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What I’ve Learned from WoW: Part 1

January 31, 2007 -- Tags: ,

Whenever you get people together, even in a virtual world, they will form a community.
I’m at level 21 now (been playing the game like I’d play Diablo — solo and grinding), and I kept getting invites to join guilds. A guild is essentially an organization of players in the game with its own [...]

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Win-Win Situations

January 30, 2007 -- Tags:

The thing about writing is that if you do your job well, you create situations in which everyone wins.
Actors see potential in the material and want to attach themselves; great roles make them look good.
Great material allows a director’s vision to coalesce; it gives them the blueprint or [...]

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Library / Payatas

January 29, 2007 -- Tags: ,

I spent yesterday afternoon in Powell Library writing. It’s nice to be surrounded by books while you work. Makes you feel like a wizard surrounded by dusty tomes or a hunter surrounded by taxidermied deer heads.
The next project is about to begin. I usually select a work place for a project [...]

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The Spice Must Flow

January 25, 2007 -- Tags: ,

Because I’m still on that Lynch kick (just saw Mulholland Drive again, then Lost Highway, then the first disc of Twin Peaks…) I checked out Dune: The Extended Edition. This 3+ hour long version is an “Alan Smithee” cut.
For extra hoots and hollers I also watched the Sci Fi Channel’s Dune Miniseries to [...]

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Darwin’s Rottweiller

January 24, 2007 -- Tags: ,

(Via PoeTV) The God Delusion, the complete BBC documentary. Featuring an ironic guest appearance from Ted Haggard.
You gotta admire Richard Dawkins for having the balls to lay it out on the line — his immortal soul and possible damnation if god happens to exist. However, New Testament God would probably shrug and [...]

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Change is Afoot?

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Instead of a grumpy old white man in the Speaker’s chair: A grumpy old white lady. Two black head coaches facing off in the Super Bowl. As many non-white nominees as white nominees for the Academy Awards. And Obama and Hillary as front runners of Andrew Jackson’s party?
What’s going on?

Finally, [...]

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