The Real World

I've been missing the Austin season of the TV show, but that's because I'm busy tinkering with other variations on the actual real world. Allow me to introduce:

Blake's 10-day WoW experiment
"What the hell, blakerson, YOU'RE playing WoW?" Yeah, for 10 days. I've needed to try something new in gaming for a while and this sounded like the perfect way to accomplish that just before Quakecon, while seeing what all the hubbub is about. I think we're currently on Day 4 or so. At the end of the 10 days, I'll write up the more interesting bits and eventually try to figure out what I really think about this MMORPG nonsense. At this point, I think Blizzard has made a fantastic game, but I fail to see what's so ridiculously addictive about it. More at the end of the 10 days.

The Real World: get a job!
The thought of law school has been on my mind recently. I'm in a law class this coming semester to see if I can really pull it off. And if I do, I think I've found the perfect job: Google International Corporate Lawyer. Do many kinds of legal things (yay lack of forced specialization), and on the requirements are 'sense of humor' (good for lawyers) and 'foreign language skills strongly desired.' And to top it all off, it's at the Mountain View campus, out in sunny CA, with those fantastic benefits and neat campuses and stuff. Sign me up, I say.

Rev It Up is BACK, bitches!

http://www.zoomzoomlive.com/

This looks fantastic, because unlike previous years they're promoting the whole line instead of one specific car, so there will be various courses in the 3, 6, 5, Miata (new one) and RX-8. I'll probably want to do the Dallas one with Houston as a backup. Better news: it's free! Anyone from Austin who wants to come along can stay at my place in September the night before, and we can head up to the track on Saturday morning.

Who's in?

Edit: I'm going Saturday, 10/1, at 11:00 AM. Try your best to get a similar spot.

Giant quiz results

Stolen from Chloe:

the Wit
(60% dark, 26% spontaneous, 16% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're
probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're
pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the
Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor
and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat.

I
guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the
perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor
takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my
opinion.

Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais


My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 67% on dark

You scored higher than 3% on spontaneous

You scored higher than 10% on vulgar
Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

Europe journal is online!

After what feels like ages of typing and typing, my entire journal from my trip through Spain is online on this very site. Each entry here corresponds with the original day it was written, and since this site works chronologically backwards, here are some links to get you going - click each link and then read upwards to read each entry in order. Between this diary and the photo album posted a couple weeks ago, it's a pretty good account of almost everything I did on my trip. Enjoy the story!

Prologue, May 30th

Part 1 - June 1st to June 30th

Part 2 - July 2nd to July 7th