Pwny Express!

The supply of holiday shortbread available in the Captain's Cabin is running low .. and that's a good thing.  I'm actually looking forward to the vegetables of January.  Hope your holiday season is full of the things you love to indulge in ... like the pickled eggs at the Bilgewater Pub.  Let's head over there now to celebrate some special milestones with our mateys from belowdeck ...

• 120:  PhoenixRise
• 100:  Archman, Zairinzan
• 70:  Rubberduck

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Notes

• Again, we've hit the 10M donation mark where further donations are useless because the game restricts it.   So those of you who continue to donate without checking this figure ... please don't.  Your gold is being uselessly frittered away.  We'll be doing dungeons again once we get a few more levels, Zimmi says, so work on that .. and keep your gold for levelling your stats.
• Let your inner nerd loose ... debate the many kinds of wrong these pictures convey:

Christmas with the Cthulhu family

I dropped by Cthu's place the other night for some Christmas Eve eggnog, and I absolutely have to share with you the wreath I found on his door ...

Pwny Express!

Tired of answering the question "All ready for Christmas?" Well, Dolgan Elfbane has the answer as he taps the seasonal keg of Reindeer Red for all the Pwnies and friends. Gather round the Bilgewater Pub and sing a carol or two .. have an ale (or 10) ... and toast our fine workaholic Pwnies.

• 190:  Iola
• 70:  Vythika

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Notes

• To Santa Zimmi from all of us ... thank you for giving us such a wonderful gift ... a great place to call home.  
• For the rest of you, a few scenes from my house this Christmas eve, and a wish for a wonderful time tomorrow, full of loved ones and yummy smells from the oven.  Hmm .. but not your loved ones in the oven, cause that would just be wrong.  Although some of them might deserve it. *wink*

 

Merry Christmas to all!

Pwny Express!

It's December 21st and I'm feelin' pretty darned Christmassy.  Tonight, we'll all get together and string up some light along the masts and yardarms.  Maybe have some Kahlua and hot chocolate.    Sing some carols!  And then we'll make our crazy workaholic levellers walk the plank for fun!

• 100:  Luiself, PrivatE
• 90:  Smalls

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Notes

• It seems appropriate to get into the spirit of the season with a song ...

Pwny Express!

Much hilarity in gchat this morning with Keldonhing, Wilcus, Jacx, Smalls, Eagle Talon and myself.  The drool scene was horrible.  Sorry if you had to witness that!  We did however, learn about Eagle's underwear preference.  Thanks for the laughs everyone.

Harr, mateys, we be havin' new crew today ta swab decks and be our cabin boys.  Order up an extra ration of grog,  Smee ...

• New:  Mystiky (94), Panquera (93)
• 100:  Wilcus
• 90:  Veldis

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Notes

• I turned Smalls on to this website the other night after spending two hours with tears of laughter streaming down my face.  He cursed me for doing so because he spent two hours doing the same thing.  This is DamnYouAutoCorrect.com Enjoy!

Pwny Express!

This is been a cherry flavored December for me, for the most part.  Starting with lozenges, cough syrup, Neo Citran, and then Benylin.  I've been mostly out of touch with the rest of the hustle and bustle of December in the city.  I've done no Christmas shopping, no glutting on Christmas television specials, no decoration, no cooking or cleaning.  As a matter of fact, my husband chased me away from anything to do with food (other than consuming it) for about two weeks.  I'm pleased to say that I'm well enough to put something on other than fuzzy jammies and get out and enjoy the world again.

The big news is that while Eagle Talon and I sojourned at Izzone for a couple of days, and while my cherry flavored haze was the bright (pink) spot in my day .. you guys were all doing some pretty fantastic stuff.  Let me do a bit of a rundown:

• 190:  Dolgan Elfbane, Eagle Talon
• 180:  Zimmi
• 120:  Nodok
• 110:  Akhdar, moonshot
• 90:  Braga, cyberx60
• 80:  Atcher
• 70:  nonames
• New Members:  PheonixRise (117) and Kilbaba (101)
• 7 Million gold donation:  Zimmi

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 Notes

• I've never been known to flog a theme to death, but damn, I sure try! In keeping with our piratey goodness for December, I bring you gchat from earlier today.

