Daily Thoughts

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Apr 20, 2008

Warcraft Raid Boss Kill List

Here is a list of all of the raid bosses I have killed in The World of Warcraft:

Serpentshrine Caverns:

• The Lurker Below - 4/20/08
• Hydross the Unstable - 4/20/08

Magtheridon's Lair:

• Magtheridon - 2/24/08

Gruul's Lair:

• High King Maulgar - 2/10/08
• Gruul - 2/10/08

Zul'Aman:

• Nalorakk the Bear - 2/10/08
• Akil'zon the Eagle - 3/11/08
• Halazzi the Lynx - 3/7/08

Karazhan:

• Attumen - 6/26/07
• Moroes - 6/26/07
• Maiden of Virtue - 8/8/07
• Romulo and Julianne - 8/8/07
• Big Bad Wolf - 10/3/07
• Wizard of Oz - 12/19/07
• The Curator - 8/8/07
• Shade of Aran - 10/5/07
• Terestian Illhoof - 10/24/07
• Chess Event - 9/26/07
• Netherspite - 12/5/07
• Prince Malchezaar - 10/24/07
• Nightbane - 01/22/08

Blackwing Lair:

• Razoregore the Untamed - 10/11/2006
• Vaelastrasz - 10/9/2006
• Broodlord Lashlayer - 10/12/2006
• Firemaw - 10/14/2006
• Flagegor - 10/16/2006

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj:

• Kurinaxx
• General Rajaxx - 11/9/06

Zul'Gurub:

• Venoxis
• Jeklik
• Mar'li
• Mandokir
• Gahz'ranka

Molten Core:

• Lucifron
• Magmadar
• Gehennas
• Garr
• Baron Geddon
• Shazzrah
• Golemagg the Incinerator
• Sulfuron Harbinger
• Majordomo Executus
• Ragnaros - 10/4/2006

Onyxia's Lair:

• Onyxia

World Bosses:

• Azuregos - 10/25/2006

Apr 06, 2008

Shanghai!

• Arrived at the Pudong Airport
• Rode the bullet train to Pudong (230 kph!)
• Dropped off stuff at Justin's apartment
• Visited the Pearl Tower, saw the JinMao tower, visited Paulaner's for a beer
• Came back home, went out for sushi and sake all you can eat woot
• Got an hour-long non-oil massage

• Justin had to go to the consulate, so we went out for a "traditional style" lunch, Tony came too
• Also visited Starbucks
• Spent a long time waiting for them to get stuff notarized or extra passport pages
• Went back home; Justin worked from home
• Food: Went out with Tony and Justin for spicy food
• Went back home

• Visited the Shanghai Science and Technology Center
• Took the metro to Lijuazui Greens
• Went to Super Brand mall, walked around, had a foot massage
• Met Justin and Jarran in metro
• Went out for some meat and beers
• Bought pearl necklace in People's Square, visited luggage / watch shop
• Went to Henry's for some beer

• Easy day: Had lunch at Punjabi for some Mutton Tikka
• Went to Carrefour supermarket
• Had hour-long oil massage
• Went to the "Chinese Best Buy" and bought some usb keys
• Went out for Sushi at Haiku (Amy's Roll, Dynamite Roll)

• Adventure day: Nanjing Donglu, People's Square, Tea Ceremony, Gucheng Park, Old Town, Yuyuan Garden, Art
• Met Justin late at home (oops), went out for noodles
• Justin, Tony, and I each had an hour-long foot massage

• Had a lazy morning at the house
• Went out for dumplings (soup, meat)
• Visited the French Concession, including the French Children's Park
• Went back to the Yuyuan area, bought chopsticks
• Got Justin a haircut and me a shampoo and 30-min. massage
• Came home, went out for Hot Pot with Tony, Justin, and Tom Lucas newly arrived from Beijing
• Went out to da clubs; first an expensive trendy place (bought like one overpriced beer), then Rack's this pool bar in a mall (jager wut? also cool / weird bathroom)
• Bonbon dance club; all you can drink, techno dancing, closed it out

• Woke up late at 11am
• Showered, got packed, took taxi to airport
• Flight left Shanghai at 4pm and arrived at 4pm in Chicago

Jan 23, 2008

Ten Million

More people subscribe to the World of Warcraft than live in Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Maine. Combined.

Warcraft is now bigger than Serbia, Sweden, Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Israel, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Ireland, and about 130 others.

The pricing is different in Asia than it is in Europe/US, but the 2.5 million US subscribers pay about $15/month to play. What would you do with $37.5 million per month?

Jan 16, 2008

I Hate the Stock Market Right Now

I think this screenshot really says it all:

Nov 18, 2007

Renfest

After living in Texas for three and a half years, I finally managed to make it to a Renaissance Festival with some of my church friends (and Alicia) this weekend. I think there were around ten of us all told. We left Austin early on Saturday morning for the festival grounds, heading east to Plantersville. We set up our circle of tents and headed into the festival grounds.

There were a lot of ways to part us fools of our money, even after the ticket price. We saw the Dead Bob Show and the Washing Well Wenches, who both made a show out of asking for tips at the end. There were games such as throwing tomatoes or dunking namecallers, throwing axes, and plenty of expensive food and drink items. Bryan won a very valuable "free kiss" voucher from the axe throwing event. Nice.

The day's events ended around dusk with a fireworks show in the arena, which was actually pretty awesome, and free. Bryan successfully "redeemed" his voucher, and we headed back to our tents.

We had a pretty fun night before heading for bed, consisting of some party games, hot dogs, burgers, and drinks. But we had to huddle under a "chair tent" because it was raining pretty badly.

Well, just like Mexico, it rained really badly overnight. Actually it was even worse, because we camped in a grassy area which became a marshland in the rain. Alicia and I had a tarp and several layers of blankets and such beneath us, so we managed to stay dry and happy, but everyone else was wet and miserable. I felt kinda sorry for them but I also didn't because we knew it was going to rain, and yet people still didn't prepare for it. That's just foolish. Regardless, I'm still going to check the weather next time I go camping (:

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