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September 15, 2007 Fred Smith, News, World of Warcraft

Smart people have PhDs…and play World of Warcraft.

A couple days ago Neils Clark over at Gamasutra asked the question: is there life after Warcraft? It wasn’t so much the question that was interesting, but the people he posed the question to. He asked five bone fide academics to give their qualified opinion on the phenomenon that is World of Warcraft. If you…

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September 15, 2007 DIY, Fred Smith, Home Improvement, News, Tips

Off brand, name brand, and quality. (Part I)

Being a young guy working as a plumbing and housewares salesman has it’s challenges. The biggest being that when I started working I had hardly any product knowledge whatsoever. I knew where I few things were in the store, but I couldn’t tell you much about them. After almost two years though, I have learned…

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September 15, 2007 Apple, Fred Smith, News

Excuse me while I whip this out.

My Macbook that is. Yep, it finally came. After three days staring at the Fedex tracking page, hoping that it just might come a day early, I spent the day of it’s arrival staring hopefully down the lane waiting for that big van of Macbook goodness to drive up. I found out the hard way…

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September 13, 2007 Fred Smith, Medical, News, Random

Thygeson’s Punctate Keratitis

Impressive sounding, isn’t it? And I have it. Have had it rather…it’s a chronic problem I’ve been dealing with for the past few years. Thygeson’s keratitis amounts to small scratches on the cornea of my eye. I found a few other definitions that sound far more impressive though. Such as: Thygeson’s disease is an eye…

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September 11, 2007 Fred Smith, News, World of Warcraft

Things I just don’t understand: Part 1

World of Warcraft: Game of the Year, mmorpg phenomenon, and all-around cash cow. One might ask themselves, “How could someone who spends fifteen bucks a month to play a game (guilty) spend even MORE money on said game?” Say…five hundred bucks more? The answer lies in a 2×3 piece of painted cardboard.

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