Anyone else having issues like this? its supposed to be a couple of towers, a bridge and a building
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Video issues
Anyone else having issues like this? its supposed to be a couple of towers, a bridge and a building
Aliance quest....
For those pansies ... this quest might be .... something. *sigh* Joe, your wife might like it.
Went to the farm, & checked w/ the farmer out front first. He had the special chicken feed for sale (as well as some other goods, and 2 Alliance quests available).
Got 3 bags of feed (2 as backup), and started manually typing.
2 other players, who had just finished it, said MUCH faster/easier to create a macro for /chicken.
Did that; within 30 seconds of spam pushing the macro (just 1 line of the /chicken), the chicken turned green, and a chat bubble popped up.
Message is as above; it IS a 'quest,' so if your log is full, you can't take it.
Mine was; took me a few to decide which I could drop easily to finish this.
Here was a hitch: the same girls told me to do a macro for /cheer, as well, before trying to 'complete' the quest.
Tried that, and started spamming /cheer. Now, at some point, the line came up 'Chicken looks at you expectantly,' but i missed the cue. After that, the chicken just sat there in a sway.
I switched chickens, to do it over again (forgetting to abandon the quest). And guess what? the chickens have a flock mentality. When this one turned 'green' the dialogue window for just completing the quest came up. Started with one; finished with another . . .
There was a line about the chicken looking sick or pregnant, a BIG egg popped up, & chicken ran away. Open it, and get a small egg that now has your prairie chicken non-com pet.
It took me a LOT longer to type this than to actually do it.
They are bind on pick-up, so you will NOT see one in an AH, and I imagine few Horde will be sporting them.
Went to the farm, & checked w/ the farmer out front first. He had the special chicken feed for sale (as well as some other goods, and 2 Alliance quests available).
Got 3 bags of feed (2 as backup), and started manually typing.
2 other players, who had just finished it, said MUCH faster/easier to create a macro for /chicken.
Did that; within 30 seconds of spam pushing the macro (just 1 line of the /chicken), the chicken turned green, and a chat bubble popped up.
Message is as above; it IS a 'quest,' so if your log is full, you can't take it.
Mine was; took me a few to decide which I could drop easily to finish this.
Here was a hitch: the same girls told me to do a macro for /cheer, as well, before trying to 'complete' the quest.
Tried that, and started spamming /cheer. Now, at some point, the line came up 'Chicken looks at you expectantly,' but i missed the cue. After that, the chicken just sat there in a sway.
I switched chickens, to do it over again (forgetting to abandon the quest). And guess what? the chickens have a flock mentality. When this one turned 'green' the dialogue window for just completing the quest came up. Started with one; finished with another . . .
There was a line about the chicken looking sick or pregnant, a BIG egg popped up, & chicken ran away. Open it, and get a small egg that now has your prairie chicken non-com pet.
It took me a LOT longer to type this than to actually do it.
They are bind on pick-up, so you will NOT see one in an AH, and I imagine few Horde will be sporting them.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Cartman's Joke
Yes it's South Park, but...
!WARNING! NOT WORK SAFE!
Hell, this ain't even home safe. If you play this within 5 miles of an elementary school, you'll likely end up listed here. The best bet is for you to seal yourself inside a bank vault with headphones.
Once that's all prepared...
I laughed so hard I cried.
!WARNING! NOT WORK SAFE!
Hell, this ain't even home safe. If you play this within 5 miles of an elementary school, you'll likely end up listed here. The best bet is for you to seal yourself inside a bank vault with headphones.
Once that's all prepared...
I laughed so hard I cried.
Monday, January 23, 2006
The Gates are Open!
A movie of the gates opening, I think. It's pretty crazy. I'll save the spoilers fo rinside the thread as some of you might want to see for yourselves, I know my main could never survive Sithilus so I don't dare peek.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Monday, January 16, 2006
Operation D O double G
Here's step 1 in my new plan: an up to date resume. In the past, I've had very little success (none whatsoever) with blindly sending out resumes and cover letters.
What's wrong with this one? What about it screams "Slacker! Poser! n00b!" to a hiring manager? No reason is too petty; flame away.
