Seeking somethin’ better…

One and a half episode into Legend of the Seeker, my thoughts are inevitably drawn to fantasy series Hercules and Xena. Mind you, this isn’t a good grade. Nothing more than good enough acting and lots of special effects. For some reason, most fantasy books brought to the screen come out less than dignified.

I haven’t read the books by Terry Goodkind, but I’m hoping they’re better. I guess it’s pretty much a matter of making the budget last for as long as possible when making a series such as this. Had it been a movie things might have been different. But it isn’t. What little quality I’ve found so far is actress Bridget Regan (iMDB), whose acting is better than the rest of the casts. And she’s easy on the eyes too…

Just another Friday night…

Picked up two books and a movie on my way home. Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E, Clive Barker’s Cabal and Christie Golden’s Arthas – Rise of the Lich King. Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend?

“Paris in the fall…”

That’s how the director’s cut of the classic adventure game Broken Sword starts off. I used to play this a long time ago and now it’s been released for the iPhone. So I had to get it. Spent a good hour and a half playing it last night. “Just one more puzzle…”

This is Revolution Software’s second port to iPhone. The first was cyberpunk adventure Beneath a Steel Sky. Got that as well…

Links:
Revolution Software’s website
Beneath a Steel Sky @ App Store
Broken Sword @ App Store

Raid the Sunwell!

Experienced my first 25 man raid today; the Sunwell Plateau. It took some time to gather 25 players and the beginning of the raid was coming along smoothly. But why do some people insist on running ahead and not following the raid leader’s instructions? As things were, we didn’t make it past first boss Kalecgos…

Perhaps I’ll give it another go later on and hopefully with a better group. The loot was fine. Got a new pair of gloves.

Sitting on The Bishop’s Arms

Having many Lagavulins. Work tomorrow. Oh well…

Nice feedback

For once, I got some really nice feedback on my work. Last week I created an eight page product folder containing products from one of the big players in the computer business. This folder was printed in Swedish and Danish and the campaign started this Monday.

What I hadn’t the slightest idea of was that executives from both companies had sat down to discuss the folder. What I just found out was that they were all very pleased and that the layout, choice of images and overall work felt very professional and had a bureau quality to it. This really made my day. I’m a one man ad company. How do you like them apples, you unbelievers out there?

No, I’m not dead…

But pretty close to it. Work has been H*ll ever since it started and probably will continue that way.

To ease the pain, I’ve bought new stuff to get my mind off work as much as possible. A couple of new movies; Inkheart and M Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water, a new book; Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things… and a new lens; Nikkor AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G (see image above).

I’ve also started looking at programming language Objective-C. Since I’ve scripted a bit of PHP earlier, Obj-C isn’t too hard to follow due to the fact that they’ve both derivated from C and thus have the same “parent”. So, what’s Obj-C? It’s the language used when programming for Mac OS X and iPhone. I thought I’d give it a try.

When speaking of applications, I’ve found some good ones for the iPhone. Bokus released an app (iTunes App Store link) not too long ago and it does what it’s meant to. Their competitor AdLibris has released one as well. A cool (and free!) app for photographers is iDof Calc, which helps you calculate the depth of field when a certain focal length is used with a certain aperture and distance to object. To get the crop factor right you simply choose your camera from a list.

Also, anyone who had downloaded Apple’s iTunes 12 Days of Christmas app got some nice gifts for free. Mostly songs, but some apps as well. The ones I fetched were Trivial Pursuit (knowledge is power!), Labyrinth (highly addictive!) and Let’s Golf! (just because it was free…).

Another cool game app is Song Summoner – The Unsung Heroes from Square Enix. It’s been out for a while and a free version is available. In short, you battle baddies by turning the music on your iPhone or iPod Touch into warriors! Now this is imagination taking new turns. Keep it up, Square Enix!

A perfect ten?

I am referring to 2010. Primarily. 2009 wasn’t too great even if it had its moments.

New Year’s was great. Lots of food and drink with friends. Some new whiskeys sampled; Auchentoshan and Nikka Yoichi. I gave the last one away to the people I spent New Year’s with. Added anCnoc to my collection. It’s a light and smooth Highland whisky. A pleasant aquaintance. Try it.

I’ve nailed more WoW achievements in the last days. Cooking dailies, profession progess and regular quests. And I’m halfway through level 69.

Added Terminator Salvation and Hellboy 2 to the collection. Saw Avatar a while ago. Grand effects. Good story. It will make the collection as well.

Work again on Thursday. I don’t feel too motivated. Not at all…

These days in-between…

It’s been a while since the last update. I know. I’ve been out of town, but I’m back again. First thing that happened was a lot of achievements in WoW; a couple of Winter Veil ones (finally made it to Dalaran!), made Grand Master in fishing and got the 1000 fish achievement to name but a few. Sadly, I’ve spent a lot of gold in the process…

Also, I now have my very own wireless network set up. It took a bit of fightin’, but it’s up and working like it should. It even feels faster than the cable-bound alternative. Since the blasted access point has to be visible, I “had” to get a designed one. Happened to be Apple’s AirPort Extreme. It’s got the nicest design you’ll find on a router today.

What’s next on the agenda? First off is breakfast. After that, well… I might WoW a bit or pay Scifibokhandeln a visit or something. Hook up with buddies for cups o’ coffee perhaps.

Snowy. For once.

Finally a white winter’s holiday…