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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I haven't had much time to play until now so I just started busting out Suramar. I've gotten Nightfallen But Not Forgotten done and a couple of parts of the Nightfallen questlines in Good Suramaritan done, but now it seems to have just dried up at 4k/6k into friendly. Do I just do world quests...
  2. alavaz

    Home buying thread

    @a_skeleton_03 what are the good hoods around Bragg? I'm moving at the end of this month and will be staying with relatives for awhile, but will need to find a house in a month or two. A lot of people keep telling me Southern Pines but I checked it out last time I was there and I didn't really...
  3. alavaz

    <Fires of Heaven> WoW Guild - [Horde] [Hyjal-US]

    Let's chain heroics and mythics and shit tonight.
  4. alavaz

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

    I'm hitting the road on the 24th to drive from WA state to NC with 2 cats. My wife is flying over later with the kids after the home sale gets wrapped up. Should be great fun and I get to stop in such luxurious locations as Butte, MT and Richmond, IN. Looking forward to starting my new job...
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    <Fires of Heaven> WoW Guild - [Horde] [Hyjal-US]

    I'm seeing 40-50 on pretty often. All may not be interested in raiding, but I wouldn't surprised if we could take a full 30 for the first couple.
  6. alavaz

    Songs with interesting subject matter

    A song about homeless/underprivileged in big cities.
  7. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Whats the preferred ancient mana farming method these days? I watched the "2k mana in 10 minutes!?!1" videos but Suramar on Hyjal does not appear to be overflowing with mana...
  8. alavaz

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

    I just had to do the EQUIP for my periodic re-investigation. My first SF86 was still the old word document so it did not auto populate my previous information. Luckily I kept a copy, but damn if it didn't still take me 3 hours to fill out.
  9. alavaz

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

    The last DoD job I had we had like 4 different networks. The regular LAN you could do pretty much whatever as it was normal corporate stuff with your average proxy that blocked a few things. The DoD networks though you didn't fuck around on. I didn't test, but I don't think you could even get to...
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm only 815 but my aoe numbers vary wildly as ret. It really all depends on how long 3+ mobs are up because if a couple die right away I just average down to single target numbers. Not that I'm doing mythic so it doesn't matter. Boss fights that aren't huge in movement I can usually pull about...
  11. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

    New death metal super group featuring Corpsegrinder, The guitar player from Killswitch and the old All that Remains/Black Dahlia drummer. Having Fishgrinder on vocals kinda just makes it sound like Corpse.
  12. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The first time I did that withered training I didn't realize it wasn't just a normal quest. So I jumped down into the spider area, realized Divine Shield had a cooldown still, died upon impact and that was that :(.
  13. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I've had the same Helya problem even in normal. She turns her head in the direction she's going to breathe like ten minutes (well a few seconds anyway) before she does it and you have plenty of time to run to the other side. I kept telling people to pan up a little bit so they can see her face...
  14. alavaz

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

    The WA state Indians generally rock a button down or polo shirt, highwater kakhis and these bad boys:
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    And stark white new balance walking shoes.
  16. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't know about him personally. If he really can/does skip days like he says then it doesn't sound like he is in danger of life threatening withdrawals. I was more so speaking generally. I've had the pleasure of growing up around a lot of alcoholics and the ones who got the DTs were always a...
  17. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    The percentage of alcoholics who actually get the DTs and are in danger of dying from withdrawal are probably pretty slim compared to the number of "functioning" alcoholics. It takes so much booze to get to that point that you've probably gone derelict way before you had the physical symptoms to...
  18. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't think I'm an alcoholic, but I definitely drink for both taste and to get drunk. I'm not much of a cocktail drinker, but love the way beer and wine taste and say I probably drink the first one or two because the taste sounds good and the last how ever many because I want to keep a buzz...
  19. alavaz

