Thursday Thirteen #3

13 Things About Dane Bramage

13 Facebook Apps to Waste Your Precious Time On

As you may know, NaNoWriMo begins this Sunday. I usually have no problem on the weekends cranking out my word count. During the week is another matter. I get easily distracted by computer things. This year I have two new additions. World of Warcraft and Facebook. WoW will be easy enough to deal with. When my time expires, I just won't renew until after November 30th. Facebook on the other had has a bunch of free applications (apps) that usually require dailly maintenance. Here are 13 Facebook appa that are likely to waste my precious time.

1. Mafia Wars Do jobs to earn money and experience. Recruit Facebook Friends to be in your Mafia family. Fight other players.


2. Vampire Wars Do jobs to earn money and experience. Recruit Facebook Friends to be in your Vampire clan. Fight other players.


3. Space Wars Do jobs to earn money and experience. Recruit Facebook Friends to be in your Space fleet. Fight other players.


4. Dragon Wars Do jobs to earn money and experience. Recruit Facebook Friends to be in your Dragon Alliance. Fight other players.


5. Pirates! Do jobs to earn money and experience. Recruit Facebook Friends to be in your Pirate crew. Fight other players.

Okay This should have been called Pirate Wars but I think someone had already taken the name. These games are remarkably similar so learning one teaches you the rest. Some are more popular than others and the "wars" list goes on.

6. Battle Stations This spaceship building game is more graphically appealing than your standard app. But basically its the same premise as the others.


7. Farm Town Big Facebook hit. You plant crops. You wait. You harvest crops. You expand. Lots of fun.


8. Farmville Zynga the "wars" company created a knock off of Farm Town. Sufficiently different to try though.


9. Dungeons and Dragons Tiny Adventures Completely different but not necessarily in a good way. You make a character. You pick missions. Time elapses and your mission will consist of 6 to 18 die rolls. You pass or fail each roll. If you fail the last roll of the mission you fail the mission. You earn experience and cash to buy gear.


10. Cafe World My new best diversion. You run a cafe by cooking meals hiring waiters, serving dishes and expanding your building. Big fun! I NEED NEIGHBORS!


11. Superhero City Do missions to earn money and experience. Flash animation for the fights is a very nice bonus but otherwise same as the rest.


12. Castle Age Higher quality artwork, more variations on gear but same type of app.


13. Starfleet Commander This app is quite different from the others. It appeals to the classic 4X strategy gamer in me.

Now the main purpose of these apps is to make money. You can play for free forever but you can enhance your game play by exchanging real money for virtual money to buy virtual goodies and boons for your squad/clan/tribe/crew/family/team etc. And of course they make it almost imperative for you to sign up your Facebook friends as "teammates", a reciprocal arrangement which allows you to be a member of their "team" at the same time. So if you are on Facebook and play any of these apps, send a friend request to Dane Bramage (Akron Ohio) and tell me what game you are in and I will be your neighbor!

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The Most Memorable Place I've Been

The most memorable place I've been (and not necessarily the nicest place) was New York City. I was road trippin with my brother and I had just got home from college so it was quite the adventure. We started by going to Atlanta to visit (and meet for the first time) some relatives. Then we drove east up to Trenton and eventually to New York.

I remember we went to see a movie and coming out of the theater a two o'clock in the morning. The streets were as busy if not busier than my hometown in the middle of the day. There was an energy you could feel along with a healthy dose of cautious trepidation. There has been no place to match it so far.

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Friday Work Related Haiku

Dizzying Turmoil
pulled this way and that with  scores
of obligations.

Think outside the box  
while paradigms shift and they  
want to touch my base

A new exercise
we'll fishbone old ideas
to look like new ones

Meetings abound while
project deliverables
accumulated.

I have been busy and a lot of what I have been doing is waiting for others to get done and sitting in meetings.

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Medical Haiku

A subject near to my abdomen:


Contrast dye I.V.
Pants mid thigh in whirling rig
Oh I hate Cat scans.

"Its perfectly safe"
she said through the loud speaker
from her shielded room.

My mind wonders why
a gigantic machine makes
me claustrophobic.

Well in case you haven't guessed I had to go to have a cat scan done this morning. This wasn't as bad as the MRI but I still consider it something to be avoided like the plague. They only needed pictures of my abdomen so I didn't have to squeeze everything through that little hole. Now I have to drink extra fluids to flush the contrast dye out of my system. As if the diuretics alone weren't causing me to rush to the can enough. Yeesh.

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Meme Time

Since it has been a long time since I've posted a quiz; I have taken the Completely Pointless Personality Quiz
The results:
The Completely Pointless Personality Quiz

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Haiku Friday

Well you just can't participate in enough memes. I thought I would try my hand at poetry. Oh I've posted original stuff before. So this shouldn't be too painful (for me at least. You may cringe.) I have decided to do politics. Yeah big surprise there.  Carter and Gore have been in the news lately so here are a couple for them.

Jimmy E. Carter
The worst President ever
Please just go away.

Albert Gore Junior
Thank  you for the internet
Climate change is crap

Barack Hussein Obama has described Pennsylvanians and middle Americans as biitter. I got your bitter right here. Oh and here's one for your wife too.

Obama's decree
To God, guns, alien-hate
I cling bitterly

Michelle Obama
You can't be a First Lady
'Till your'e proud lady

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Kind of a Thursday 13 But More Like A Thursday 21

Thursday Thirteen #67

13 Things About Dane Bramage
13 21 Answers to the Photo Meme

This was kind of fun. Type the answers to these questions into Google Images and select one image from the first page of results.

1. Age at next birthday
   
   LSD 49 is the Harper's Ferry. LSD stands for dock landing ship. I guess the order of the letters isn't important.


2. Place I'd like to travel
   
   St. Thomas looks pretty cool. Besides I couldn't find any pictures of mars I liked.


3. Favorite place
   
   There's no place like it!


4. Favorite objects
   
   Boardgames are a great hobby and I love playing. I even go out of town to conventions to play.


5. Favorite food
   
   It is no secret that I could subsist on nothing but chicken seven days a week. Fried has got to be my favorite way of having it.


6. Nickname
   
   Just Kev.


7. Place you were born
   
   Not exactly a recognizable skyline but I was born in the Rubber Capital of the World. Akron Ohio, also known for the American Soap Box Derby.


8. Town you live in
   
   From the same page of images, since I live in the place I was born, here is Lebron James' high school jersey. Those colors are for St. Vincent-St. Marys, a couple blocks from here.


9. Your middle name
   
   Despite the controversy surrounding my middle name I have decided to go with what's on the birth certificate; Jessio.


10. Your last name
    
    OMG! Cady left ATWT!


11. First job
    
    And basically the only job since 1984


12. Bad Habit
    
    It might be procrastination; or it could be
    
    


13. Grandmother's name
    
    My maternal grandmother was Leoda. Leonardo Da Vinci drew this picture. Not of my grandmother mind you.


14. Favorite book
    
    The Good Book!


15. Favorite color
    
    Navy blue or
    
    dark blue


16. Favorite smell
    
    Roasting turkey...Hmmm. It's a tough choice I also like the smell of
    
    baking bread and
    
    


17. Favorite drink
    
    I drink far too much of this but can you blame me?
    
    It is the real thing!


18. Favorite animal
    
    Lean mean running machine.


19. Favorite band or singer
    
    I've seen The Manhattan Transfer more times in concert than any group I ever listened to.


20. Favorite author
    
    The late great Roger Zelazny. I've read more books by him than anyone else.


21. Favorite dessert
    
    Ahh... Strawberry Cheesecake. Yum