From the monthly archives:

October 2008

I Feel For Our Pets (and Mounts)

October 24, 2008

Mounts first: The Cenarion War Hippogryph (requires Exalted with Cenarion Expedition) finally got a ground movement animation this week. I recommend you stick to flying really low, unless motion sickness doesn’t bother you. It seems Blizzard perfectly captured the animation a camel would have if it were a WoW mount.
All well and good, I guess…but [...]

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Patch Day: Almost Painless, But It Brought On Many Changes

October 21, 2008

The Echoes of Doom were very faint at the Aerie last week. Patch day was relatively uneventful, even with rebuilding the UI. Still a few minor bugs there, but no show-stoppers.
Plenty of play time over the weekend, and on Sunday night, Kestrel was patrolling the skies over Netherstorm in search of a particular chimaera I [...]

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Some Post-Patch Shout-Outs

October 15, 2008

The Patch
Yesterday’s update to World of Warcraft 3.0.2 was generally pretty smooth1. On Kul Tiras, I didn’t really hear of missing items, except for people who couldn’t be troubled to read the patch notes. We experienced one server restart during the evening, and we were out of the game for about 5 minutes. All [...]

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Brewing, Baking, and Blogging: The Importance of Proofing

October 9, 2008

When baking yeast breads or brewing beer, one of the most important steps in the process is "proofing."
According to Wikipedia, "Proofing (also called proving) is a step in creating yeast breads and baked goods where the yeast is allowed to leaven the dough. This step is not often explicitly named, and normally shows up in [...]

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Talkin’ Baseball: A New Poll, and Some Memories

October 1, 2008

It’s that time again: Playoff Baseball! And as you may have gathered from the preceding article, cut me and I bleed Dodger Blue. My first memories of our National Pastime date from 1958, when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. We were living in Southern California at the time, so of course the Dodgers [...]

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A Reminder of Why I Play WoW

October 1, 2008

Stumbling my way through 800 feed reader posts, among other things, I ran across an awesome video at A Rogue’s Eye View. I’m not an RPer (generally), but I got chills watching this short movie. My anticipation for the expansion just doubled. 
And no, I’m not home yet: Leaving California tomorrow morning (Thursday); home Saturday evening. [...]

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