This little piece using quotes from Bruce Lee caught my eye today. Just some general life tips and such. The part I liked best was when the author wrote this:
It just means that you realize – and remember in your everyday life – that the thoughts and emotions are just things flowing through you.
You are not them though.
You are the consciousness observing them.
Cool, no?
From digg:
Besides being an awesome fighter and iconic figure Bruce Lee also had some very useful things to say about life.
I really enjoy the Discworld series. I’m slowly working through the series, with the help of the library next door to my office. This book has more fun with the magic of Discworld, and the gender politics of its magic users.
The ending was a bit of a jumbled mess, but that was probably the point. I can see this as setting up people, places, and events for use in the future books. The humor was as sharp and witty as ever.
Will I get to attend and purchase a signed copy of Starslip Crisis: Volume 1… probably not. I imagine it’ll be another weekend of crazy, exhausting, kid watching time.
The 3rd anniversary of Guild Wars is just around the corner (and my 31st birthday on the same day). To celebrate they made some additions to the ending of the original Guild Wars campaign, giving it a real ending with rewards. Last night I decided to check it out and marched my team of miscreants back up to Hell’s Precipice.
The team died once, but that’s because I wasn’t paying attention. It went rather well after that misstep. Ending as it must with an Undead Prince Rurik (dead again), and the Lich Lord with him.
Which took me to the new ending area where you can chat it up with all the NPCs you met along the way. It was a nice touch and really fits with the endings the made for the other campaigns and expansion. Ties a few plot bits up too and the expansion fit a little better into the storyline.
I even got myself a fancy new staff. Funny thing is that after making over half a dozen characters, I realized the only one I really use… and thus the only one I should be getting stuff for is this character, my necromancer. Thing is all the other end game items I’ve acquired I gave to other characters… so even though she really didn’t need a new weapon, she deserves to get this one.
But lest you think I spent my time re-beating the game just for a shiny new stick, my time at Hell’s Precipice was well spent with other pursuits too. I capped an Elite (since I’m back doing that now that I finally purchased the skill trainer for my Guild Hall) from Rurik himself, no less. I also mapped what I could and now am proud to say I’ve hit 99% on the Tyrian Cartographer title. Getting that last 1% is going to drive me insane.
Just for fun, here’s a little picture of the Edge of the World that I ran into while messing around the Northern Shiverpeaks the other day.
I bought this book for my wife after hearing the author on a podcast, Dragon Page: Cover to Cover. After having just finished reading Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, I was still in the superhero genre mode so I thought I’d give Karma Girl a try. There’s a lot of tongue in cheek going on in this book both figuratively and literally. Let’s not delude ourselves, this is a romance novel… just with superpowers thrown in.
Now I’m not one for trashy romance novels, but there’s more than that to this book. My best summation is that it’s a fun ride. The twists and secrets revealed are fairly easy to pick out along the way, but that’s half the fun. I thought this book was a blast to read, and as long as you know what type of book you’re getting into… anyone should enjoy it.
In the further adventures of the Species Confused Duck… here’s a video of the horrible thing. Actually I’m just testing out flickr’s new video capabilities. Works pretty well if you ask me.
