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4 hours ago: Raid Tip: Rain of Fire (AOE Damage)
A little known fact is that if you are taking damage from an AOE*, like Rain of Fire, if you physically move out of the area being affected by the spell you stop taking damage almost immediately. As illustrated above our little raider turns his frown upside-down just by moving out of the rain of fire.
*AOE or Area of Effect: Many spells instead of targeting an individual target an area and do damage to everyone in that area regardless of how many people are in that area. So if 5 people are in the AOE 5 people will all take damage.
Alternate/Blizzard instructions
fire = bad
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21 days ago: Eat more kitten!
My friend Judson lead me to this article via the Drudge Report.
A top Italian food writer has been suspended indefinitely from the country’s version of the television programme Ready Steady Cook for recommending stewed cat to viewers as a “succulent dish”.
RAI, the public broadcasting network, said that it had dropped Beppe Bigazzi, 77, for offering the recipe on La Prova del Cuoco, which is broadcast at midday on the main channel. Its switchboard was inundated with complaints from viewers and animal rights groups. Bigazzi said that casserole of cat was a famous dish in his home region of Valdarno, Tuscany.
“I’ve eaten it myself and it’s a lot better than many other animals,” he told viewers. “Better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon.” He said that for optimum flavour the meat should be “soaked in spring water for three days” before being stewed… more
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36 days ago: Mitch Hedberg (1968 – 2005)
I bought a doughnut, and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don’t need a receipt for the doughnut, man, I’ll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut… end of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can’t imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: “Don’t even act like I didn’t get that doughnut! I got the doc-u-men-tation right here… oh, wait it’s at home… in the file… under ‘D’... for doughnut.”
I hope the next time I move I get a real easy phone number, something that’s real easy to remember. Something like two two two two two two two two. I would say “Sweet.” And then people would say, “Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?” I’d say, “Just press two for a while. And when I answer, you will know you have pressed two enough.”
I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.
This shirt is “dry-clean only”...which means it’s dirty.
Imagine being killed by a bow and arrow. That would suck, an arrow killed you? They would never solve the crime. “Look at that dead guy. Let’s go that way.”
By the way, you don’t have to be sweaty and holding a basketball to enjoy a Gatorade. You could just be…a thirsty dude! Gatorade forgets about this demographic!
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?
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76 days ago: Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson
Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and worship of the wise men.
Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world. Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting. Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’ sake.
Amen.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.
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97 days ago: Games
Sorry for the lag of updates but if you miss me that much you should just call! I had a nice turkey day, we played games after dinner. We played a little mad gab then opened a brand new Scategories game. My Dad used the wrong list for one round but still did pretty well with the answers. In my free time I’ve been playing a bunch of the little browser games on facebook. Look me up to see what I’m playing.
I’ll try to post more before the holidays. The boots in my last post are on sale! (hint hint hint)
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135 days ago: Boots
These boots are super cool I want a pair so badly but they are way expensive. what I need is for a bunch of people to each send me a $10 gift card then i can use them to get the boots. Oh well its always nice to dream.
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168 days ago: Pitt Burger the Paladin
I have been working on a history for my Warcraft character Pitt. It has a long way to go but I wanted to post some of what I already have. Details about the first and second wars still need to be fleshed out and I have not started the third war or any of the recent history. This is probably less than half the story. Your feedback is welcome.
Pitt Burger is a mountain dwarf born in Ironforge about 40 years before the first war. He is the head of Dom Ursus, one of the oldest houses of Ironforge. Dom Ursus loosely means “House of the Bear”, sometimes also called the Father Bear Clan. Dom Ursus is a clan of merchants not warriors. Most of the family fortune has been made in the gathering and sale of raw materials especially ore, stone, and leather but they have also produced some of the finest crafts men of dwarf legend.
Like most dwarves Pitt is driven to create but in the field, especially at war, this can be very hard to do. He loves to cook and cooking provides a short term outlet for his creative inspirations as well as the practical applications. But he’s also frustrated by how quickly meals are finished and their impact rarely last past the next one. Although he has taken up many hobbies and earned a large personal fortune none of it compares to making a mark on metal for all eternity. The day Pitt is no longer able to strike his hammer to the anvil will most likely be the day he passes from this world.
Pitt really enjoys smithing and will work tirelessly for hours on end. He never intended to fight for a living, he has never seen the “sport” in combat, and had always intended to be a craftsman and take over as head of his clan from his father. Pitt was still an apprentice blacksmith when the first war broke out. Dwarves believe that you learn a craft from the most basic elements up. For blacksmith this means you first learn to mine and smelt the ore before you can learn to shape the metal. Although Most of his time was had spent mining in the Dun Morogh and Loch Modan areas he had already become quite skilled at shaping metal and had a natural talent for armor construction.
