Playing with feeds

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I’ve been playing around with my blog feeds–specifically, I’m toying with using FeedBurner in conjunction with my blog. To that end, I’ve got a new feed you can use for my blog which incorporates my flickr photos and del.icio.us links as well as normal blog posts. If you want to try it out, plug this link into your feed reader of choice:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheStagingPoint
(If you aren’t familiar with blog/RSS feeds, take a moment to read about ’em–you’ll thank me later, I promise.)
If you’d prefer your feed to contain only posts, as is the usual custom for blog feeds, that feed is still available. Links to both are down at the bottom left of the blog.
I’m mostly playing around with this to see how it works, and so I’d appreciate it if you tried out the new FeedBurner link and let me know what you think. It’s quite possible I’ve broken things in the course of meddling with the feeds, so if you notice any problems or annoyances with the new or old feeds, please let me know.

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Histori-wife

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Scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page, and see if you spot a certain familiar name! Let’s just say that our humble apartment has of late been stacked with even more books about the ancient Mediterranean world than usual.
Class starts next week! Good luck, beautiful!

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“…a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”

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Why, you ask, is Hawthorne ranked among the greatest of American writers? Because he finds room in his prose for quotes like this:

“Where is it, then?” asked Hilda. “I never peeped into it.”
“Wait, and it will open for you,” replied her friend. “The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere. The firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage scenery amid which we tread.”

From The Marble Faun. Simply glorious.

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New Year’s Miscellanea

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Happy New Year! I hope your New Year’s Eve celebrations were as riotous as ours. We got together with some friends and played Im Schatten Des Kaisers, a boardgame that Michele and I bought in Germany. We were armed with a crude English translation of the rulebook, but it still took us a few turns before we were correctly identifying all of the playing pieces. (Turns out it’s an excellent game–very strategic, in the vein of Settlers of Catan or Carcassonne.)
You know you’re getting old when it’s 11:00 on New Year’s Eve and you’re ready to pack it in. That’s right–we didn’t even stay up late enough to witness the Dropping of the Ball (a ceremony the appeal of which has always eluded me). One of our friends had a sermon to deliver at church the next morning, and you don’t want the pastor dozing off during the service. So we called it a successful New Year’s Eve.
Oh, and in other exciting New Year’s news, I played around with the theme and layout here on the ol’ blog. Gone is the Squad Leader visual theme, although it’s sure to return at some point given my fondness for it.
Hope your New Year is off to a good start!

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Welcome to the world of Warcraft

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It was with some trepidation that I took my first uncertain steps into the wide wide World of Warcraft. An entire online world, waiting to be explored–quests to undertake, magical artifacts to discover, exotic locales to visit.
Questions gripped me as I logged in, created my character, and ventured out into the icy mountain wastes of Dun Morogh, south of the bustling dwarven city of Ironforge. Around me, a jaw-dropping diversity of interesting characters darted to and fro–dedicated players going about their adventurous business.
How would I adjust to the intense online interaction required by such an ambitious gameworld? Could my dwarf paladin, through hours of hard work, sacrifice, and valiant struggles against the forces of the Horde, achieve the respect and even the admiration of this community of online Warcraft veterans?
Wait–there’s a group of gnomes over there. Maybe they can answer a few questions for an inexperienced newbie player. What’s that, you say?


…oh.
I thought this place seemed familiar. Beneath the gorgeous graphical game interface, it’s the same ol’ internet I know and love.
This, I think I can handle.

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It’s popular, and people like it… let’s cancel it!

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Looks like the beginning of the end for Arrested Development, the only reason to even bother owning a television these days. It looks like it’s falling victim to the TV networks’ usual logic: stumble across a show that’s actually excellent, then under-promote it, put it in a time slot so as to get it pre-empted by every conceivable sports event from baseball to curling, continually cut episodes from the season; then just give up.
Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

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Setting the scene

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Well, the tactical situation in that last post was starting to get pretty complex, so I decided to break out the miniatures and recreate the scene to be sure that we’re all on the same page. Click for the larger version, and let me know what details I’m missing.

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