Blog O’ Obscurity

I know that I’ve already raved and raved about how much I love the George R. R. Martin series that begins with the book, “A Game of Thrones”. Last week I finally had the opportunity to play the well-received board game of the same name.

Five players take control of five of the major houses of the land of Westeros. Houses Stark, Greyjoy, Lannister, Baratheon, and Tyrell. Each of the houses starts in a geographically unique position with different starting units and different positions on the various power tracks.

The unique features of this board game are the randomness of many events. Recruiting new units does not happen every round like many other war games. The game contains different influence tracks that players must bid on to take control. However, this event also does not take place every round. In our first game we waited until halfway through the game for the first round of bidding. Being unfamiliar with the procedure, everyone spent all of their available power, and had none to spend when the bidding event occurred two more times.

The army limits also made the game very interesting by limiting the number of units that can occupy the same space. By preventing players from piling up units in one space, the game is made much more interesting and balanced. Strategic maneuvers are absolutely important because of the limits placed on each player.

My group enjoyed this game very much and look forward to the next opportunity to try it again.

But remember, winter is coming, and a Lannister always pays his debts.

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No matter the outfit or the other accessories that complete the outfit, the perfect shoes are absolutely necessary for any woman to feel beautiful. Hence the online catalog of Beautifeel shoes. These high class shoes from absolutely every conceivable women’s shoe style are also available in many locations in California. From the tiniest sandle to many different types of boots. They make them all in many popular sizes and widths.

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What a strange concept. A misspelled description of a hearing impaired jungle cat as the name of your heavy metal band. Wikipedia indicates that Joe Elliot came up with the name while making up imaginary band names in his English class.

I wonder what other names he came up with.

Welcome to the stage, Blynd Pumah.

Next up is the number one hit from Dum Tyger.

Or the new band from London, Anosmyc Jagguyar.

(That’s the misspelled version of Anosmic, or one who has lost his sense of smell.)

Rock on.

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Viewsonic. Kind of strange when you think about it. Kind of like that scene in the beginning of Ghostbusters when Ray says, “Listen. Do you smell something?”

Needless to say, Viewsonic does make a quality flat panel monitor. A viewsonic monitor is what I’m looking at right now. They are widely available at stores and on the internet at great prices in all sizes. And best of all, the new LCD technology doesn’t list the amount of radiation like some of the old CRT monitors used to. Strange to think about how television and monitor technology used to involve aiming a cathode ray gun at your face.

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You ever wonder who was the first to put certain things together? Or do you ever wonder who managed to look at something that tastes disgusting and find just the right way to make it taste wonderful?

For example. Peanut butter and jelly. French fries and ketchup. Seriously, who would have thought at the beginning of time that these things would work.

“Yeah, take some of those nuts over there and smash them. Then take some of that fruit over there and smash it.”

“You just like smashing things.”

“Then take some of that wheat stuff over there and smash it, and then bake it. Spread the nut and fruit stuff on the cooked stuff and voila!”

“Fine. Dig up the roots over there, slice it and drop it into boiling fat. Then smash up some fruit.”

“Again with the smashing.”

“Dip the former into the latter and enjoy.”

“What, no smashing?”

Or who was the guy that figured out how to make chocolate taste good? Have you ever seen the nuts that chocolate comes from? I bet they taste nasty. Even smashed up into a powder it’s not too appetizing.

Makes me wonder what kinds of delicious combinations and preparations await the world of the future. Hopefully, the future is tasty.

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When most people get their brand new HD television (72 inches across with picture in picture in picture), for some reason they don’t think about the sound that goes with it. Not only do you have to get quality speakers to go with the quality video that you’re looking at, you have to put the speakers in the right place in the room. Setting the speakers on the floor or attaching them to the ceiling just won’t do. Keep them at the eye level that you will be at when you are watching your new system. After you get a tv stand to put the flat panel on, get some speaker stands to put them in the right spot as well.

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I was in the city last weekend looking for an MP3 player to use at work. My wife has an iPod, but I’m looking for something a little cheaper. I saw an ad at Fry’s Electronics for a $27 video MP3 player. My curiosity was heightened. They were sold out of course. But that ended up being a blessing in disguise.

I saw that the new Samsung S3 was on sale for $80. It is a video/MP3 player that holds an impressive 4GB for the size of the thing. After I opened the thing up I was pleasantly surprised at the amazing range of features that comes in such a small package. Not only will the device play music and video of a decent quality, but it can also display images and txt files and contains an FM radio tuner and a collection of games.

Throughout the day I kept being surprised as I explored the features. I am fortunate to have fallen into this model.

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Sybervision. Sounds kind of like a sci-fi movie’s new technology that enables people to see briefly into the future but dramatically alters each person’s view of humanity and leads to an apocalyptic dystopia.

But it’s actually a site for diet pills. Reviews on every type of diet pill and fat burner supplement. The site lists out popular pills, popular reviews, and a huge list of just about every type of diet pill whether you’ve heard of them or not.

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Alice Cooper never said anything about school being in, but that’s what it is now. And along with the yearly tradition of new clothes, backpacks, and paper, the family has the annual back to school cold.

There’s just something about kids getting together and collaborating in various forms of disease and germs that they then manage to carry home and present to their parents and siblings just like a report card of straight A’s.

Being sick stinks.

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When I was a kid watching Warner Bros. cartoons, I always thought that the Acme company had something to do with Acne treatment. Who knows, maybe they did. If you’re not sure about which acne treatments are the best or most popular than you can research which chemicals are the most effective for the most people and see the reviews that all sorts of different types of zit medication got online.

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