tekHedd – the blog

So I haven’t had anything to say lately, but just about the time I started to have some things to say, I ran my bicycle full speed into a parked car. Yes, a parked car! Ouch! How did I do that? I swear it just spawned in front of me, and just as I was getting some speed up too. I must have hit it at 13 or 15 MPH. True fact: ramming your body into a stationary object at this speed hurts.

I respawned next to my now-mangled bicycle with partial health and respawn sickness, and there was barely any damage to the Explorer, so I quickly limped out of its agro radius and inspected my mount. It needed repairs, my backup mount is awfully slow, and anyway I was in no condition to ride. So I used a few first aid kits, then took alternative transport to work.

After grinding away for a few hours, I noticed that I was suffering from some sort of long-term stat reduction, and went to consult a high-level healer. Apparently all I can do is occasionally buff myself with painkillers and wait for the effects to wear off, but the good news is that eventually my stats should completely recover. Whew!

So, for the last few days I’ve been contenting myself with Two Worlds, and avoiding RL combat, especially with SUVs.

I was reading the entry at Uncyclopedia.org about Thanksgiving, and it occurred to me that whenever you search on anything in Google, one of the links is to Wikipedia. Anything! Google has a disturbingly pro-wikipedia bias. And, I wondered whether uncyclopedia would turn up at all. So I started picking words out of that uncyclopedia entry and searching, expecting that eventually Google would simply have to return this one page.

At some point, it because obvious that Google was trying to be clever. The time that it became obvious is when this search turned up “about 80” hits:

thanksgiving holland george burns apprentice overlord shopping riots intrepid cajun demise anorexic

Seriously. How many web pages can there be that talk about intrepid cajun anorexic overlords shopping on thanksgiving? (About 80, apparently.)

When I’m up late playing games and I need a snack, MeatWater lets me keep on gaming.

Nuff said.