What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful my mother had me and not someone else.
Inbajin, my warrior, got his Quel'Serrar today. It's quite a tough item to get. You first have to get Foror's Compendium of Dragon Slaying from Dire Maul or buy it from someone. Then you need to go to Dire Maul to get a Unfired Ancient Blade. You take the Unfired Ancient Blade to Onyxia and plant it in the ground where she will breathe fire on it. After you have killed Onyxia, you need to pick it up and stab her with it to turn it into a Treated Ancient Blade. Then you go back to DM and turn it in for your Quel'Serrar. I got it after my third attempt.
This is one of the best tanking warrior swords in the game and I'm very excited. ;-) Thanks to everyone in the guild who helped me get this.
Japan Times just did a a very flattering interview. I said:
"So lately, I've started focusing more of my time on another blogging software, Vox, a product that's just been launched, which is more geared toward writing to family and friends and small communities -- so I can say silly things. I still blog, but not as much as I used to."
So I guess I better Vox a bit more... ;-P
I thought I mentioned that I have an affiliation with Six Apart Vox, but I guess that's not clear from the article...
I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria for an ICANN board retreat. I was on Bulgarian National Television a few minutes ago talking about Blogs.
The first question was, "So... What is a blog?" It's been awhile since I answered that question.
UPDATE: Just had an interesting meeting with Ivailo Kaflin, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He just set up a blog and made the Ministry's website CC-BY. Of course, Veni Markovski is behind this.
What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Submitted by Megan.
Weird is subjective, but I suppose I could list things that Americans would think were weird...
Piglet fallopian tubes are probably pretty weird and they're a favorite of mine.
There is also a Yakitori dish called a "Chochin" because it looks like a lantern. It's actually an unlayed egg of a hen with the appropriate organ attached.
There is another dish that involves a big piece of tofu and a bunch of dojo. (I think they're called lurches, but they look like small eels.) The water is heated up, the dojo burrow into the tofu and end up being boiled together with the tofu.
Suppon is one of my favorite dishes and we eat almost all of it including the blood. I've posted on my blog about this before. Suppon is a kind of snapping turtle.
There is a prepared fish called "kusaya" which requires the fish being repeatedly dried and soaked in vats of old fermenting fish. It really smells rotten and is an acquired taste.
Fish sperm and ovaries are also very common in Japanese food.
Anyway, maybe I'll stop before I gross people. I will say that while I've gotten used to people being grossed out by weird Japanese food, it's actually quite good and doesn't seem gross to me.
What are your plans for the weekend?
Um.... Mess around in Blackwing Lair and become friendly with the mushroom people in Burning Crusade.
And go see Yuki's exhibit at the gallery.
