Sideshow & Syrana

There was a large response for free blog topics in December.  I have to applaud the bravery of those willing to participate and write a blog post based upon something that sprang from my brain.  In case you haven’t had the opportunity to go and check out these posts, I wanted to compile a special links post for your reading pleasure.  (And I hope to goodness I didn’t miss adding anyone to the list that participated!)

Samodean of Massive Nerd

Tami of Tami Moore

Brajana of Mend Pet

Cait of A Delicate Poof

Jaedia of The Lazy Sniper

Deyndor of Swift Retribution

Nim of Ankh=Life

Tartdarling of PW: Bubble

Kaethir of A Bear In The Trees

Windsoar of Jaded Alt

Valgav of Casual Addict

Jong of Forbearance

While slowly wading through my mostly-neglected-for-the-holidays feedreader, I saw a new Q&A meme over at High Latency Life.  After reading through Rivs’s answers, I headed over to Tree of Life to read the answers of the creator of this meme.

I decided to partake, so here ya go.  There is no tagging, so anyone who wants to post their answers can do so, and those who don’t won’t feel guilty. (continue reading…)

I’m sure you’ve seen this baby making it’s way across the blogosphere.  It’s sort of memeish but also a Blog Azeroth shared topic, which was proposed by Bible of Dreams.  I decided it would be appropriate to take a look at my answers on the very last day of 2009.

No, I wasn’t procrastinating.  Why do you ask?

Also, before we get into my answers here… I’m going to incorporate bloggish related things along with in game things.  Since, well, for the past year, blogging about WoW and gaming is another aspect of playing the game to me. (continue reading…)

So Tamarind, over at Righteous Orbs, has started a new blog gift that keeps on giving.

Here are the basic details on the exchange from his post:

I notice that it’s a season for gift-giving, mulled wine, the warm fuzzies and what not … and, putting aside my bah humbug inclinations, I got to thinking, well, how can we can spread a little festive love around here? And, given how connective blogs are and how much we like tagging each other to write things, I came up with a Cunning Plan…

It’s basically a blog-content gift exchange (and it really needs a catchier title), and here’s how it works. If you’d like to play, leave me a comment and in return I’ll give you a subject, or ask you a question … and then you go away and blog about it. It doesn’t have to be a whole blog post, this is meant to be low pressure gift-exchange, but, you know, a comment or a paragraph, or a corner of a post (or a full post, if you want to really indulge me, or feel inspired). And if I suggest something crap or boring in which you have no interest, you can look at it as the equivalent of a pair of novelty socks, say “thank you very much, Tam” and throw it away entirely, and I’ll pretend not to notice and make a mental note not to get you novelty socks next year….

And then, if you feel like it, you can throw it open on your own blog, inviting people to comment if they’re will to blog on a subject of your choosing….

So there ya have it.  I commented on his post, asking to participate.  Tam has given me a subject (which we’ll get to after the cut) to post about.  If you’d like to participate as well, leave a comment on this post indicating your desire to play and I’ll respond in the comments giving out subjects/topics to those interested.

Alright, ready?! (continue reading…)

I had to work late Tuesday night, so today’s post is on the lighter (not holy light) side.

Davlin over at Epic Dwarven Blogger tagged Sideshow and I for a musical meme.  Interestingly enough, Sideshow had posted this back in February, although we didn’t “tag” anyone at that time.  I had only submitted mine via the comment section last time, but I’m going to do the fun part now to share with you… the one from February and the one I created today after accepting The Tag. (continue reading…)

We’ve recently been tagged by Elleiras of Fel Fire for the WoWku meme.  Or, as I called it earlier, Lockku, for the haikus that are, y’know, warlock related.  Fimlys from Asleep at the WoW brought this meme back with a class flavor. (*Edit: We were also tagged by Gaming Diva.  I read her post, saw the tag, and am ashamed to say I forgot to link her when I got to the post later in the evening.  I’m sorry!)

People  all around

Not a soul left to drain here

Mine’s the only one.

Bodies everywhere

Their Souls have all been taken

They are in my bag.

Warlock Mage merger

Posted by Gnomeaggedon

Makes Syrana sad.

Cursing, Corrupting,

Haunting, Dotting, and Draining

Affliction for life.

Well, there ya have it.  Nothing fancy shmancy, but not too shabby either, if I do say so myself.

*buffs nails on chest*

Oh, right! Tagging!  Well, for once, I’m not gonna select tagees.  Poetry needs to be inspired, in my opinion, so I would like anyone that feels inspired after reading my ‘kus, to post their own!  The choice is yours…. (do eeet)

So, Syrana is making me do all of this work coming up with name inspiration and 10 things about myself. What is this, school? I jest. It’s about time I post something on here, right?

What’s in a Name?

Sideshow – I’m not 100% sure how I got this name. I usually ended up getting nicknames based around the letter “Z” due to my last name, like Z-Dog or Z. I like ‘em, but they’re kinda boring. For some reason, while playing an FPS with some friends, they started calling me Sideshow, so I starting using it in that game. When I created my first WoW character, I decided to use that name and designed him with that in mind. This is why Sideshow has crazy, circus-freak hair.

Zideshow – No inspiration there, really. Created originally to be a bank alt, but I had fun playing the mage, so it stuck. It also happens to be my Xbox Live gamertag since Sideshow was taken and Zideshow is a nice “Z”-based version of it. See what I did there?

