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Monday, February 19, 2007

Sometimes I wish I had a huge active reader base that watched anime. Then I could say outrageous things like "Spiral is the gayest anime I've ever seen" and there'd be like a million billion comments from inflamed anime fans and I'd burn in hell for my opinion.

No such luck. Instead, perhaps an entry about everyday stuff, like that other blog I know that is so compelling. I've discovered the joy of big plastic containers from Wal-Mart again. I now have my Super Nintendo in a box, along with my racing wheel and a bunch of mementos from college. I even found my old TI-83 calculator that I've had with me for like eight years. The thing still had a tiny charge in the batteries, enough for me to ressucitate the ancient quadratic formula I kept on there.

I'm also... cooking? Is that the word for it when you put one food item on another one? A friend of mine is an expert chef, so I'm slyly looking over his shoulder and trying to remember stuff in my pea-sized brain. Such as: thick slice of sunflower bread + small slivers of brie cheese + toaster oven at 400° for 5 minutes = yummy. Also this neato vegetable salad that has cucumbers, red bell peppers, julienned sun dried tomatoes and shitake-sesame dressing. Recently I've been trying to recreate Quiznos' Honey Mustard Chicken Salad, but just putting the ingredients next to each other isn't working too well. I'll keep trying.

I'm one step closer to PAX, folks-who-are-certainly-tired-of-hearing-it-even-now. They just announced the hotels and everyone's favorite psychopathic attendee called the recommended one and slapped down the plastic. The lady taking the reservation was frightfully nice. I had forgotten what good customer service on the phone sounded like.

Right now I'm downloading the Lord of the Rings MMORPG stress test. It has an interesting pre-order option. If you really, really, really like this game, you can order a lifetime subscription for $199. Hopefully the people doing that have played the damn thing, though it'd be nice to taunt the fanboys on the message board with that kind of an investment. I saw this thing at PAX and listened to some of the unique features: you get Humans, Elves, Hobbit etc. in PvP against the forces of darkness, right, but you don't play normally as the forces of darkness like you do in World of Warcraft. Instead, you temporarily abandon your character to play as a grunt goblin or orc or something. You'll die a lot, sure, but you'll earn experience and items for your normal character. Seems like it could do something to balance the PvP situation that Blizzard faces.