Monday, February 25, 2008

I just found this on a message board I post on - it's something I wrote about how excited I was for the winter of 2006. Now that we've had at least a week of what feels like "true winter" here in Dayton (snow and ice on the ground and consistent cold weather) I thought it'd be nice to post it here. Also, Tech likes to poke fun about how I like winter better than the other seasons, so he should find this pretty hilarious.

a new day dawns on america - and you find me, basking in the glory of the rising sun. the pale winterlight bouncing off my frost covered face - a gentle gale pushing my stringy dark hair ever so slightly - my arms out stretched to either side. and in the center of it all you find my heart, bumping and thumping in the glow of december. as it lazily rises from its shallow grave like a zombie phoenix of fleshy ash, the winter calls again.


lol, cheers to the waning winter!

Site News, FFXI News

Just a minor update to thesailing.org today - expect a wrap up of the GBV tribute later tonight (and an exciting announcement!), for now enjoy a tiny little the sailing logo (sailcrest?) in your URL address bar, history display, and bookmarks menu! That's right, the shortcut icon issues have been ironed out (mostly problems getting a Windows icon file out of the Mac version of Photoshop) and now you can enjoy the sailcrest all over your favorite browser experience!

In other news my boy Matt Hamm, viceroy of Las Vegas, has joined the fight against the Beastmen of Vana'diel! For the MMO-backstory-deficient I'm talking about Final Fantasy XI - the most "SERIOUS BUSINESS" of all MMORPGs. I've been powerleveling him the last few nights, and hope to be in a 'real' group with him once he hits 15. An interesting side effect of this is Matt's great interest in crafting igniting an interest in me as well. Crafting in FFXI is just something I've never really messed with before, but Matt's eagerness to get involved with woodworking has sort of gotten me into it myself. Sometimes you need to see the game through another's eyes in order to appreciate its finer points!

Thursday, February 21, 2008

MMO Nostalgia

Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:03 pm Post subject: Anouncing! Finally! The Frozen Poets of Velious are coming!

"The Eternal Inspiration of the Frozen Wastes"

Ladies and gentalmen, I would just like to let you know that I've sent away the eMail to SOE concerning the creation of my guild- The Frozen Poets of Velious. Here's what it's all about-

Consider us a "Avant Garde Space Rock Guild." I will be the guild master, Uttama Razehl and Hate Plaugebringer will be my guild leaders. The only officer as of yet will be Cogline.

Why Frozen Poets of Velious? Well, when i was level 2 or 3 I was exploring the PoK- when i came across a interesting looking stone with "The Great Divide" printed on it. I will never forget my first trip to Velious- the first giant I ever saw, the Coldain Dwarves, the Velium clusters, the wurm cave, and of course that beautiful waterfall cascading down, shrowding the entrance to the Coldain city. And that was just one zone! I was instantly in love with the place. I knew that eventually, it would be my main base of opperations- I would always be found traversing the frozen wastes.

Why are we Frozen Poets? I have a certain facination with cold- and I happen to love winter far beyond any of the other seasons. Being a musician/poet, I wanted my guild to sort of run on the kind of "soul reflections" required by the arts. And so the dream of the Frozen Poets of Velious was born- to me and the drummer in my real-life band Uttama (who posts here as Monotone Rottweiler)

So what is an Avant Garde Space Rock guild all about?
1) Roleplaying isn't by any means required- but playing in character is encouraged.

2) This is a guild for those of an artistic mind. Artists, poets, and musicians will make up the large body of members. We are the one's who "Think Different." We want to be a guild unlike anything ever seen on Al'Kabor. We will have events such as expeditions deep into unexplored zones, many many fishing adventures, and photo essay competitions- with results posted on our website (still under-construction).

3) We will be a guild that caters to mostly the good of heart. Dark characters will have to be special considerations when trying to join the guild. Dark Elves are welcome (Hate being one and all). Iksar are also welcome (because of my personal apreciation for their heritage and their great works of stone). Trolls and Ogres, however, will be admitted only under my personal aproval (which will be hard for a Troll or Ogre to get ).

4) We will be a helpful guild- glad to help newbies on their way. This, of course, does not mean powerleveling. In fact, powerleveling is strickly forbidden within the guild.

5) The bottom line is, we want our members to feel as if they belong to something different, something important. It may sound pretentious, but that's the point. All art is pretentious by the nature of it being art- even EverQuest itself. So I hope the guild will be a place for people that would like to make an impact on the server.

Send me an eMail or in game tell if you're interested! We'll be looking for characters about lvl 15-25. I sent the eMail to sony today say it could be 1-5 days before i hear back.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

RSS Now working!

After "tooling it up" in the rss files for a bit I was able to locate the retarded error and fix the RSS feeds! Now you can subscribe to both The Sailing news and upcoming show information. RSS subscription is the best way to stay up to date!

RSS News Feed
RSS Shows Feed

A few quick notes on the thesailing.org

I'm in the process of getting the website operating correctly. I'm aware that the RSS feeds are currently broken, and this problem should be fixed by the end of the day. I'm also aware that the custom shortcut icon (the one that appears next to the URL in your address bar) is currently displaying that awful yahoo logo *shudders*. I apologize for this unfortunate aesthetic error, and know that steps are being taken to correct it.

Everything else is lookin pretty good! Please be sure to let me know if you find anything broken on the site ^^.

I think there are some issues with the PowerPC version of OSX 10.5

This just happened to me:



o_0;;

haven't seen OSX freak out like that since the kernel panic days!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Tim And Eric Nite Live

Somehow it got past me that Tim and Eric were doing new Nite Live episodes again - which is good since the end of Awesome Show season two has left a gaping hole in my soul.  Now the mighty void can be tamed!  My mouth is seriously soar from laughing so hard.  But don't take my word for it.  Enjoy surreal deadpan video tape humor?  Then check out Tim And Eric Nite Live!