06.06.07

The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Blogging

Posted in apology, Random, General at 6:45 pm by gatormha

So, as it turns out, my post about programmer classification wasn’t as nearly well received as my other posts. Even though it was front-paged on DZone, it received more negative votes than positive votes. And most comments about it were talking about how incomplete it was. One guy even went out of his way to make a blog post about how un-funny it actually was! Though, in my opinion, his attempt to redo failed even worse than the original. My post was at least trying to be light-hearted and funny; his post was way too harsh. Combined with an extremely basic grasp of English, the humor of the post was completely lost on me:

“It’s hard to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys, but it’s also difficult to soar gracefully at all when you’re chained by the neck to a Lear jet doing mach 4.”

What?

Anyhow, it turns out that if people are actually going to read this stuff, I’m going to have to limit my time investing in trampoline stocks and really put 110% of my efforts into writing these posts. Even though I’ve made a KILLING after they released the new 5′ x 10′ “Super Tramps”, I’m just going to have to become totally quality driven. I want to ramp up the interactivity of these posts, become more scalable, flexible, and client-centered. I think if maybe I were a little more adaptive, I could reach all the low-hanging fruit and really get on the bleeding edge of blog awesomeness.

In case you haven’t seen it Buzzword Bingo rocks — a lot (especially if you’re going to a meeting today).

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05.30.07

What the HELL Was That?!

Posted in PVP, addiction, Random, Funny, Video Games, World of Warcraft, General at 8:24 pm by gatormha

For those of you who didn’t understand that last post, this might help explain it. Maybe not. It’s basically the audio of a group of 40 players failing miserably during an attempt to kill a dragon in the World of Warcraft video game put to a ridiculous animation.

Speaking of WoW, I’d like to rant a little bit. I encountered a REALLY dumb druid last night in Ashenvale on the Shattered Hand realm. I was trying to kill some demons to complete a quest, but this Tauren druid was just standing behind me like some sort of moron. So I killed him. I mean, it wasn’t even close. I immediately tried to imagine the guy struggling to fight me off while still finishing up a plate of spaghetti. So I figured it was just a lucky happening of me getting a basically free HK. So I went about my business killing demons and such, but the druid wasn’t finished getting owned. Ohhh no. He decided to come back and die at my hands 5 more times before finally killing me as I was fighting him and another NPC. I of course came back and killed him…AGAIN.

I guess my whole point of this post is that WoW is WAY too addictive. I could have been bettering my life somehow rather than repeatedly killing some noob in Ashenvale. But as a full-blown addict, I find myself coming back to the game every night for another dose of bitter reality (or non-reality). But I’m sure that one of these days I’m going to get my Boots of Escaping!

If you’re just reading this to pass time before your guild raids Orgrimmar, feel free to watch the next randomly ridiculous cartoon I have to offer you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ

Sweet As Candy (like usual),

Matt

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