• Now, anyone have good last minute ideas for a Christmas gift for an elderly farmer?  He's still very much active with his business; has failing eyesight and refuses to see an optometrist, so books are out of the question.  He likes the 'old' country classics music and watches satellite TV.  My mom passed earlier this year, so he's enjoying being in charge of the remote now.  Oh, and it has to travel well, it will be Fedexed.

Danger! Danger!

Special thanks to Ghettoforce for alerting me to this very real threat!

Pwnies prepare! This is war!!



If you'd like to change the outcome, go here:  http://everyclickmatters.com/ 

There are several more, the Hoff is there, Dokken, to name a couple.  Very hilarious!

Missing in Action!!

Well, guys Iola and da Eagle should be back hopefully tomorrow night. We had to help out r34lg33k at Izzone since he was so gracious to help us with two guild dungeons. We will do our second one tomorrow afternoon and hopefully win it. They are a nice bunch and it was fun, but da Eagle missed you guys a bunch. I hope Zimmi doesn't make us muck out the pwnie stalls when we get back. he he

I also hope da Elfbane didn't drink up all the pale ale and dwarvian brown ale whilst we were gone. The ale there was ok, but does not measure up to da Elfbanes. We gotta buff up and start giving those guys in the top 5 ranks fits.

Ya know, absence makes the heart grow fonder...or is that absent-mindedness makes the heart grow fodder? Well, whichevah way it is....I will be glad to be home. Let the pwnies live up to their name...Let's OWN Shakes & Fidgets!! Then we will be the Top Pwnies!!

Purrrrrfectly cute!!

Ok....you can laugh at these if you like because I don't think I am related to anything with fur on it, just feathers. Just want to get you in a Christmas mood!!

Merry Christmas all!

P.S. Boy that gray tabby is a real ham!!

Pwny Express!

Let's break out the eggnog and get in a round of Christmas decorating!  We'll get Chaochao to pop the popcorn to string around the tree .. don't eat it all, CC.  Paper chains will be done by Strelok and cyberx60 ... outside lights can be handled by Keldonhing, Smee and Zairanzan.  Wilcus and Ravenna can put the lights on the tree inside while PrivatE and 181149 can frost the the porthole windows.  Dolgan and I will decorate the Bilgewater bar area.  Which means testing of the brew, naturally.  We'll get Zimmi to put the star on the tree, and Moora and  Gruel to find the glass tree ornaments.  Kalais and Eagle Talon can lead us all in Christmas carols as we get busy!  The rest of you can either make snowangels, write Christmas cards or get in the carolling choir!

And while we're doing all that ... we'll raise a glass of sweet (fortified) apple cider to

• 60:  Vythika

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Notes

• Since we're all about pirates this month, I thought I'd bring along a bit of Ninja humour!

Pwny Express!

It's a gorgeous winter day where I live .. a bit cool but perfect for putting up Christmas lights and stuff outside. I won't be doing that, however, still stuck inside nursing this cold and playing Shakes & Fidget.  There's an upside to everything, amirite??

Speaking of up, we've got two members celebrating special work today ...

• 100:  Hell Raiser
• 90:  Starkiller

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Notes

• Hall of Fame arena time.  Don't hit that 'arena' button.  Inside, go to the Hall of  Fame and choose an opponent who is at least 1000 points above you.  That way, if you lose, your honor does not drop.  If you win, however ... massive 200 point boost!  (Actually, the breakoff is 950 points, but 1000 pts is easy to see at a glance)

Pwny Express!

So it's been a few days since I logged in here .. I've been keeping track of everyone's levels, but haven't had a lot of extra energy to post ... I caught a cold / cough while in Vancouver early this week and have been fighting it off with cold medication that mostly makes me want to sleep at all hours of the day .. even the non-drowsy stuff. Nonetheless, I'm here for the time being (read:  while I'm awake) and shaking the noise-makers!

Toss around some confetti and break out the talking parrots .. we've got some celebrating to do!

• 120:  Strelok
• 90:  Archman

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Notes

• Washing your hands often over the next few days while you're handling Christmas merchandise in stores may be a good way to reduce your chance of catching a cold.  This is also the week to put your Christmas cards in the mail.  
• Here's a great letter opener you might want to use as a gift for your animal loving friends:

Pwny Express!

