Monthly Archives: March 2008

There are Many Ways to Win

The game indi­ca­tor of win­ning in WoW is receiv­ing an epic item. In vanilla WoW, the vast major­ity of epic items came from 40-man raid­ing. I’ll grant that there was an epic hunter quest, a few lim­ited craft­ing bits, some world drops, and a top-level pvp set that only a hand­ful of peo­ple could get. […]

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WoW and me

I started off play­ing World of War­craft because my best friend said that he loved it. He’s usu­ally a great gauge for what I will like, although I hated Heavy Metal 2000. (In all fair­ness, it was one of those times where he loved the orig­i­nal Heavy Metal in his teenage years and was horrified […]

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Texan Sayings

In my April 2008 issue of Writer’s Digest, there’s a short arti­cle by G. Kyle White called “Back Up Your Work for Free”. Here’s the first sen­tence: There’s a say­ing in Texas: If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it’ll change. Ah, Texas. Com­pare this to Mark Twain’s famous quote: If you […]

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