Man, today I’m just not feelin’ it. 
Last night’s karate class was one of the worst-feeling experiences I’ve had in a long time – if that sounds bad, I don’t mean it to… I had an absolute blast, but jesus I’m sore.
One of our instructors has been doing some Kali seminars, so he ran us through some real basic Kali training in the last few weeks. It’s not the sort of school where they do an 8 hour training seminar and then come try to teach us, no no… that’s not the purpose here. We’re not actually trying to train in Kali, our interest is in how to defend it. But if no one knows how to swing a stick, our practice is going to be pretty unrealistic and uninteresting.
So last night it was decided that the kids weren’t putting enough into it, they weren’t taking it serious enough. So we did a little bit of light sparring with foam covered escrima… let me tell you, the foam doesn’t do a whole lot when you get a couple of adults who should know better acting like kids (Tyler and I). I’ve a couple of nasty bruises on my body that hasn’t really seen these kind of welts since I quit playing paintball on a regular basis.
I took a couple of shots to the wrists as well, courtesy of Tyler’s training. After that we moved onto disarms and takedowns, which basically involved rolling into wristlocks at it’s core… more stress on the wrists.
It was a total blast though, I learned a lot and got some real good practice in… I’m just sore as shit.
Today I was supposed to split some more wood, but I knew as soon as I woke up it just wasn’t going to happen. I experimented with our new Nagios system, despite the fact it’ll probably be tore up when the box it’s on moves to it’s new host. We’ll probably be ditching Pingdom – which sucks, because I kind of like it, but it’s just cheaper and more effective to rent a decent VPS and run Nagios from it than paying to monitor all our services from Pingdom.
I went through and moderated some comments on this blog and on the Moodoo forums – same spammy crap really, water filters, diet pills, accutane reviews, but strangely no porn. I suppose I wouldn’t really mind unsolicited email and links if they were remotely relevant to my interests, but they never seem to be.
I’ve been playing a little bit of MAG lately, which is probably what I’m about to go do in a moment. My brother in law bought it on the advice of a friend of his, and then promptly decided he hated it. I was in on the original Beta (one of the few beta invitations I got from Twitter, but not the one I really wanted) and I thought the game was just not fun.
I’m sure I’ll wind up writing a review eventually, but here’s the long and short of it… in an FPS, if you’ve got one or two noobs on your team but otherwise the rest of your team is evenly matched to the rest of everyone on the other team, you’re bound to lose. MAG is like that, except that with 256 players you’re bound to have a lot more noobs. During the Beta, I never played a single game that wasn’t a roll one way or the other, either my team lost by a landslide, or we won by a landslide.
I don’t know what they changed since Beta, but it’s actually a lot more fun. It might just be that at the lowly level of 7 I’m not high enough to play with the good players, because most every game I’ve gone into I’ve kicked ass – and I don’t say this to toot my own horn, because I’m really not that great at FPSes. But it’s definitely a whole lot more fun than it was, and it’s a lot prettier too. It doesn’t have the visual polish of say, Modern Warfare 2 – but fuck, when there’s 256 people in a map, with vehicles and artillery and everything else going on, it’s no surprise there.
If you played it during Beta and like me, wrote it off – I’d urge you to at least rent the game and give it another shot.
… but there’s something just wrong about this. If you moused over the image, you read correctly: his name is Mr Wasup and he’s an NPC in this goofy little MMORPG a few of us have been messing around on called 
