. You can eat it, you can make it your life’s work to wrap it around things,...

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  • Where I’ll be from here

    Where I’ll be from here

    Alright, so, here’s some answers to some questions and concerns, along with other stuff. I will not be vanishing from the blogosphere entirely. I’ll still be hanging out on Twitter, you can still find me on AIM as StoppableForce1, and I’ll be continuing to hang...

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  • Roll credits

    Roll credits

    I used to develop software, did you know that? For fun. Everything from blogging tools to games, actual games, I took a stab at it just for fun. (The blog client this guy is talking about? Yeah, I made that.) I enjoyed doing it. Now,...

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  • Archiving your combat log and screenshots (for Windows)

    Archiving your combat log and screenshots (for Windows)

    (3:37:17 PM) Nibuca: Lesson learned: make sure to delete your wow combat log more often than once every 4 months For those of you who log, for use with WoW Web Stats or one of its ilk, you may not have noticed but there are...

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  • The Blizzard Authenticator: a journey in pictures

    The Blizzard Authenticator: a journey in pictures

    As we were warned by quite a few WoW bloggers this past week (including Kestrel, Anna, Rohan and World of Snarkcraft), a rather sophisticated WoW phishing scheme has been circulating disguised as a 3-day suspension notice. While, yes, Blizzard has pounded it into our heads...

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  • I’m only surprised it didn’t happen sooner

    I’m only surprised it didn’t happen sooner

    It’s about time someone recognized me as deserving of awards. I mean, really, you people, do you think I’m writing this for you? I kid, of course: I write for me, but I also write for you. And apparently that earned me some recognition in...

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  • Changing the bulbs

    Changing the bulbs

    Just a momentary heads-up: this site may appear to go away tomorrow for a little bit. Our host is migrating all the servers to new servers starting on Wednesday, and I haven’t had a lot of luck getting TSF to work on the new site...

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