Monday : 27 March 2006
Beginning of the work week. Hoo-AH! Today was pretty good, as far as work days go. I debugged some more of the PHP code I’m writing. I was comparing it to the old ColdFusion code that I wrote a couple of years ago… and realized that I was working on the wrong thing. Kind of. It was the right program, just the wrong version of it: It went through a couple of iterations and I was working on an old one. It wasn’t too hard to find out where the differences were and to make a simple course correction or two. But, that led me to a few new bugs. But that’s fine; I am still having fun.

After work, I had dinner with and . The food was good, but tonight’s service left a little something to be desired. Back home to take care of some laundry (…and some criminals).

The High-Flying Adventures of Indigo Bolt –
I was messaged by Ice E Hot, my friend Don’s character, right after logging in. I headed to Crey’s Folly to: a) see the zone and b) say “Hi.” You aren’t allowed into the zone unless you are at least Security Level 30. I quickly found out why: There are Rikti and Crey all over. And the lowest one that I saw was Level 33. And, from what Don told me, they had lots of firepower, too. Enough to give him 56,000 points of XP debt. We chatted for a bit before he logged off and I headed back to “safer” zones.

I was dinking around, trying to find ways to rid myself of about 6000 points of experience debt when I was messaged and asked to help someone with a mission. I figured, “Sure… why not?” I joined his team (of one) and headed for the mission. He was fighting members of The Council in Striga. Sounded easy enough. I should have known better. Not long after I hit the mission map and found him, I found myself in one of Paragon City’s finest hospitals. That’s right: We died. At the hands of five Equinox Parasites – the closest thing to vampires that I’ve seen around the city. Mm-hmm, rackin’ up the XP debt. *sigh* I suggested that he recruit more firepower and/or a Defender (for wound-tending); he said that there weren’t any online. *blink blink* I found one, right off the bat. She agreed to join us and – guess what: We didn’t die. Go figure. While I would have been completely out of debt, had I not died so unceremoniously, I’m only 4100 points out… and roughly 9000 points from Security Level 31.

Stray Toasters

  • Open up my head and let me out…
  • By way of boingboing.net: Gilles Trèhin, a savant and his imaginary city
  • Catharsis.
  • The American Way, from DC’s Wildstorm line, is a good read. Not your “typical” cape-and-tights kind of story. Read it.
  • The Movie Timeline – A look at history (kind of)… using movies.
  • : HorrorClix: Cthulhu
    Take a look at a few other figures from the set, too.
    (Is it just me or does the cop look like an extra from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video?)

  • “Aaaaand we’re back.”

  • Hey, : Liefeld Onslaught

    I hear a potential return to the Onslaught/Heroes Reborn is being planned by Marvel to follow up their recent “Age Of Apocalypse” revisitation. Along with an insanely-demanded TPB collection of the ten year old crossover, it looks like Rob Liefeld will be revisiting the world he recreated.

    No jokes about Captain America’s breasts. Save them for a more appropriate venue.

  • I want a copy of Atlas of the DC Universe… if for no other reason than to prove (if only to myself) something that I thought I read many rains past: That Metropolis is supposed to be in Delaware, not in Kansas or New York.
  • Celebrate 10 Years with Palm’s Pilot
    *holds my Palm Vx proudly high in hand* (…in lieu of the Red Star)

  • Geocaching 2: Electric Boogaloo

Quote of the Day

(1:55:48 PM) : sorry. just got railroaded. please hold.
(1:56:20 PM) : Z-Scale? N? HO? O? S? LEGO?
(1:56:48 PM) : N is my favorite.
(1:56:53 PM) : or lego, of course.

Namaste.