…today, we noticed that the local high school team is called the Saints, not the Wyld Stallyns. ... Danas smo primjetili da lokalne srednje škole tim se naziva svecima, a ne Wyld Stallyns. A pity. Šteta.

In any case, Happy New Year. U svakom slučaju, sretna Nova Godina. Be excellent to one another. Budite odličan jedni drugima.

Thanks to the Word Stats plugin, I now know that I have written 340,000 words on this blog over the years, 111 a day, an average of 400 words per post. Zahvaljujući Riječ Statistika dodatka, ja sada znam da sam pismeni 340000 riječi na ovom blogu tijekom godina, 111 na dan, prosječno 400 riječi po postu.
Read the rest of this entry » Pročitajte ostatak ovog unosa »

I just dug into LibraryThing a little bit. Kopao sam samo u LibraryThing malo. I am sorely tempted to spend the $25 on a lifetime membership. Ja sam ljuto napastovan provesti $ 25 na doživotno članstvo. I maxed out the free 200 book entries already by just tossing the first few hundred items in my Amazon “purchased” list at it. Ja maxed iz slobodnog 200 knjiga zapisa već od samo bacanje prvih nekoliko stotina stavki u moje Amazon "kupljena" na listi nje. (Turns out that I have bought 1209 individual items from Amazon. I had never checked that number before. Hmm. Then again, I have been doing all my Xmas shopping on Amazon for years). (Ispada da sam kupio 1209 pojedinačnih predmeta iz Amazon. Ja nikada nije provjerila da broj prije. Hmm. Onda opet, ja sam učinio sve moje Božićni shopping na Amazon godinama).

Anyway, here’s my profile, and my catalog is here , based on that very limited sample. U svakom slučaju, ovdje je moj profil, i moj katalog je ovdje, koji se temelji na vrlo ograničenom uzorku. Gee, I’m even tempted to buy the CueCat they sell so I can scan the books here. Bože moj, ja sam čak u iskušenje da kupite CueCat oni prodati, tako da mogu skenirati knjige ovdje.

Furcadia is ten years old this month. Furcadia je deset godina ovaj mjesec. It still flies under the radar of most of the MMORPG community, in part because the hardcore gamers aren’t interested in yiffing, and in part because it’s like so many other of the niche MMOs: isometric, low-end graphics, and far deeper design than most want to give it credit for. To i dalje leti pod radar najvećeg dijela MMORPG zajednice, u dijelu jer je hardcore gamere nisu zainteresirani za yiffing, a dijelom zato što je poput tolikih drugih iz niša MMOs: izometrička, nisko-end grafike i daleko dublje od većine dizajn želite dati kredit za to.

Read the rest of this entry » Pročitajte ostatak ovog unosa »

Susan Wu tagged me and I am supposed to come up with 5 things you don’t know about me. Susan Wu označene mene i ja treba da se s 5 stvari koje ne znaju o meni. The problem is that with all the interviews and whatnot, all sorts of things have already been said. Problem je da kod svih intervjua i sitnica, štošta već rekao. Usually, I can pull out stuff that folks don’t expect, like “I’m fluent in Spanish” or “I have a degree in poetry,” but nowadays, this stuff is stuff all you regular blog readers know. Obično, ne mogu izvući stvari koje ljudi ne očekuju, kao što su "Ja sam tečno na španjolskom" ili "Imam stupanj u poeziji", ali danas, ove stvari se stvari sve što blog redovne čitatelje obavijestili.

So this is hard. Pa to je teško. Um.

Read the rest of this entry » Pročitajte ostatak ovog unosa »

Today we took the kids to the movies to see Happy Feet . Danas mi je djecu u kino da vide Sretan stope. It was pretty good, I thought, but also clearly a movie that could not have existed without March of the Penguins . Bilo je prilično dobro, sam mislio, ali i jasno je film koji bi mogao ne postoje bez ožujku je Penguins. You had to know the other movie to appreciate this one. Vi znate da su drugi cijeniti ovaj film na jedan. You knew exactly when the sea lion was going to threaten, you knew precisely how dangerous the birds of prey were, only because you had listened to Morgan Freeman’s voice describing it in great detail before. Vi znali točno kad je morski lav je da odete na prijetiti, koju je znao kako upravo opasna za ptice grabljivice su, samo zato što su slušali glas Morgan Freeman opisuje ga nadugačko i naširoko prije. Only because of the documentary could you really know how the cold might affect the penguin egg that eventually births Elijah Wood — er, I mean, Mumble. Samo zato što je dokumentarni možeš zaista znati kako bi mogli utjecati na hladnom pingvin jaje da konačno rođenih Elijah Wood - er, mislim, mrmljanje.

Read the rest of this entry » Pročitajte ostatak ovog unosa »

Stratics has put up a lengthy interview with me that is less about Areae and more about how I got there, if that makes sense. Stratics je stavio do poduži intervju sa mnom da je manje o Areae i više o tome kako sam ondje, ukoliko to smisla. Given that it’s Christmas Day, nobody is here online to read it, but maybe tomorrow, when you’re bored with all your presents. S obzirom da je Božić, niko se ovdje online za čitanje, ali možda sutra, kad ste dosadno svim svojim poklonima.

Speaking of which, I am leaving the computer again. Govoreći o kojoj, Odlazim računalo ponovo.

Before I forget — Happy Holidays, everyone. Prije nego što sam zaboravio - Sretni praznici, sve. Feel free to use the comment thread to wish each other good cheer, or argue, whatever. Slobodno koristite komentar nit želju da se međusobno dobro razvedriti, ili objašnjavati, kako god.

Allen Varney has a nice article at The Escapist on Boutique MMOGs . Allen Varney ima lijep članak na Escapist na Boutique MMOGs. In it, he points out that in aggregate, several of the smaller MMOs he lists have populations larger than that of WoW. U njemu, on ističe da je u agregat, nekoliko manjih MMOs on liste imaju veće populaciju od onoga Wow.

But I think it’s valuable to point out that most of WoW’s subs are in Asia. Ali mislim da je vrijedna naglasiti da je većina WOW's subs su u Aziji. If you compare the market share just in North America and Europe, a lot of these “under the radar” games actually have a larger market share than WoW does. Ako usporedite tržišni udio samo u Sjevernoj Americi i Europi, puno tih "pod radar" igre zapravo imaju veći udio na tržištu od WOW radi.

Just what you need to put you in a Christmas mood, carols as played by a mutilated madman in a cavern at the bottom of an opera house in a nightmare world where Cthulhu rules . Dovoljno je ono što vam je potrebno da Vas stavim na Božić raspoloženje, carols kao igrao je mutilated luđak u špilje na dnu operu kuća u noćne more svijetu gdje Cthulhu pravila.

Or, perhaps, just what they sounded like when you hit the mall yesterday. Ili, možda, samo ono što im zatrubi kao kad udarili centar jučer.