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    <title>Sleepless</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I'm a 23 year old artist and art enthusiast who has recently moved to Norman, OK.  I live in an apartment with my fiance and future wife, Tovah Lewis.  As mentioned above, I love art and all things related.  I have recently gotten into Photography and hope to pursue a career in it.

I enjoy life in general, especially the creative aspects of it.  I'm a bit of a laid back individual, seeing no use for rushing things and stress.  Music drives me every single day (who doesn't get driven by music?) and inspires me time and time again.  I think I'd die without tunes.  Seriously.

I'm here to meet friends and like minded individuals and just have fun.]]></description>
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      <title>Frozen</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:10:43 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>NewPlaceNewThings</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/413843</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Moved into my new apartment Jan. 31st.  Feels nice to be on my own again.  Well, not entirely alone.  Sharing the place with my lovely fiance.  Mmmm...nice.

Looking forward to exploring the surrounding area more, and possibly getting a job at the Apple Store (would be nice ^_^).  I didn't realize  how much I missed city dwelling until I came here.  Small town country life is boring as hell compared to the this.  Plus, having several useful stores and niceties nearby helps ease frustration and makes life a little easier.  

Well, I thought I'd have more to say, maybe later.  Away I go.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:40:44 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>idrinkgreenfizzythings</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Outta work and feeling slightly drained.  However, I have my tankard of vitality elixir (aka, Mountain Dew), with me, so all is well...or should be when the caffeine kicks in.

I submitted a drawring for those that actually view this page to enjoi.  I'm quite pleased with it, planning on making prints of it.  If I were a robot, I'd wanna look like that...robots FTW.

Gonna be moving sometime at the end of December with my fiancee up and out of Mc-boredoutofmyskull-Alester.  

I hate this small town nonsense with a passion.  I dislike rednecks, contractors and overbearing religious-zealot republicans as well (this town is loaded with the aforementioned villainy).  The unemployed are on my shit list too; around here it seems to be "OK" to not have a job and mooch off of unemployment checks and well fare...yet still drive a BRAND F'ING NEW *insert vehicle here, preferably expensive ones*.  My tax dollars are not to pay your Hummer's lease, GTFO and get a job, asshat.  

I spend quite a bit of time gaming it up WoW (World of Warcraft).  So far, my Alliance main (Female Night Elf Hunter) is lvl 55, almost 56.  I'll finally be able to go to Outland soon (hoorah!) and see what I've been missing.  However, to take a bit of a break, I've made some toons to play on the Emerald Dream realm, Horde side.  I rolled a Female Tauren Shaman and a Female Tauren Hunter.  I would've rolled male except for the fact I can't get over how fugly Tauren male look.  Females look more aesthetically pleasing...the voice acting they have for them is creepy.  Why couldn't they have taken one of the nicer sounding NPC voices for players?

Also, for those in the know, 2.3 is being touted by the Hunter community as a "unwanted patch for Hunters".  I disagree to a point.  My highest lvl toon being a Hunter, and the fact that I love the class itself, makes me care about what is done to the class to improve it.  So far, in patch 2.3, what has been confirmed is an Arcane Shot Dispell (f'ing awesome to me), Deadzone reduction (finally), and a Mortal Strike affect added to Aimed Shot (pretty cool).  The first 2 I think are just right, Hunters will have to only damaging ranged dispell in the game (and they can do it every 6 secs. 5 if speced MM), and they will no longer have their deadzone exploited and be able to do nothing.  The MS Aimed Shot, still waiting to see it in action when the patch hits...hopefully they reduce the casting time from 3.5 to something shorter like they said they might, would help it's viability.  

