Posted on November 11, 2008 by a1979shakedown
Summary:
Pawn of Prophecy follows the main character Garion – a 14-year-old farmboy raised by his Aunt – as he is forced to leave the world he has known – the farm he’s lived all his life – to embark on a journey with his Aunt, a mysterious old man, and a small group of [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 by a1979shakedown
I’m new to reading Fantasy. Last summer on family vacation my brother handed me a book to read – A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, book 1 of the series A Song of Fire and Ice. Despite being 900 pages and myself not much of a reader, I managed to power through it [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2008 by a1979shakedown
The Factory Pattern applied:
(From xkcd)
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Posted on November 4, 2008 by a1979shakedown
Another odd find – trust me on this one. Check out this awesome video for the new Wario Land: Shake It game for the Wii. It’s only 0:45 seconds, watch it.
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by a1979shakedown
Given that the terminal is a productive environment and notes are productive objects, putting the two together can yield productive environment-objects…err, notes in the terminal. The first day I got my Linux machine I set this handy tool up – since the notes are in a text file and you’re in terminal, you can use [...]
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