A video of our first Yogg-Saron Kill in 10 Man Ulduar, it was made a couple of weeks ago.

I don’t think there has ever been a point where i’ve simply sat down and ground anything out for an extended period of time…. that is prior to the past couple of months. It appears to be getting to that time of year when no one has time for anyone and it’s business as usual in terms of work / sport / leisure activities.

At work it’s more of the same, i dislike the usual calls where someone i work with has stuffed up and i am required to do the work again but i just grin and bear it. Due to my ‘wonderful’ demeanor and attitude towards people who constantly do the wrong thing i generally find myself on the outer with most of the people i work with save a few people who almost always do the right thing and usually will go the extra mile to do something right which i think is an acceptable loss if it means that i rarely get invited to Friday drinks because it’s organized by one (or a few) of the people who know what i feel about their quality of work.

I also find it funny how the weather always seems to have a sick sense of irony in regards to moods, lately when i’ve been having a less than fantastic day it has been bright and sunny with a warm breeze but when i’m having a good day i am generally met with rain and a chill in the air.

Much like work some of my old friends from school seem to have better things to do that have a conversation about how their life is going, mind you a lot of them are from the mould that if you show your emotions it makes you a ‘queer’, emotions being discussing your life in general outside the standard 1980s ‘manly’ stuff. I guess people just move on and i’m begining to see what others have told me about in regards to losing touch with people they went to school with and slowly drifting apart which in itself is sad but i guess people grow and move on with their lives and prioritise newer friendships and relationships over older ones.

On to more positive stuff! I have been going well in World of Warcraft with my new guild (Fallen Chapter on Blackrock US) but have been struggling to get a raid spot of late which frustrated me because i play the game to raid and for nothing else really, having said that it has given me time to get in to PvP a bit more and i’m starting to accumulate a nice PvP gear set as well as a Holy set which allows me to do well in Battlegrounds as both Holy and Retribution (i play a Paladin for those who are wondering what i am talking about). I am going to start work on my little side project BaconOfLight (named after the Paladin Ability Blessing of Light) which will be a site dedicated to all things Paladin (much like the other xpaladin.com sites around and various weblogs) which will hopefully be useful as a resource to someone once it’s up and running with populated pages… we will see however.

If you jump over there now (baconoflight.com) it’s just a placeholder.

Anyway, i’ll make another update shortly in regards to a few things i’m working on (this time i will… i hope) and hopefully some good news!

I Went to Top Gear Live yesterday out at Acer Arena, Homebush Bay (Olympic Park), Sydney.

We took the train in which was surprisingly fast and only 1-2 minutes late at most stops, the bad part was that of the 6 trains we caught yesterday only 1 had air conditioning and this was the last one we caught being later in the evening when it was cooler (it was a snug 32-33 all day…. yay!).

We stopped off at The Brewery out at Homebush and had a Beer while watching a bit of the cricket (we got to Homebush just over an hour early….), we then enjoyed a great Lamb Sandwich while walking over to the Performance and Prestige show outside of Acer.

The Prestige and Performance show was pretty cool, there were 2 F1 cars (previous seasons of course ) which can been seen in the Photos to the right of this post as well as heaps of V8s and European Sports Cars. I’m a big fan of the Audi R8 and the Aston Martin Vanquish so i was very happy to see both of these cars make a showing! Unfortunately the picture i took of the R8 was ruined (it’s just a giant white flash…) but i got the Astons and the Ferraris so i guess it’s not that bad.

I have a couple of movies from the show which i will upload when i get SSH installed on my iPhone (not hard just a pain…) which contain most of the things missing from the pictures.

The show itself was great, it was a bit strange having some live advertisements at the start from Audi, Garman and Alfa but those were quickly over. The show started with Jeremy and Richard driving on to the floor in and R8 and a Gallardo then introducing Steve Pizzati who was filling in for James May who could not be there (and was not the butt of all jokes).

They did a few cool things with precision driving and bikes at the start, they then moved on to what i thought was pretty interesting where they got the Audience to do the cool wall (must have been a predominantly Holden audience because the Holden Ute received Cool status and the Ford Ute was Uncool…) with these red and green cards which were held up and processed through an image recognition system in real time to calculate the votes, this system was also used later in the show to complete a virtual lap of the Top Gear UK test track which the audience came about middle of the pack for in terms of ‘overall’ ranking.

The show concluded with The Stig throwing a Lotus Elise around the arena while being ‘pursued’ by an Apache helicopter (as seen in an Episode of Top Gear UK). The the ‘3D’ graphic of the helicopter coupled with the cardboard glasses was underwhelming but the driving was excellent.

Overall it was definitely worth the price of admission, i was a bit miffed i didn’t get a go on the F1 Simulators but i doubt it’d be a huge difference to playing at the arcade for a couple of dollars.

I’ll get the videos up soonish!

Unfortunately i usually end up telling myself off for almost posting something which may be construed as “boring”, so i think from now on i’ll just post stuff that is interesting to me and see how that goes. Public opinion be damned!

Stay tuned for a rant on Wrath of the Lich King (WoW Expansion, i’m an addict ) and possibly a review of the War of the Ancients Trilogy and The Sunwell Trilogy…. maybe a brief review of the new book by Aaron Rosenberg and Christie Golden Entitled “Beyond the Dark Portal” though i don’t know how fast i will be reading it…

If you couldn’t tell already i’m a massive Warcraft fan fiction addict and i love the lore of the Warcraft universe (much to the dismay of many a player i assure you).

Anyway, Watch this space!

P.S. feel free to follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ressah) as i will be updating it from both home and work (easy to remember too) regularly thanks to the excellent Twitterfox plugin for Mozillas Firefox Browser (3.0 final was released last week if you missed it~)

Over the past few decades, the question has been batted back and forth as fresh evidence comes to light. Two years ago, Norwegian researchers declared the answer was a firm no, claiming the animals’ nervous systems were not complex enough.

I’m sure the pigs and cow we kill also feel pain but i don’t see how this changes anything, the only real inhumane way of killing crustaceans i can think of would be boiling them in water but even then you can kill them before you do this.

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This is absolutely insane, this guy is a total freak. He virtually flawlessly played the hardest song on Guitar Hero 3.

Absolutely insane, enjoy the video

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Last August, Al Qaeda terrorists in Samara made a plan to kidnap US soldiers and to make a public spectacle of their imprisonment and murder, just two weeks before General Petraeus’s internationally viewed testimony on Iraq before the U.S. They sent over 40 terrorists against an isolated 4 man sniper team.

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For 15 years there have been thousands of “Made in China” bathtime ducks floating halfway around the world’s oceans.

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What causes people to abandon an entire settlement, town, or even a large city? Here are seven amazing examples from the North Korea to Thailand, New Jersey to Japan, plus three honorable mentions. Some of these sites are illegal, making these photographs a rare glimpse of incredible ghost towns. One of them has been burning for over fourty years!

Both Creepy and interesting. Amazing pictures also, check them out!

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