But I can't resist.  This article is about a quadraplegic who "swam" the English channel:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100919/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_amputee_swimmer

- He "swam" across?  I would have thought he'd bobbed across.

- Why didn't he just use "specially designed prostheses" with a motor attached?

- Those dolphins were saying "WTF?" and "They're never going to believe this back at the pod."

- His book should have been called "I decided to live by doing shit that could easily kill me.  Anyone want to part what's left of my pubic hair with a harpoon?  Please kill me."

- Let's just hope that the exceptionally idiotic thing he did to himself that caused him to lose his limbs also fried all his sperm.

Hey folks,

Since April I've been working on my own RPG called "Crawler" for the iPhone.  It just went on sale today for $1 on the iPhone App store.  It's a dungeon crawler that's about as simple as an RPG can get (which is still about 83 pages of code - WoW code couldn't be printed without killing a forest).  It will run on any iPhone or iPod Touch.  I hope some of you get a chance to take a look at it.

Tankard

Dear Blizzard,

Please remove the handicap ramp leading to the jewelers shop in Dalaran.  While I have seen many many mentally handicapped toons, I have yet to see a physically handicapped one.  And yet, that ramp makes me feel like one because due to its curved shape, lack of railings and lag, I fall off the fucking thing all the time. If there was a lawyers shop in Dalaran, you'd be getting your ass sued constantly.

While you're at it, please remove the gigantic pit in Ironforge which some designer made who should spend his time in hell falling in and getting out of for eternity.

Furthermore, the next time a city like Shattrath is designed, please think monorail, or teleporters or some damn public transportation.  Oh, and a big ass blinking sign that says "WRONG BANK, FOOL".

I'm sure that every player in existence will thank you for considering all of this.

Yours,

Tankard

It's time for me to make a change.  In the past year I've been working 50-60 hour weeks and raiding and I need to take care of myself and those around me better.  I'll still be around in game but my focus will be on more casual play and levelling some alts.  Good luck with Ulduar guys, you'll beat the game again soon I'm sure (how many times is this going to be?).

I think Blizzard has some very repressed artists...

Many of you may have noticed the fact that for the past 6 months I've been logging in to raid and not on much the rest of the time.  Even my Wrath levelling has been late at night and solo most of the time and I've been forced to be as efficient as possible which has squeeked out a level every 2 days.

The reason for all of this is because I'm working 2 jobs.  I've got my regular job at Apple and I picked up contract work for a game developer which means I've been working 50-60 hour weeks.  Fortunately, I pretty much make my own hours for both jobs which is the only reason it's been tolerable.  That and I actually enjoy writing games.

The fact that Wrath Raid 1 got moved up 2 weeks has therefore really screwed me.  I'm going to be on vacation this week and likely without internet access good enough to play (though I'm going to try).  If I can play, I might be 80 in time.  If I can't then I'm going to miss at least 1 week.

Anyway, I do expect to have more time in the future, so this is just to let you all know what's been going on and to expect me to be back in game more often once my contract work is done (a couple months).  In the meantime, I intend to do as much raiding as possible.