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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My druid is still only 86. Think I'll just get 110 this week and maybe start bfa on the weekend.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Nice! what's your session? I'll try and attend it.
  3. alavaz

    Weight Loss Thread

    Just to add, I'm not saying protein is bad or needs to be tightly controlled. But I have seen people think they were doing "keto" while eating nothing but chicken breasts and chugging 3 whey shakes a day then wondering why they never go into ketosis.
  4. alavaz

    Weight Loss Thread

    So the point I was making is that fat amount is irrelevant. That ratio is kind of bullshit and is just there to let you know if something is mostly fat - which in keto counts as nothing basically. You do not want to overeat protein if your goal is to get into and stay in ketosis. Just add it...
  5. alavaz

    Weight Loss Thread

    Well the point is to not overeat protein on top of keeping a very strict amount of carbs. Khane is right in that not consuming carbs is what leads to ketosis. Consuming fat has nothing to do with it, fat just doesn't have a metabolic pathway to glucose like protein does. Hence why you want...
  6. alavaz

    Weight Loss Thread

    Too much protein can prevent ketosis. Gluconeogenesis homes.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Speaking of conferences I'll be hitting up VMWorld this year. Haven't been since like 2009 so hopefully it's as good or better than it was then.
  8. alavaz

    What do you do?

    It's all about what's good for you. I have a good buddy that I grew up with who's all into startups and java script mobile app bullshit and he can't fathom why I'm happy making 100k a year in NC when I could go make 300k a year with him in FL. What he doesn't take into consideration is that I...
  9. alavaz

    What do you do?

    GD is one of the bigger contractors now (probably the biggest IT contractor). They just bought up CSRA which was a big merger between SRA and CSC. The company doesn't really matter all that much though. I love my job, but the customer is what makes it great. GD is just who signs my checks and...
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I like watching people speed run old nintendo games but can't stand watching people play WoW. And Asmongold looks like ghetto Banky from Mallrats.
  11. alavaz

    Miami Florida...

    I've been to Miami a bunch for work. It's not really my thing. I enjoy South Beach and all of the delicious food. Brickell (sp?) Has all of the nice stuff. Downtown is a legit slum so don't plan on doing anything there unless you want to see the Heat or something.
  12. alavaz

    NFL Streaming Thread - 2017/18

    I hope the Plex app is better than the old kodi one. I loved n2go last year except that the kodi app worked like shit so I had to eventually just hook my laptop up to the tv. Even if I have to do that again this year, still the best game in town.
  13. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    also make sure you turn in quests before you leave the dungeon, I forgot one time and came back like 20 levels later to get my fancy 900 exp reward.
  14. alavaz

    What do you do?

    By Oakland, you mean not West Oakland.
  15. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't remember what level you get the random option, but I did the singles as they appeared and then just random when I got the option. It seemed to spread me around pretty well. I can't recall that I had many duplicate runs.
  16. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think questing is faster 1-110 than dungeons. I do all of the dungeons once for the quests, but after that the exp is variable. I took outland and 60-70 went super fast. I think I'll just stay there until I hit 80.
  17. alavaz

    What do you do?

    Well in the state I live in teachers don't even bust 60k by retirement. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/fbs/finance/salary/schedules/2016-17schedules.pdf
  18. alavaz

    What do you do?

    Even though pension guarantees a certain amount of money until you die, it's usually like %50 of your salary if you meet all the requirements so for a teacher that's like 30k a year, and that aint shit. I'm vested into a state retirement system and I'll probably make more on my pension with 10...
  19. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Lol how many times had fartbox kicked off the add-on debate with that same line? Did most of you guys forget or just not play with him? Noodle also loves EQ so hard.
  20. alavaz

    Parent Thread

    I've never had a dream that extreme, but one of the bigger nightmares that I remember having when my first son was a few months old was that I dreamed I left him in the car in the garage intending to do something real quick and then forgot about him for like 24 hours. I woke up right as I was...
  21. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Is Argus hard or something? I'm playing alliance for BfA and I started from scratch. I've made it to 54 and am very tempted to say fuck it and boost.
  22. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    I was practicing up my finger picking for a while. I can do some of the Chet stuff, but Merle Travis stuff like cannonball rag eludes me. Don't have the brain power for it.
  23. alavaz

