The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Start of the Tour de Underpants + 2002 Bollinger Champagne!!

Yes indeed meh hearties, here we are at the start of the Tour de Underpants and I am soooo excited!  It’s 5:30 am with my wonderful glass of 2002 Bollinger Champagne and fi and meh awesome friends in Mumble!  It’s hard to imagine a more perfect beginning to an epic journey across France and the Underpants!

So far, there are plenty of mouthwords going on in Liege, Belgium – LOL!  I can see a distinct Dutch flair to the architecture that they have shown so far, and many buildings appear to have built after WWII.  They have a beautiful train station there in Liege.  French is spoken there as well as German.  Guten tag tram!

The actual racing is set to begin next!!!! Wootage!!!!

The 2002 Bollinger is wonderfully flavorful while being light and airy, with tons of tart green apple, green grape flavors, and strong acidity from beginning to end.  The typical bread-dough and yeast flavors are bit more subdued than in the Non-Vintage versions of Bollinger.  This is indeed a fine Champagne because of the way it seems to vanish from the palette, yet the flavor lingers on and on!  The flavors are so persistent with lots of acidity making this an excellent food wine.

Here they go!  Tyler Farrar grits his teeth along the course as he tries to eek out every fraction of a second possible.  He looks like a strong contender for sure!

Karsten Kroon seems to be sponsored by a couple of banks but not the PostBank since they went out of business.  I thought that was brilliant concept, a bank in a post office!  You can mail your parcels as well as get a car or home loan.  Nothing like one stop shopping!

Oh yes, back to the Tour de Underpants!  Tyler is 4th now with a few strong sprinters having completed their time trials.  Dave Millar should get bonus points for his cute butt wiggle!  Oh I see that Marcel goes last!  I will have to stay tuned!

Since it’s the time trials, it’s difficult to get a sense of who’s winning.  Tyler has fallen back to 8th and I need some Le Roule Fromage and crackers in order to keep up my typing strength and creative energy tram!!!!  I am hoping that Cadel will win today’s short stage tram!

Brett Lancaster is the new leader at 6:14 am!  Nice run!  He didn’t seem to be humping too much to take the lead.  Oh mys, they are reaching speeds of up to 45 mph during their sprints!

Oh mys, Le Roule fromage is sooo yumm and so great with Champagne!  All I wanna do is have some funz and I have a feeling I’m not the only one tram!!!  Edval from Norway has a nice butt wiggle too tram and he’s the new leader – hehehehehe!

 Nice number on your butt, Mark Cavendish – LOL!  Strong run too tram!  Hello Bob Roll with your gap-toothed grin tram!

Sylvan Chavenel is now the new leader tram!  Oh wait, there goes Fabian Cancellara!  He’s the new leader!

Cadel Evans is warming up and he is sweating like Niagra Falls – LOL!  Now he’s putting quite a bit of effort into his race!  Wheeees!   Oh noes, not quite enough to win the leg but certainly a nice effort anyway!  Nicely done everyone!

 

Happy Birthday Foods + Civ5 UpdateTram!

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I am happy to report that I am having a totally epic birthday so far!  The boeuf bourguignon is happily baking along in the oven and it smells soooo epic!  I would like to thank the fi tram for working sooooo hard on it, including the days of visiting many different shops and trying to find ingredients, and the many days of cooking each ingredient separately!  It has been an epic journey and it smells really wonderful right now!  Thanks again fi tram!!!!! Yays!!!!

In fact, it smells soooo epic that I am now having some Golden Gate Sauvignon Blanc that the onions were braised in and have it with meh Brunch of Champions, D’nito Nachos Tram!!!!!  nomnomnomnom!!  It is certainly one of my slack favs!!!

In other news, I noticed that both Steam and Civilization 5 had a major update when I played recently, so if you haven’t played lately, you may want to get the longggg update.  It seems to have eliminated the long animations when the game first starts up and replaced it with a simple splash screen.  I also noticed that some of the voices were different when the new technologies were discovered, and some of the wording was different on the new technologies. 

I also noticed that it was significantly different as far as creating and assembling the space ship to claim epic victory!  Instead of needing to create like a dozen pieces, I only had to create like 5 or 6 or so!  Honestly, I felt a bit cheated by this, but since I was getting the Aztecs to kick some ass, I didn’t mind too much tram – LOL!

So, if you feel like it, slack on over and check out the updated Civ 5 Tram!  Wheeees!!

And there is a new expansion available for Civ5, Gods and Kings.  I haven’t tried it yet, but I would be very interested to hear if any of you have yet!  Yay!

And keep partying hard on meh birthday, meh wonderful hearties and getting ready for the Tour de Underpants (France)!!!!!  Wheeeeees!!!!

 

Wheeeees!!!

Meet The Pyro

Everyone’s seen it, but in case you haven’t here it is:

Now that you’ve seen that, check out the new items for the pyro!

Yes, between now and July 5th you can get a nice pair of goggles for free in TF2. I have tested them out and sure enough… Everything looks really psychotic! If this wasn’t enough for you, then perhaps maybe sign up at Adult Swim for a free robot chicken hat?

Also, the mystery items have been turned to dust and can now be crafted into a big pile of ash! The ash can then be used to make either crates or weapons. No word on what they’re worth yet though. Still, it’s been so busy that even authentication seems to be failing for getting onto certain servers or even getting in touch with the item server itself! I don’t think Valve expected this much attention. But they should have because it’s freakin’ TF2!!!!!111111

As an aside, Valve is also releasing Source Filmmaker now as a beta. Perhaps the next season of You Can’t Do That On XBox might have some interesting visuals. 😉

Ettetram B-Day & Tour de Underpants Invite!

 

 

 

 

 

You are warmly welcomed to two very special SNews events! The first is Ettetram’s birthday, which will be an all-day event on Thursday! I hope that everyone will join meh in having fun and drinking as much as you can tram!!! I will be having beoef Bourgogne and a nice bordeaux – Yay!!! I have Taylor Fladgate 20 year tawny port as a great aperitif as well!!  So I will have plenty of beverages to report on!

The second event that I want to invite everyone to the start of the Tour de Underpants (France) on Saturday morning (morgen) at 5 am Pacific/8 am Eastern Time for the live coverage from Liege, France! Yes indeed meh hearties, the Champagne cork will popping at 5 am! I can hardly wait for the Le Roule fromage too!! It will be so epic and I will be posting all about it here on SNews!!! This year, I wonder who will win? Will it be Cadel Evans? Bradley Wiggins perhaps? One of the Schleck brothers? Only time will tell tram!  Join me here on SNews for all the fun action!

Since the Tour de Underpants wandered into Italy a few times last year, I recently enjoyed a nice bottle of Gabbiano Chianti with a big plate of semola pasta with pesto sauce, olive oil, and parmesan and romano cheese. It was an epic meal! Gabbiano Chianti can be found in many grocery stores for under $10, and is a nice Chianti at a nice price. Clean, soft cherry fruit forward flavors, nice tangy mid-palate, and clean tannins and nice acidity on the finish without being too powerful. A large enough wine to go with food yet soft enough to drink without food before or after the meal.

Rearranging deck chairs on the blog again…

Ok, decided I didn’t like the last one either, so I’m going to give this one a shot. It seems to behave a lot better. Fluid width, 3 column, and gives me the option of changing the picture on each refresh which I could have fun with. 🙂

I used to hate the two columns being next to each other, but with the stuff I happen to have it might not be that bad of an idea actually…