The community is friendly and the experience is very rewarding. It’s quite time-consuming (especially the editing, at least for me) but I get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I upload a finished chapter.
I made level 60 after a few months of fairly relaxed play, but realised that all there was left to the game after that was either tedious grinding, or the promise of rewards awarded infrequently and at random. A week later I vended everything I had, gave away the gold, and cancelled my account. I’ve never regretted it, and the free trial copy of Burning Crusade that Blizzard sent me sits here untouched and unwanted.
If you’re considering getting out of WoW, don’t think of it as quitting, think of it as winning the game. If that seems like an artifice, realise that you have to make up your own victory condition, because Blizzard is never going to give you a way to win.
For me, the lesson of my time spent playing WoW is summed up by a comment I saw somewhere: “Never pay someone for the privilege of letting them control your sense of accomplishment.”
I made level 60 after a few months of fairly relaxed play, but realised that all there was left to the game after that was either tedious grinding, or the promise of rewards awarded infrequently and at random. A week later I vended everything I had, gave away the gold, and cancelled my account. I’ve never regretted it, and the free trial copy of Burning Crusade that Blizzard sent me sits here untouched and unwanted.
If you’re considering getting out of WoW, don’t think of it as quitting, think of it as winning the game. If that seems like an artifice, realise that you have to make up your own victory condition, because Blizzard is never going to give you a way to win.
For me, the lesson of my time spent playing WoW is summed up by a comment I saw somewhere: “Never pay someone for the privilege of letting them control your sense of accomplishment.”
EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi): Awesome.
The ever-present allure of more and more expensive lenses: Not so great.
I signed up for this goal last year and failed utterly—I think I read 3.5 books. This year I will make time to read.
It takes you to places you’d never ordinarily go. Geocaching isn’t about the prize, at its best it’s about people who place caches to share their favourite trails and parks and hidden spots with like-minded individuals.
Its reputation is deserved — this is one of the most interesting places I’ve ever been. I’d go back in a heartbeat. Don’t miss the superb audio tour.
Sure, it’s full of cars in the summer, but even at the tourist peak you can easily avoid the honeypots and walk the hills for a whole day without seeing another human soul. And, busy or not, the popular spots are still undeniably beautiful.
1,000 P1 pages. Woo!
Of course, I’m not stopping now. PGDP has no shortage (a surplus, really) of users happy to P1 proofread, but there’s a large and growing backlog of projects for P2 and P3. So I’m done with P1—from now on I’m going to put my time into P2 instead.
There’s also Librivox where volunteers record public domain audiobooks. I recorded a chapter of a history book for them last week, really found it interesting, and look forward to doing more.
I signed up a couple of days ago after seeing it linked here on 43t. I’ve done 65 pages since then, mostly on the Darwin Day projects, including the (fascinating) journals of Captain Fitzroy—the problem I’m having with this is that I’m getting so immersed in the narrative I keep having to remind myself that I’m supposed to be looking for errors!
My target to mark this goal as complete is 1000 pages. Why not aim high?
...when I was bored one time. (Actually I made it cover the whole top 250 since it was no extra effort.)
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But my progress since I did this has been glacial! I’ve still only seen 25 out of the 100, and only 8 of those since I started the goal (all the others being ones I saw ages ago). I need to do this faster before movies I’ve watched drop out of the top 100 (interesting thing about this goal is that it’s constantly moving, and once achieved it’ll still be kind of temporary and require frequent effort to maintain).
The standard walker’s reference to the hills of the Lake District is the seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells by A. Wainwright. In this work (also, incidentally, a work of supreme penmanship, printed exactly as Wainwright meticulously produced it with pen and ink) the author identified 214 fells in the district, and gave each a chapter. Reaching the top of every one of this list of summits is a popular walkers’ activity.
Looking down the list, I think I’ve done 18 of them on previous trips (not sure about a couple of them, it was a while ago).
Right, the gloves come off.
This is a new year’s resolution, so I’m totally serious about it and it’s doomed to failure within two weeks.
Based on positive recommendations from here and elsewhere I’ve ordered Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain from Amazon, plus the accompanying workbook (yeah, I’m an easy mark). I have so much admiration for people who can draw well, and it’s one of my new year’s resolutions for 2006 to start along that road. And I’m curious about whether what they say about anyone being able to draw is true. (What an awful sentence.)
I haven’t been much of a reader - at least not stuff in print - since I became such a webovore a few years ago. Since then the internet and computers have expanded to fill the gaps in my lifestyle and so if I want to just chill out and read a book I have to consciously make the time to do it.
12 books seems like an achievable target for this goal - perhaps a little too low, though I’ll mostly be reading thick books - but it’s a new year’s resolution and therefore I think it’s prudent to aim low. And hopefully it’ll be a gateway to reading 30 or 50 or 75 next year.
My first book of 2006 is The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins.
I’ve been eating way too much sweet stuff and junk food and not nearly enough fruit and vegetables. Xmas, of course, has caused this already bad habit to worsen considerably. I’m barely even half way through eating all the chocolate I’ve been given. It doesn’t even feel particularly pleasurable to eat this stuff any more.
Last year I managed to make some progress on this by all but giving up carbonated drinks. I need to give some serious thought to how I’m going to change my diet for the better in the new year. (After I’ve eaten this huge bowl of trifle.)
I figure I need to do two things in order to achieve this goal:
The broadsheets have good quick crosswords (cryptic, for the moment, is way past my ability) but I’m not sure I want to buy a paper every day. Most of the papers put their crosswords online, not for free, but for a subscription fee that, while much less expensive than buying papers every day, is still not cheap—that’s another option.
Of course nobody says the crosswords have to be current, I could just get a book of the things and work through that…
Finding time to do a crossword every day is the other part of the problem. It would be nice to work it into my lunch break at work but my job is very interrupt-driven and I don’t think that’ll be easy to stick to—when I try to create a routine at work I usually end up discarding all pretence of it within a couple of days.
Overcame my hesitation today and started making small revisions and corrections. You guys were right, it’s easy once you get your feet wet, and making even minor changes feels great. Still a little intimidated by the masses of pages defining good Wikipedia practice, but now that I’ve taken the plunge I feel a lot more confident about contributing.
Probably worth doing, but in my case it’s a bit too early to say for sure. It’s stressful, but hey, whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
Not particularly by choice or strength of will… getting a full time job pretty much forced my hand :)
