http://blog.daveastels.com Life, Magic the Gathering, and Everything Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:43:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Josh & I Winston drafted 12 packs of The Dark. Ya. The Dark. Draft. It was fun. I started off in Blue, snagging all the pirate ships I could find. I quickly dropped that due to the rich blackness that was available. And so I moved into black ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2010/03/02/drafting-the-dark/ This weekend was Grand Prix Oakland. A GP a quick train ride away. So it was an easy choice to drop by for a while on Saturday. I spent most of my time there today catching up with some old friends and picking up some cards I had been ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2010/02/15/gp-oakland/ It's been a while since my last post here. It's been busy. I've been busy with life & all that. I've been getting back into the iPhoneOS development, especially in light of the iPad announcement, and I've started a cooking/foodie blog at daveastels.com. In my last post I ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2010/02/13/apartment-wishlist-satisfied/ So... I'm getting really tired of commuting up the peninsula daily. It's a drag and worse on weekends. Pretty much all my friends are in the city. So... I need to move my ass up there. I figure I'll see if I can leverage the collective ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2010/01/11/apartment-wishlist/ Since I got appreciative comments on my tweet of my Christmas brunch (including offers of semi-nudity), I figured I'd blog about it. Here's the end result: I made the apple topping first: 2 Honeycrisp apples (more if you want to, you know, make more of it) butter some sort of sugar scotch Core & peel the apples. ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2009/12/25/xmas-french-toast/ I just got this sleeved up and am ready to test it. My plan was to call it "Holier Than Thou", but at least over the holidays, I've dubbed it "Angels We Have Heard On High". The Curve looks good. Lots of life gain & damage prevention in the 1-4 slots, ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2009/12/24/edh-angels/ I did my first simple hardware project in a long time yesterday. I spent a good chunk of my high school years and immediately after with a soldering iron. Since then, not so much. I recently picked one up and have plans to design & build guitar ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2009/12/20/some-hardware-hacking/ http://blog.daveastels.com/2009/12/20/it-might-get-loud/ I finally succumbed and bought myself a new guitar. Between feeling the itch for many months, having friends that play, and being blown away by "It Might Get Loud", I decided the time was right. Merry Christmas to me. Here it is. Fender Standard Stratocaster, HSS (a humbucker ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2009/12/20/new-guitar/ Here's a fun deck I've just gotten into good shape. [deck style=width:600px;layout:cardbox 3 right;] [General] 1 Karn, Silver Golem [/General] [Land] 1 Desert 1 Elephant Graveyard 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mishras Factory 1 Mishras Workshop 1 Strip Mine 1 Urzas Mine 1 Urzas Power Plant 1 Urzas Tower 1 School of the Unseen 1 Sheltered ... http://blog.daveastels.com/2009/12/13/edh-artifacts/