There's a lost soul coming down the road, Somewhere between two worlds
Posted in FFXI, Random Thoughts, Real Life on Jan 29th, 2008
My web host (Dreamhost) has, by default, a stats page. You cannot access it, but I can.
Every so often I take a look, and normally I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. However, I am usually amused by how people get here via the normal web search engines.
I’ve circled the ones I find [...]
Posted in Real Life on Jan 24th, 2008
In a departure from our normal programming, here are some pictures from from my trip to Williamsburg.
Capital building.
This is a reconstructed building on the original foundations of the 18th century building.
The main street of Williamsburg, the Duke of Gloucester street.
A birdhouse in the back of the Wythe House.
A rack of muskets [...]
Posted in FFXI, Random Thoughts, Real Life on Dec 28th, 2007
Most people probably have not noticed, but in FFXI, everything, both near to the viewer and far, is in perfect focus.
This isn’t how the real world is, but since the game can’t re-focus based on where the viewer is looking, it works.
So, I’ve added a little bit of this realism to a screenshot.
This was [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Real Life on Dec 26th, 2007
After spending way too much time with the family for Christmas, something occurred to me.
Does anyone else out there appreciate how funny it is to hear a person over 80 complain about someone else’s driving?
My grandmother, who is in her 80’s, commented on my driving that “this car is too fast”. While the car [...]
Posted in FFXI, Other Games, Random Thoughts, Real Life on Dec 18th, 2007
A lot of the recent hacking has brought up some of the fundamental flaws in the Final Fantasy XI game.
For starters, the Notorious Monster system is horribly broken. I would say it is broken to the point of being impossible to fix without an overhaul of the entire game system.
Lets look at the problems. Many [...]
Posted in Real Life on Oct 21st, 2007