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So my current headset, which came bundled with my computer, stinks. It’s not the sound or anything, it’s the comfort. Because the thing hangs off my ears instead of wrapping over the top of my head, my ears hurt after about 15 minutes. The headband is too short to put on top of your head even if you wanted to wear it “incorrectly.” Trust me, I hate this thing.

Anyone have suggestions for a nice comfortable headset/mic combo that they use while playing WoW?

Here are some amusing easter-egg type things I’ve found in WoW if you read some of the books lying around on tables and floors. Click for larger images.

This is the last page of a guide to being undead which can be found in Ebon Hold, meant to explain their current situation to new Death Knights. I have to say, it offers some sage advice.

This next book is somewhere in The Scarlet Enclave in the Death Knight starting area of the Western Plaguelands. It’s an attempt by the Scarlet Enclave to keep tabs on the status of all Death Knights. On the last page of the book you’ll find your character’s name at the top. Hilarious! Since my character was a Tauren, I wonder if that “comments” section is different for each race. See if you can find the book and tell me if you comments were different than mine.

And lastly, because I’m doing some cleaning-off of my hard drive, I found this delightful picture of Slig wearing Whitemane’s Chapeau from days gone by.

So Dapper!

It seems like only yesterday that my little Sligger hit level 70, but tonight we hit the new level cap and dinged 80! (Longest level 70 EVAR, btw: I think it took me a year-and-a-half.) Of course I posed for the ding recorder shot — do guys do this or just girls? — and then realized afterwards that I had been too close to record the text. (I think ding recorder borked because I had it set to NOT hide the interface but it did so anyway.) Had to take an additional shot of guild chat. Also got a nice little prezzie from Rhonin afterwards. Whoever the heck he is…

Last night Slig ran through the Ulduar Halls of Stone last night with a pug (+1 guildie, Kamaru) . Wow, what a beautiful instance it was! Here are some highlights. Click for larger pictures.

From StarTrek.com

She died of leukemia at her home in Bel Air. Saw the announcement on Space.com (a little news clip on my Gmail, actually).

I had the privilege of meeting her once in 1991. I worked at a company which was headed by Loy Baxter, a good friend of Gene’s (and also the father of Skunk Baxter of the Doobie Brothers). They were buddies at the Bel Air Country Club. Loy found out that I was a huge Star Trek fan and convinced Gene to let him take me and a few friends to the Roddenberrys’ big Halloween party. I was excited beyond words! They threw a big bash every year and there would be Star Trek celebs, professional makeup and costumes, and movie-quality special effects set up around the mansion. I looked forward to the party for months.

Then, on October 24, Gene died. As you might imagine, they cancelled the Halloween party that year.

Later that year, for Christmas, it was Loy’s tradition to take the employees of our small company out to lunch at the Bel Air Country Club. Oh, fancy schmancy! On the way in we saw then-big TV star Corbin Bernsen taking a few swings on the driving range. But the real highlight came for me after we had eaten our salads and across the room, straight to our table, came Majel Roddenberry to greet Loy. I was sitting right next to him and my mouth dropped open because I recognized her right away. She was so kind to all of us. Loy introduced me to her and she shook my hand — a very warm, gracious handshake — and beamed a smile at me. I, of course, stammered and said nothing of use.

Majel Roddenberry helped her husband in conveying his vision of a positive, optimistic future for humankind. These ideas had a profound impact on my life. Now that they are both gone from this world, I’m doubly sad. I hope some day we can live up to the kind of future they saw for us. Rest in peace, dear Majel.

Wow, it didn’t take long for the Bush shoe-dodging incident to turn into a raging net meme. And a dang funny one, at that. I first saw this linked via Gaming Massively, but the original versions are on Boing Boing. (Or at least as “original” as I care to trace back to.)

The idea was to take another cultural reference and apply it to the footage of Bush dodging the shoe. I couldn’t get all the references, but the first WoW one is extremely funny (especially the “AFK Maliki”). There are also tributes to Pokemon, Monty Python, the Three Stooges, and a very amusing version of The Matrix. Here’s the WoW one, but do go check out the other ones, too.

This is Solareclipse, my Death Knight (same toon as in the previous post), doing a bit of holiday dancing in her fancy outfit that Rayha made her! Woot! Thankyewverrahmush…

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