Arrr, one step closer to multiplayer mischief, by thunder!
Here be the official announcement:
Since Phase 1 of the Beta test ended, the development team has been hard at work making exciting additions and refinements to the game. Players who participated in Phase 1 of the Beta test can use their existing account and check out all of the latest updates. If you did not participate in Phase 1 of the Beta test, but would like to, you can sign up now and we’ll add you to the waiting list.
(And yes, not even Barbossa talked like that all the time, but damn it, what’s the point in playing a pirate MMORPG if you don’t?)
Well, after being initially stymied in my quest for a 16 GB iPod touch, I noticed that Amazon was now shipping them, albeit from a different supplier. Since I was still yoked to the Amazon 1-2 months off shipment, I canceled that one, reordered it, and Amazon grabbed it from the new vendor (I know, this all should be automated on their end, but isn’t).
Seven minutes ago, I was just informed my iPod has shipped via UPS from Maspeth, New York. It’s almost within my grasp …
Now through November 2, whenever you go to Starbucks, you can get a card for a free iTunes song, a different specific song every day. Yesterday was Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman,” which I was lukewarm on, and today was a song off KT Tunstall’s new album.
Now, this doesn’t make a $6 coffee any cheaper, really, but if you’re going there on a regular basis anyway (you know who you are, vanilla latte drinker), it’s a nice bonus.
Argh, geekdom denied.
I’d planned on upgrading my 2004 20GB iPod to a shiny new widescreen iPod touch and just synching playlists to it instead of dumping all my audio files on it (which would stay backed up on the 20 GB model anyway), but while I preordered weeks ago from Amazon, it turns out that Apple again didn’t put enough product in the pipeline. (The 16 GB model is sold out EVERYWHERE.) So instead of having a new iPod today (the original intended delivery date), I may be waiting as long as mid-November.
Presumably the company will get the pipeline full of them before the Christmas shopping season, but it would have been nice if they’d managed to get things rolling faster.
Things have clearly changed since 1992. The Princeton Review has rated Virginia Tech as having the best campus food, based on student evaluations. When I was at Tech, notions such as a taco bar were seen as radical and about the best we could expect — after all, the campus catering service’s primary customers were state prisons.
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