World of Warcraft

The Deadmines

Again, drop luck favored us today. It was almost just like yesterday: We had to kill a few gnolls in the Redridge Mountains – the third one dropped a [Starsight Tunic] and the fifth one [Thorbia's Gauntlets]. While the former should rather be called “Crap jacket of the Whale”, the latter found place on my warrior’s [...]

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World of Warcraft

It’s raining blue items!

After we had done a number of quests in Redridge Mountains and thereby turned level 20, we both received new class quests. While poor Coldinchen had to travel to the Exodar once again in order to grind out the water totem, I got the quest [Fire Hardened Mail]. I decided to already do the first part [...]

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World of Warcraft

Ores… Ores everywhere!

As planned, we were on the move in Westfall today to beat up the nasty Defias a little. For this purpose, we approached the Jangolode Mine in the north of the country when suddenly my magic mining sensor gave alarm. “We have to go in there!” I said to Nico. “I see dots. Thousands of dots.” Finally [...]

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World of Warcraft

New adventures

It was an insurmountable disinclination to raid that caused us to turn our backs on the “World of Warcraft” in mid-March after pretty much exactly four years. I sure was a tiny little bit sad – yet the decision was easy to me. I still enjoy the game very much, and I would have liked to do one [...]

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Burscheid

Mini flashmob in Burscheid

My sister and I were pretty excited when on 9th May at about 3:20 pm, we walked up to the “Plus” store in Burscheid to wait for our comrades in the mission “Teethbrushing”. While she was still pretentiously hoping for 20 to 30 participants, I had already braced myself for meager five people. Thus I wasn’t disappointed when [...]

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Computers & Co.

Anti-aliasing in Firefox

Since version 7, I believe, the Internet Explorer has had this great font anti-aliasing feature. That is the fonts simply look prettier, smoother and less pixely there. I’ve always liked that; in fact, I was amazed, for it was the first time that the Internet Explorer seemed to have something over my Firefox. But I thought: “Well, in [...]

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Painting

Peaceful Reflections

That is the title of the third picture I painted under the guidance of Bob Ross. Sadly, I used the wrong type of red, so the coloring has become a little kitschy. The sky hasn’t turned out so well either, because it rather looks like a thick rainbow instead of a dawn or dusk sky. [...]

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