intensely fascinating article in ny times magazine about chinese gold farmers in world of warcraft. Interesting tidbits: Nick Yee, an M.M.O. scholar based at Stanford, has noted the unsettling parallels (the recurrence of words like “vermin,” “rats” and “extermination”) between contemporary anti-gold-farmer rhetoric and 19th-century U.S. literature on immigrant Chinese laundry workers. Min’s English is… Continue reading Untitled
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insurmountable distances. never know what to say. it’s so sunny and so cold. npr does gold farmers, sensationally (murder!) i hear “like pixellated scraps of chex mix in your head …lights,” sorta, but that can’t be right. jazz max? chess ticks? fujiya and miyagi. spraypainted red. it’s spray pain ted red. thou shalt not. watched… Continue reading Untitled
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1. http://twittervision.com/ in the last minute, someone in budapest is getting ready to go to the cinema in an hour and someone in kansas is wondering what her mother is making for breakfast 2a. muppets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSjcjHsSCmM 2b. tauren http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A 3. hdm teaser footage, complete with green screens and wires: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58X4o_41Frc can’t remember if i posted… Continue reading Untitled
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1. ms paint: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU 2. you will like this if you like street fighter, salsa dancing, or both: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ4E2RQijh0 it is amazing. 3. hey music people, what is this originally? http://shadeofaranchant.ytmnd.com/ it’s so good. and it just keeps getting better and better and better, every iteration. for non-WoWers, here’s http://www.wowwiki.com/Shade_of_Aran
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ell oh ell do you know any asian-american comic writers? if you like comics, join the facebook group too. even if you’re not asian-american. i might skip guster again for imogen heap. hey, kid beyond’s opening for her all through her us tour. that’s pretty cool. and the warfield i can bart to. poor guster.… Continue reading Untitled
decorating walls
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ is pretty neat and easy to use, though a rather prodigal use of trees and ink. be that as it may, i would love to cover an entire wall with something. the pope that started it all is pretty awesome. maybe a studio ghibli image, or the warcraft iii night elf, or a warm… Continue reading decorating walls
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This post made me laugh out loud. http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/4260106.html
i may die laughing
http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/3913370.html has a (very incomplete) list of warcraft personality myspaces. No, seriously. I may die laughing. I like Jin’do’s the best. Actually the Nef one is really well done, too. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59473647 Ragnaros says: Everytime I try to read a book it catches on fire 🙁
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I bought curtains from Ikea and a tension-rod from Target (I’d acquired the rod a month and a half ago). The curtains are red in my mind, but in reality they are pink. I see them as red because they were displayed with yellow and blue ones of the same style, and red goes with… Continue reading Untitled
This isn’t about WoW
So I’m tagging my recent entries, and I realized that all of them are about WoW. Should I be frightened? I’m singing with Spot the Octopus now. andeja, lemmingsolution, mbarrien, plish, flyingbear and misterroboto (plus livejournalless alan) are a fun bunch. rwclark is with us until he leaves for Iowa. G’s pet has shed a… Continue reading This isn’t about WoW