So, while going to see my brother for Thanksgiving, I saw a sign that read "Fort Worth Alliance Airport" and I thought "Oo! I wonder where the Horde FP is?!" and.. then I realized.... I was just wondering about some of your moments. Share them! Please! I really enjoy those moments... and not feeling alone in them. Haha, sort of like the B Rez post not too long ago. ;)

Current Mood: cheerful

At the grocery store tonight, one of the stocking clerks was wearing this shirt...and I yelled "Garrosh sucks!" before even thinking about what I was doing.

My boyfriend just laughed and kept walking.

NOT MY WARCHIEF.

Tags: horde, wow addict

I was watching Planet Earth, and a particular segment caught my attention. Sometimes the mother of Emperor Penguin chicks do not return, and the chick is orphaned. Most of these chicks die.

However, apparently some penguin moos have such an urge to mother, they will chase down and try to adopt any abandon chick they find. Then there was a clip shown of five or six penguin moos stampeding after a little chick who was desperately running away. The moos were shoving each other out of the way and grabbing at the chick with their beaks, until one moo finally tackled the chick. The others quickly dove in with their beaks to try and snatch it away. Eventually the poor chick was killed by the baby-mad penguin moos. The program mentioned that pretty much all chicks pursued by these mad mothers are killed.

So apparently humans aren't the only animal that can become baby-frenzied. Octomom anyone?

So hungry for children that they keep pursuing babies, at the expense of the very same baby's welfare. Now am I talking about the penguins, or the humans?

Tags: baby frenzy, octomom, penguins
Current Mood: exasperated

Tags: photography, sf

I've been running into increasingly grumpy folks ingame recently. I keep getting into Ony raids only to get dropped without explanation. I got into a Heroic UP run and they dropped me when I said I had 2070 spellpower. Picky picky. At least the folks who spam in trade "3K ONLY! We want achievement and gearcheck!" say they're being picky in the first place.

Then I had an odd fellow after my first 25 man Ony run PUG. Someone else got the head (I thought it was smart of the raid leader have us roll on that first, gets people who don't want anything else out of there), and we were told to roll on-spec for Flowing Sapphiron Drape. All the other healers rolled, so I rolled too and got it. It was one loot piece per person, so I hearthed to Dalaran. Once in Dalaran the winner of the head messaged me, interested in a swap. The ring reward for the head was an upgrade for me too, so I didn't have a problem with it. We traded.

THEN I got messaged by another raid member asking me if I would be interested in selling the cape. I said no. He called me an idiot for selling it to someone else in the raid, and "Welcome to my ignore list". I said it wasn't a sale - I'd swapped it for the head fairly. He went balistic on me for rolling off-spec(?) and said traders and double dippers like me were ruining the game, blah-blah-blah. I told him to grow up. He said he was 23. I said "exactly." Finally I realized he had no intention of putting me on his ignore list so I ignored him myself. I can only guess he was a sore loser - he seemed to have forgotten that he had originally msgd me about buying the thing he was pissed about me trading.</lj>

Anyway, I've seen more grumpy players and leaders recently than normal. Is it because of people trying to gear up for 3.3?

Why, yes! I'd love to tell you all about the fun things I've been doing to prepare for the MIT Mystery Hunt!

...but, no, of course I won't.

(January 2010, peeps. It's coming soon.)

Tags: puzzles
Current Location: SF CA
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: that would be telling

So this is a very small thing, but something that makes me happy after a pretty bad night.

I'm currently reading an article on why to immunize children (followed one link to another link to another... you know how it goes) and I got down to the comments. Almost 100% of them are in support of the article and then I get down to this line, re: the HPV vaccine --

"Then she got HPV from her boyfriend, and not only has a significant likelihood of getting cancer later, but also has sufficient scarring that she's unlikely to be able to conceive a child, should she desire to."

Bolding my own. I see that first bit so often, but the bolded bit so little. Somehow, it makes me happy that this person is acknowledging that the girl might not want to have children and that it's her choice. So many people leave it at "she's unlikely to be able to conceive a child."

Like I said, just a little thing, but it did make me smile (though I'm still frowning a bit on the inside due to the context of the quote. It's quite sad that people don't inform their children/friends/loved ones of important things like the HPV vaccine that could save them from a lot of pain. But that's a rant for another day.)

