I really should be using this more...

Ugh. The connection with this platform and Google is cramping my access/flow. On Firefox it gets very confused about what account I'm logged in under, and basically goes into a fail loop.


Developers: Stop whining about backwards compatibility and just effing do it, at least to the last two major iterations. I know you want IE 7 to die, and I agree with you, but that doesn't mean you shaft *every* browser that isn't HTML5 optimized.

Really really?

Recently saw a tweet from someone about a story written talking about how "Apple execs knew" how close Steve Jobs was to his last moments when they did the 4s reveal.

Really? You think? Oh dear, how *could* they have known...oh...wait. Maybe because he'd stepped down as CEO 6 weeks earlier. Among other things.



Journalism is dead.

We'll miss you, Steve

It's been a surreal week.

On Monday, the entire internet is filled with buzz about Apple and iPhone5, (even though no one at Apple ever said anything about 5)

On Tuesday, Tim Cook does his first stint on stage as Apple's head honcho, and presents to us the 4s. It's awesome. Just not as awesome as a huge percentage of the people out there thought it should be.

On Wednesday, the bloggy scribbly technocrats whine bitch and moan about how they wanted iPhone5, where was the pop, the flair, the magic, where was APPLE blah blah blah.

Wednesday evening, Steve passes, and everyone who'd spent the day trash talking his company went "O Shiiiii..."

Scoble even apologized. (Scoble's G+ letter to Tim Cook)

I've never owned a Mac. When calculating my total time spent on comps, I would hazard a guess that I've spent less than 0.0001% of it using one. Hell, my iPhone 4 isn't mine, I have it by the kind graces of my employer.

It doesn't matter. Steve has been our Leonardo da Vinci of Tech. Everyone in the world has been affected by his influence. Now, the world will be touched by his absence.

Including me.


Image from here.

Holy Shit this is old.

Gimme the paddles.... CLEAR!

I haz a Happy Face

We of course downed Yogg last Thursday, so we decided to do a gear run in Naxx Monday night. Considering the number of DKs we had, I was strongly discouraged from speccing ret, as we needed the healers. Of course, that kinda shafted me as far as trying to finish my ret set, but I went along with it.

Lo and behold, The Turning Tide drops from KT. After four rolls, mine is still highest at 58. Then Skiff rolls, and tops me by 32 with a 90. Lucky for me, he's an awesome guy with the mace off Razorscale, and passes to me. So tasty.

Cheers

W

Yogg Down!

First, lemme preface this with how unfair I think it is that we have to fight two separate bosses during this encounter. I will immediately follow that up with griping that it totally sucks that when you beat the cloud boss, but wipe on Yogg, THE CLOUDS RESPAWN! Totally bullshit.

The screenie of taking down this overgrown slug monster can be seen here. We had enough time left in raid, and were so jazzed about downing YS, we jetted over to Sarth, and downed him with all three adds up. Old hat, I'm sure, but it was the first time we'd done it since the reformation and mergence. So two guild firsts in one night. Good night.

Still waiting for an opportune moment to get/purchase a dual core chip so I can rip the 1.6 pos out of this lappie. Low fps is slowly killing my spirit.

In other news, I'm off to Boston...at some point. We're still waiting for the customer to decide definitively that A: they're done doing everything they're supposed to do, B: they're ready to allow a technician onto their property for an extended period of time (as in a month), and C: they've properly hidden the bodies. That last was a joke. I think. I don't know. They might be. It's none of my business, move it along, nothing more to see here!

Hard modes incoming this next reset, most likely FL with two towers up (or more), Iron Council, and Thorim.

Cheers

G

Guild First Vezax Kill (Ported from WoW.com)

When going about our lives, we are constantly writing and rewriting the script. Each person is in their own reality, and how we interact with that reality, either going with the flow or actively working to change it, determines the outcome. There's a script for while you're at your job, a script for deliberately nuking your job, etc. What many people fail to remember is that everyone around you has their own script detailing how the meta reality is supposed to look like.

Sometimes it's good to follow the script of others around you, so as to facilitate working your own edits in later, such as in a marriage, or group project. At other times, it's better to radically change the script so as to put the people around you off balance, such as when confronted with a mugger. (Criminals are very fond of their scripts. It's very upsetting to them when the person cast as the Victim refuses to say their lines right. Case in point, my wife, before I met her, responded to a mugger demanding her belongings by giving them to him: at high speed, and while screaming at him. This improvisation on her part threw him completely off, and he exited forthwith, stage left.)

Warcraft raid encounters not only ask you to follow the script, they beg you. This is the crux of my observation of our stratting and killing of Vezax last night. Shadow Crashes tell you where not to stand, followed immediately by where you MUST stand. Mark of the Faceless then makes that waltz a little more interesting. The mana regen issue encourages you to go back to basics, all the way to the raids Pre-BC where conserving the blue stuff was vital, and every drop counts. Setting up a little bit of healing rotation doesn't hurt either, which is also very old school. To top it off, the majority of the melee has to keep up some pretty fancy footwork to keep the dance going, or everything goes down in flames.

All in all, looking at each encounter in 3.1, most of them require as much coordination as a well know dance routine. If you practice your dance moves and study the script, the boss falls, and purples happen.

Worth every point of DKP. Nom nom.

Cheers.