Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I apologize in advance

My biggest email spam contributor is my mother. She gets all of these joke emails and send them to me. Normally I won't bother to post them here, but this was a particularly chuckle worthy one.

Before that though, I'm going to apologize to Easter (lawyer joke) and to the guy/gal that wrote it in the first place (no name of author was on the email).

Something to Ponder

T H E 10 C O M M A N D M E N T S

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:

You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...It creates a hostile work environment.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Is that squire on the fire?

Last night was Movie Night and the movie of choice was Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd.

Might I just say that it is particularly nice to know that broadway musicals come with my sense of humor.

For your listening pleasure, here is the song Little Priest from Sweeney Todd.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

I've found a new MMORPG

Currently, I am less than thrilled with the state of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. Any MMORPG seems to fall into one of two categories: Intresting game design that is also full of bugs or Bug free but the same old boring level and class system.

For a while, I had been interested in Vanguard but then they joined up with The Unethical Ones and I immediately lost interest in that game. So, I pretty much decided that if I was going to play a MMO, I'd play one that was relatively bug free, and that meant World of Warcraft.

However, one game did come out that I had no real interest in. I had heard that it was actually polished with few bugs. However, I think that Tolkien is the most over-rated fantasy author of all time and therefore I never really looked into the game. It wasn't until out of shear boredom at work that I decided to read a few threads at a forum I frequent. There I discovered that Lord of the Rings Online has a decent crafting system and homes.

The crafting system is very similiar to World of Warcrafts, however it does allow for a chance of a "critical success" when crafting an item. A feature that doesn't appear at all in World of Warcraft.

As for homes: Lord of the Rings Online has homes you can decorate; World of Warcraft doesn't even have homes.

I decided to try out the game and see how it handles. I haven't spent much time in there, but so far I haven't run into a single bug and the game has been pretty smooth. I did just discover something else very neat. You can play musical instruments in the game. And I mean completely play them; pressing keys to make certain sounds. Some people have even taken the time to create music sheets for some popular (to gamers) songs.

Since I see the Imperial March listed, I'm going to have to give it a try.