Current Mood: calm

To all the people that tried to help me with my raiding issues earlier. The issue kind of resolved itself. The guild master kicked out my husband and I. So now we are looking for a new guild, hopefully one that raids together.

So if anyone on Bloodhoof knows of a great casual raiding guild, please let me know. Especially if you'd like not just two people, but four, as our friends would like to join with us, even if they too haven't been kicked out.

Tags: progress, raiding
Current Mood: disappointed

I'm looking to purchase a new desktop PC. And I want to make sure that it can handle WoW over the next couple of years. I have a 4 year old computer that ran WoW smoothly (though not perfectly) from Jan. 2008 until patch 3.2 hit.

I know about the recommended system requirements from the web page, however, I'm looking for personal recommendations especially where HP computers are concerned. I might be considering a laptop as well (any brand).

Thanks!

anyone have a lead on a local shop that buys smartphones? I have a used motorola Q9global with an extra battery and both indoor and car chargers, microsd mem card and a belt case for it that i need to get rid of tomorrow even if i get raped.. where should i go or where should i meet you if you might be interested personally?

TIA i know you guys can help me out here.. but my google-fu is failing me tonight.

I've been having problems using Ventrilo on my mac. I'm currently running Snow Leopard (I upgraded all of two days ago), but I had these problems for a good six-eight months, so they aren't new. Basically after 10-30 minutes, any noise I make into the microphone of my USB headset comes out sounding robotic or full of static. I thought it was my headset, but after a bit of googling I found out that it might be a problem with the Ventrilo software - and that there was a supposed fix to the issue by messing with some .kext files.

This is what I followed, down to the letter. The java thing didn't help - I had no settings to change. But I attempted to downgrade, did exactly what I was instructed to do, and after a restart .. I can't get my computer to recognize the USB headset when it's plugged in. There's nothing but the default options in my sound system options. Since I was a good girl and backed up the original file, I tried to reinstall the current file, and when I went to repair I got an error saying it had been installed wrong. I repaired permissions anyway, rebooted, and nothing changed. Basically, tl;dr, I'm dumb and need a hand undoing my own stupidity. :P

( Reason for asking )

Now the question.
Are there any cyan cloth boots in the game?

In addition to getting utterly rejected 4 days after my birthday and this being, in all other ways, utterly the WORST time of year, life has decided to fuck me over in yet another way by making it so that I'm not only unable to RAID, I'm also unable to even LOG INTO WARCRAFT.

At first, I was just disconnecting during boss fights. No biggie, I'd tell them to let me die, I'd log back in, I'd watch them take the boss down. Then I wouldn't be able to log back on at all while the boss was alive.

We thought it was the router. It was a piece of shit anyway and always had a tendency to lock my computer out, moreso if there's more than one machine on the network (as of October, there was). I got sick of resetting it and just bought a new one that was from a more reliable brand.

Set it up. Worked fine for... a day. Then I couldn't log on IM programs or use browsers, much less log on WoW. Techie friend suggested "oh, it's probably an issue with ports."

Tried that. Got the network up and running (though I'm not sure if it was because I was plugging in ports for programs or because my father used HIS laptop to connect to the internet through the router; either way, everything worked fine after that).

Logged into WoW. Did my JC daily. Was about to head off to run another few dailies when...disconnected. In the middle of Dalaran. No way to log back on. Ports didn't seem to fix it.

I'm out of ideas. My father is out of ideas. My techie friend who suggested messing with ports has concluded that my router is a piece of crap. Moving the modem up here (from the basement) and plugging directly into that isn't possible; I have no cable connectivity in my room.

If anyone here has any ideas, please, please PLEASE tell me. Otherwise, I'm left to asking my techie friend who gave me a lovely "return to sender" notice 4 days after my birthday.

Tags: technical
Current Mood: discontent

UI Mod Monday!

Sorry started a new job today and had no access until it was time to go!


Reply to this thread with screenies, links, advice, comments, and questions about UIs as well as mods in general. Remember - even if you don't have questions you may be able to answer some!

Tags: add-ons/mods, mod post, ui, ui mod monday, ui screenshot

I really think Snow Leopard was Apple's attempt to out-do Microsoft's Vista in most bugs released in a single Operating System.

I'm just blown away by all the weird brokenness.