His young wife was killed in the first weeks of the first war. When word reached Pitt he enlisted immediately. Because war broke out they never actually had a wedding ceremony. She worked in a traveling carnival, this is how they met. Her carnival came to Loch Modan every spring. The first year he noticed her they never even spoke but each day Pitt would go to watch her work. The second year Pitt mustered his (drunken) courage and introduced himself. On the third year he asked for her hand in marriage and presented her with a plain mithril band he had crafted. They would have been married on their fourth meeting if not for the Horde. Because he will never love another as he did her he considers them to be “married” from the moment they met.
In the second war he was separated from the rest of the dwarves and Ironforge. Pitt was stationed at the Stonewrought Dam when the second war began. He did battle with the first waves of Horde in the Valley of the Kings. Outnumbered, the dwarves sealed the South Gate Pass and ordered the remained troops to the North gate Pass. Pitt deliberately stayed in the battle rather than seek the safety of Ironforge. Pitt knew the mountain would soon be sealed and the Dwarves would be cut off from the rest of the Alliance. Ignoring his orders Pitt made his way back to the Dam with a few others. Eventually the Dam fell as well and in the final moments of the battle Pitt was knocked back over the edge of the Dam and fell into the wetlands. His paladin abilities saved him from the fall. He made his way to the then deserted Grim Batol. Once recovered and reenergized he continued to move north and eventually arrived at Aerie Peak
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191 days ago: Raiding 101: Tank Line
This is my latest post from the Silvermoon Guardian website. I post 2 kinds of these “instructional” post on the guild site. Most are “Raid Tips” which are satirical overly simple instructions like my back up post. The other are “Raiding 101”, these are relatively serious, although I try to keep some humor, and are things that a new raider might not know.
Common to all raids is the idea that no one moves ahead of the tanks. Please observe the image above.
- The arrow is indicating the direction the raid is headed.
- The skull and X are the Main tank (skull) and the off tank (X) as those are usually how their targets are marked.
- The red zone is off limits, you should never be in the red.
- The yellow zone is a caution zone, you should not be in the yellow unless you have a good reason i.e. you are the 3rd tank, 4th tank, etc., you are a hunter that has been assigned a mis-direct, melee DPS.
- The green zone is where you are supposed to be, period.
This is as simple as I can think to make it. You might ask…
“What if there is only one tank?” That doesn’t really change anything, in the diagram ignore the X, slide skull down about 3 squares, and keep your ass in the green!
“Are there any exception to this rule?” Short answer, NO! Long version, yes there might be but you need to ask your raid leader. If you have not asked you raid leader on the night of the raid in question, even if you have been given an exception before, you should stay out of the red until your raid leader says otherwise.
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194 days ago: Good Luck AJ!
Today we wish AJ & Mark congratulations and best wishes on their wedding day. To them I also say thank you so much for the lovely invitation, I’m sorry I was unable to attend. And by unable I mean unwilling! [LOL] The idea that single guys like to go to weddings to meet single women is a myth perpetuated by Hollywood. Without a date there was no chance of me showing for this sort of event.
Now I fully believe in the importance of supporting your friends and family but weddings are in a category all by themselves. While there are circumstances where I might actually attend a wedding, they are few and far between. I can only think of 3 weddings in the last decade or so that I have actually attended.
While living in Charlotte, NC Judson and I went up to Long Island for a co-worker’s wedding. To be honest I only went for the trip and was not looking forward to the wedding itself at all but it turned out I did know a bunch of people there and it was a crazy party after.
Next I think was my Aunt Pam’s wedding in the back woods of Alabama. My Mum flew to Atlanta and we drove the rest of the way so there was no getting out of that one, plus I wound up doing about half the catering.
The Only other wedding I’ve attended was Tim & Karen’s in which i was best man.
AJ and I have been very close friends for and very very long time so naturaly you’d think I would be there on such an important event. Even though we are close I’m not really friends with any of her friends or family. That along with not having someone to go with and the fact that I don’t drink anymore is more than enough reason to skip this one. Further still it’s my opinion that on their wedding day brides are so besieged by admirers they have no clue as to who is actually in attendance and who isn’t. So if she asks I was there and she just missed me!
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196 days ago: New Home
Every time I move into a new place people ask me for pictures but I never actually take any. Well this time I did but that came out very poorly. Once everything is finally put away I’ll retake these pictures so think of this as more of a placeholder post.
Above is my new office. This is a 2 bedroom apartment and I have set the computer up in the larger of the two. For me it’s much more useful to have the room for my books and other stuff rather than have the extra bedroom space.
This is the little bedroom, it’s pretty small but it’s working out fine. Yes the beds not made and it’s still not made.
This is one of the smallest kitchens I’ve ever had but it’s laid out so well it’s a very good work space. It’s the shelf at the back that makes it work.
This is the reverse angle looking from the kitchen all the way to the back window in the bathroom.