What's wrong with this one? What about it screams "Slacker! Poser! n00b!" to a hiring manager? No reason is too petty; flame away.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
Great fishing at STV
is it me or has fishing been buffed? i got 5 rubies, 7~8 (lvl 35-45) green items, 1 stack of runecloth, ~3 stacks of bolts mageweave, ~15 rugged leather, ~20 thick leather and couple of stacks of firefin/oilymouths -- in one night.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
note to self
/perl
/pab or /perlarcanebar
/pcd or /perlcombatdisplay
/ppty or /perlparty
/pp or /perlplayer
/ppp or /perlplayerpet
/pt or /perltarget
/ptt or /perltargettarget
/pab or /perlarcanebar
/pcd or /perlcombatdisplay
/ppty or /perlparty
/pp or /perlplayer
/ppp or /perlplayerpet
/pt or /perltarget
/ptt or /perltargettarget
Monday, January 09, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Please comment on this too.
This is a copy of a post I just made to the Fabled board regarding my job. I'm keen on any input you fine folks may have:
I started at my job 3 months ago, as the replacement for a friend of mine who was leaving the position to go onto bigger and better things. My understanding was that they needed a graphic/web designer who could also do some IT (computer support, etc.) work. I was hired on the spot at $16.50 an hour as a "probationary" rate, meaning that they would boost me to a normal rate after 90 days. My friend was getting at least $20/hr, and he later remarked that he thought they were going to offer me substantially more. While I agreed with him, I was desperate for work at the time, and accepted the offer.
Some personal background:
- I've got about 10 years of IT experience in Windows environments, though I've administered Macs and Linux systems as well. I can build a machine from the ground up, and I can keep it running for years. I haven't gotten into much shell scripting yet, but I can get around a command line pretty well; I am currently learning the joys of SSH.
- I have a Master's degree in Multimedia. My education, while a bit shoddy, covered stuff like photo manipulation, graphic design, computer-based animation, video, and even a bit of 3D. I am pretty decent in most of the major Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere), and the big Macromedia apps (Flash, and Dreamweaver). I can hand code HTML and CSS, I can read PHP, and could probably write stuff in PHP with a week or two of practice.
- I can do a bit of coding - writing a device driver is a bit out of my league, but I've written thing like small arcade games in Flash. I was the technical lead on my graduate project team, which was sort of a home grown Reactrix system (like those interactive projector dealies they have at fancy malls). I had to teach myself some basic object-oriented programming to do it, too.
Over the past 3 months, the scope of my job has ballooned. I've done:
Catalog design - mostly with the Adobe CS package.
Web design - mostly PHP 4 driving around HTML with CSS; my predecessor wasn't big on documentation, either, so I usually have to reverse engineer anything I have to modify.
Web administration - the company has about 20 sites that I am responsible for running, though they are fairly simple sites.
Marketing material design (postcards, etc.)
Video editing.
Product photography.
Printing.
Copywriting.
Proofing.
Product design.
Yahoo store administration - the company does a little bit of retail business through Yahoo, which involves a proprietary and apparently undocumented scripting language.
All of the IT administration - security, installs, desktop support, server support, etc; if it involves a computer in any way, it's my responsibility.
I've replaced every workstation in the place. I specced out the replacements, too.
Last week, I put in a Samba server based on Redhat 9.
Data recovery.
CRM software - I installed SugarCRM on a Linux server that I built, mostly to handle my own project management. They've also had me looking into packages like ACT and SalesForce.
Invoicing and accounting software - I've spent a few dozen hours looking at business management software.
Email administration - I arranged a 3rd party mail service provider to control our spam and storage problems - tweaking MX records is a little daunting when you've never done it before, and a big chunk of your company's sales rely on working email.
Data entry.
I frequently have to transcribe handwritten emails, and correspond with sales reps, customers, and consultants.
Shipment tracking.
I do a bunch of the work that a receptionist would do, if we had one. I answer phones, take down orders, prepare marketing materials, do customer support, take down messages, and route phone calls.