A brand new month and a whole new look for My Li'l Pwnies.  For those of you who just can't get enough pink in your life .. hold on .. it will be coming!  For this month, however, Captain Jack and the Pirate Code is in play.   We'll be boarding other ships and takin' booty, me hearties!  Pour an extra ration of grog today for ...

• 80:  Jacx
• 70:  Kalais

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Notes

• As we head into the rush and craziness of December in a consumer economy ... stop and remember that it is not how much money we spend on someone that really counts.  Here's an idea for a gift that your family will remember forever, and I've done this so I can tell you that after a decade, they still talk about this. 
  
  If you're handy with a computer ... or have a friend who is ... make up your own wine bottle labels.   Purchase wine of your choice (or if you have homemade, even better) [soak the labels off pre-purchased wine] and apply your own label.  Now ... if you can make up a two or three paragraph story to go along with the wine, that makes it even better.  In one case, my brother had styled himself the unofficial mayor of a small hamlet where we grew up, so I made up a label for that.  In another year, I made one up to go with the family dairy business.  In another, I made up a funny history for the family of my husband.  Like I said .. about three paragraphs long.  Wine under $10 each ... memories forever.

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• If you have any other ideas for inexpensive, thoughtful gifts, let me know and I can share them here.

Kittens and balloons ... don't try this at home, kids!

Pwny Express!

I see we've been busy little Pwnies the last couple of days.  I apologize for no post yesterday .. I was in Vancouver visitng my sister in law and blogging was taking a back seat to taking pictures of my very cute and very shy neice.  

We've had a batch of level ups and some from people I thought were not playing any longer, other than to log in for battles.  Let's hope they keep on a hot streak!

• 160:  Keldonhing
• 90:  Zairinzan
• 70:  Guurash, udjos

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Notes

• I got nothing today .. enjoy the funny!  Reminded me of Eagle Talon ...

Two 3D animations about Poland

Hi all :)
Here is your clannie from Poland ;) This post won't be related to Shakes & Fidget. I would like to share with you 2 great CG animations about Poland. Thought you might be interested coz I was talking lately with some of you about Poland. I know there are many stereotypes about Polish people in USA.

Both animations are made by Oscar nominee - Tomek Baginski

The first one got some facts about Poland and simple but nice animation:

And 2nd one shows some quick shots from our history, it is great visual experience:

I am great fan of telling stories with animation, Those two are really great job.

Pwny Express!

In the US, Thanksgiving really kicks off the entire holiday shopping season.  Hope you got some great Black Friday deals!

We've had a good deal going on here and the Pwny Express is in high gear ... most notably with Hell Raiser, cyberx60 and Kalais all gaining multiple levels!  We have one person hit a milestone level ...

• 60:  Rubberduck  (hope that pinched nerve is improving)
  
• New Pwnies:  Vythika, PrivatE

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Notes

• A huge thank you goes out today to Dolgan Elfbane who hit the 5 million gold donation mark yesterday.  It should be noted, Eagle, that Dolgan says Dwarven Brown is only for fighting.  Pale Ale is the drink of choice for wintery evenings by the fire.

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• Also, a big squeeeeeeze to Zimmi and Eagle Talon, who've each contributed over 6 million gold to guild coffers.

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• r34lg33k, we've enjoyed having you with us and we thank your guild who've been so gracious as to lend you to us for a while. 

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• Those of you wrapped up in the grapple for Canadian football supremacy today between the Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders .. enjoy!  Go Riders!

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• Keldonhing has installed Windows 7 and is back in fighting form again.  Welcome back Eagle ... you were missed. 

 

Happy Thanksgiving !!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the team - you are a great bunch of people and I'm very happy to know each of you.  I hope you all have a very nice day however you choose to spend it!!

 

Pwny Express!

Busy day for lots of us .. Thanksgiving travel south of the border ... avoiding snow north of the border.  *grin*  It's been a bit busy for me today as well, and so I apologize for a late journal entry.  It just means that we can lift a glass or two .. maybe three ... and not worry about having to be anywhere else today!

Congrats on Dungeon 14!  Absurdistan is behind us.  R34lg33k would like us to try for #15 while he's here, so that's on the agenda.  And, we have some levelling news today too!

