About the Burro
Explorer. Wit. Bon Vivant. Half-Gazelle. Sun God.
Hello! Welcome to Blog de la Burro. Now wipe your feet! So, Blog de la Burro, eh? What’s that all about then? Games mostly. Games I play and then the short stories I’ve written about them. Other than that not a lot except for some swearing. Enjoy
Current News:
Feb 2013: I stepped away from GW2 after their excellent Karka-fest in Nov 12. The game still remains brilliant fun but I’ve been busy with work and family and on top of that both I and my son have become a tad addicted to playing Minecraft on a tablet and I’ve found that I like blogging & playing from the comfort of my front room far more than from the pokey hole my gaming PC is stuffed into. Most of my posts are now about MCPE and Survival Craft
May 2012: Guild Wars 2 has, in its beta at least, proved to be a blast! I’m really excited about this game now although I can’t see it releasing before Autumn. I’ve cancelled my LOTRO subscription after becoming totally disenchanted with its old fashioned grind-heavy gameplay. I haven’t got free time to waste collecting pages of a book just to unlock a skill – it’s all about the immersion of dynamic events for me
March 2012: I’ve all but left Second Life now and have no plans to return except to help friends out with filming projects and the like. After months of obsessive playing LOTRO I’m finally beginning tire of that and find myself looking towards the soon-to-be released Guild Wars 2 to provide me with a much less ‘grindy’ experience.
June 2011: In May I stepped back from Second Life and started playing Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). Given it was my first time in a MMO I wasn’t sure what to expect… what I didn’t expect was that I would love it so much. As I type this (June 11) I’m deep into exploring Middle Earth and loving every minute of it!
Second Life:
I came into SL in November 2006 not knowing what I was looking for – until I found it. Fun, friends & a creative outlet are what have kept me coming back, even in the darkest hours of Linden & lag induced fury. From exploring with Pinkie to joining the theatre group The Show Must Go On, from becoming a gazelle to building a jungle I’ve loved (almost) every minute of what became not my second life, but simply an extension of my first. In July 2009 I moved into Steelhead, a set of roleplaying sims in the style of 1880’s north-western American port where gaslamp fantasy mixes with mad scientists, evil tiny kitties werewolves, dragons, Tong & Yakuza wars and head-stealing ancient gods. I left both Steelhead and Second Life in April 2011 after realising I had taken my desire to roleplay as far as the limits of the city & the game would allow me.
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Dr. Darien Mason
3 June, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Dear Mr. Antfarm,
Hello old friend, it’s been quite a while! So much has happened since we last spoke. The Bloodwing Foundation is no more, and my family line is at last free of his curse. I am chronicling the last hours of the Founder as we speak.
In its place I am helping establish the High Tea & High Adventure Society, which will undertake expeditions throughout the Grid in the tradition of the Great Explorers of the Victorian Age. I would be honored if an experienced adventurer such as yourself would join our ranks. We may have need of your mystic abilities on occasion! Or public journal is http://hthas.blogspot.com
Sincerely,
~Dr. Darien J. Mason
HeadBurro Antfarm
3 June, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Dr Mason! It has been too long!
As always, it is a real pleasure to hear from you and to hear that your work to end your family curse is simply wonderful!
As for your kind invite, I would be the one honoured to join the High Tea and High Adventure Society and help out in any way I can – please send any details you think I will need and I will endeavour to give my all to the cause.
Yours in Travel,
HeadBurro Antfarm.
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chemonro
26 August, 2009 at 10:33 am
Hi HBA! *hugs*
HeadBurro Antfarm
26 August, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hiya mate
HeadBurro Antfarm
17 September, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I’ve updated my About Page
Yordie Sands
17 September, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Dang you are tall HB. hehe. Once again I learn from your example. I need to define who Yordie Sands is in-role, as well as her diabolical twin, Yordie Souther (get it Yordie’s other… hehe).
I visited some of the steelhead sims not that long ago and love the idea of the “gaslamp fantasies” in the northwest.
Rock on, Antfarm dude! hehe
Otenth Paderborn
22 July, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Hello HBA! I have a RL work-motivated question! Are you using a plugin that detects tablets? When I read your blog on my iPad I get a very different experience, and I’d like to know if it’s possible to do this on my work and private wordpress.org (not .com) blogs.
HeadBurro Antfarm
22 July, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Hiya mate – nice to see you here
You are the second person to mention that my blog looks good on a tablet (Sal said it’s great on an iPad) but sadly I can take no credit as I just use on of the free blog-wide templates that comes with wp.com. I’m willing to be if you emailed the guys who made the theme they could help
You can see it at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/choco/
suzita
24 June, 2012 at 4:42 pm
hiya
you’ve embedded videos into your blog posts haven’t you? other than buying the video upgrade, is there a way to link the video into your post and have the video actually in your post? erm does that make sense?! if you can answer, cheers!
HeadBurro Antfarm
24 June, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Hi mate, do you mean other than YouTube?
suzita
24 June, 2012 at 6:09 pm
hmm yeah – am just trying out flickr (only have a RL username youtube account…)
HeadBurro Antfarm
24 June, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Never tried other than YT, but it looks the same: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/flickr-video/
Hope it works
suzita
24 June, 2012 at 6:36 pm
thanks very much – trying out now. if you want a sneak peek… http://www.flickr.com/photos/60779053@N08/7433630726/in/photostream let me know what you think
ArcherAvatar
25 June, 2012 at 10:05 am
That is a wonderful piece of silliness!
(I always liked that song…)
HeadBurro Antfarm
25 June, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Seconded! Great fun
suzita
25 June, 2012 at 6:09 pm
thanks very much! does make me giggle and I can’t go anywhere near othrikar now without singing it