Last weekend, I watched the three original Hobbit/Lord of the Rings movies, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. In particular (as my wife will attest), I verily squealed with glee when my favorite song, “Where There’s a Whip, There’s a Way” started. Somehow, even though it’s been quite a few years since I have seen Return of the King, I still knew all the words to this song, and knew precisely when to expect it – It’s amazing what sticks with you.
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Mosaic-a-Week: Azorius Keyrune, Azorius Signet
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of Magic’s cycles. I’m also a huge fan of Ravnica – it was the block that I started playing Magic in the second time, and I really liked all the pieces that went into it. Because of this, I decided to double-up on mosaics for this particular cycle of Ravnica goodness and do a mosaic from the new set and a mosaic from the old set – Azorius Keyrune and Azorius Signet.
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Spreadsheets and Databases – Part 2: Warhammer 40K
I’ve been playing Warhammer 40K now for a few years, with my main activity being army building. That may seem a bit lame, but I find myself enjoying collecting, assembling, organizing, and painting an army somewhat more than I do actually playing the game. However, I do find that I have missed our Thanksgiving Apocalypse game, as it used to give me better opportunity to put the “organizing” part to work, which was always a lot of fun for me. When I built my first initial armies, I used spreadsheets, like many others, but, for me, it became very quickly apparent that Warhammer 40K really needs a database if you want a tool to do the heavy lifting for you.
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Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling
This week, work has been extremely busy. But I always find that no matter how busy it is, it always feels good, so I thought I would share:
Don’t be afraid to break out into dance next time you get a good feeling. I promise, I won’t have you tasered and taken to a mental facility. Start writing on the wall, though, and all bets are off.
Mosaic-a-Week: Tolsimir Wolfblood
At Jessa’s request, today’s mosaic is another iconic figure hanging in our household, Tolsimir Wolfblood.
Spreadsheets and Databases – Part 1: EvE Online
Since I started playing EvE Six years ago, I have been a fan of spreadsheets. In fact, I never really gave Excel a second look until I started playing EvE, which, thinking back, is rather crazy in it’s own right. As I’ve gotten more proficient with Excel, and making it do the things that I want it to, I’m starting to bump into some of its limitations, both as an organizational tool and a number-crunching tool. This blog series is about the migration of some of my more complicated spreadsheets to databases, and, as a first look, I thought I would use my EvE Online spreadsheets – the main reason I have become so proficient in Excel in the first place.
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Mosaic-a-Week: Arcanis the Omnipotent
With my new mosaic program done, I decided that it was time to restart my Mosaic-a-Week. Stay tuned each Monday for a new image mosaic of a magic card. To kick it all off, I couldn’t resist doing a card that should be recognizable to anyone who has been in my house – Arcanis the Omnipotent.
WordPress is up!
This year, my New Year’s Resolution was to get WordPress up and running, and replacing PivotX as my primary blogging software. Tada! I did this yesterday, and now I can wash my hands of doing WordPress installations for now. If you want to know why “WordPress installations” is plural, read on…
Switching to WordPress Soon
I’ve been a little lax in my blogging lately, as I have been exploring the recent WordPress release 3.5. I’ve been considering some future directions for my blog, and I think they may be served better by WordPress’s feature set. That’s not to say that PivotX hasn’t been great while I have been using it, but I’m at least going to give it a shot and see what happens. Stay tuned for more news.
More Magnetized Machines
The Kodiak is one of my favorite Khador ‘Jacks, and I’ve always been a bit bummed that I only had one. Sure, I could always buy another, but I recently decided to take a different tack, and bought the bits required to magnetize them to my existing heavy warjack frames. As a bonus, I also finally finished the magnetization of the Decimator/Demolisher/Spriggan kit – pictures after the jump.