Skyrim

I've been playing skyrim a when I have a little free time or when I'm sick and just physically feel like cheese (which unfortunately has been a lot lately) and I just felt like feeling a few screen shots from my newly started game.

Yes this is a giant pile of loot that I am hoarding in game until I could afford a house in game. I want to do a lot of enchanting and potion making and this is everything I'm hanging onto so that when I make the jump into that skill tree I can do it quickly and efficiently. Do you think the Jarls wizard had a problem with junk over flowing behind is random floor wall?

Also I don't know if anyone has had this happen before but there was a dragon in the middle of town. Now around, not close to, it spawned IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN! I had to reload four times to kill it before it murdered half the town gaurd. Personally I don't like walking around town to a bunch of dead bodies, even if they are char broiled. 

I've also been listening to the Podcast Skyrim: Off the Record on my way to work every day, not only is it informative but it's hilarious!

Anyway that's all for now, just felt like sharing :)

Macaroons

You know what I don't like, Macaroons. I went twenty years without knowing what a Macaroon was and only just this year learned what the weird little sandwich like things were I kept seeing all over the internet and blog world were. Well, all good things must come to an end, for the first time I had a Macaroon courtesy of the culinary students here at Ai (they leave random treats for us in the student lounge from time to time and it's normally tasty). I was so happy there were these little colorful sweet sandwich things I had always wondered what they tasted like as everyone on the blogs I follow praise them from here to high heaven.

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So I ate one.

If was horrible! Disgusting! I don't think I have ever had a sweet treat that was so gross. There was way to much sugar, the crisp on the outside what to much like an egg shell, the inside was like raw dough, the only redeeming factor was the chocolate in the middle but there was so little I could barely taste it. It was just gross, just completely gross.

Less is More

Choice! The more the better right? Wrong. According to a recent article I read called Easier Is Better Than Better, choice can actually be the down fall of a brilliant idea. When you really think about it, it makes perfect sense; How many times have stood in the grocery isle trying to choose between a variety of products that all seem to be the same but say different things? Of all the applications you use how many have you changed the settings on? Have you even touched the privacy settings on all of your online profiles? This has gotten me to thinking about how I can improve my writings and design lay outs. People  don't want to think, and it's really that simple.

Though now that I think about it this train of thought leads me to remember what I read in the book Don't Make Me Think. Don't make me think is a book about webpage design, its simple and to the point, while explaining everything clearly and concisely. One of it's major points is to make web designs that are simple and straight forward for the users to navigate and understand. Personally I would highly recommend this book.

Improving Fuel Efficiency

I read the blog The Simple Dollar on a daily basis and today I learned a tip on how to get better MPG to my vehicle. Have it weigh less, it's so simple and it makes so much sense but I never thought about it before. It's also really nice to be able to see concrete numbers on how even an extra ten pounds in the trunk can effect the cars MPG. I would suggest giving it a read, I would also suggest just reading it in general. I've been following The Simple Dollar sense 2009 and the content is always different, useful and informative for more then just saving money and enjoying debt freedom.

Looks like Truck Eater is going to get it's trunk cleaned out.

What Should I Read Next?

What Should I Read Next? Is a spiffy little site to help you find new authors and titles you like based on what you like. I haven't tested it out yet as I have a mountain of books I have to finish before even I get to even think about finding a new one to read. From what I've read it's really intuitive and is excellent at suggesting new find. With a little experimenting I was impressed after typing in the names of my favorite authors and some of my favorite books it linked to other books that I had previously read and enjoyed.

As a bonus to this I don't know about you but I have a HUGE list of books I need to read and I also like keeping track of the books I've read. I did a little looking around and found a wonderful little app called BookLover. It's easy to look up books by their ISB Number so there is minimal typing involved to log your books and it even finds the cover of the book. It's simple, straight forward and best of all it's pretty! I've been working on logging my never ending to read list and past books and it's just such a wonderful little app. For only .99 it's a steal of deal.

The Point

I'm not gonna be fancy, the point of this blog is for all random thoughts and links that neither belong on my process book or Artistic Figure 8s. I have so many things I would love to share, but no where to share them. No one cares on Facebook and the posts and links would get quickly lost. Twitter doesn't let you say hardly anything and I've never really understood its purpose, and I don't want to clutter my other two blogs with things no one is interested in reading. So this is my dump blog, prepare for anything and everything from helpful design tutorials to rants about what I'll do for my someday wedding.