That's just off the top of my head. Between my project management software and my big whiteboard, I've got at least 5 major ongoing projects, and over 40 simultaneous action items. I'm experienced enough to not get especially stressed out over the workload; none of the things, individually, are particularly challenging.
Back to the story, though: I've been doing all of this at a probationary rate of $16.50/hr and basic benefits for the past 3 months. I brought this up with my boss(es) yesterday, and today, they came back with an offer of $18/hr, thinking that I would be happy to get a small raise.
I think that my friend was grossly underpaid at $20/hr for the number of professional skillsets that he had to juggle, and that was before I knew the extent of his responsibilities. Granted, it's a small company (I'm employee #10), but they seemed pretty happy with me so far - I am frequently complimented on the work I do, whatever it happens to be that hour.
Am I greedy for thinking that I'm more valuable than that? I only came to this job after 4 months of job hunting; this in the SF Bay Area, too. Has anyone put up with anything similar? Were you able to break out of it? What would you do in a similar situation?
I started at my job 3 months ago, as the replacement for a friend of mine who was leaving the position to go onto bigger and better things. My understanding was that they needed a graphic/web designer who could also do some IT (computer support, etc.) work. I was hired on the spot at $16.50 an hour as a "probationary" rate, meaning that they would boost me to a normal rate after 90 days. My friend was getting at least $20/hr, and he later remarked that he thought they were going to offer me substantially more. While I agreed with him, I was desperate for work at the time, and accepted the offer.
Some personal background:
- I've got about 10 years of IT experience in Windows environments, though I've administered Macs and Linux systems as well. I can build a machine from the ground up, and I can keep it running for years. I haven't gotten into much shell scripting yet, but I can get around a command line pretty well; I am currently learning the joys of SSH.
- I have a Master's degree in Multimedia. My education, while a bit shoddy, covered stuff like photo manipulation, graphic design, computer-based animation, video, and even a bit of 3D. I am pretty decent in most of the major Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere), and the big Macromedia apps (Flash, and Dreamweaver). I can hand code HTML and CSS, I can read PHP, and could probably write stuff in PHP with a week or two of practice.
- I can do a bit of coding - writing a device driver is a bit out of my league, but I've written thing like small arcade games in Flash. I was the technical lead on my graduate project team, which was sort of a home grown Reactrix system (like those interactive projector dealies they have at fancy malls). I had to teach myself some basic object-oriented programming to do it, too.
Over the past 3 months, the scope of my job has ballooned. I've done:
Catalog design - mostly with the Adobe CS package.
Web design - mostly PHP 4 driving around HTML with CSS; my predecessor wasn't big on documentation, either, so I usually have to reverse engineer anything I have to modify.
Web administration - the company has about 20 sites that I am responsible for running, though they are fairly simple sites.
Marketing material design (postcards, etc.)
Video editing.
Product photography.
Printing.
Copywriting.
Proofing.
Product design.
Yahoo store administration - the company does a little bit of retail business through Yahoo, which involves a proprietary and apparently undocumented scripting language.
All of the IT administration - security, installs, desktop support, server support, etc; if it involves a computer in any way, it's my responsibility.
I've replaced every workstation in the place. I specced out the replacements, too.
Last week, I put in a Samba server based on Redhat 9.
Data recovery.
CRM software - I installed SugarCRM on a Linux server that I built, mostly to handle my own project management. They've also had me looking into packages like ACT and SalesForce.
Invoicing and accounting software - I've spent a few dozen hours looking at business management software.
Email administration - I arranged a 3rd party mail service provider to control our spam and storage problems - tweaking MX records is a little daunting when you've never done it before, and a big chunk of your company's sales rely on working email.
Data entry.
I frequently have to transcribe handwritten emails, and correspond with sales reps, customers, and consultants.
Shipment tracking.
I do a bunch of the work that a receptionist would do, if we had one. I answer phones, take down orders, prepare marketing materials, do customer support, take down messages, and route phone calls.
That's just off the top of my head. Between my project management software and my big whiteboard, I've got at least 5 major ongoing projects, and over 40 simultaneous action items. I'm experienced enough to not get especially stressed out over the workload; none of the things, individually, are particularly challenging.
