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arning curve and the weight of expectations was not upon me if anything the only expectation was that if we didn t loot the corehounds like we were supposed to we were gonna get called out in that first molten core raid luckily for me i stayed on top of that job i only got called out once and was in the middle of looting when it happened so it went something like cardwyn loot the oh nevermind at times like this i do wonder whether i deliberately sabotage my gearing and playstyle just so i am never put in the situation where i m asked to join a raid you can t have someone reach out to see if i m interested if i m not geared enough and with my avoidance of running 5 person h and h instances i m guaranteeing that i won t have the gear still i do have to periodically clean the smudge from the window looking at all the fun wishing i was there from the movie a christmas story here s the reveal of the now classic leg lamp for those who remember their programming languages i always hear heroic plus plus and think of c kind of weird how this stuff comes back into your life after being away for a couple of decades i put runs in quotes because the current strat for those runs is to basically run through all of the boss encounters to get to the final boss because badges for the current raid tier only drop off of the final boss for the record that does not include hyjal black temple or sunwell it s been forever since i ve thought about her but my biggest memory about her time here was the time she made a post criticizing someone and disparagingly wondering if someone had downs syndrome my biggest regret was not standing up to her more forcefully than i did for that behavior eta it s co blogger not coworker sheesh posted by redbeard at 12 55 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels parallel context raid self wrath wrath classic monday july 10 2023 meme monday armor memes this was going to come up eventually right i mean armor can be made fantastically beautiful just go see the outfits that kamalia puts together for that but there are tons of memes surrounding armor in mmos video games in general and rpgs that just are ripe for the picking i could easily put down twice as many memes as i ve chosen now but let s try to keep this within reason after all i d not mind having material for a second armor memes post admittedly with plastic surgery this look could be achieved today from 9gag com oh look it s tera believe me the underwear being less revealing than the armor thing is not just a tera thing but it s one of the more dramatic displays of it from 9gag again basically tera vs ffxiv lotro would be on the ffxiv side as well but i digress from twitter uh ouch from makeameme org then again there s warhammer 40k from imgflip posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes tuesday july 4 2023 what on earth is red reading this time the lost family what if something potentially fun and lighthearted or just a personal curiosity takes a sharp turn off the highway and deposits you in the middle of nowhere adrift without any cell signal nearby this isn t the plot of a novel but metaphorically speaking this is what happened to alice collins plebuch when her work on her family tree took a decidedly unexpected direction all she had to do was spit into a vial and send it off to a dna testing site such as 23andme or ancestrydna and await the results what she got back however wasn t the irish ancestry she expected alice experienced what genealogists call a npe a non paternity event where your parent isn t the one you thought they were sometimes it s an adoption that was hushed up it s the usage of donor sperm for insemination or the byproduct of an affair or sometimes the npe was something darker the result of experiencing an npe however is that it can turn the recipient into what is known as a seeker trying to find out the answers behind the npe no matter where the path leads uh yeah basil rathbone i ain t from pinterest this story and a study into the practice of what can be classified as recreational genomics is the focus of the lost family by libby copeland the book evolved from what was originally an article for the washington post and libby interwove alice s search with an investigation into how genomics has evolved in the past decade to where it is today including both the positive and negative aspects of this opening frontier into what our genes say about us i m surprised the photo turned out as good as it did it s a wee bit cloudy outside today sometimes the positive and negative are part of the same story such as the usage of dna genealogy databases in the apprehension of the long elusive golden state killer that joseph james deangelo was caught was one thing but that dna genealogy databases could be exploited by law enforcement without people s knowledge was quite another remember those fingerprints we all provided when we were kids back in the 70s and 80s so that law enforcement could find us if we were abducted yeah like that only much more so from imgflip but this book while it makes for an engaging read has a personal angle to it that goes far afield from anything that this blog typically covers over the past decade i ve seriously considered having my dna tested numerous times and even within the past month i ve gotten to within a few clicks of signing up for ancestrydna s dna test luckily for me i didn t because a couple of days later that money and some father s day cash was sucked up by car repairs yay car repairs some of it is curiosity as i ve always considered myself a bit of a mutt as far as my ancestry is concerned and my mother insisted we have some native american ancestors on her side and putting the question of where my ancestors came from to bed would solve these two items but there s there s more to it than just that we know absolutely nothing about my father s father oh a puzzle my questing buddy exclaimed when i mentioned this to her my dad was always told that his mom and dad met moved out to colorado got married and his dad died when he was an infant as you might be able to read between the lines that was simply a fabrication by my grandmother and my great aunt her sister one of my dad s cousins finally spilled the beans to him about 25 years ago before my grandmother passed away apparently my grandmother got pregnant she and my great aunt went out west had my dad and