Is This Art ?

The time has come. The time to make a statement. To take an action against greed and put the searchlight on the weakness that lies in our nature. I have made an installation. Or is it? Can you make art out of anything as long as you present it with a thought behind? Well I tried, here goes:

Sunday, January 27th 21:45

Picture is taken at the time of installing it. I will follow it closely and monitor any action takens on it. The ultimate thing would have been to place a webcam watching it. The place is my information pin board at the entrance.

I have a formulae in it as well - the question is whether

The sum of 3 NOK >> The risk of beeing "caught" ?

Hence I have already prepared three five-kronor pieces. If this first try should fail to attract a thief. It must be taken into consideration the time of day as well though. If someone where to enter at a time when people are supposed to be sleeping this formulae isn't really working out.

Stay tuned for more drama - more greed!

World of Wonders

Hello, I’m William Shatner... and I’m a Shaman.
I’m a conduit of the ancient forces of nature.
You’re no doubt wondering, ‘Hey, Shatner, how do I hurl bolts of lightning?
Simple! Get World of Warcraft, dawg. You can be anyone you want.
I'm William Shatner and I'm a Shaman.
What’s your game?

I'm Adam and I'm a Druid.

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Well the topic is set to World of Warcraft today. A little write up of what it has brought and rewarded me with. And if it has taken something, if I missed out on something because of it.

Why? Well - for the first time it isn't really attracting me, wanting to embrace me with its warmth. There is just not much to do, not many people to talk to. Most of them left. And the ones who didn't - well I can see them other places.

So the breaking news is that I've cancelled my subscription, well noteworthy that the characters are still there and play time is payed until April 4th. But still. It is a step along a new path.


What did these 3 (!) years bring me then. Well 100+ days of played time would equal an average played time per day - every day - of some 2.5h. And needless to say, some days held more like 25h per day of playing.

The reward is the people you meet. Sure the average age is a bit lower than mine - sure there are weirdos and kiddos. But to make it short -

Redwolf - MsBodill - Myfanway - Kazamx - Raphner - Southpaw - Team Västerås - Bison - Wrathlock - The Welsh Kids - Tony - The Marsh Brothers - The Crazy Danes
... and more ...

People who I have met or would love to meet in real life.
I've attended three LAN's in Gävle and they were surely fun.

And if not for anything else the hours speaking over the net has sure improved my spoken English. Not the grammar though :)

There isn't really much to say on the game itself, that is just a platform. It is built in an addictive way with the basics beeing - get more purples or be considered a slacker. And to get them purples you need to spend some hourse to get the blues and to get them ... and so on and so forth. And when you thought you could just sit back and relax - *bam* patch day comes and new dungeons or some new faction to grind. (Exalted with eight or so in TBC only :) )

The rewards on a different level was just plain and straight forward therapy. Started playing very casual six years in in a relationship and after that one I needed somewhere to go and get away from it all. Well I'm still standing now so some way it helped out.


The downsides - sure there are some - would be the lack of sleep, the things I missed out on. But I am not to sure I missed out on very much - not like I skipped other things to play, sure I could have done this and that for those hours but what the heck. It ain't more than what a heavy TV-junkie spends in front of the Dumbinator.


Life post-WoW. Well I can't really see myself staying and playing WoW very casual - that just ain't me. 8h sessions or none. And getting myself in to a new MMO would just be the same story all over. No instead I installed a good old friend that has been standing in the bookcase for some months now - NWN2 - and with it the familiar world of paus-able gameing. And sure I still might drop by Azeroth for some time to check it out but that would just sporadic ones, purely for research.

The man himself - Dinuan. Dressed all in purples for the occasion
-Quite handsome if I may say so myself

Falling off the Ledge

1979.04.04-2008.01.22

Heathcliff Andrew Ledger - the actor - has yesterday been found dead. I would exaggarate if I said it affected me deep in person. But I am touched and puzzled by the man's faith. And the timing - he was peaking his career with some recent blockbusters and a new one coming up, and of course this happening one month after my post on him, is quite weird.

He managed to finish his work on Batman - the Dark Knight, a movie now carrying the same sort of veil that the Crow-movie did upon Brandon Lee's tragical death. But of course, in Hollywood that will just mean more people to the white screen.

Having burried the hatchet and come to an end with my own feud for him, I actually feel quite sad to see the man go away. I am more touched and feel more closer to him now after our little beef*

I'll let Julia sum it up with what at least got me in contact with the man, her poem in 10 Thing I Hate About You

I hate the way you talk to me.
And the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car.
I hate it when you stare
I hate your big dumb combat boots.
And the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick - it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you're always right.
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh - even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it that you're not around.
And the fact that you didnt call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you - not even close,
not even a little bit, not any at all.

Beef* - to have beef with someone is wanting a fight with them. A person having something against someone else or wanting an argument or a fight

Urban Dictionary

/Peace