1- Two freshly installed instances of Snow Leopard. One on a brand new Mac Mini and the other on a MacBook Pro. The Macbook had a harddrive icon on the desktop. The Mac Mini had _no harddrive_ icon on the desktop. (Had to go google how to fix it: Finder>Preferences> click Harddrive under "Show these items on Desktop)

2- Migration Assistant would not allow me to move an account from an old Mac Mini to the new Mac Mini because both accounts shared the same name.... Which was the whole point. I wanted to move over the old account onto the new machine, and that was the _only_ account on the new machine. I had to rename account and then manually go and cp -R files over to the new machine... which completely defeats the point of having Migration Assistant in the first place.

3- Whenever I would click on the Finder icon in the dock, I would get a Finder window that was empty for the current users home directory. But the home directory WAS NOT EMPTY. If I clicked on the username on the left side of the Finder File Browser window under "Places" I'd see all the folders in the user's directory. But again, whenever I click on the Finder icon in the dock I'd get an empty window in Finder for the users home directory which was NOT empty.

4- Problem of not being able to find windows have always been a problem in MacosX since day one. Which is why Apple came up with Expose as a means to combat not being able to find windows buried under other windows. Which is odd given that Apple actually has a feature called "Single Application Mode" buried in the UI. You can activate it by holding down Option + Apple and clicking an icon in the dock. What that does is Auto-Hides All Other Applications. Problem is, if you don't know that trick good luck finding anything in the UI. I was buying and registering games and time and time again the registration window was buried under a window and unseen to me, waiting for me type in information to register the game. Again, this has always been a problem in MacOSX.

5- As stated before, many preference windows for things like Firefox and Thunderbird do not render correctly under Snow Leopard. You get strange graphical artifacts as you flip through the preferences windows.

----Now onto hardware ------

Mac Mini now ships with Mini-DVI and Firewire 800. Yet I have a iSight Camera (firewire 400) that's connected to my Apple flat screen monitor which WAS connected to old Mac Mini with the Apple only Apple Display Connector. Problem is the new Mac Mini's are Firewire 400 and Mini-DVI... so I'll no longer be able to connect my iSight DIRECTLY into the back of my Monitor. I'll instead have to go buy a Firewire 400 to 800 cable and run it down from the iSight camera directly to the Mac Mini... Which negates having the firewire port on the back of the Apple Display. Grrr!

And don't get me started on the Mini-DVI port. The Mini-DVI port needs screws... badly... to hold in the Mini DVI to DVI adapter which falls out all the time on its own.

Whoever thought that putting the child care room right next to the workout room where yoga classes are held was DUMB.

Current Mood: not as relaxed as I'd like to be, thanks

Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! In order to keep the flow of top level posts at a sane level for anyone, we've updated the community rules again.

Limit promotions to once weekly. -This includes blog and fan fiction updates.

Thanks very much in advance for your cooperation!

Tags: mod post
Current Mood: silly
Current Music: Placebo - Running Up That Hill

Someone just used the email form on the Stop the War on Fun site to send this gem. I assume it's an attempt at spam? Well, if it's a legitimate question, I'm sure someone on the SF Board of Supervisors can help them. They seem like people who would be knowledgeable about cell phones.

From: addesee <jansuto+dikige@gmail.com>

To: Gavin.Newsom@sfgov.org, Mark.Leno@sen.ca.gov, Bob.Hartnagel@sen.ca.gov, Tom.Ammiano@asm.ca.gov, Tara.Mesick@asm.ca.gov, Heather.Fong@sfgov.org, sfpd.online@sfgov.org, George.Gascon@sfgov.org, sfpd.commission@sfgov.org, Eric.L.Mar@sfgov.org, Michela.Alioto-Pier@sfgov.org, David.Chiu@sfgov.org, Carmen.Chu@sfgov.org, Ross.Mirkarimi@sfgov.org, Chris.Daly@sfgov.org, Sean.Elsbernd@sfgov.org, Bevan.Dufty@sfgov.org, David.Campos@sfgov.org, Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org, John.Avalos@sfgov.org

Subject: Stop the War on Fun
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:34:12 -0800 (PST)

Zip code: 123456

I recently acquired an unlocked iphone 3G. I'm sort of new to cell phones, but i know the plan i want. It is a pay as you o rogers plan. How exactly do i activate my phone with pay as you go.

And this one that I received last night is equally puzzling. How does this spam turn into money? Needless to say, there is no such discount offer and we've never heard of these people, so how does trying to piss off my customers with a lie help them? Why would they send this? There were no links.

