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Name: Norman
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Houston
Birthday: 3/5/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: video/computer games, forms of other's self expression(such as movies, video games, books, etc.)
Expertise: Computer Science major at University of Houston at the moment.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Software)
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  normtb3
MSN: normtb2@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  drgnslayer4
Jabber: normtb2@gmail.com
Member Since:
12/21/2004
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| No World of Warcraft makes Norman cranky
As my sister stated below, I flop onto my bed quite regularly
now. Other than the fact that I am bored, the bed seems like an
ideal place for flopping becuase my desk chair sucks. Whenever I
feel like sitting back, that chair is simply unacceptable.
Why am I flopping in the first place? Well, checking my Xfire account,
I have spent a total of 66 hours on WoW. Take away half of that
becuase I spent two weeks before my 14-day trial on a private WoW
server and we get 33 hours. Considering all the times I neglected
to turn on Xfire while playing WoW it's easy to see where all my free
time went after I activated WoW.
I seem to have forgotten how else to spend my free time. Unable to log into my account, I stare at WoW news and forums
holding an endless debate in my head over the financial and temporal
issues behind subscribing to WoW. Funny thing about that blog
link in the last sentence. When I was starting WoW, I chose from
the PVP servers listed as "new" almost at random. I jumped in and
Dark Iron played just fine. After a few days, however, when I
tried to log on during peak internet usage hours, I had to wait in
queues. I attributed the fullness to teh fact that Dark Iron was
still listed as "new" rather than "full" or "high" as any of the older
servers were. Also, Dark Iron was at the top of the list of
servers. A few days later I'm scanning a WoW article and I see
the name of my server:
"It began with a simple post on the PvP webcomic site,
"the wife and I had an idea of making Horde characters on a PvP server,
and starting a guild to play with PvP readers. These are alt characters
just to play with you guys and have fun killing members of the
alliance." They formed the Guild called Panda Attack. Penny Arcade responded by forming their own guild named Knights of Arcadia. Mass immigration soon took place on the new Dark Iron server. Hostilities swiftly ensued!"
But I degress. Let's see. What was I doing with my free
time before I started playing WoW...? I guess I'm supposed to be
cranky. Well, I just know that I am. I don't feel like
explaining why.
I can already predict your responses, and you know who I'm talking
about. "No, Norman, save your money and your time. : /" "LOL,
LAMO, play on private servers."
Well, I've heard it already, screw ya'll.
Enjoy a picture of my Tauren hunter, BitokDePollo, and his trusty pet vulture, Vulcheh:
Overlooking Alliance
territory, Bitok and Vulcheh ponder what further adventures they may
have beyond their owner's 14-day trial.
As you can see, the terrain draw distance is limiting their view. Perhaps
coincidentally metaphoric of their hopes of continued
existance.../sniff
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| I am going to find some aspirations.
When you read about my life in the to-be-published book, (this will be
in like 2080 or something of course) you will be thoroughly engaged and
interested.
Hopefully, it will be a book, but as I do not currently read, (though I
do not read at all yet plan on starting up again because I need to so
my brain doesn't turn to mush) this may be a video game about my life.
Yes, you will be able to play me at various stages of my growth. Of
course, the college me will be quite dull and unattractive and poorly
shaven, so you will probably not want to play this particular me. But,
as I was saying, it will probably be an RPG, maybe an adventure game. I
don't know how much traveling will be done, as I hate flying, but there
are ways around that yet...even if they don't master teleportation by
the time I die.
Back to my original point. I will no longer allow the vast ineptitude
that I feel hinder me from attempting to do things. Just because a
world's problem seems to vast for me to tackle, just because it seems
like there is little that I can do right now that will make much of a
difference, I will know that I am wrong in thinking that way. And even
if I cannot see the results before me, I can at least do something,
take steps forward, try new things. Life is to be lived. Duh. Taking a
step, any step, is better than flopping onto my bed in exasperation,
boredom, and general laziness every twenty minutes.
I refuse to have my life sucked away into screens of all kinds. I will control them, not the other way around.
I will stop asking questions. What can I do? What is there to do? What
should I do? Only because they render me immobile because I can't come
up with answers. Either I need to start working harder to come up with
an answer or just stop asking questions and just start doing. Just
start taking steps toward anything and everything and living my life
because it's my life, damn it.
I've changed my AIM icon. The new one has more action in it than the
old rubberduck thing. Cute as that was, it is time for a change.
Does Bush annoy anyone else? He landed in Louisiana and was briefed by
those in charge of rescue efforts. But it was merely a photo op! He was
wasting time focusing quite hard (you could tell by the expression on
his face) on trying to look concerned and nodding at appropriate
intervals. Not only was he briefed on the situation of the levees
(which he probably already knew) and the overall rescue efforts (which
he probably already knew), they had someone who was INVOLVED in the
rescue efforts come and start to bullshit (well, not in their minds but
come on) about how he wasn't prepared for what he saw, etc. They were
all in a row waiting to "brief the president" in front of millions of
tv cameras (to the comfort of the Americans watching at home?) instead
of doing their jobs! Get back to work! All of yous!
Books to Read:
--anything by Chuck Palahnuik
--perhaps things by Kurt Vonnegut
--"Girlfriend in a Coma" by Douglas Coupland
--"Checkpoint" by Nicholson Baker
--"Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger (actually, I should ask my sister for her copy)
--"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi (a graphic novel)
to be added to at later dates.
Because when you're at a university, you might as well take advantage
of its resources. And the university libraries which are FREE are one
of those resources.
I should start working out to and show up my sister who is a lazy bum
and won't go to the gym. But apparently she claims she walks on campus
enough to make up for it. But still, she should start working out, too.
And oh yeah, another goal of mine: meet more people, develop more
relationships. Life's not just about the doing; it's about who you meet
along the way, and all that jazz.
Goodbye, old me.
Hello, new me.
I might even start shaving.
Just to show everyone I'm not a slob and that I actually do care about
the way I present myself to the world and how people perceive me
because I am a member of this society whether I like it or not.
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| I changed my schedule. Basically repositioned my MATH 2341 to be closer to the afternoon than it was before.
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| Once again, for anyone from Alief wanting to carpool to UH:
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| Ok, so after that allowed hijacking of my xanga by my sister, I've returned with a new idea for this blog:
Post cards from World of Warcraft.
(Or my brief attempts at Machinima photography as a low level Tauren Hunter during my 14-day trial)
Without further delay, here we go: weeee!
These teenagers decided to take a late night swim Friday night.
Coincidentally, Friday turned out to be the same day I activated my WoW
trial. I was wide awake at 2AM listening to their poolside
hijinks outside my window. I decided to make the most of my time and
log on for some late night wolf hunting:
the Tauren village of Bloodhuff
My history II teacher told the class about this Native American tribe
that lived on top of of rock cliffs in the middle of the desert.
Not quite as elaborately decorated, but you can see where the designers
got their inspiration:
the Tauren city of Thunderbluff
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