then came back home with him my dad being the sort who would apologize if he ever cursed with a word stronger than darn it was incensed and demanded an explanation from his mom who told you that she responded i want to know the truth i don t know all the details but what i do know is that in addition to the above story my grandmother had doctored my dad s birth certificate which made it difficult for him to receive social security benefits because his name didn t match that on the certificate so who was my grandfather outside of a name that may or may not be real i don t have a clue i also don t know if there are any genetic risks for cancer or heart disease or whatnot that i don t know about either as for relatives i don t know about well i m of two minds on that one unlike my wife who calls her parents multiple times a week and chats with her sister and her other relatives on social media all the time i tend to keep my distance from my family they all tend to be far more religious than i am and far more prudish as well so i m happy to keep them at greater than arm s length and oh look here s this little dna test that has the ability to upend entire families understanding of who they are if i were to spit into a vial and send it off to get studied that s the thing that keeps me from pulling the trigger i already know that something will likely come up and that i won t be interested in reaching out to these people but will those people then find me or if i don t get test but another relative does and suddenly i m the one getting the metaphorical knock on the door by someone claiming to be a cousin i never knew existed in a post pandemic world where i saw the worst of humanity broadcast for everyone to see do i really want to know these people i can select my friends but i can t do the same to family unlike many seekers i don t feel adrift because i m missing part of my life but i am curious but am i curious enough to find out answers i might not like finally there s a question about my genealogy that has nothing whatsoever to do with my non existent grandfather and that has to do with my family s search into their own family tree one of my mom s sisters has been conducting research into my mom s family and supposedly she s found all of this interesting stuff about where the family came from yadda yadda yadda however my aunt isn t exactly known for her academic rigor so without me reviewing her research i look at her claims with a skeptical eye so for my edification if nothing else i m interested enough into my own verification of these claims that i ve begun collecting a database on the family history yes i use ancestry s database but no it s not public dna testing might help to solidify some of this genealogical research but then again it might open up a can of worms jeez rowan the least you could have done is gotten me into the opening ceremony of the 2012 olympics from memegenerator net some reviewers think of this usage of recreational genomics and the book itself as basically first world problems i don t think that the world really cares who your great grandpa bonked is what one reviewer on goodreads said the world may not but this isn t really about what the world thinks the book isn t really written for genealogists either as they likely already know everything in the book and would look at it as rather simplistic from cafepress where you can get this on a coffee mug i don t get to say how your ethics and morality play into what you might find in your family tree and to be fair what people think of genealogy in the us and canada where a lot of people s ancestors came from somewhere else is going to be different than the viewpoint of someone from europe or asia if i were to look at it as purely an academic exercise i d most likely pass on a dna test from that perspective the potential downsides outnumber any upsides still i d be a fool to not acknowledge an emotional component to this the desire to know as much as possible while i may keep my family at a distance knowing a bit about their collective history my history is a very strong pull plus i want to set any records straight i d be going in ready to accept things such as hidden names or even different family names than what is commonly accepted today because history is messy like that what oh the book right about the book yes i liked it for people worried about there being too much biology in the book don t worry if you lack detailed knowledge about genetics you won t have any issues following the book you had better expect to think critically about the subject however and for people who thought that getting your dna tested on a lark or as a present to a family member the book is a bucket of cold water dumped on you if you want to go ahead do so but go into it with your eyes wide open as to any consequences you might encounter and to be fair you don t even need to have been tested to personally feel the effects big data is seeing to that in much the same way as into the wild by jon krakauer was originally written as an article for outside magazine alas that the original article appears to go to a follow up article about people who are obsessed with chris mccandless not everything in the book is as annotated as some people might like but i was comfortable with it given that npes and other genealogical surprises are kind of a touchy subject and genealogists weren t always so keen to put their names and faces down on these discussions which i no longer believe i might add apparently that is a fairly common family backstory that people have and it frequently turns out to not be the case it took months but eventually things got sorted out eta changed a couple of words for clarity s sake posted by redbeard at 4 43 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books musings what on earth is red reading monday july 3 2023 meme monday reading memes given that a lot of people i know who are into rpgs and mmos are also readers it kind of figured that this version of meme monday was going to make an appearance but if you re like me you can relate to this one a lot from someecards i m with stephen colbert on this one from pinterest from debbie tung and wheresmybubble tumblr com quoting stephen king and alas this is me as well this happened last night hence that first meme from memegenerator posted by redbeard at 8 22 am no comments email this 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