Very. Excite.

Thanks to some keen eyes by my friend Ian, the dream is still alive!

Saturday 9/18 – Michigan vs UMASS
Sunday 9/19 – Lions vs Eagles
Monday 9/20 – Tigers vs Royals

The only question left is… who’s with me?!?

Now before you try to rip into it as an unoriginal idea, read what he has to say. He is taking a complete look at characters and guilds instead of isolating PvP OR PvE prowess.

From the US-Frostmane Realm Forums (misspellings and all)

Greetings Frostmane,

You may remember me, I used to play here with Kinetic pre WOTLK. As some of you might have heard, I have been working on a new type of wow ranking webpage. Check it out! It is quite different from any other site out there, so give it a visit, read below for more info.

I come to introduce you all too the newest member of the world of warcraft rankings community, http://www.wow-ranks.com . This webpage brings an entire new type of rankings to the community.

Wow Rankings ranks characters, guilds, realm factions, realms, battlegroups, and countries for both Europe and the United States. Rankings are based upon a combination of achievements, gear, and arena. Therefor the highest ranked characters are the best at all aspects of the game. Guild are based upon the average of their top 25 players, so that means the guild with the best players in all aspects of the game will rank the highest. Realms and realm factions are based on the best guilds, and so on. Unforunately we do not have ranking pages for the 4.7 million level 80 characters in our database, we do have them for the top 100,000 however. For the rest of the players though, if you search and locate your profile, you will be given your a percentage telling you how much of the country and world you out rank.

Though they are not ranked directly, you may also visit realm and realm faction profiles for the top guild rankings on those servers if you do not appear in the 50,000 guild rankings that we display. The same goes for rankings of the members of your guild, they may be found in that guild’s profile.

Scores are calculated on the idea that the last few achievement, arena, and item points are all worth far more then the first few. This is why in our scores gaining 100 arena points when your total score is 7000 will make a large difference where as 100 points when it is 1500 will not. The same idea is used in arena and achievement scores and it is due to this that I believe this is an effective ranking system.

In addition to daily top character and guild updates, players may request up to 4 character updates and 1 guild update per day. In addition to this the crawler will complete a world crawl in two to three weeks.

Again if your character is not in the top 100,000 chances are your character hasn’t been scanned in 2-3 weeks, and as long as you aren’t this will continue to be the case. If this is applies to you, just submit a character request and it should be updated soon.

I hope you enjoy the webpage. The rankings will always be debateable, but please be respectful. I feel that it is a fair system that recognizes those that truly are the best, at everything. If you find any bugs, please either email me, or visit our forums and make a post. Chances are there will be some sort of small one that went undetected but other then that things should be working 100%.

Enjoy, we hope you visit us.

~Morphling
Webmaster of wow-ranks.com

So there you have it. Give the website a look and please give him any feedback you think will help the site.

I am going to try and add a photo, but don’t know where it is going to show up… Apparently this app is still in beta and not as robust as the iPhone version…

I actually have wanted to blog extensively about the ‘joys’ of buying my first home, but that is going to require me to step back and take the emotion out of it (for now at least).

In the meantime, check out this article on wired. I have recently talked a friend into buying a big screen LCD tv. We were talking about purchasing a sound system, etc because I knew he would not be impressed by the sound. To make a long story short, he didn’t buy a sound system just yet. Enter – the article. My ‘savior’. I have been planning on saving for an upgrade to my Vizio 720p 37″ LCD. I must now wait (or find a killer deal on a sound system on Craigslist). We’ll see.

Well Day 1 already provided me with two apps I did not know about and I’ll briefly talk about them.

Shazam

Create and share music moments and stories. With Shazam you can identify music tracks, buy them, and share the tags with friends. You can also learn more about artists; find out what’s hot and grow your music collection.

With the launch of App World, they are offering a 60 day free trial. I have used it already like 7 or 8 times today. I used it with some obscure songs from a random mix cd my friend made me some time ago.

FlyCast

FlyCast delivers music, talk, weather, and traffic to portable devices. Introduced in January 2008, the network has grown very rapidly from 80 channels to well over 1000 in a nine month period, and more channels are added weekly.

The coolest thing I found about it was the local station availability. Also, you can choose to exclusively use WiFi or just ‘prefer’ it. I tested it out with a few stations and the app really runs well on my T-mobile Curve 8900 (over Wi-Fi… I refuse to try it w/out Wi-Fi).

Check it all out for yourself at BB App World here.

The first would be giving into the marketing over at Capital One and their card Image Lab. I could never really figure out what I wanted on my card, so that’s why I’ve put it off so long. I wanted something no one would get. Something that would make cashiers double take on. The problem with all that is Capital One has a verification to go through. It cannot be too out of control (OOC) and it cannot be copyrighted.

I scrolled through the My Pictures folder on my home PC and as soon as I saw this picture I knew it was perfect. I resized it. Uploaded. Fit it on a test card. It was amazing. I had one of those Ralphie’s dad moments. It was my lamp, only better. Now I just had to wait for it to be approved. I got this email on my way home from work:

Congratulations! Your image has been approved

The image you submitted for your Capital One® Image CardSM has been accepted. Expect to receive your new personalized card in the mail within 7–10 business days. When you receive your new Image Card, be sure to activate it and destroy your old card.

Each time you use your new card, you’ll be expressing a bit of your individuality. We hope you enjoy your new personalized card.

Regards,

Capital One

I am a little embarrassed to say it brought a smile to my face when I read that email. I’ll take ANY victory when I’m in Nashville traffic. Without further adieu, I give you my new Capital One Visa!

These next 7-10 days will surely fly. I think I may wait and use the card for the first time when my friend returns to work at TGI. Only time will tell.

All this emo orange talk almost made me forget about my present to myself. I stopped in a T-Mobile store 10 minutes before they closed. I saw it. The BB Curve 8900. Unlike the Storm (which I was all about before it came out and now wouldn’t use if I were paid), the Curve 8900 had no offline hangover. I had to have it and I did! I will work on a review that will probably get less reads than this post sometime later in the week. I am VERY impressed by it so far and would definately suggest the upgrade over the ‘older’ 83×0 models. Luckily for all you AT&T people, it is still coming to you shortly.

Until next time..

Image from BlackBerry.com

http://crackberry.com/t-mobile-blackberry-curve-8900-smartphone-review

My facebook is back yay! I promise I can quit anytime…

If you don’t know about the oranges… you should probably consult our good friend google… Here are a few links though:

http://emooranges.ytmnd.com

Ok, I’m not seriously emo… but I do love the oranges and it was too perfect an opportunity to use them once again!