Every character in World of Warcraft is allowed to learn two tradeskills, things like blacksmithing or alchemy, though in WoW they’re called professions. Professions are like college educations; they put you deep into debt in order to complete, and they’re near-worthless until you finally do. Once you’ve learned all that you can, you want to […]
Category: Musings
Sweet Dreams
I didn’t get any work done when I was sick this past weekend. I had told myself that I’d rather be healthy and unproductive than ill and unproductive, but tonight is a night of healthiness and unproductivity, and I found myself wishing that I was sick so that people wouldn’t blame me for being unproductive. […]
Compulsive Research – 2U
Sometimes I wonder whether I made the right choice by majoring in computer science. There are definitely parts about the subject that I don’t like: the algorithm analysis, the complex math, the debugging, the snowball effect that results from misunderstanding a concept… But there are flashes of insight and revelation that completely reassure me that […]
Mystic Snake – 1GUU
For the past twelve hours I have been thinking entirely in terms of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: I keep envisioning myself blue sparking. Blue sparking around the enemies in the game I’m playing. Blue sparking around the hall. Blue sparking around my kitchen table. I loved the game the first time I played it. It […]
Draw-go
If I had a lifetime to train as a fighter, I would specialize in counters. I would wait until my opponent attacked, then analyze and redirect it to throw him off balance, following up with an attack at the newly created opening. When I play chess, I always prefer to be black because I do […]
Caution, Fragile, Handle With Care
Am I no different than the rest of the crappy gifts, just with softer wrapping paper?
Requiem
Can a couple have a glaring problem go unnoticed until a better lover comes along? If it was grounds for breaking up, why was it not noticed before? If it was noticed but ignored for lack of a better lover available, was the deserter justified in making the abandoned believe nothing was wrong and that […]
Preceding the advent of okaasan
Are reunions really about enjoying each other’s company and bragging about accomplishments? I get the feeling that underneath it all, everyone is secretly interested in not just seeing whether or not their friends have changed, but finding out whether they’ve changed themselves.
Oh, the Guilt
I wish that in the stupor after waking up, and during the onset of painful homework, I would finally learn and move on.
The mind-killer
There will always be people better than you, but it’s not about being the best; it’s about being there when it counts.
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