Free 10 day pass to World of Warcraft

If you’ve wanted to try out World of Warcraft and have access to the disks to install it on your computer, let me know. Blizzard sent out Guest Pass Keys to all current players:

Dear World of Warcraft® Subscriber:

You are eligible to receive a FREE 30-day credit* to your World of Warcraft subscription when you recruit a friend using the Guest Pass key below. This key is trackable back to your account and if your friend becomes a World of Warcraft subscriber and pays for their first 30 days of subscription time, your account will be automatically credited with a free 30 days. It’s that simple.

Here’s how it works:

1. Give a friend the Guest Pass Key provided below.

2. Install World of Warcraft on his or her machine using your Game CDs (your friend will not need the CDs to play the game after installation)

3. Have your friend enter the special Guest Pass Key below when prompted during the installation process (the Key can only be used once).

4. Your friend will have 10 days of free access to World of Warcraft.

5. When your friend completes their 10 free days, they will be given an option to upgrade to a full version of World of Warcraft by purchasing a retail copy of the game.

6. When your friend upgrades to a full version of World of Warcraft and then pays for their first month of World of Warcraft, your account will be automatically credited with a FREE 30-day World of Warcraft subscription.

7. Offer expires January 1st, 2006. Your friend must upgade to the full version of World of Warcraft on or before this date in order for you to receive the free 30 days of World of Warcraft subscription time.

Survivor Guatemala Fantasy League update

Survivor Guatemala Fantasy League

Well, I still had Margaret on my team when she got the boot, so I’m down to 560 points, but that’s only 7 points behind my mother-in-law, who is in first place. So far, this season is pretty good, but I’m anxious for them to hurry up and get to the merge, since that’s when it gets really interesting.

High over Hesperia

I love my job. I can describe a work day, in part, thus: “Well, the ghostbusters were pushed back until tomorrow, but I still went up in the helicopter.”

It’s a good life.

(And that is, in fact, the worst of the images taken from over 600 feet in the air. Look for lots better in the paper on Tuesday.)

Liz Phair article in Harp magazine

I come from a visual arts background where you’re expected to try and change and explore you’re art [sic] — I mean, Picasso had five phases in his career. To me, if you’re a real true artist I don’t expect you to stay the same. Now I don’t necessarily expect people to continue to buy the art, but I do expect the artist to try it at least.

Visual artists are supposed to do a few things: They’re supposed to be provocative; they’re supposed to drill into society and make you look at things a different way; they’re supposed to change styles; and they have distinct periods. That’s how I approach my music.

Apparently, Harp is some music magazine that I’ve never heard of. Despite that, it’s a good interview, spelling mistakes aside.

Time Magazine’s Top 100 English-language novels from 1923 to the present

Sign of a slow news week: Time Magazine has published a list by their critics of the top 100 English-language novels from 1923 to today. Obviously, such a list is highly subjective (where’s Lonesome Dove?), but I’ve read a fair number of books listed:

1. Animal Farm
2. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
3. The Catcher in the Rye — Which I remember nothing of, other than a character was described as having “mossy teeth,” an uncomfortably vivid image.
4. The Grapes of Wrath — I think I read this.
5. The Great Gatsby — Every time I read this, I find more in it.
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
7. Lord of the Flies — Astonishingly good, and simply astonishing in general.
8. The Lord of the Rings — I prefer The Hobbit, myself.
9. 1984
10. The Sun Also Rises — Which I remember nothing of.
11. To the Lighthouse
12. Watchmen — The inclusion of this instead of Maus will likely make the Comics Journal crowd go nuts.
13. White Noise — An awesome book.

An astonishing number of those are from Mrs. Nyrop’s 12th grade AP English class back at South Lakes High School, leavened with books I read for my English major at Virginia Tech.

There are also a fair number of books on the list that I started, or was supposed to read, but never finished.

(Source.)