Hunters on the WoW Hunter forums just seem to...I don't know...bitch to much.  Mainly the ones who are involved in Arena matches complain that these buffs won't help us worth a damn.  Their were a few however that said Hunters were fine and these buffs were icing on the cake; these few also had very good arena ratings and gear, and the whiners did not.  Hmmm...I'll take to heart what the skilled player says thanks; Hunters are fine, please read up on your class and learn 2 play.  I too think Hunters are dandy; they are a class that easy to learn, but hard to master.  They require a lot of forethought and understanding to battle mechanics and strategies.  Most of the time, PvP-wise, I come out on top because I know what I'm doing.  I have seen many Hunters though that don't do the right things or do stuff that makes me go "WTF, why did you do that?  Are you retarded?"  

For example, I saw this Dwarf Hunter duel a Human Rogue and thought, "Surely when the match starts, he will throw a flare in the direction he last saw the Rogue stealth to...right?"  Nope, didn't happen, he just started running, blindly hoping he ran into the Rogue.  Eventually, the Rogue positioned himself behind the Hunter and started beating the crap out of him and stunlocking him down.  When the Hunter comes to, he's got about 50% HP left, but can still pull the fight around...if he was smart.  I would've layed a frost trap down, even if I had crippling poison on me, because I would assume (especially around higher lvls), that, if I layed a freezing trap, he would just trinket out of it and screw me over.  At least with a frost trap, if he did trinket, it would be wasted because the slowing affect would still be there; trinkets don't make you immune for a set time.  After that, I would get some distance between me and the Rogue, and as soon as I could, pop a concussive shot on him and turn on Aspect of the Cheetah to get a speed boost (assuming he was out of melee with me, if not, I'd kite some more untill I was.)  I'd also unload a Serpent Sting and Hunter's Mark to prevent him from using Vanish.  Since I'm Beast Master speced right now (for lvling, I'll most likely change it to Marks and Survival when I hit 70), I'd then pop Intimidation on him to stun him, then Rapid Fire, Beast Within, then pew pew pew and kite as necessary, all the while reapplying serpent sting to keep him dotted and concussive shot to slow him down and using a Multi-Auto-Arcane-Auto shot rotation.  He'd be dead very quickly fighting me, even if he pulled tricks out on me, I'd adapt and counter him.

But back to the Dwarf.  What did he do?  He didn't lay a single trap and kept Aspect of the Cheetah on (in melee range...idiot) and subsequently started to duke it out in close combat...with a Rogue...the proverbial king of CQC...ladies and gentleman, I present to you the most accurate example of a Huntard.  Needless to say, he dropped in about 3 secs as the Rogue happily unloaded a full combo point rack on him.  Basically, the climax to that fight was a bunch of stabbing and slashing sounds followed by "Auggh!".  No skill what-so-ever from the Hunter, didn't even try.  I did a sigh emote and shook my head at the Dwarf.  The Rogue just started laughing constantly.  The Hunter laughed too and said "Good Duel, you're really good, lol"  The Rogue responded, "That duel was lame, you didn't even try.  You possibly could have won if you knew what to do, but you ignored almost all your class skills and tried to melee me.  The simple fact is you are a Huntard and don't know to play your class."  I clapped and agreed with what the Rogue said.  The Dwarf, obviously a very dense person IRL, said "Well no, Rogues are OP, everyone knows that.  Hunters can't really beat Rogues or Warriors.  So, no, you just play an easy win class."  

I stepped in and said, "Fine then, if you feel like that let me prove you wrong.  If I win, you need to reroll your class and get out of mine, if I lose, I'll give you 50 Gold and free pots out of my bank.  Deal?"  The Rogue laughed at this, saying it sounded like a good proposal.  The Dwarf agreed and sat down to watch.  I let the Rogue heal and then challenged him to a duel.  I employed my own strategies and tactics and used the proper skills at correct times to combat the Rogue.

I won.  I had 65% HP when the Duel ended.  The Rogue was quite impressed and said I was one of the better Hunters he has dueled.  The Dwarf couldn't believe it and had the audacity to accuse me of being a hacker, then he ran off to be his Huntard self somewhere else.  Me and the Rogue just laughed at him, then said goodbye and parted ways.  What I find sad, is most Hunters are like that, they never employ their full list of skills in combat and subsequently think their class is gimped and then proceed to whine and bitch.  I, however, feel it is important to understand the class your playing if your going to get the most out of WoW.  

