It must be true, or else why would he advertise his official site on my “Tom Cruise Crazy” video on YouTube? It’s true, first Tom comes sliding into the ad like he did in “Risky Business” (and like my Tom does in my video), and then it asks you to visit his official site. Tom, if you wanted to be best buddies, all you had to do was ask!
I’m guessing no one at tomcruise.com has actually watched my video…
Back in December, Adobe (where I worked) laid off 8% of its workforce, and I was hit. A little uncomfortable to be laid off right before Christmas when the entire world’s economies are all going into the crapper simultaneously, but not Adobe’s fault. They were very generous. You’d think that would mean that I would have had plenty of time to crank out videos, right? Apparently lots of free time != lots of videos, because I only managed to put out a single video during all that time off.
I’ve recently gotten a contract position at Microsoft (their Silicon Valley campus — I’m not moving to Redmond), so the free time I had has vanished, making me sad that I don’t have time to work on videos (even though when I had time, I didn’t actually work on them. You see the irony here).
In any case, I’m going to try hard to find time for the videos even with the new gig. Back when I had the time, it didn’t seem all that critical that I spend it working on videos. Now that I have no time, it’s all I wish I was doing. And since it’s just a contract position, it will eventually end, dumping me back on my couch where I can once again fail to spend my time working on videos. 
I have to whine about this. In Northrend, as there was in Outlands before it, there are some extremely rare mobs that spawn only once every 7 or 8 hours, take a trip around their zone, then despawn. Most people will never even see these mobs unless they’re looking for them. In Storm Peaks, one of these ultra-rare mobs is the Time-Lost Proto-Drake. If you are lucky enough to see it and can kill it, it will drop a yellow proto-drake mount for you to ride. Very nice.
But, to make the Time-Lost Proto-Drake even rarer, sometimes it doesn’t even spawn at its appointed spawn time. Instead, a dragon named Vyragosa spawns instead and follows its path. You get an Achivement for finding and killing any of these rare mobs, Vyragosa included, so taking down Vyragosa is still a big deal. And again, most people will never even see Vyragosa, much less the Time-Lost Proto-Drake.
I’ve seen Vyragosa twice. The first time was minutes after learning of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake’s existence and flying over to Storm Peaks to just take a look. I saw it, kind of freaked out wondering what I should do, and in that short amount of time, someone else blasted it and took it down. From them on, I’ve been following that same path (which is also a great path for herbalists), hoping to catch site of one of the dragons. It happened yesterday.
I saw Vyragosa and this time didn’t freak out. I flew over to it, hit it with a spell to tag it, dropped to the ground and went into Cat form (I’m a druid), and waited to give that dragon its comeuppance. Only the comeuppance never came. The stupid dragon hovered outside my melee range and just kept blasting me with its ice breath. Nothing I could do got me within melee range of the damn dragon! I tried running up on a hill, but that didn’t work. I tried running behind something to try to trick it into getting close, but that didn’t work. Finally, the dragon got tired of me and went back to its path, and five seconds later, some stupid horde shammy blasted it and took down my dragon!
I’m pissed. I never read anything about you needing ranged attacks to hit these dragons. Not fair.
I got some digital ink in the Nerdabout New York blog recently. Joanna emailed me to ask if she could interview me for the blog, and I emailed her back asking if she was sure she wanted to interview me and not Jonathan Coulton (people think I’m actually JoCo pretty regularly). She said that she wanted to interview me though, the guy who makes the videos, so we did the interview. You can read each of the pearls of wisdom I dispense to the world in the Nerdabout blog post.