Fanfest, Red Chilli and Meatspinning…
So, I'm back in Iceland for Fanfest this year (on my own dime again). This is the first fanfest I haven't been jetlagged for, but also the first where I have gotten a cold. It's annoying me more than anything else (like the cold, rain, snow, smelly nerds).
So far we've had 2 days of internet spaceship circle-jerking, I've been interviewed for EveTV (no idea what that looked like, if someone saw it, let me know), some random Icelandic reporter interviewed me for his newspaper (the google translation makes me sound like a retard and that is not my photo...) and I partially won the 'most distance travelled' competition with all the other people from Melbourne who made the journey to this frozen rock in the middle of nowhere.
On that topic, I have to say I'm pretty amazed at the amount of Ozlandians here - getting to Iceland is both painful on the pocket and on your personal endurance, so seeing so many here (and a special shout-out goes to NTRabbit who I have finally met after knowing for 8 years) makes me pretty proud.
New Avatars & Spam
So, I tried to recreate the old Oz avatar, and failed miserably. So I decided to make a new Oz, complete with dreadlocks. While I actually like the new pic, it's just not the same.
List of things missing from the new char gen:
- Lab Coats
- Blue lighting
- white skin
- Weird gallente white tattoos (aka 'cumstains' as they refer to them on scrapheap)
- Elvis hair (to be honest there is elvis hair, just not as cool as the old one)
All up there seems to be a general lack of good clothing choices (everyone is pretty much identical), and a serious lack of skin tones. Also most of the old hairstyles are missing. I'm also unsure why they didn't make a dynamic background that had a corp or alliance logo on it for people to use rather than the gallente/amarr etc. ones.
Don't get me wrong, the new character generator is pretty awesome, it's just the finer details that seem to be lacking, and I have a horrible feeling those missing bits will appear later as pay to play addons.
Also, this blog seems to be getting an insane amount of spam lately...
You want how much for my brain?…
So, I was reading Rifter Drifter's latest blog entry about selling his alts, and he linked a cool little website that appraises your character value. Eve Character Appraiser takes your API and generates a breakdown of what your character is worth, me being the curious type, promptly entered my details and got this:
Omber Zombie
Character Specials:
56.08% Industry
43.92% Combat
Can fly T2 Gallente & Minmatar Cruisers!
Has high sec status!
Has rank 63 (out of 932) in ISK per SP!
132,832,218.00 SP x 305.66 ISK = 40,602,141,678.37 ISK
so, almost 41bil....
For those thinking of fanfest 2011…
I ran across this cool little webapp that turns photos into a movie, so I thought I'd share some photos from last year's FF.
Got new Phone…
I finally got rid of my iPhone 3g and upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S. The difference is, well, it's like going from one of those new mini minors (looks good, but not much else) to a tricked out Porsche Cayenne (also looks, good, but has insane grunt under the bonnet). It's running on Android 2.1, although as soon as the update comes through, I'll be upgrading it to 2.2 (FroYo). Before anyone asks, yes, I have rooted it, but I have yet to install any custom ROM's, I'm waiting to see what FroYo brings first.


