PLANS!!! 

• Call Torvo (message me on here or in-game if you need my number) on Friday when you get into town -- I'll be at PAX until people start arriving. Planning to hang out at Torvo and Epat's place on Friday night (I'll message everyone who RSVPs by Thursday night with our address).
• Saturday is convention day - we'll all be going to PAX (I think). Dinner event Saturday, 6:30pm at Elephant & Castle -- 1415 5th Ave   Seattle, WA 98101.
• Sunday is another convention day, but it's over early. I don't think everyone is going to PAX, but either way for those staying through Monday we'll have another Dinner/Evening event Sunday, 7:00pm at Rock Bottom Bellevue -- 550 106th Ave   Bellevue, WA 98004. $2 beers and Rock Band until close!

It was so much fun meeting everyone in Portland this last weekend, plans for the 2nd guild get together are already in the works! This one will be centered around the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle, the weekend of August 29-31. If you've never been to PAX, nay even heard of it, it has become North America's largest open-to-the-public video game trade show since E3 scaled back last year. One colossal convention of all things game.

Details (and tickets) are available at http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/.
8/11 - The PAX schedule has been posted (opens in PDF). Check out all the seminars/lectures/tournaments/concerts and more!

Alright so its late, its been an interesting day for me, and I'm not entirely coherent right now. That means this is the perfect time to give all of you a good way to grind your way to Exalted status with Derchlon. This is just an on the fly list of things I like, and conversation topics that I relish.

1. Baseball. I enjoy people who can discuss the inner strategy of a 3-1 ground ball to shortstop, and why the hitter got fooled by the high heat again when it was the last two pitches thrown. Common phrases from these people include "I just said that! These announcers should give me their job," and "I knew they should have benched that guy earlier" Also, trash talking Bill Bavasi with an intelligent reason is worth bonus rep.

2. Misa Campo. She happens to be one of the most attractive women I've ever seen. Way back before I got involved in WoW, I was labeled as "The guy who really likes Misa Campo" on a message board I was on. I pretty much pushed her image on the site before she was as known as she is now, and now she's decently popular. Chances are if you've heard of her before, thank me for it. She's best known for her picture in the green shirt with the sprite logo. Have fun on Google Images ;).

3. Hypothetical situations. These can't just be simple "what if we replaced a mage with a boomkin?" kind of questions, they need to have more meaning, and likewise, consequences. A good example is as follows: Two girls love you very much, but you only love one of those girls in return. However, if you choose to be with the one you love, the other is banished and tortured for eternity, but if you pick the one you don't love, you can never see the one you DID love ever again. So, which do you choose?

4. Quoting from movies in common conversations. This is self explanatory. If its from a movie, and its in the conversation, done deal.

Reading this story on WoWInsider made me laugh: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/05/14/the-gquit-macro/

Didn't we have someone who did this?  They had the foresight to build a massively long goodbye, then gquit, then logoff.  All in a macro.  Wow.