Funcom announced today that they're pushing the release of Age of Conan back (again) to March 25, 2008. With this push Age of Conan will have officially been delayed three years and I doubt the community is responding too well to that. Now the game will be releasing just behind Warhammer Online which may affect sales if people decide to invest in it instead.
This push doesn't come as much of a surprise though. Funcom has released very little content for a game that was scheduled to release in just three months and with lacking quality and content for Beta testers it is probably for the best that Funcom is providing themselves with an extra five months to polish it up. I think we can all agree we'd rather have an excellent, completed game half a year later than a rushed finished just to make a release date. We don't need a repeat of Vanguard.
Age of Conan pushed back to 2008
AGLOCO™ "Own the Internet"
I came across this website a few days and was astonished at what it suggested. Essentially what you do is sign up and install the Viewbar™ and browse the internet like you normally would. You accumulate hours of browsing (up to 5 monthly) and receive the money that is being payed as you surf. You see, every time you search, download a file, upload pictures and videos, and generally browse the internet people are paying money for that. Essentially what this does is takes that money and gives it back to you, a wonderful thing I'm sure you'll agree.
It sounds too good to be true but it's not. All you have to do is sign up and start browsing to produce revenue. It help this along you can refer other people to join and grow your network. You receive benefits from these referrals and can earn more money from they're activities. You just have to spread the word to friends, family, or anyone (provided you're not spamming) and inform them of this great opportunity.
If you want some more info you can check out the AGLOCO faq or if you want to sing up just head over to this page and start earning money.
Wisdom vs. Knowledge
I've thought about the differences between being wise and being intelligent. I am reading a recent essay from Paul Graham entitled "Is It Worth Being Wise?" and he says that wisdom is knowing what to do in certain situations while intelligence is well....quite similar but there are some gray areas. I've always thought that wisdom was much different from knowledge or intelligence.
Wisdom is being smart about life, being reflective, and thinking about ways to explain everything. Wisdom can almost be thought of as a route to intelligence. When you have wisdom and use it you can be, for lack of better word, smarter and learn better; you grow from experience amentally and physically by retaining and applying knowledge. I like to relate wisdom to crew. Coach always says that rowing is "90% mental" and that you have to believe you can do better in order to do it. You may be strong, but that doesn't mean you can move a boat; you have to make every stroke stronger than the one before it. Wisdom is having the mentality and mental capacity to accomplish your tasks and respond to problems.
Intelligence, on the other hand, is knowledge of facts. You may know the physics of rowing and you know what good technique is but even the strongest person in a crew isn't the most contributing member, although it certainly helps. Just because you know a lot of facts and information doesn't mean you can be wise.
Face First Into the Sky
I've been beginning to make up some songs on guitar and bass, starting to think about that solo project. I came up with Face First Into the Sky as a name for something....maybe an album or song, i dunno. Once I find/get some proper recording apparatus I'll start putting together the songs and try to make up some words.
the scene
So I was just urbaning up on some random stereotypes and I came upon scenester. The descriptions seemed pretty accurate but the pictures had me torn. At first I was thinking, "that's hardly scene, that's called emo...just needs some Dashboard Confessional and guys in their girlfriend's jeans," but then I realized, emo IS scenester. I mean, there's certainly a difference, but there isn't really such thing as a unique emo (for lack of a better noun). Stereotypical emo: all black, tight shredded jeans, hoodie, pin striped chuck taylors, and obnoxious hairstyles...and since they're basically trying to conform to that one sense of style then they're following that definition of scenester; "a person who tries very hard to fit the stereotype of a certain scene."
I heard about some band called Get Him Eat Him and they're coming out with a new cd by this summer called "arms down." I listened to some mp3s on their site (http://www.armsdown.com/) and they sounded pretty decent....no intense rock ballads but not at all Death Cab-esque, very cheery. Might check it out.
The band's website is actually:
http://www.gethimeathim.com/