Totally useless waste of time - but quite fun!

So I’ve been playing with this silly superheroes game in facebook and one of the ways to gain xp is to train… you can select different ways to do so, but the most efficient seems to be to train your mind. There are 7 levels of difficulty, and each level is worth 5 points per question. get all 10 questions right and you get the points - miss any and you lose em.

I spent good amount of time and many gathering level 7 questions. The lower levels all have only 10 - 12 questions chosen at random - This level has significantly more.

so, without further ado, I give you the “If you attempt this, you may die…” questions I have seen so far. let me know if you find others

note: these are not direct quotes - just what I remember of the question… what do you expect when you only get 10 seconds to look at it and answer it?

Q: Wonder Woman’s home that used to be called “paradise island”?
A: Themyscira

Q: Who has never been known as the Blue Beetle?
A: Guy Gardner

Q: Billy Batson becomes the World’s Mightiest Mortal, known as
A: Captain Marvel

Q: Which is not part of the Defenders?
A: Ghost Rider

Q: Who was the founder of Marvel Comics?
A: Martin Goodman

Q: Mary Jane Watson once had a relationship with which supervillian before he got his superpowers?
A: Hydro-Man

Q: In the Marvel universe which character makes devilish deals trading souls for favors?
A: Mephisto

Q: J’onn J’onzz - aka Martian Manhunter has a weakness to:
A: Fire

Q: What Identity did Dick Grayson taken on after leaving Batman?
A: Nightwing

Q: The Legion of the Superheroes is set how many years in the future?
A: 1000

Q: Hellboy works for
A: B.P.R.D.

Q: In the comics, John Constantine is:
A: British

Q: In the D.C. universe, which character is not part of the Birds of Prey?
A: Supergirl

Q: Since 1939 how many official male Robins has Batman had?
A: 3

Q: The Green Lantern’s space sector number is:
A: 2814

Q: Who is not a part time meber of the Fantastic Four?
A: Namor, the Sub-Mariner

Q: The creator of “The Spirit” is:
A: Will Eisner

Q: Who is not a blood relative of Colossus?
A: Mr. Sinister

Q: Dr. Strange’s Headquarters is known as:
A: Sanctum Sanctorum

Q: Scott McCloud’s first first original story had a flying hero named:
A: Zot

Q: What is Frank Castle’s alter-ego?
A: The Punisher

Q: Which of the following Marvel characters is not a telepath?
A: Havok

Q: Which real person did Stan Lee base Iron Man on?
A: Howard Hughes

Was it worth it?

Well, I haven’t had to pay for it yet - student loan payback doesn’t kick in for another few months.

The last two months out of school have flown by. Yesterday I got my diploma in the mail.

Aw yeah - Summa Cum Laude bitches! Wasn’t even sure if they designated honors at WIU…

Still don’t feel like I learned much - but I am starting to do some research regarding a master’s program of study.

Of gates and Portals

So I gave my final presentation last night in class and all I have left is to finish up my final paper and exam - them I am done done done with my BS in IT.

Since I’m in wind-down-and-don’t-give-a-crap mode I’ve been playing a few games as well.

First off I’ve been playing Magic: the Gathering again. I can finally afford to get enough card to build more than one or two decks at a time and I’m finding that an abundance of cards actually makes the process more difficult! But I’m having fun and have actually got Dot to play now and again:)

Second thing I did was picked up the Orange Box and played Portal. Wow, that’s the most fun I’ve had on a puzzle game since Myst! Unfortunately it is rather short, but I did play an evening ofHalflife2 as well and that was fun.

Sunday night I went to my friend’s house and we played M:tG for about 5 hours, then he showed me Hellgate: London. It is open beta and man - this game is pretty. Basically a Diablo-type game with a bit of MMO thrown in (MMO common areas, and instanced adventure zones, like in Guild Wars). Hellgate: London releases on Halloween and I intend to play the hell out of it for a week or two. One thing that makes me happy to be alive right now is how the download of the installer went. Yesterday morning at 8am I saw I had my key to get into beta. 4.3GB download… So I set it to Download and went to take my shower. By 9:15 I had downloaded and unpacked the whole thing. Yay CDN and Dual Core processors!

Ok, back to work!

The home stretch

It’s been quite a summer, and quite awhile since I posted.

Since the last time I went to Comic-Con in San Diego, then Defcon15. Had a much better time than I expected, and after a rocky start, was able to talk to and meet a whole bunch of really cool people.