• 90:  Luiself!
• 2 sneaky levels:  Hell Raiser!

This little guy was too cute not to share!

Pwny Express!

First, a nod of the head, tip of the hat and lift of the glass to r34lg33k (or if you're not extra nerdy .. realgeek) of Izzone who is lending us his considerable oomph for a guild dungeon or two.  You can expect that we'll be loaning them some folks to help them out as well.

Secondly, we have another triple digiter here in the Pwny Corral.  Make way for Gruel who watched that big number coming for a few days before he beat it into submission.  Way to go, Gruel!

• 100:  Gruel

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Notes

• If you're not a World of Warcraft player, you might not be aware that a major expansion is occuring.  One of the major pieces of the infrastructure came into play this morning, and those of us who are players are rather excited over the whole silly thing.  We might be scarce for a few days.

Teamwork ... we have it!!

Pwny Express!

All this talk of birds has me thinking about turkey and the delicious smells wafting out of many kitchens as they prepare for the big holiday.  Hope your travels this week to get home are easily completed.   And then, you can sit and enjoy your favorite Dwarven Ale watching a football game with the guys, or thanksgiving parades, or even marathons of "say yes to the dress," if that's your sort of thing!  While you're lifting that frosty beverage, think upon your Canadian friends who are hard at it, slaving away through a regular week!

• 180:  Iola
• 80:  Pepperoni

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Notes

With all the snow flying about this week making footing treacherous, I wanted to give you a word of caution to take to heart ...

Happy Thanksgiving Pwnies!!

Well, it is Thanksgiving time!! Today we are going to list some people that we are thankful for and why. It will be both guildies and friendly adversaries!! So I will get right to it.

Zimmi is thankful for Ghettoforce because he is funny, interesting, nice and full of laughs!! I am not sure if 'full of laughs' means he laughs a lot, overflows with laughs, is always busting out laughing or provides tons of laughs but we know at least that he is definately full and it isn't what us Texans are full of!!  

Also, from Iola,  Allc0re and TORTORO are warm, funny and give giggles. Not gonna touch the 'gives giggles comment' howevah it does make one wonder!! Leassa is a good opponent and makes well thought out posts on the forums.

Rubberduck is thankful for the founder of DVD. Aren't we all!!

Udjos could not think of a single adversary to be thankful for but he thinks Zimmi is pretty awesome as our leader and that Iola is a great member who is active, talks a lot and makes us all smile. He said, "da Eagle for the same reasons." I think he just didn't want me to feel bad about being left out cause everyone knows I don't talk a lot. ;P

Da Eagle wants to add two adversaries as well. Darstard for just being nice about killing me all the time!! r34lg33k for the same reason. I kept hitting him a lot (losing of course) and he told me that he had to admire my tenacity!! He also gave me good advice and might join us briefly to help us get a guild dungeon or two!! Isn't that awesome? As far as guildies I admire...there are too many to mention howevah I will mention some. Da Elfbane for the generous supply of Dwarvan Brown Ale!! Woot!! Zimmi for being so faithful, true and generous to all us pwnies. I truly admire her ethics!! She is fun and a real hoot to be around!! 

Iola for so much time she puts into us Pwnies on the blog and others stuffs. She is a witty lil gal (or is that gal owl?) and I am gonna say she is also a 'hoot'. I just realized that she is such a 'night owl' and it may have something to do with her 'hootiness'. In fact, I am beginning to think since she has recently been exposed as being in the owl family we might just be related. As you all know I have a few uncles who are owls too.

Wish more would have sent in who they were thankful for, but this is about

it. Hope I didn't miss anyone. Have a Happy Thanksgiving Pwnies!!

Pwny Express!

My day started with champagne and orange juice ... about 4 glasses ago, so I'm feeling quite very well .. the mouth-watering smell of bacon lingers in the air and my birthday cake is cooling on the rack.  'Tis a fine, fine day for a celebration, and yet .. we've got even more reason to be so excited as to break open another bottle of bubbly ...

• 80:  Veldis

Pwny Express!

Okay, okay, let's get back to a serious topic.  Beer.  And its oh-so-frothy-nectar-like-qualities.  And whether it should come in pints or gallons.  It seems appropriate today, given that we're hoisting a glass, pint, glass, keg or barrel for our own dwarven mage of the many tailed beard.  Yes, yes, he's reached another milestone ...