From: Mike <infoanswer@eadvertise1.com>
Date: November 30, 2009 12:39:01 AM PST
To: booking@dnalounge.com
Subject: DNA Lounge,
Reply-To: Support@eadvertise1.com

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YOU ARE NOT COMPETENT ENOUGH TO BE A SPAMMER!
How does that make you feel?

Tags: dnalounge, fanboys, sf, spam
Current Music: Metric -- Help I'm Alive

Tomorrow morning, heavy early wake up. Need to be on the road early to get to Mayo on time. *sighs*

Dad and I finished the outside pens, and latches. The dogs are spending their first night in the doghouse. Siding yet to do.

Mom and I did laundry this morning, she didn't have to go in to work.

It was sunny, windy, and chilly today. Frost all over the windows.

Time for bed. *hugs*

---

He filled the journal with tristful remembrances.

Word of the Day for Monday November 30, 2009

tristful • \TRIST-ful\  • adjective
: sad, melancholy

Did you know?
The Middle English word "trist," from which "tristful" is derived, means "sad." Today, we spell this word "triste" (echoing the spelling of a French ancestor), whereas "tristful" has continued to be spelled without the "e." Is there a connection between "triste" ("sad") and "tryst" ("a secret rendezvous of lovers")? Not exactly. "Tryst" can be traced back to a Middle English "trist," but it is a different word, one that was a synonym of "trust." This word eventually fell into disuse, but before doing so, it may have given rise to a word for a station used by hunters, which is in turn believed to have led to "tryst."

Tags: dad, dogs, mom, stuff, weather
Current Mood: tired

They've killed the Coke sign! This is a tragedy! A travesty. A tragavesty.

Now normally I have a visceral, knee-jerk allergy to advertising in pretty much any form (and I don't even drink Coke, see sidebar), but I have to admit that I have some love for that Coke sign.

It was so old and janky and never worked right! Half of the lights seemed to run on Lucas three-position switch technology (off, dim and flicker) and it was a different half almost every night. I have long had this fantasy that the reason the sign always looked like that is that there is only one guy left in the world who knows how to fix the mechanical relays that drive its pattern logic, and that guy is 95 and has trouble getting up and down the ladder to sweep the birdshit out of the contacts with his vintage Nineteenth-century wire brush.

That's how it is in my head, anyway. If the reality is not actually like that, then I don't want to know.

But anyway, replacing it with a slick, modern LED facimile? Feh! I shake an angry fist.

"Energy Efficient" LED Sign to Be Unveiled in Late December.

The Coca-Cola Company announced today plans to replace the historic neon sign in San Francisco`s South of Market district. Coca-Cola has maintained a display alongside the southbound lanes on the I-80 freeway heading in to downtown San Francisco for more than 75 years. In its place will be a state-of-the-art LED display that is consistent in size and brightness with the existing sign but 80% more energy efficient and is to be powered by 100% sustainable and certified "green" energy. [...]

To begin preparations for installation, power will be shut off to the existing display starting today. Skilled display and lighting workers will begin carefully dismantling and removing the display faces. By December 11, it will be completely disassembled and the installation of the replacement faces will begin. [...] Coca-Cola also plans a `flip-the-switch` ceremony to celebrate relighting the new sign. More details will be forthcoming.

Tags: doomed, retrocomputing, sf, sprawl
Current Music: Snake River Conspiracy -- Coke & Vaseline

Tags: doomed, tentacles
Current Music: The Faint -- Fish in a Womb

Where can I find Shiner Holiday beer in town? It's supposed to have been out for a while now, I can't find it anywhere. Last year HEB had tons of it, anyone know where it is in town? Thanks!

yeah, it's still a month early. but i hope you'll be at our new year's eve party. on new year's eve-evening. because it'll be pretty fun, and stuff.

details to come!

Brick and Mortar
A World of Warcraft Story by Gre7g Luterman

Episode 10: The End of the Road

New episodes Monday through Friday!

Tags: fanfic, horde

As a young child, I always thought that I would have children. Everyone in my family has at least three kids and it's practically a guideline for the women that are related to me to drop out of school and find an abusive husband and give them a thousand kids.


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Tags: childfree relationships
Current Location: United States, California, Newport Beach
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Resistance - Muse