Warcraft Machinima

I wrote up a semi-lengthy post about Warcraft Machinima on the Frederator Blog. Check it out.

I'm officially a dork for putting a video of my dog on YouTube.

Noob-conomics

While surfing around today I saw Noob being used as an economic parable in someone's blog. Love the internet....

LINK

RPwned!

The Burning Crusade expansion for WoW has been released, and boy, is it gorgeous. They sure put a lot of work into this. In my opinion the new areas are far more detailed and beautiful than the old ones. I made a male blood elf Warlock. I immediately took his shirt off.

Of course, this was a daring move on my part, as pretty soon I got propositioned...by a guy. Hee hee! I was polite but non-obliging. After all, he would have been disappointed to discover I was actually a girl...

Well, all silliness aside, I can't wait to start filming in the new areas, as soon as I think of a reason to.

Oh, Crap

A couple of days ago this ominous sign showed up in the vacant lot across the street from my house. It means that some people want to build a house there. Now, one of the reasons I bought my house in the first place was because I kind of had this whole curve of the road (I live in a canyon) to myself. This is not only for my own benefit, but because I have really loud band rehearsals at my house. So far, nobody had complained in the 4 years I have been here, and that's because my nearest neighbors aren't really that near.

Now I know there is probably nothing I can do about this, but I am going to go to the meeting in city hall on the date and time posted, and air out some grievances anyway, just for the experience of it. You see, they have been building new houses like crazy all over our neighborhood, already. It's annoying, loud, obnoxious, and filling in all these once-charming blank natural hillsides, all in the name of human greed. And it might be okay if the houses were kind of interesting, but these houses are really huge, 4-5 bedroom deals, pretentious in design, not charming whatsoever. And for the most part, our neighborhood has really cool houses. Two of them are even Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

Anyway, my dog and I will enjoy the vacant lot while we still can, and if there is an open house for the finished product I'll be sure to play my drum set, really loudly. That ought to chase away anyone who might be inclined to complain about me. =)

Creative Writing for Gnomes

I'm finishing writing three episodes of Snacky's Journal; I figure since they are only 3-5 minutes long, it would be a better use of time to have the actors record more than one at a time. The titles are, so far: "Mad about Murlocs", "Worried about Weight", and "Doubtful about Dating" - so you can have a pretty good guess at the story content, I'm sure. Here's a snippet:

               EXT. STORMWIND

               Snacky opens the window and yells down at Angie.

                                   SNACKY
                         WHAT! I'm trying to write something
                         in this stupid journal you gave me!

                                   ANGIE
                         But I just had this great idea! 

                                   SNACKY
                         So what?

                                   ANGIE
                         Well, don't you want to hear what
                         it is?

                                   SNACKY
                         No.

                                   ANGIE
                         Yes you do.

                                   SNACKY
                         No, I don't.

                                   ANGIE
                         Murloc tipping!

               Beat.

                                   SNACKY
                         OK, that IS a great idea.

And 2007 begins....

Happy new year! Let's hope it's a good one, without any fear. I have a lot of things planned this year....we'll see how many of them I actually complete! I just had a 10-day break. What did I do with my 10-day break? Squandered it, of course, messing around and not really accomplishing anything. Well, I suppose I did do the dishes. But somewhere, deep down, I must have needed a break from responsibility and achievement.

I found this silly superhero/supervillain personality test on Wil Wheaton's blog. Here are my results:

You are Iron Man
Inventor. Businessman. Genius.


Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test


You are Apocalypse

You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest.


Click here to take the "Which Super Villain am I?" quiz...