Musings...

I just heard about Community Call: Insult the hero up on the Fable 2 blog.  Looks like they're looking for a replacement for the insult from the last game.  Could be fun! If only I could think of something interesting 

We need a replacement for the tired old "Arseface" from the original Fable, as the Hero Title which you receive when you get enough NPCs to hate your guts. So, if any of you chaps and chappettes have some abusive and derisive ideas, now is the time to shout and share it with the team! Or rather post them in the comments of this blog (we are going to regret this aren't we?), and who knows, if it's enough the title might make it onto our shortlist!

I ran across this interesting article on procrastination, and had to share.

http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

Interesting things from the article:

There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.

That's the sense in which the most impressive people I know are all procrastinators. They're type-C procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff.

What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?

 Anyway, had to share, since I do tend to procrastinate a lot - sometimes in a good way, sometimes not.  It did make me think

Washington and other places in the pacific northwest recently suffered from a large windstorm that left over 1 million people without power. (here's one article on this)

I also lost power - from Thursday night to Sunday night.  I didn't end up having to spend most of that time in my own house (thank goodness - it was cold), since we've got friends with power, a perfectly good car with gas, and several malls, etc. within driving distance.

I'll take a picture of my trees that fell down once it gets lighter out and put them up, too. Update: pictures are up.

• If you don't empty out an ice dispenser in your freezer in a power outage, it turns into a puddle generator.
• You can't run a furnace, even a gas furnace, without electricity.
• It won't kill you to go a few days without a shower.
• I wasn't really all that attached to anything in my fridge or freezer

• Heat!
• Friends in a different power grid
• My pets don't need special care in near-freezing weather
• Neither of my trees fell on anything important

• My breath in my own house
• A minor house fire
• Coming across the 520 bridge on Friday evening, the entire east side of Lake Washington had no lights.  It was eerie.  And I knew I didn't have electricity yet

I still don't have cable - I'll have to call somebody to see what's up with that.  But I don't think it will kill me not to have TV for a few days.

It's been an exciting few days - but I'm glad I took next week off so I can recover and finally get around to cleaning my house before my parents get here.  I think I'll get started on that.

I spent a lot of time fixing up the look and feel - so I hope you all love it as much as I do

One of the other cool things we're doing is opening up the way to put gadgets on your space.  It might be a bit before there are any up there that are compatible with spaces - so build one!  Check out this post to the SpaceCraft to learn about building gadgets - I even have an idea for one I think I might try my hand at.  I'll post here again if that ends up happening.

And yes, we are aware of some issues that we're currently working to fix.  The SpaceCraft has a post for this too, and that might be a more appropriate place for comments since I have been known not to check here frequently at times