Arnth's Chant-a-long History

Random mutterings from a troubled mind.

Blog Post!

Sep 2

Posted by Arnth in Uncategorized | No Comments

I really want to get myself started on blogging on a semi-frequent basis. For a few reasons, actually. I enjoy writing, but I’m not terribly practiced at it, so thus I must be terrible. By posting more, I’m hoping it improves my writing skills. I also want to at least have something on Arnth.com that isn’t just a random PVP macro for WoW. I don’t think I’ll ever get anything like a decently-sized readership. I don’t even have a planned topic for this thing. Without one, I doubt that my meandering wandering ways will draw people in to keep reading.

Having said that, I could just write about working as a Help Desk worker for a major fashion company. I just started the job last Monday. So far, it has been extremely interesting. I am learning a ton about different corporate systems and procedures.

One thing that’s not hard to notice is that pretty much everyone wears the company brand. The logo is everywhere on their upper torso. I assume that these people are shopping smart at discount outlets and using their employee discount. I am not sure if I will get clothes by my company, at least not for a while.

So, while I won’t make a promise to continue writing, I will make very little effort to do so!

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Netflix

Aug 28

Posted by Arnth in Miscellany, Thoughts | 1 Comment

About 6 or so years ago, I had a Netflix subscription. I only used it during college to make copies of the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys for my friends and I. We were on a campy tv show kick.

Yesterday, however, I heard about the release of the Netflix iPhone app. Now, I’ve been watching from a distance all the things that Netflix has been doing to improve its services, instant queue, streaming to multimedia devices, all of that stuff. But, I came home from work yesterday and decided it might be worth my while to try it out for a few months at the 8.99$ price, for the instant streaming.

My conclusions thus far: freaking awesome. I think I came back to Netflix at a good time. When they first released their instant streaming capabilities, I know they didn’t have too many titles available to stream. Now, of course, with the passage of time they have tons of stuff available. I’ve already consumed some Jim Gaffigan, Tornado Valley, some Shark Week stuff, Star Trek: First contact, and I am currently watching Doctor Who (Chris Eccleston).

There is something to be said about instant availability of a lot of media. It makes you want to just sample and try all of it. I am loving streaming to my Xbox 360, especially the programming in HD. It’s just gorgeous even with streaming on my TV.

If you’ve been on the fence about Netflix, but have wanted to try out the instant streaming stuff, they have their free one month trial deal still going on. Since I was a returning customer, I only get two weeks. But, seeing as how satisfied I already am, I think I can justify a measly $8.99 a month now.

Netflix

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PVP Battleground Location

Mar 20

Posted by Arnth in PVP | No Comments

PVP Location Macro:

/script mP = GetMinimapZoneText( );
/script cL = “”;
/script cL = “BATTLEGROUND”;
/script SendChatMessage ( “INC To “..mP..” (# =  # of enemies.)”, cL, nil, nil);

Use it, love it. SPAM IT.

My clear Macro:

/script mP = GetMinimapZoneText( );
/script cL = “”;
/script cL = “BATTLEGROUND”;
/script SendChatMessage ( ” “..mP..” Clear”, cL, nil, nil);

New Arnth.com!

Mar 20

Posted by Arnth in Miscellany | No Comments

Welcome to the first post, visitor!  I have decided to slap wordpress on my domain instead of that ugly html index file with an old image and PVP macro on it.  I’ll make a second post with that PVP macro in a moment, just to at least preserve it.

Signing off,

Arnth