Zod – Completely and shamelessly stolen from Superman II’s own General Zod. I was really hoping to PvP a bunch in the beginning to unlock the “General” tag on the Horde side, but alas, I couldn’t farm PvP like you needed to back then. Now, KNEEL BEFORE ME!

Gertbee – My dwarf hunter. I was looking for a not-so-serious, jolly kind of name. I remember finding the name that Christopher Walken’s character in Joe Dirt chose to go by at the end of the movie hilarious, so it stuck. Turns out that it was really Gert B. Frobe, instead of Gertbee. But, mine is funnier.

The rest, I think, have been random name generator names or taken from books, history or fantasy to try to at least capture the feel of the type of character it was. Like: Luminthia (Priest), Gudrott (Orc DK), Heks (DK), and Archiluras (Warlock).

All About Meeee..

10 things..hmm.

1. Huge Metallica fan (and most metal, in general) They were the first band that I really attached to growing up and they will always be at the top of my list. As cool as it is to hate them for most people, I will always enjoy what they release and what they’ve done. I had the opportunity to meet James Hetfield, the singer and Jason Newsted, the ex-bassist in 1997.
2. When I was in sixth grade I was playing basketball with my friend J.R. and slam dunking the ball off of a crate. I slammed it and hung on too long and fell off backwards and busted my left wrist out-of-place, it was shaped like an “S”. Then 4-weeks later on the second-last day of school at the roller-skating rink with my class and I fell backward and busted my right wrist. So, two broken arms for the summer.
3. I really got into Genealogy when my Grandpa died in 1999. I thought I’d work on it before any more people who had the information were no longer around. My grandpa’s family is still one the elusive lines that I’m stuck on. Figures, huh? It’s really cool to unravel the mystery of where you came from and without the Internet I definitely wouldn’t be as far as I am. I regularly blog about it on my genealogy site, Zalewski Family Genealogy.
4. I can be really outgoing. It depends on my mood and where I am/who I’m with. But, usually I’m pretty quiet. People always think I’m mad or bored. But, I’m rarely mad (but maybe bored.) I found this t-shirt that says, “I’m really excited to be here” on it, which usually works pretty well.
5. Born and raised in Wisconsin and against popular belief, I don’t only consume cheese, brats, beer, and milk. Well, not all the time or all at once.
6. Syrana and I originally met online, Yahoo Personals if I remember right. My grandma once asked if we met in the “Same Birthday” chatroom.
7. I have a short attention span for a lot of things, including gaming. I’ll jump around to different games. I’ve figured out how to jump around enough to not get really burned-out from a game, like WoW. Currently, jumping around to WoW, Eve Online, Guitar Hero: Metallica and Left 4 Dead.
8. I bought and played WoW the first time without even trying it. My friends at work always talked about it. One day I just perused the website and decided to get it on my way home. The guy at the counter said, “Nice knowing you” when he gave it to me. What did he mean by that? Silly cashier.
9. I’ve been developing and *cough*designing*cough* websites since somewhere around 1996-97. It started with my days using the BBSes and then the good ‘ol text-only Lynx browser. (Are we Lynx-friendly?) Now, get off my lawn!
10. Ten is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 5. Ten is the smallest noncototient, a number that can not be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total number of coprimes below it. It’s also how many fingers I have.

“This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.”

Today’s edition of the Bloggy Awards features the evil sweetheart Syrana of Sideshow & Syrana.

We have been nominated by: Faulsey of Master’s Call, Fulguralis of Killing ‘em Slowly, Gnomeaggedon of Armaggedon’s Coming, Thedoctor of WTFspaghetti, and Spooner of Spooncraft.

I really want to say thank you and happily accept these awards.  I must say I was a bit surprised to see how many nominations we received and it made us all warmfuzzy inside.  (Or was that just a bit of fire burning in Syrana’s tummy?) I am honored to receive such recognition and to be apart of our wonderful blogging community!

/tears of happiness (continue reading…)

Syrana.

At least, that’s how you all know me.  Fulguralis over at Killing ‘em Slowly has created a new meme of sorts to get to know the bloggers naming styles. 

Rules: Tell us how you select your character names (even if it means digging out an old post!) and tag 3 other bloggers. Thee who have been tagged shall be revealed at the end.

But, would you believe I have not always been known as Syrana? Some people use similar handles, monikers, toon names in a variety of games over several years (points at Sideshow).  Once upon a time, waaay back in the good ol’ BBS days (which I plan to post some fun flashback stuff about!) I was known as Nofear.  That was my handle and character name.  Wouldn’t quite apply to my Warlock too well, would it? Heh.

Then I did a spell of using a combination of my real name and my favorite flower and you’d see Darsadaisy or Dayzee all over the place.

Then enter World of Warcraft.  A whole new realm (my first MMO) and a new way of looking at “character name.”  Some of you may know I have a pet peeve about names I see in game.  There are many that would be appropriate enough as a “handle” but not a character’s name. (continue reading…)

Looks like another meme bug is going around.  It seems we may have caught this one early this time!  We were tagged by Darraxus, who was tagged by Megan (whose image I used to help with recreating my own version of this meme).

The rules:

On the road of X, there is(are) Y and Z.

INSERTWITTYHERE Wanted.

I hereby tag the following to create their own if they so desire:

T-Sonn

Fear.Win

Thedoctor

Gnomeaggedon