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I had a great time having everyone over last night.  Thanks to everyone who could make it.  Hopefully you had fun.

I would hate to only level up once per year…

From an IM transcript earlier today:

sloth: he needs a second <job description withheld to protect the innocent> computer and a laptop
wastin: YAYS!
sloth: so we are getting him El Conquistador the laptop
sloth: wow, that’s really sad
sloth: I spelled Conquistador right first time, but I can’t spell “the” reliably or most of the English language
wastin: hahaha

Seriously though. If you are buying someone a laptop with 4GB of RAM and what else do you call it besides El Conquistador?

I’ve always known you have to start them early, however this early is a bit more than I expected.

It’s cool though, I know now what clothing to get my children when I have ‘em.

Today’s Penny-Arcade is funny. Laugh.

On a sad note my two boxes of Thin Mints are gone. I think a mad raccoon snuck in and ate them.

Come now. I didn’t always make up names. Sometimes I just said you were talking to some guy but then a certain person coughjoshuacough would press the issue. Then for a brief period of time I tried writing down names that came up. After that I just made them up again on the fly. Funny enough, Tolkien used the same method.

The worst was always inn names though. I believe all inns follow this formula: “The <present participle verb> <animal noun>”. The Prancing Pony. The Humping Lizard. The Pontificating Platypus. That sort of name.

I’m obviously witnessing such Pac-centric discussion on abodes due to the buzz generated by the Pac-Man movie. As evidenced by the trailer, the Pac-Man film departs from more humorous views of the Pac-mythos.

A more timely poster probably linked this comic on abodes while it was fresh, but I didn’t read it at that time. Anyway, the comic pokes at the basics. Ride checks don’t always make sense, sloth always insisted on giving names to places and people, intuit direction is very useful, and elven rangers that have more feats than they know what to do with,

Now that I can view abodes in Google Reader , I can actively ignore abodes — as opposed to my passive ignorance.

Ever wonder what the storyline behind Pacman was? Maybe this hidden microphone recording will fill you in.

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Sometimes, when you have friends over, you just have to hunt down dinner. I mean, can’t let you friends go starving. Of course they are having wine and cheese - not really a meal so much. Maybe it’s just the pre-meal stuff that people do.

I’ve never really felt like shooting Yoshi however I can understand how this would feel great.