About
Video game designer. Freelance web developer. Loves: Oolong tea, semantic code, and you.
Movies
The Last Samurai, Gladiator, Ghost in the Shell, Bourne Identity, Death at a Funeral, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Stargate, Serenity, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Office Space, Anchorman, National Treasure, Dark Knight
Music
Yoko Kanno, A Perfect Circle, Jonathan Coulton, Ashes Divide, Asian Kung-fu Generation, Nine INch Nails, Gnarls Barkley, AFI, The Seatbelts, Tool, Snow Patrol, Anberlin, Linkin Park, Yuki Kajiura, Deftones
Television
Battlestar Galactica, Lie to Me, LOST, 24, Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, Futurama, Arrested Development, House, Bleach, Naruto, Ghost in the Shell, South Park, Metalocalypse
Activities
Interests
Gaming, Game Design, Game Programming, Game Theory, Platforms, Frameworks, APIs, Social Networks, Social Media, Serious Games, Augmented Reality, MySQL, PHP, Python, Perl, Lua, C++, C#, .NET, Second Life, Virtual Worlds, MMOs, MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Games, Podcasting, Blogging, Anime, Manga, Japan, Culture, Theology, Philosophy, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
DecemberDec 18 Friday Fri 09
Almost finished moving all my projects over to @linode. Incredibly impressed with their service.
DecemberDec 17 Thursday Thu 09
Wow, lighttpd is really brilliant. So fast! Configuration is easier than Apache, too
Mmmmm caffeinamon http://evansims.com/g/2w
There's something new and delicious on my desk today; thanks @brianherbert!! :) http://evansims.com/g/2v
DecemberDec 16 Wednesday Wed 09
Thank God for Tylenol.
DecemberDec 15 Tuesday Tue 09
Raid night in @Warcraft rocked. We downed Marrowgar and I got a sexy new ArP trinket. I ♥ my guild.
DecemberDec 14 Monday Mon 09
Chrome extensions I'm using these days; http://drp.ly/2oDan Any suggestions on ones I should check out?
So we have cross-server instances, battlegrounds and ignore lists, but still no corss-server /tell. WTB PST. #Warcraft
Nice job, MacRabbit; Espresso 1.1 looks great (http://macrabbit.com/espresso/)
Today is a day for YOGURT!
I just started using Droplr, the coolest new app for Mac. Check it out at http://droplr.com
DecemberDec 11 Friday Fri 09
Oh sure, the Kindle sounds like a great idea. Then you realize you've expunged all your paperbacks, and you just ran out of toilet paper.
DecemberDec 10 Thursday Thu 09
I love you, FRINGE
I ate wwaayy too much for dinner. So good, though. Ugh.
Giving http://thegleebox.com a try on Chromium/Mac. Pretty neat.
DecemberDec 9 Wednesday Wed 09
"This Warhorse, She Does Not Fly." - http://www.evansims.com/p/1357 #blogged #warcraft
This Warhorse, She Does Not Fly
Patch 3.3– dubbed Fall of the Lich King– went live yesterday, much to the excitement of the bajillions of Warcraft gamers out there. It’s a pretty exciting patch, both from a content and lore standpoint.
As I recently started reading Arthas: Rise of the Lich King
Of course, just because it’s live doesn’t mean it works. Patch day woes. To be expected, of course. Instance servers are borked, so the odds of you managing to zone in and see the new content, use the new cross-server dungeon group finder or even raid the pre-existing content is slim to none. But those issues will be resolved in the days to come. We all know how these things go.
Last night I decided to rebuild my raiding UI and do a little mining. You know, to buffer the wallet a bit for all those impending gear repairs I’m expecting. At one point a I’m flying along over Storm Peaks looking for nodes, the world server goes down. No big deal, I thought. It was the fifth or sixth time it had happened that evening. Well, I log back in and much to my horror I am no longer mounted on my Netherwing. Nay, I had magically been placed upon my Warhorse. I can only imagine she was as confused as I was as we plummeted thirty thousand feet to our death together.
I laughed for a good five minutes on that one.
Preparing for the fight with Lord Marrowgar
On the upside, my guild did manage to get Marrowgar down to 48% last night before our instance went all sideways. So, I can’t complain too much there. Now we just need the instances working so we can finish the fight towards Arthas.
This Warhorse, She Does Not Fly was written by Evan Sims. The opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily shared by my employer. Redistributable under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. See my legal page for further details.
(via Evan Sims)
This Warhorse, She Does Not Fly
Patch 3.3– dubbed Fall of the Lich King– went live yesterday, much to the excitement of the bajillions of Warcraft gamers out there. It’s a pretty exciting patch, both from a content and lore standpoint.
As I recently started reading Arthas: Rise of the Lich King
Of course, just because it’s live doesn’t mean it works. Patch day woes. To be expected, of course. Instance servers are borked, so the odds of you managing to zone in and see the new content, use the new cross-server dungeon group finder or even raid the pre-existing content is slim to none. But those issues will be resolved in the days to come. We all know how these things go.
Last night I decided to rebuild my raiding UI and do a little mining. You know, to buffer the wallet a bit for all those impending gear repairs I’m expecting. At one point a I’m flying along over Storm Peaks looking for nodes, the world server goes down. No big deal, I thought. It was the fifth or sixth time it had happened that evening. Well, I log back in and much to my horror I am no longer mounted on my Netherwing. Nay, I had magically been placed upon my Warhorse. I can only imagine she was as confused as I was as we plummeted thirty thousand feet to our death together.
I laughed for a good five minutes on that one.
Preparing for the fight with Lord Marrowgar
On the upside, my guild did manage to get Marrowgar down to 48% last night before our instance went all sideways. So, I can’t complain too much there. Now we just need the instances working so we can finish the fight towards Arthas.
This Warhorse, She Does Not Fly was written by Evan Sims. The opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily shared by my employer. Redistributable under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. See my legal page for further details.
(via Evan Sims)