Yeah, I know, long WoW rant.  Those of you who don't play probably didn't understand a thing I just said.  Sry <3. 

OK, no more talk about WoW, time to play.

Bai.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:22:38 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>/Discuss</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Apples>Oranges>Bannanas

However, if Pizza is present, then Pizza>All

Add a +10 coefficient for all sources of alchohol

Wheeee!

/discuss?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:21:18 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>More Post</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/176337</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This page is very stagnant...could use some more life to it.

Virb, why do I not use you enough?  Am I a lazy procrastinator or just aloof and sporadic?  

I think a little of both, trying to work on fixing it.

More to follow.

(I suck at blogging, lol)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:19:46 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Computer Hate-age</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dell=Suck.

I plan on getting a MacBook Pro soon so I can end my nightmarish stint with Windows.  I've spent all day today trying to get this damn box to function...it's only a little over a year old, with almost $2,000 spent on it.  All it's been is a money-sink and a time-sink (whoopey!, double the fun <.< ).  On top of it deciding not to work today (I should mention it worked OK yesterday), WoW decided to not work as well, plus 6 other Apps. I use regularly decided not to function and had to be fixed/reinstalled.  All work now except WoW...which makes me extremely aggitated.

I fucking hate Windows.

My fiance has a Mac and it works flawlessly; internet, apps., WoW, everything runs on it, no problems.  Hell, when she installed WoW it took about an hour and half less time than on my POS Dell.  I was thoroughly impressed with Mac and can honestly say I was envious for one myself.

I know, I'm ranting, I've just had it with this idiot machine I wasted money on.  I know, from everything I've heard/read that getting a Mac will be for the best...I don't think I can take anymore computer headaches.  I laugh now, but earlier today I got so frustrated I got light-headed and needed to walk away...well, actually I went out to get gas and take some pictures, so I was away for about an hour or so.  Enough to clear my head and calm down.  Then I went back to the box to beat my head in some more *sigh*.  

To Do for tommorow:
1. Destroy computer, preferably by lighting it on fire
2. Order a Mac
3. Wait for Mac and hug it when it comes
4. Put tacos in face
5. Sleep
6. Repeat steps 4-5 ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:10:33 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Whoa</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/73236</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.games4work.com/games/swf/supercoolpic.swf">Freakin' Trippy</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:43:24 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Sicksucs.Vitaminwater+</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/66811</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I hate being sick.

My head was twanging with pain from the slightest movement.  The 'ol stomach has been quacky and rumbly for most of the morning, and to top off this bad-day-sundae, my allergies closed my nostrils off entirely for a good chunk of the morning.  All in all, a bad morning.  Bad enough I had to come home from work after only half a day.  I feel quite a bit better now, thanks to some Bayer and Vitamin Water (great stuff BTW).  The rest of the day should be pleasant.  

Gonna play some WoW, walk my dog, etc.  Then back to work tomm. at 7am (bleh).  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:45:25 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>ROFLMAO!</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/55981</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A">ROFLMAO.</a>

It's entertaining seeing Tauren dance and sing ^_^.

enjoi.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 22:10:48 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Insert ears into these tunes</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/7435</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Feed your eardrums this noise and tell me it's not tasty.  Oh, if you've heard it/own it already, stop reading and listen to it already!

>Royksopp-Remind Me
>Infidel Inc.-Box of Sunshine
>Busdriver-Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia is the Sport of Now)
>K-Os-Sunday Morning
>Shiny Toy Guns-Disko
>Adult Swim Presents Definitive Swim-Brothaz Remix
>Bloc Party-Hunting for Witches
>Cut Chemist-(My 1st) Big Break
>Damien Rice-Cheers Darlin'
>Lusine-Ask You

Hear it and believe!  Later.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:28:43 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Rabbits w/Machetes</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/5979</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anyone who reads my blogs will become fond of my nonsensical titles...I think.  At the very least, I find them clever and a tad witty.

