Published on Sep 28, 2008 at 22:28
The music of the day comes via an e-mail from Cousin Munchkin. Apparently her brother’s girlfriend’s album has dropped: Lauren Frost / Words for the Birds. Google suggests she brings a lot of experience to the table, and purchasing the album was a no-brainer.
So, here’s an amalgamation of links that will take you to the album: iTunes | Digistation | CD Universe | MySpace | CD Baby (which is my personal preference for music purchasing).
We head back to my neck o’ the woods in Colorado on Tuesday, looking forward to catching up with family and friends.
Published on Sep 23, 2008 at 22:26
Dear PlanetJK,
This will be brief, there’s still a lot to do before your big day. I have something to confess, and I’m almost ashamed to bring it up.
You see, tonight I realized I’ve never… ever… celebrated or even remotely acknowledged your birthday. And you turn 9, tomorrow! I’ve brain-farted 8 of your birthdays- what kind of monster am I?
Sure, sure, I was there for your birth. I was there for your first steps into cyberspace. I beamed when you first uttered, “HTTP/1.1 200 OK.” I’ve tried to nurture you, and teach you the difference between good packets and bad. Yet, somehow, I’ve never once remembered to celebrate your birthday- no cards, no cake, not even a ping.
I know it won’t make up for 8 years of my ineptitude, but this year you’re finally going to have a birthday party. No, I’m not going to go into any more details, the rest is a surprise. And guess what? When you wake up tomorrow, you’ll be 9 years old!
Oh, and PlanetJK? You act like one too. 
G’night buddy.
Published on Sep 16, 2008 at 16:26
I can’t decide if the mystery object recently spotted by Hubble is the Replicators or a Goa’uld mothership. Either way, I’m sure SG-1 will find an entertaining way to save the galaxy, once again, in exactly 42 minutes.
Okay, so the real point of this post was 1)to finally post something for September and 2)announce some upcoming Journal and Photo Album maintenance tonight. I need to upgrade the backend software for both systems, outage time should be about an hour.
Published on Aug 5, 2008 at 21:39
Even poor Yorick would agree: Too Human kicks arse. I recently e-mailed a friend a soliloquy for the sole purpose of attempting to convince him to try Too Human. It worked, and he dug his Xbox 360 out of the garage, and he digs the game. w00t. Here’s the photo and e-mail I sent:
I’m attaching a photo (from this morning, natch) of my Too Human character. This is the Equip screen/ Weapons section. There’s also armor, runes, charms, weapons blueprints, and armor blueprints. My dude’s a level 7 Champion hoisting the Greatsword of Flame and can pull out his Ceremonial Carbine Rifle w/ plasma grenade launcher with just the pull of a trigger. I upgraded to the Greatsword after leveling up, before that I was swapping between the Ceremonial Quarter Staff, the Skewer of Haste, and the Maul of Pounding.
On his noggin he wears the Vented Grimhelm of Reinforcement, in which I’ve inserted a rune to add 5% armor. His torso is protected by the Willful Backless Breastplate of Aggression, shoulders by Aesir’s Vambraces, Ceremonial Knuckledusters for gauntlets, Leggings of Elusion, and Willful Assault Boots (with a rune to increase sword damage) for flying kicks.
I’ve also enacted two charms to “impede the aggression of my targets” (the enemies will melee me less, and I’ve noticed a difference).
Lastly, I’d like to mention that I’ve chosen the skillpath of fire/melee attacks, and I now have a cybernetic spider that detaches himself and becomes a tripmine; enemies get near and he implodes into a fireball. If I’d chosen a more defensive skillpath he could turn himself into a gatling gun turret and mow down enemies.
For the record, I doubt I’ve ever typed so much about a videogame. But I’m trying to intrigue you because I think when the game comes out on the 19th you and I would have a blast playing Coop over Xbox Live against hordes of goblins.
~J to the K
I haven’t yet figured out all the secrets of the Demo, which helps to intrigue me. QT already reserved a copy of the full game for me, so come August 20th you can call me Too JK.