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

    The best overseas workers I've encountered are Eastern Europeans. They really take writing reusable, extensible code seriously - sometimes to a fault. Indians have always delivered a complete clusterfuck where no two objects even look similar. It's always had "I copied and pasted directly from...
  20. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    You can push for a drug test but it takes so long anyone who's not a hardcore addict will be able to quit long enough to pass. I've even known women who still got custody after failing a drug test (for weed anyway). All they had to was complete an 8 week drug class and they got their custody...
  21. alavaz

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

    I've wound up with it at pretty much all of my government jobs. Clariion's / VNX's are abundant with some VMAX thrown in if they're still rocking mainframes. Their dedupe appliance is really nice for backups as well.
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    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    I'll find sources later, but from what I recall reading ITT was charging huge tuition and basically abusing federal loans and grants pushing every student into the largest loans they could get. Their job placement and graduation rates also sucked and then there's the fact that none of the...
  23. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Who does the kid live with right now? Wherever he has lived for the past six months will be the home state that you will need to know the custody laws. I'll tell you this, they don't usually work the way you'd think they would. A lot of states don't even have the idea of "split" or "joint"...
  24. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm in the same boat. A few hours each night after the kids go to bed. The weekend is a wild card but hopefully I'll get in some good sessions.
  25. alavaz

    What do you do?

    I've worked with good recruiters and then really shitty ones. The guy who got me the job I'm starting next month was kind of a clown, though I still liked him. At first he was kind of almost like a salesman trying to talk me into taking a lower salary because this position was on the best...
  26. alavaz

    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

    Extra points if you recognize the sample
  27. alavaz

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

    The one time I stayed for the promotion and raise my peers and direct supervisor generally thought I deserved it and were still cool. The problem I had was with the big boss who ultimately approved it wanting to pull the I did you a favor card all the time and load me up with all the projects...
  28. alavaz

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

    I'll be honest, I'd bail and get a 20-30k raise somewhere else. I stayed at a job one time because my boss pleaded with me to stay and gave me a title promotion and a 10% pay raise - which wasn't as good as the offer but got close and not having to deal with switching jobs was appealing at the...
  29. alavaz

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

    You can always move around the contractors. I think Raytheon and GD 401k's can roll into each other. GD has a pretty big outfit in Westwood, MA (if that's not a 4 hour commute).
  30. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

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    Tobacco Thread, it's glorious and we should quit.

    Everyone I know steps their nicotine down gradually. The e-juice I have is 3mg nicotine per ml. I barely use it (a couple times per week or less) and usually when I do it's while drinking. I can puff down 3-5ml in an evening (9-15mg nicotine) and not feel any ill effect. The newer "sub-ohm"...
  32. alavaz

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

    My start date is 9/19. The problem is that I can't leave until my house is sold, which should not be an issue but of course there is always that slim chance it won't. So until I go pending and inspection comes back good, I have to just act like everything is normal.
  33. alavaz

    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

    We might need to make a shitty rap thread so that this one can stay pure... back on course:
  34. alavaz

    Tobacco Thread, it's glorious and we should quit.

    1 right after waking up, 2 in the car on my half hour drive to work, 1 more at the smoke pit if there's time. 1 on first break, 2 over lunch, 1 on last break then 2 more on the half hour drive home. That's a half a pack for just the work day. The other ten were easy enough to throw down once I...
  35. alavaz

    Tobacco Thread, it's glorious and we should quit.

    I started smoking around 14 or so and was probably up to a consistent pack a day by 15. I did either Marlboro or Winston. Couldn't do Camels (aside from those special Kamel reds that were ridiculously overpriced and tasted just like marlboros) because they always felt like they dried my throat...
  36. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

    On a metal binge tonight... If you don't know these guys, get to know them...
  37. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

    Speaking of songs that are fun to play
  38. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

    I know they get mixed reviews, but I love the unhallowed CD especially. This song especially is fun to play on guitar.
  39. alavaz

    The Metal Thread

    This whole album is the shit. The latter ones feel a bit flat. I think this is my favorite DnD metal. Bands like hammerfall and stuff are OK, but I prefer the more heavy metal sound with the fantasy themed lyrics.