School is still progressing nicely. I have 1 month of my IT Management class left and I just started my Capstone class. It looks like it will be a fun end to the curriculum. Oddly, though they are supposed to be the last 2 classes you take, I’m the only one in my IT Management class who has taken all of their IT classes, and one of 3 people taking the Capstone that it is their last class. I guess the order doesn’t as important as they claim. For anyone interested - Western International University has an IT curriculum that is a bit of a joke. I learned things here and there, but for the most part, could have taught the classes. I’m told they have just overhauled the whole program, so I’m curious how that will play out.

In other news, I’m playing less WoW these days, and more EQ2. I like my little evil fairy - the graphics and game complexity are a lot better than WoW, but I’m sure I’ll keep both accounts active and neglect them both:). Haven’t been invited to play on the Warhammer Online Beta yet, but the elves were just revealed. The game still looks pretty bad-ass.

Yesterday was our 2 year anniversary, we celebrated with a weekend up north last weekend. We’ve decided to just celebrate on Labor day weekend each year. This time we went up to Jerome Saturday morning and ate at the Haunted Hamburger (which does not have a bacon and cheese filled meatloaf on the menu, no matter what Rachel Ray says) and walked around, then went up to Sedona and got rained on. We stayed the night in a cozy Bed and Breakfast between the two in Page Springs and had a nice breakfast served by the hosts. On the way out we went through Camp Verde, along the 260 and took the Rim Road all the way to the Young Heber Hwy. Driving down through Young we stopped at Alice’s Restaurant (yes, really) and got everything we wanted (exceptin’ Alice) then looked around at the area.

My hope is to pay off the revolving debt and vehicles in fairly short order. After that getting a plot of land, maybe 1-3 acres, up north where it is cooler, but not in a touristy place that will explode with population. Getting a bit of land and having a round house delivered in Young seems pretty do-able, but there’s a lot of logistical and financial planning involved. I’m wondering if it’s time to lay out our goals, and talk to a financial adviser.

Well, I’m off to class - still have a paper to write, so until next time…

Toodles!

Monthly Update

Well, It’s been a busy one, that’s for sure.

The last few weeks have been full of work, fun, school and sick. Before I get into that, I need to share a few bits of awesome.

First - “Domino, Muthfucka!”

Second -  Zombies!

So, after all the usual pre-convergence drama, C13 turned out to be a wonderful time. We met a lot of new people and stayed away from any of the drama successfully. I traded a few club nights for sleep, and it was definitely worth it. I had a lot more fun that way. I know diane doesn’t like too miss stuff, but she went to a couple things without me and had a good time from the sound of things. Interesting thing about Portland, the people there are *really* nice. Like, Stepford nice. Like “we have a secret, but so long as we act nice, no one will look” nice (as in Hot Fuzz :). I’m pretty sure they put drugs in their tasty tap water as well because after we got back I got pretty sick. It had to have been withdrawal.

Going on two full weeks of sinus infection now, and I’d like to state, for the record, that I don’t like it.

The weekend after we got back I did the last two classes of my weekend intensive Asia/Pacific Rim Society and Culture class. I have a man-crush on Dr Werther’s brain. I took my European/Russian Soc. & Cult. from him as well. I’m quite sure I will never get to speak with him again, but he was a damn good teacher. With that class ending I now have 4 1/2 classes left.

• Database Management (started in May over 1/2 way through)
• Project Planning and Execution (just started)
• Evaluation of Application Software (July)
• IT Management (Aug)
• Capstone (Sept)

July and August classes will be interesting since the last week of August we’ll be in San Diego and the first week of August I’ll be in Las Vegas. Looks like Diane won’t be going to Defcon with me, but he will be going to Batsday without me instead Good for her - I think that will be a lot more fun for her anyway!

Kaneva has faded in my mind, much like MySpace - a neat toy, but not very engaging. Ourtbeat came into beta. A few issues with tab-indexing, but over all it works - not a whole lot of features are enabled yet, so it’s hard to say how cool or useful it will end up being. There are currently few enough users to not require any searching, but at some point I expect that will be enabled. As well as the 3D interface.

I was off sick for a few days last week and during that time I tried out the Lord of the Rings Online game. All in all, it is fun if a little to linear. I’ve started a few characters and it’s frustrating to only play the goody goody characters - until you hit level 10. At that point you can enter the only PVP area as a level 50 (max) evil character. Regular players can enter this area at level 40 and above. Instead of earning XP you get points towards better armor/spells and abilities. So, it’s a fun diversion from WoW, but I can’t see me playing it for years. The graphics are incredible but it just doesn’t suck me in like WoW and EQ1 did. Now Warhammer Online, OTOH, looks quite bad-ass. I hope they don’t mess it up as was done with D&D online.

Well, I need to get back to work - figured I’d better post something before I forgot how

Have a good week!

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