Have Avatar, Will Travel: Quick update roundup of sims we’ve visited before
2010-09-02 17:17 CDT
It’s been a couple of months since this blog last updated, long enough that some of even the most recently blogged places may have changed their schedules, their events, or even their state of existence. Let’s do a quick check-in: Amber Lights Village has closed down, “due to a slow summer”. The Apple Hunt Group [...]
Puzzle Pirates Examiner: How to earn your September 2010 Seal o' Piracy
2010-09-01 17:17 CDT
Last month saw the debut of a new Sea Monster Hunt environment: Haunted Seas. It's understandable that, in your excitement--in the flush of your NRE, so to speak--you find yourself doing just about nothing but.
BUT!
There are other SMHs out there, remember, and other expeditions. You oughtn't to neglect them!
That's the challenge posed to ye by the September 2010 Seal o' Piracy, mates. Of the six SMH and expedition types, you've got to visit four:
Attack an Atlantean Citadel
Venture onto a Cursed Isle
Exorcise a Haunted Ship Graveyard
Visit a Buried Treasure Atoll
Haul...
actually writing blog: So Practice Detachment Already
2010-08-31 23:23 CDT
Intensity of intention has an inverse relationship with productivity. To wit: This morning I got up and said to myself, "You've only finished three paid content-writing articles all month! And the third requires a rewrite! And when this month have you don . . . .
Puzzle Pirates Examiner: Blockade schedule for the week of August 30
2010-08-30 14:14 CDT
With just a couple blockades this afternoon in the doubloon world and one more scheduled for Friday on Midnight, it's looking like a quiet week... so far. Remember that Event Blockades may be announced with as little as an hour's advance notice, so what's known today may end up representing much less than the sum total of all blockade activity for the week.
All times given in UTC - 8:00, or "Pirate Time" (U.S. Pacific). Click on links for each flag's members and allies. Check the Notice Board for complete Event Blockade details.
Doublooon Ocean Blockades
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Puzzle Pirates Examiner: Blockade schedule for the weekend of August 28-29
2010-08-28 10:10 CDT
Better late than never, right? Here's your blockades for this weekend--at least, here are those currently scheduled as of 8:00 AM Saturday morning.
There's a real mix of blockade types this weekend. Gretchen Goldfang and Azarbad the Great are attacking islands today on the subscription oceans, while island government all over the doubloon universe have scheduled Event Blockades. Meanwhile, flag versus flag action is breaking out all over! On Sage, Viridian, and Midnight, war chests have been dropped and island takeovers will be attempted. Go log onto your favorite ocean and help...
Boulder Writing Examiner: Friday market alerts: Marketscoops spotlights magazines, interviews editors
2010-08-27 19:19 CDT
Author and editor D. L. Snell keeps a blog called Market Scoops, and if you're having trouble deciding on the next semi-pro market to send your story to, you should bookmark it. Once or twice a month, Snell spotlights a 'zine, following up its vital stats with an in-depth interview with its editor or editors.
The most recent 'zine Market Scoops highlights (August 17) is Ideomancer, an online spec fic quarterly. Snell asks editor Leah Bobet about her favorite authors and what sort of qualities Ideomancer looks for in submissions. Questions go into details of setting, genre,...
Boulder Writing Examiner: Coffee and writing in the Boulder Rock Club lounge
2010-08-26 12:12 CDT
If you live in Boulder, there's a good chance you've at least dabbled in rock climbing. Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the town tends to attract climbers, mountaineers and hikers. And if that didn't describe you originally, the proximity of all these sports may have tempted you to try it out.
Boulder boasts not one but three climbing gyms: Movement, The Spot, and the Boulder Rock Club. What follows might well be said about any of them, but this Examiner, being most familiar with the BRC, will be writing about that one for now.
Wait, though. What does a rock...
Puzzle Pirates Examiner: Haunted Seas goes live on all oceans
2010-08-24 17:17 CDT
Next time you launch your Puzzle Pirates client, don't be surprised to see the "Your client is out of date" message. If you've been paying attention to the Ice Changelog lately, you'll know what that means...
Haunted Seas launches today! Check it out: Release 2010-08-24
Charts to these ghostly locations will begin to appear in the way that all other Sea Monster Maps do: you'll occasionally win them in a pillage or by defeating an island's skellie infestation. You'll need a subscription or bravery badge, depending on your ocean, to chart to a Haunted Seas...
Puzzle Pirates Examiner: Get the most peices of eight out of your labor hours: YPP job hunting strategies
2010-08-24 14:14 CDT
Get a job!
No, really--it's your best opportunity to get PoE daily without even logging on. Hiring on at a Shoppe or Stall in the Puzzle Pirates world means that your character "works" a certain number of labor hours a day, if the labor is needed. The Shoppe/Stall gets that many more hours towards completing necessary in-game products, and you get PoE.
Seems simple, right? Well... it's not quite that simple, not if you want to really maximize the profitability of your daily allotment of labor hours. And since you'll be paying per month to keep your subscription or...
Boulder Writing Examiner: CU Writing Center offers writing and rhetoric advice for all occasions
2010-08-24 11:11 CDT
If you need writing advice, and you are a student, staff or faculty member, or an alumnus/alumna of the University of Colorado at Boulder, CU's Program for Writing and Rhetoric invites you to bring your boggle over to the Writing Center, free of charge. From August 30 to December 14, the Writing Center will offer fall semester hours of 10 AM to 6 PM from Monday through Thursday, and from 10 AM to 1 PM on Friday.
The Writing Center isn't a computer lab where you go to get your homework done. Nor is it a copy-editing service. Instead, it's an optional teaching resource whose...
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2010-03-02: "The Day the Sidewalks Melted" in Ideomancer
In Volume 9, Issue 1. Read it here.