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Welcome to Hrocdol.netThis is Jason Sherman's personal web site. Just a place on the web for me to share my thoughts, ideas, and stuff on the web. I hope you find something useful or interesting or entertaining here. Why Hrocdol.net? I've been asked about the name on occasion, and perhaps if I mark it up here, I'll get asked less often. Hrocdol, as a name, originated as a Diablo 1 character; a warrior, who ended up as a fearsom axe-wielding monster slayer. It was... Early in my college career, as I recall, and I thought it a unique enough name that I kept using it for other things to avoid conflicting with other names; at first games, then eventually instant messaging, web forums, and now, finally, for my web site. Check the links at the left for interesting stuff. My blog exists below. I intend to use it as a journal of events in my world and my thoughts on them, as well as a place to point out the latest interesting thingy on the web. If you want to respond to anything in my blog, feel free to e-mail me at hrocdol@hrocdol.net. Blog entry 20090104-1741So it's been... umm... almost half a year since my last post. Pretty sad.I'm still alive. Holidays were nuts, getting settled back into my routine of eating, sleeping, and playing WoW. Stuff in my guild has been interesting lately... I'm trying to bootstrap Wookie raiding in WOTLK, but it's full of pitfalls, people issues, and stupid problems. I could probably rant for hours. The upside is that I can get a team together for 10-man Naxx that can wreck the place. The downside is that that team has so geared up from heroic dungeons that there's very little left for them, generally, in Naxx10. We wind up giving up a lot of loot to off-specs and whatever... Which doesn't help the raid do better next week, generally. So I've been trying to invite some folks that aren't so geared, but then we pretty much fail to get through it all in 2 nights... Or just fail to get through it at all. We'll see what happens this week. I've got a different composition (I tried to stack casters and buffs for casters), and I'm not sure what the result will be. We're usually pretty heavy on physical DPS. Anyway, it's a complicated mess, and I have no idea how it'll turn out. People issues. Sheesh.
Blog entry 20080731-1759So I've been reading Sinfest again (one of the comics in my Comics link at the left) and I found one I could really relate to... A picture is worth a thousand words, right? check it out It's kinda sad how far behind I am on all the comics I used to keep up on...Blog entry 20080715-2230My raid team in WoW went and killed all 5 bosses in Mt. Hyjal tonight. Felt a little grueling down toward the end (Archi is always rough with all the randomness), but it was accomplished in under 4 hours.Nice work, guys. Blog entry 20080630-1354Hoo, the blog lives... Well, sorta. At least the site hasn't been hacked and all my files trashed. heh.So I've been watching YouTube again; yes, that dangerous passtime... Philip DeFranco (userid sxephil) has a terrific ironic sense of humor, and I've watched (and laughed heartily at) a lot of his material today. Links, links, it's amazing the things you can find if you wander enough... So I caught a link from Phil's material to the vlogbrothers channel on YouTube, which prompted me to investigate this 'Nerd Fighters' concept... And, as I progress, I become increasingly convinced that there doesn't exist, exactly, a definition... At one point, I found myself watching someone (a rather cute girl, as it happened) watching a video response to her video response to someone's original video. And it was all on YouTube. I'm amazed by all these interactions, and I'm at least equally amazed by the interest I'm taking in them... Total 3rd party observer, not involved, sitting here for hours, watching this stuff. Why? I. Don't. Know. Haven't got it figured out yet... Not sure I'll ever devote enough thought to figure it out. So, watching so much YouTube got me thinking "Hey, I'm a kinda clever tech guy, I could do this stuff. I have the camera, I have the computer, I have the network connection..." But thinking about video editing stuff (and I would neeeeeeed some editing) I remember the last few encounters I had with video editing... And, as I thought about it, I thought, you know, I have some really neat audio editing software, and it's a lot easier to sound pretty than to look pretty. Or at least it is for me. In my opinion. So I think I'm going to pursue another kind of project... Recording only my own vocalizations, using loops and overdubbing, I'm going to see if I can make an audio track that I'd actually enjoy listening to. If I can put together something that I think won't embarrass me totally, I'll post it up here... And pray that it doesn't 'go viral' and bury my internet connection. We'll see. So, anyway, I'm off to toy with Audacity and see if I can sort out how to do what I think it can do... Probably more later. |
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