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Epcot Food & Wine

samsynn — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:15:39 +0000

Nan and I are planning a trip up to Epcot for the Food & Wine festival. We didn’t get to go last year because of my Project Management class. As an added bonus, my sister will be down that weekend as well (so we’re hoping to meet her and the kids for lunch on Sunday).

We’re planning on going Saturday November 8, which is the last weekend of the festival this year. Anyone else interested in going?

April Fools from Warcraft

samsynn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:40:57 +0000

I’m not great at planning or executing April Fools jokes, but it’s always fun to see others. Each year Blizzard puts up some fake news items/plans for World of Warcraft. This years are pretty funny.

Bard class

Molten Core for consoles

Harry Potter 8th Movie?

samsynn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:49:17 +0000

Article here

I guess it’s a pretty good idea the more I think about it. I’m still wondering how they plan on doing Book 6 (since most of the important stuff is exposition and flashback to set up Book 7), but at least this means that there won’t be anything “missing” from the last movie.

Edit - It will be interesting to see how they do the 19 years later epilogue too - can you end the movie with different actors playing them?

Monkeysphere?

samsynn — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:21:24 +0000

Interesting read from Cracked.com…

What is the monkeysphere?

Getting better…

samsynn — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:06:16 +0000

It looks like I’ve gotten through the worst of it. My head is much better and the puffiness around the eyes has gone away. My eyes are still a little itchy and my throat is a little sore still, but I think that should be better by tomorrow as well. Dayquil/Nyquil regimen has seemed to work.

Now if it would just stop raining (since that never helps).

And it better not rain this weekend - it looks like Sunday is the day for the Ren-fest. Not sure what time we’re planning on heading out there, but definitely in time for lunch and then a few shows. After not leaving the house much last weekend I’m looking forward to getting out a bit.

I hate being sick…

samsynn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:09:24 +0000

It doesn’t happen all that often, but this past weekend I’ve just been achy and miserable. It started Friday with a headache that continued through the weekend. By Saturday morning my sinuses were blocked up and slowly pushing my eyes out the front of my head. It got a little bit better by last night but seems to be back in full force today.

While Nan had a busy weekend (yoga class, Greek festival), I stayed in as much as possible. I did a lot of Warcraft playing, watched the first half of Flags of our Fathers (not as good as Letters from Iwo Jima), all of Casino Royale (although in 2 sittings) and a bunch of Star Trek: TNG episodes.

It looks like we’re thinking of this Sunday (2/17) for the Ren-Fest at Quiet Waters. Let me know if you’re in.

Also - Howieopolis has reached 50 population, so I am going to start adding some industry to the city! Keep visiting the site (as well as Chardoville, Pharrisburg, Bingo-Valley, and Chandtopia).

Ren Fest 08

samsynn — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:58:46 +0000

Ok - Ren-Fest is back at Quiet Waters Park. It’s running every weekend from February 9 to March 9.

Who’s interested?

Which weekend is best for you?

Is Saturday or Sunday better?

Myminicity Alliance?

samsynn — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:05:54 +0000

It was suggested by James that now that I’ve got people creating these mini-cities, I should post all the links in one place. That way we can all help each other grow. If you’ve got one and want to be added to the list - here we are so far:

and my sworn enemy - Turnerities(which is already at the industry stage)

The numbers are back…

samsynn — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:45:24 +0000

if only for half a season, Lost is back. Great episode last night (which I can’t discuss here since Nan hasn’t watched it yet). We had recorded it since we were at the Shapiro household for dinner, but she was sleepy by the time we got home. Being me - I had to watch it and then start combing the Internet today.

I’m not sure why I never watched these, but there are 12 (soon to be 13) “webisodes” available on ABC.com (link here). I’m watching them at work today (now that I finally figured out that there’s a headset port on the back of my monitor). The 13th one I was able to find here - and that one just blows my mind!

And don’t forget to keep visiting Howieopolis and keep the city growing.

Howie-opolis???

samsynn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:45:38 +0000

So this site is going around work this week (for those of us bored enough). It looks like you create a city and more visitors to your site results in city growth. My poor city has only 1 population so far

(As a side note, we have already declared war on Ryan’s city).

Come on over!