Minecraft Hiatus

Minecraft is a game with a lot going for it.  I, however, am going away from it.   Building blocks as a world is a powerful concept, and the complexity behind the facade of simple graphics is endearing.  However, it's an incredibly (spoiler alert) unfinished friggin timesink.

Yes, I knew that at the outset, and I knew it was in beta, but having large creations disappear for no reason is tiring.  So I've learned a few things about building and planning, and I've learned to fear the hissing noise a creeper makes.  If someone makes that little Death-Gumby SssSss while I'm napping, I will scream for a few minutes at least.

On top of a deeply entrenched fear of the sun setting, I now fear that the good people at Google have forgotten about my blog for longer than I did since the last post.  It's been a solid month since they added any of my content to search results.  Seriously though, it's a free service.  They've now directed over 10,000 unique viewers to me, and paid me for it so I guess I'll cut them some slack.

Here, have some randomly assorted pictures of neat things that have nothing to do with minecraft:

 

Off I go to  monkey  around on Rosetta Stone.  I've got 14 languages up to advanced level waiting in there, and by Jove that's enough to fill up the rest of my brains I bet.