I just recently discovered the Cake Wrecks site and its been making me giggle ever since. I know I’m a bit slow considering the site has archives back three years and has been featured on dozens of other websites. But even this delayed its well worth sharing. =D
But its even better, because the author of Cake Wrecks started another site called EPBOT.com. A fun geek (crafty) girl blog. At first I was skeptical (always am of crafty sites!), but just the other day she posted probably about the most awesome tee shirt of all time. If there was any doubt left about the site being worthy, linking this shirt instantly trampled it all to bits.
Best shirt EVAR! Only failing, no woman’s sizes!! Seriously, that was one of my favorite childhood movies of ALL time, and they cant make at least a girl shirt. Booo! /sigh
Its about time for another little World of Warcraft update. And though I have been trying to keep WoW topics from overwhelming the site, I do still spend quite a lot of time playing it still and could go on and on. Thus I am consolidating all my latest news into one post.
Almost forgot to add that the Midsummer World Event began today which is the last world even that my warlock needs to complete the purple drake flying mount achievement.
WonderCon was indeed this past weekend, an event that completely snuck up on me. Then again I’m terrible at planning for these things, which is probably one of the reasons I have been unable to make it to ComicCon the past few years. (If you don’t get a hotel room within the first hour that the phone lines open up, you are so out of luck!)
Thankfully WonderCon (the con of wonders and delights) is hosted near enough to home that a simple reminder from my husband the week before the event is plenty of notice to assure my attendance.
Just one of the many reasons that I love WonderCon. =)
Its amazing to see what incredible work Ada Lovelace actually did. Imagine all the struggles she must have endured to even be heard. Imagine if more women had had her opportunities.
Thankfully, women now a days get far more encouragement from society. =)
Dedicating a day to all the women that have made the path into technology easier for each generation to come is a wonderful idea. They should all be celecreated, espcially Ada who as the very first programmer is a littler nearer and dearer to my heart.
This is something that has been circulating in some of the WoW Blogs I read occasionally. Even though I don’t consider this a World of Warcraft Blog (though it could easily become one!) I thought it might be a good way to pay my respects to WoW.
And respect it deserves. World of Warcraft: The Lich King expansion has probably been my favorite game of the year (2009). I know, it was actually released in 2008, but I played so much of the game this year, I think it fully qualifies. =)
I’m pretty sure that I played WoW more this year then I slept. And so I award WoW the “Better than Sleep” award. =)
Like most things ‘online social’, I found out about this via email invitation. This sneaky invitational spam, propagated by well meaning friends and email contacts, is usually the first thing to be deleted; yet the avid reader in me just couldn’t ignore this. (That’s how they getcha!)
At first glance I though ‘oh no not another social obligation site’, but with not much digging it became apparent that Goodreads is indeed about books and not just a clever front for social networking. Oh sure people review books and everyone gets their two cents, people friend each other and even authors get a chance to promote their own books, but in the end the books stand for themselves.
A while back she reaped the benefit of a ‘pay it forward’ blog contest and thus had to pony up and spread the goodness to others. Well I was one of those lucky others that responded in time. And wonderful person that she is, she deigned to send me something sweet even though I was pretty sure that my site wasn’t really one of those type of blogs.
The past two weeks of Fantasy Football have been winners for my team!
Week eight was supposed to be the Manning battle, but then I forgot to play him. Of course he had a fabulous game, on the bench. Payton would have won that week though.
I did manage to eek out a win, mostly thanks to Santana Moss who scored a beastly 24.40 points (240 yards and two TDs). But I think I will have to give week eight MVP to Chris Johnson who, as my last player to go, scored me the 6+ points I needed to win.
Week nine was won handily with my team totaling a grand 103.14 points. Not sure who should get week nine MVP. It’s between my kicker who made 15 points (super high for a kicker, he made six kicks, two of which were over 40 yards) and my defense, Arizona, who scored 18 points.
Since this is the first double digit that my defense has managed this season, MVP will have to be Arizona D. Maybe this will start a new trend. =)