World Without Wikipedia

What an impossible thing to think of these days, huh? It’s sort of like how cell phones, computers/the internet, and the such have become a staple in today’s society. Just ask someone if they know of such-and-such, and in two minutes they can have the entire background of the topic at hand in front of them by going to everyone’s favorite website, wikipedia.org

It almost brings us to a time in our generation where it’s almost a crime NOT to know about certain things. Can I get through a day where someone will mention something, and if I say “huh” or give a glazed look of bewilderment and not receive the comment “WHAT?! How do you not know this?”. It’s true. How often do you go home and have a list of things that you need to look up and add to your already long list of random facts and interesting tidbits that have made home inside your brain?

What makes me think of discussing this? My friend Gavino made a comment about the band The Black Kids, in reference to us trying to decide on a website name this weekend. His comment was something along the lines of “it’s like that band, The Black Kids. There’s no black people in the band”. I obviously retorted with “um, the lead singer is black, and his little sister is in the band as well”. Why did I know this? Well, besides the fact that I did come across them a few months from hearing them on XM radio (I think at the time it was “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance” playing), I looked them up on Wikipedia, just like I do with most media related things that I come across and find interesting.

ANYWAY, time to dabble into this weekend’s activities that passed. We have Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday to go over (DRR, that would be the WEEKEND wouldn’t it), so let’s kick it off with…

FRIDAY (night): Went to mom’s after work for dinner. We ate, played some Upwords afterwards, and I showed her the episode we worked on the week before. They both really enjoyed the episode, and Terry liked the music video that I had made. It’s always fun to receive positive comments on things

Hopped on WoW when I got home. They had already started drunken kara without me (even though it was only like 9:20PM). I did dailies, BGs with Luke, etc. I didn’t want to do arenas. I told Luke and Carl (who came on later) that arenas were pointless. Unless I was going to horde points (arena & honor) for the expansion, I saw no reason to spend it on gear that would be outdated soon. Different from PVE, which in my mind had goals to accomplish (like our closing in on Illidan and hopefully getting into Sunwell and finishing that before the xpac).

Anyway, Carl gets on and starts crying about how he wants to do arenas. So we agree we’ll do the minimum 10 on our toons after killing Onyxia. Usually it’s not too bad in there, but for some reason we had the worst time ever. Our record is 3 manning her, but we couldn’t even do 4-man after three or so attempts. Saddened by our loss, we went and did some horrible arenas on two sets of toons and called it a night.

SaTuRaY: Woke up early-ish (lol 10:30?) to get ready to head over Gavino’s. When I got there, we watched the latest video we had worked on earlier that week:

http://www.vimeo.com/1539087

It needs some work obviously, but we got some laughs out of it. After that we watched the first episode of the new Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Great Job season. Some chuckles and Mega Man 7 action later, we were off on the road to Digital Press.

We got there and started perusing the store as usual. Gavino was looking for an xbox 360 light gun for some Sega CD action, April and I weren’t looking for anything in particular. They ended up not getting anything, but I bought some old video game cards (these old cards from the 80s that come in packs of 5, with stickers and scratch offs of old games like Zelda/Mario and the such – 99 cents a piece).

We left and started heading to Mitsuwa Marketplace. I was so hungry, but also had to pee. So when we got there and stared at the packed parking lot (it’s always SO packed there…it’s really incredible), I shook my fist in anger. We finally found a spot, went to use the bathrooms, and then gawked at the deliciousness that is Japanese cuisine. Gavino go some mayonnaise shrimp & rice, April got some steak of sorts, they both got us all some appetizers, and I got a nice big bowl of shio (salt) ramen, YUM.

Afterwards, we went across to Kinokuniya to check out the awesome books, magazines, stationary, kids books, educational guides, and the like. I saw Bump of Chicken had released two new albums in the last year (one in ‘07 and one this year), so I made note to go home and check that out (acoustic version of Everlasting Lie? YAY).

We went from there to Mars, the toy store area (after passing through the teas/sake sets to get there – eyeing up the awesomeness along the way). Before leaving, Gavino had to point out the incredible Russian Roulette game they had available. It was some sort of contraption that you set up with a balloon and it either squeezed it to make it pop or shot a pin into the balloon. Either way, it was pretty insane and we wanted to buy it just for the fact that it existed, but we had to pass.

To finish up the Japanese marketplace extravaganza, we went to the food store and started to check out what we would fill our basket with that day. We got the usual alcohol (like beer for Gavino, sake for the rest of us [sparkling sake is like delicious champagne]) and candies/snacks (my jelly chews and soy bean pod chips). I also picked up two ramune bottles, but they weren’t the usual ones that I get (although they have, duh) – instead of the ones that you have to force the marble down to get to it’s sweet liquids, they had these new twist cap ones. Yeah, it takes away from the fun, but I figured Jewel would like to try this new kind.

After picking up some yummy red bean paste filled pastries and soy bean ice cream with almond maple syrup sauce, we were on our way home. When we got back to Gavino’s apartment, we watched two more episodes of Tim and Eric season 3, and then after suggesting it on the ride, we watched the new Morgan Spurlock documentary, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden (in full this time, hah). We all enjoyed it, and it was a fun way to end the night.

sunDAY: Got up a little later, hopped on WoW, and started the day. Grinded the usual dailies and noticed I was very close to 5k gold for my 2nd epic flying mount. I hopped on all my toons and started selling anything that I realized was pretty useless and would never need come WotLK. It ended up putting me at around 5050G, but I needed more (not only to buy the mount itself at 160G [nether ray], but to at least have gold for repairs and whatnot for the raid that night).

So I hopped on my mage and did some dailies, sold some more stuff on the AH, and ended up buying the training and mount on my priest. I was torn between who I should buy it for, the priest or the paly, but then I realized that I still have a few months until WotLK comes out…what’s stopping me from getting one for my paly? Sure I bought a bit of gold for the druid’s epic flyer, but I did ALL the grinding for my priest’s mount and in all honesty, just hopping on now and then, doing dailies, selling stuff on the AH…wasn’t too bad. So my next goal is to get an epic flyer for my paly and save up gold after that for the expansion.

We headed into BT that night to start Illidari Council for the first time. Our best attempt that night was 14%…fucking close eh? Sadly, we didn’t down them last night, and although it will reset come Tuesday, we will push back in there and hopefully have Illidan down soon. Then it’s just a few Illidan farming runs, some Hyjal runs for those who need anything (gear/rep), and then onto Sunwell!

I won’t go too much into what we talked about with the show, but it’s definitely going a step in the right direction. One tidbit of info I’ll give is the podcast name: Fuzzy Face and the Plus Sized Gentleman. After that, it’s all in the works. We definitely talked about good stuff on Saturday, and hopefully this Wednesday, we’ll fill in some episode gaps from what we already have, and push forward into this project.

Another week awaits. Monday through Friday. Work work work. Let’s see by Friday how things go, shall we? Today? Easy. Tomorrow? We’ll have to wait for that, won’t we? I get paid this Friday, maybe I’ll take the folks out somewhere to eat? Or buy some groceries? I don’t know, something.

Everything looks perfect from far away