Har.

I think I'm going to go out tomorrow and take a bunch of photos of McAlester.  Not because I like this town or anything, it will be good practice for my photography skills.  I've lived in this town for 7 years now and can honestly say that I don't like it.  Never have really.  It's basically in the middle of no where, is run by several corrupt individuals, and has an ego problem.  Yes, the the "city" of McAlester is full of itself (point one, calling itself a city).  Cities usually have better attractions than a Prison Rodeo (Google that shit and see what I'm talking about).  Oh, and according to the McAlester Tourism Board, it's a great "family event to bring the kids to".  I don't know if a rodeo that's held in maximum security prison should ever be considered a "family event", especially for children.  

Then there's the hospital, which actually has a frighteningly high mortality rate for it's patients.  The schools here also pay their football coaches three times the salary of a regular teacher...'cuz we all know football is SOOOOO important for the future of the human race.  Ah, here's another Google worthy mention: Gene Stipe.  You should find a lot of articles with tags like "crook, thief, biggot".  No joke.

I guess I'm ranting about McAlester because I want out.  I'm a city guy, not inclined for this rural farm life nonsense that is resplendent in this area.  I tire of the culture here (which seems to be stuck back in the 1920's), tired of this towns lack of progress or innovation, and reallllly tired of the southern accents.  I mean seriously tired of the accents; twang and slurring are not my verbal bread and butter.  Thankfully, I'm getting close to getting back to city life and getting back with culture (i.e. more than just white, southern people).  I'm used to being around different cultures and races and interacting with them daily.  Being around basically just white people is really getting old, especially since many around here are of the conservative nature (no gays, blacks, or anything that promotes change).  Not joking there either, these people are unbelievably outdated and not with the times.  

I'll cut this rant short and get back to my art.  Comments about your least liked place of residence are welcome. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:39:35 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Chillin'</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/3898</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm impressed.  Haven't had this account up for a week and already have 5 people to socialize with.  I had a MySpace account for a year and only had 1 person on my friends list.  Point is, I'm looking forward to getting to know these people better.  

Anyhow, hangin' at my friend Voss' apartment, playing games and just chilling with friends.  Voss has been at God of War II for hours trying to beat it.  It looks pretty dang hard, more so than the first game.  But yeah, that's how we're spending the evening.  Tommorrow (oh, uh, later today I mean *looks at clock*) we'll do stuff...don't know what yet, but something fun.  I should get some video of our adventures this weekend; bought a bigger memory card for my Canon Powershot S2 IS (which can take video too, not just stills).  Post some of that when I get back.  

More later.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:27:51 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Eh?</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/nosleep/posts/text/3537</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<b>W</b>ell, they got me.  VIRB.com got me, to clarify.

You see, I was never really into this whole social networking thing way back when MySpace came out.  I thought it was such a fad (and a really bad one at that).  It seemed that in no time at all everyone had a MySpace and wanted all their friends to add them and vice versa.  For some people it was the only way they communicated (like they never heard of a cell phone).  I felt the whole thing was ridiculous.  That and MySpace's layout and looks are reminiscent of old-school "build your own website" services.

I thought it would fade (or hope something better came along).  Unfortunately, MySpace hasn't faded.  In fact, I think it's more popular than it's ever been.  However, I think with right features and updates, VIRB could give MySpace a run for it's money.  And that means a lot coming from, former social site skeptic #1 (self-proclaimed at least).

I have to admit that VIRB has a definite charm.  It's clean, easy to use, and easily customized (just wish I knew CSS).  Out of all the other social sites I've tried (which were too many, I should have stopped at some point), this one is the best.  Thumbs up VIRB crew, keep up the good work.

Well, it's late, and I still have a few things to do before crashing.  Out.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:35:41 -0700</pubDate>
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