Ejan of the Line of Dulzan, notoriously hot headed berserker of Tooska Tribe, enraged by the recent Scourge Attacks, set off on his own to put an end to the Undead Threat.

Last seen heading down the Dead Scar and into the Plaguelands, barehanded, barenaked, and hollering at the top of his considerable voice, looking for the Scourge.

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There were three miscellaneous things. Let's see if I can remember what the first one was ( Read more... )

mega update

( I have a new inhaler which controls my asthma. )

Being a complete set of Pre-BC items obtainable only by pick pocketing (junkbox item collection still incomplete)


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Direct Sequel to Skill Caps, pt. 1, but also building on Skill Caps, pt. 2Part 1 was Aodhan completely capping out all her skills before Burning Crusade came out: both professions, all three secondary skills, and 14 weapon skills ( Read more... )

http://www.maniasarcania.com/2008/08/01/wotlk-beta-we-have-5-pet-slots/

(cf. http://sedesdraconis.livejournal.com/168446.html )

Lich King was previewed by various publications a few days back, and i found some information that made various people happy.

There will be a group of murlocs that you can ally yourself with, making kellan very happy ("yayyyyyyyyyy!")

And, Nesingwary will come to Northrend, but you can choose to quest against him instead of doing his quests this ( Read more... )

For work right now, we're giving the software feedback on whether it is correctly detecting subject-predicate relationships (semantic, not syntactic). It's often quite good. Occasionally, it's not. It told sarkat that it thought, in the phrase "programming bugs" that the bugs were doing the programming ( Read more... )

Story #1: Passage

Excerpts from Sharing Knife: Passage went up on the HarperCollins site yesterday. At first, the excerpts were bizarrely the first 3 pages of each of the first 5 chapters (or so I hear). This seems like a reasonable way to preview a non-fiction book, but extraordinarily unhelpful for a novel.

( more story, a little review, and some thoughts on viewpoint technique )

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. A very neat talk about the internet and social groups and how to use ice cream to overthrow dictatorships.

Monday LolBooks from Jim Hines.

The CP says, "I hate you" (to antimatter ( Read more... )