Back to the story, though: I've been doing all of this at a probationary rate of $16.50/hr and basic benefits for the past 3 months. I brought this up with my boss(es) yesterday, and today, they came back with an offer of $18/hr, thinking that I would be happy to get a small raise.
I think that my friend was grossly underpaid at $20/hr for the number of professional skillsets that he had to juggle, and that was before I knew the extent of his responsibilities. Granted, it's a small company (I'm employee #10), but they seemed pretty happy with me so far - I am frequently complimented on the work I do, whatever it happens to be that hour.
Am I greedy for thinking that I'm more valuable than that? I only came to this job after 4 months of job hunting; this in the SF Bay Area, too. Has anyone put up with anything similar? Were you able to break out of it? What would you do in a similar situation?
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Scarlet monastary
So there's some guys there, and they got some stuff. I want it. Let's go kill them all. (on Wendsday.)
Monday, January 02, 2006
Sunday, January 01, 2006
When Brian decides he will go on The Bachelorette reality show:
Brian:
...I could use a vacation.
Stewie:
Oh yes cause you have such a heavy workload around here.
Mmm...
(his voice gets higher)
How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're workin on? Huh?
Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there?
Gotta, gotta nice litte, nice little story you're working on there?
Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh?
Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah?
Gotta, gotta, gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh?
Gotta story brewin there?
Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh?
(voice getting higher pitched)
Yeah, talking about that 3 years ago. Yeah?
Been working on that the whole time?
Nice little ahh narrative?
A beginning, middle, and end?
Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? Yeah?
At the end your ah main character is ah richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah? You got that...
(voice returns to normal)
No, no, you deserve some time off.
After Brian falls in love with the Bachelorette only to find it was all made-for-tv:
Stewie:
(his voice getting progressively higher)
Oh I know it hurts now Brian, but look at the bright side:
you have some new material for that novel you've been writing.
You know...the novel you've been workin' on?
You know the the one, uh, you've been workin on for 3 years?
You know the novel.
Got somethin' new to write about now. You know?
Maybe a, maybe a main character gets into a relationship and suffers a little heartbreak?
Somethin' like what... what you've just been through?
Draw from real life experience?
Little, little heartbreak? You know?
Work it into the story?
Make the characters a little more three dimensional?
Little, uh, richer experience for the reader?
Make those second hundred pages really keep the reader guessing what's going to happen?
Some twists and turns?
A little epilogue?
Everybody learns that the hero's journey isn't always a happy one?
(voice returns to normal)
Oh, I look forward to reading it.
Brian:
...I could use a vacation.
Stewie:
Oh yes cause you have such a heavy workload around here.
Mmm...
(his voice gets higher)
How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're workin on? Huh?
Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there?
Gotta, gotta nice litte, nice little story you're working on there?
Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh?
Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah?
Gotta, gotta, gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh?
Gotta story brewin there?
Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh?
(voice getting higher pitched)
Yeah, talking about that 3 years ago. Yeah?
Been working on that the whole time?
Nice little ahh narrative?
A beginning, middle, and end?
Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? Yeah?
At the end your ah main character is ah richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah? You got that...
(voice returns to normal)
No, no, you deserve some time off.
After Brian falls in love with the Bachelorette only to find it was all made-for-tv:
Stewie:
(his voice getting progressively higher)
Oh I know it hurts now Brian, but look at the bright side:
you have some new material for that novel you've been writing.
You know...the novel you've been workin' on?
You know the the one, uh, you've been workin on for 3 years?
You know the novel.
Got somethin' new to write about now. You know?
Maybe a, maybe a main character gets into a relationship and suffers a little heartbreak?
Somethin' like what... what you've just been through?
Draw from real life experience?
Little, little heartbreak? You know?
Work it into the story?
Make the characters a little more three dimensional?
Little, uh, richer experience for the reader?
Make those second hundred pages really keep the reader guessing what's going to happen?
Some twists and turns?
A little epilogue?
Everybody learns that the hero's journey isn't always a happy one?
(voice returns to normal)
Oh, I look forward to reading it.
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