• 180: Dolgan Elfbane

Here's a wee serenade for ya, Mr. Elfbane ...

My most favorite commercial of almost all time!

Is this absolutely hilarious or what? This guy has the most awesome expressions and I can totally identify with him ... re: a car I had that I used to love driving fast - I probably made a face or two, too!

Pwny Express!

Holy level ups, Batman!  You guys were pretty motivated yesterday.   It was my pom-poms, right?  Must have been the pom-poms :D  I'll get them out again today if it really helps you out.  As a matter of fact, I'll provide a whole batch of pom-poms!  Hoist these folks to your shoulders and get them a frothy round from Dolgan's taps!

• 150:  Cthulhu
• 140:  Jaxey, Moora
• 90:  Wilcus
• 80:  cyberx60

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Notes

• Dark3lf, I saw that ... mad levelling skills, yo.

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• Good work against Hunters of Retribution, team.  It was a very close battle!

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• Absurdistan will go down this evening if we all log in :D

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• I've discovered that Rubberduck is off the computer .. doctor's orders.  He has a pinched nerve.  He's hoping for a speedy recovery and to being able to regale us with wild tales.   Send him a get well soon mail .. I'm sure he'll love that!

Here are your promised cheerleaders .. these are the  Calgary Stampeders Outriders.  Enjoy!

Pwny Express!

I've done some number crunching and have numbers to share with you for the past 14 days.  But before we do that, let's give a great big beer cheer for ...

• 70:  Hell and me8
• New Pwnies:  Gorc, Dark3lf

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Notes

Over the last 14 days .. this has occured here at Pwny HQ ...

• We have gained 168 levels

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• Our average player is now level 100 (up from 97)

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• Our Stars:
  11 Levels:  181149, Venkman, Kalais
  7 Levels:  Pepperoni, Moonshot
  6 Levels:  Archman, Hell and me8, Iola
  5 Levels: Dolgan Elfbane, Keldonhing, Veldis, cyberx60, Ravenna

Luci  Phurr's Imps is the name of this comic ... it updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday .. and you can find it here.

New Peeps and that last raid

A big Pwnie welcome goes out to our newest daring duo, Gorc and Dark3lf!  We're glad to have you on the wagon train there pardners!  Yee Ha....Yea, that's it, Yeee Ha!!

Second order of business  - our last raid went very well until we hit the last guy, he was down to about 1/3 and I think we can comfortably take this down if we have full participation.  Please see my mail to all of you regarding time for the start tomorrow.  If we get over 90% participation we should have that one down!

Pwny Express!

The Pwny stable has been quite unreasonably quiet the last few days, although I am stealthily sneaking up on Dolgan, looking to claim that # 2 stall.  Kalais, at the other end of the barns, has been drawing inexorably closer, gobbling up oats and getting bigger.  We're waiting for you at this end, Kal .. keep up the good work!

Get out the good blankets and fresh hay .. we've some new pwnies to impress!

• New Pwny: Hell Raiser (90), Wilcus (88)

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Notes

• Eagle Talon is still looking for contributions for Thanksgiving.  Is there someone out of guild that makes your day?  Would you like to send them a shout out?  Send Eagle the information for his Thanksgiving post.  If you just want to give a high five to a guild member, that's okay too .. send the kudos to Eagle and he'll see that they're included.

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• Rubberduck .. where are you?  I have pictures to use, damnit .. and you promised us a story.  :)

Pwny Express!

Another rainy day in Canada's tropics.  Pretty soon, I'm hoping the rainforest out here busts out with some really interesting wildlife .. like monkeys.  We just get boring old deer that feast on our flowers and poop on our lawns .. enough of that, I say!  Bring on the chimps!!

Speaking of which, Kalais is to be feted today (chuckle, snort -- did you appreciate that amazing segue?) ... so raise a glass of whatever you're having, wherever you may be ... to Kal and to simian antics!

• 60:  Kalais

And just in case you didn't  fully appreciate my ability to segue, did you notice the martial arts connection between yesterday and today, coupled with the monkey shenanigans?  *toots own horn*