    Passport photo

    I've always done my passport/visa photos at home. Just google a photoshop template so you can get the proper spacing and they print at the right size. The hardest part is the lighting but I always just get into a well lit room (open all the shades turn on all the lights) and hold a glossy piece...
  24. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Find out what (if any) IDE he uses. Most of them should include a debugger that can do this relatively easy, well - unless of course he is using a 3rd party library to do the calculation.
  25. alavaz

    Health Problems

    I've been sleeping pretty decent as of late. Decided to skip the SSRI and haven't needed to take any more ativan in about two weeks. I have chronic costochondritis (or so I've been told) since high school, which gives me on and off again chest pain. I'm always worried that I'll sit on a real...
  26. alavaz

    Health Problems

    I sleep with a fan and I read most nights for about an hour before I fall asleep. Can't say 100% yes to the electronics stuff, but I'd say greater than 60% of the time I haven't stared at any screens (aside from quick phone checks) for over an hour before I turn out the light to sleep. Bedtime...
  27. alavaz

    Health Problems

    I think I will skip the cymbalta then. My doctor is a cool guy. He's not trying to make me take it, it's just what he feels works best for anxiety in my case. I'm not averse to therapy and I might consider it. It just seems to me that the root of my anxiety is my health and since that seems to...
  28. alavaz

    Health Problems

    This might fit better in the depression thread, but since it's dead I'm jumping in here. For some reason like 3 months ago, I started having my heart just jump up from my normal resting rate at like 60bpm to 90-110bpm and beat super hard. This usually happened at night when I was relaxing (or...
  29. alavaz

    Advice for working on the road - Full Time Travel Work

    If you want airline points just get that airlines card. I book all my flights with my delta card and occasionally get like 7 miles on the dollar when they are running a deal - otherwise I think it's like 2 miles per dollar, plus the flight miles and the free bag and all that. For regular old...
  30. alavaz

    Common Unethical Methods of Manipulation.

    It would appear that I have been manipulated.
  31. alavaz

    Best full Albums

    Dr. Dre - The Chronic Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle DJ Quick - Safe n Sound Notorious BIG - Ready to Die, Life After Death Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP Tupac/Makaveli - Don Killimunati
  32. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    I use D'Addario NYXL strings. For my shredding guitar I put on the 09|42. They are really thin and are awesome for bending and such. On my other guitars I put on the 10|46 which are a more standard gauge.
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    Advice for working on the road - Full Time Travel Work

    I travel for work 6-12 times per year. It's usually either short flights to one of two places on the east coast or ridiculously long ones to a middle eastern shit hole. The only thing I can do on a flight to make it not suck is go to sleep. I've gotten pretty good at doing it drug free too. I...
  34. alavaz

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Thank you for your fresh breath of originality in this thread. It's like no one in this thread has ever said this exact same shit before. Glad you found it and I hope you will keep blessing it with your super original ideas and opinions.
  35. alavaz

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Bridging wireless generally doesn't work out that great and isn't exactly trivial to configure correctly. You could try some of those powerline adapters (http://a.co/bAnOuBU something like these) but that's a crap shoot on performance. I'd probably still try those first though.
  36. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I usually enjoy levelling my first toon through an expansion, running the dungeons and getting geared up for raids then completing the first raid tier on heroic for AOTC. After that, I lose most of my motivation to continue until the next xpac.
  37. alavaz

    Health Problems

    I don't know how it is state to state but in NC some medical providers have a cash rate that is better than insurance rate. My insurance will also negotiate with out of network providers on my behalf. I got a 1200 bill from an ER Dr that they got reduced to 300 for me.
  38. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Are people going to visit this site or is this just for development purposes? If it's the latter, you can always run a free dyndns and host it from your home PC.
  39. alavaz

    History of FoH

    No I think he was a security guard that sat in one of those booths watching CCtv. I remember FoH vaguely, I started on Veeshan and movelogged to Saryrn. I actually didn't hit 50 until after Kunark so I only did a couple of trash groups in the planes, but from what I recall, FoH used to bring...
  40. alavaz

    Whats the best music video ever?

    12 year old me says this is the best: