Month: December 2008

Tagged !

Ok I get it, I have to post these seven facts about myself ;). Have been tagged several times now:

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The rules:

Here are the rules (I’m just cuttin’ & pastin’ here):

  • Link to the original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
  • Share 7 facts about myself in the post – some random, some weird.
  • Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
  • Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

I am never comfortable talking about myself, but here we go !

Seven Facts:

1. In the eighties I wore black clothes and listened to the cure
2. Also had the Bono hairdo late 80s, early 90s
3. In 2001 I cut off my pony tail as my hair was getting a bit too thin to pull off the look
4. I also have a wow-blog at http://www.wow-blog.net
5. Got 2 cats named felix and streep (which is dutch for stripe)
6. Studied social history for two years, then later on ended up in software engineering
7. Used to be a big tape (you know TDK SA MAXELL XLS) live music collector

I am supposed to tag 7 other people here, but I think just about everybody I know has been tagged already ;). If you want to volunteer, let me know !

Navy Raven

And here it is. I finally bought a Navy Raven. Always thought it was a little too expensive, but now that the prices have dropped below 300mil (!), I just had to get one ;).

First Test Flight Navy Raven II
First Test Flight Navy Raven II

It looks nicer than the run of the mill Raven, and adds a bit of DPS with it’s seventh missiles launcher. Also it provides more of a buffer as it has a lot more shields ! You do go through ammo pretty fast now though, good thing I can build my own missiles !

Navy Raven 1

Naming your ships

The Ancient Gaming Noob brought up an interesting subject: do you name your ship ?

From what I remember I have always named my ships, except maybe some disposable shuttles. I started out naming them (or at least the bigger ones) after star trek ships. There is some wiki out there that lists quite a few. Then I used a list of uss aircraft carrier ships (USS Kitty Hawk is kinda cool), but that got a bit lame as well.

Now I just use whatever comes up :). My raven is still named Phoenix, most of my haulers something silly like The AFK Hauler. Omber Homber, or NomNomNom for Hulk or Retriever.