Today in Farmer’s Favorite Week: Lapras!Continuing with our theme of picking our personal favorites, I picked (easily for me!) Lapras. Me and Lapras go way back, I’ve always loved it for its high HP since back in my Red/Blue days, despite it weaknesses to electric moves. On a side note, if anyone has played Pokemon…
Month: July 2007
A Guest Blogger on Guest Blogging
When people talk about marketing a blog or driving traffic to a site, most of the conversation revolves around that site. However, one great method of gaining exposure and driving new traffic to your site doesn’t have anything to do with your site at all: Guest Blogging. Unfortunately, the topic remains one of the less…
Pokemon Farming: Eevee
Welcome to Farmers Favorites week! This week the farmers are going to be choosing one of their favorite pokemon and offering it to you under the normal farming guidelines. I’m not sure what the other farmers are going to be choosing, but I want to share my favorite pokemon with you today.Espeon became my favorite…
Underdog on the big screen?
This past week, I’ve been seeing commercials for a new live-action movie coming to theaters soon. No, it’s not a new action flick. No, it’s not one of the many new horror movies coming out soon. And no, it’s not one of the thousand sequels coming out this summer. No, it’s actually….Underdog.Now, growing up I…
Camp: The Open House
Today was the open house day at camp and I was in charge of the camp store. What a day! I am so tired…We did most of the setup (tents and tables) on Saturday but I still had to stock the camp store for open house on Sunday. My daughter “helped” me a little bit…
Print Twice, Laminate Once
‘This morning I’ve been working on getting the ID badges ready for next week. If you have not made your way over to the Clatter Valley Day Camp website than you may be unaware of the cool artwork we are using for the badges.About the artThis great piece of art was created by the Brothers…
Pokemon Farming: Bagon
I hope everyone has enjoyed our Dragon Week! Today we’ll be ending it with a bang by offering up the popular Dragon-type, Bagon. To be honest, my first exposure to Bagon was with the newest generation of games (I never had Ruby or Sapphire), but once I had him I realized that I’d been missing…
Where is Steve?
Where have I have been? I’ve been right here but I have also been very busy.Next week I will also be busy at the Clatter Valley Day Camp. It is an annual Girl Scout day camp event. I’m the tech guy this year which means I had to put up a forward facing site and…
Dealing with too much traffic
I recently moved hmtk.com and a few other websites to their own dedicated server. There are currently ten sites running on the same server as hmtk.com. A few days ago one of those sites got dugg.While that one site was on digg’s homepage the server load was in the 10 to 60 range. A server…
Pokemon Farming: Trapinch
Greetings, everyone!Welcome to Thursday of Dragon Week! My handle here is BryGuy and I will be heading this evening’s Pokemon Farmer’s Market featuring Trapinch. As many of you probably know, Trapinch is that little, orangish, chompy dude that you would always find in a desert somewhere. Trapinch is rare in the Pearl and Diamond games…
Pokemon Farming: Gible
Well, I hope you’re all enjoying Dragon Week! As our first theme week, I don’t think there would be any more appropriate. These guys are probably the most popular type overall. Nintendo likes to make sure they’re also a bit harder to get than your garden variety pokes as well, so we bring them to…
Pokemon Farming: Dratini
Today we bring you the next in line for our Dragon-type theme week, Dratini!Dratini is the first in a line of evolutions that brings on Dragonite, one of the most powerful non-legendary Pokemon you can get. It can be hard to find in the game and takes a great deal of time to level it…