I’ve solo’d him down to under 200k on my pally but it’s a real pain once he hits soft enrage at 20%.  So this time I brought a healer along

Just threw this together to practice my editing.  Just a quick run through Forge of Souls heroic.

Here’s my second one…

My first Youtube’d shot

GM needs to get what it deserves.  For the twenty years I’ve been in the trade their greed and ego drove them to the position they’re in today.  Up until now it’s been the suppliers making the sacrifices so GM could continue to feed the bank accounts of their corporate execs and the fat, outdated UAW.  How important were American jobs when they were taking technology and designs innovated here in the USA and handing them over to foreign suppliers for the last 15 years?  Those very technologies and designs are ones they’re now CRYING about having to compete against in the marketplace!!  They’re whining about having to compete with overseas manufacturers that THEY DEVELOPED ALL OF THE STRUCTURE FOR!!  They have essentially destroyed the possibilty of manufacturing to have a future in this country.  GM has been nothing but knee jerk reactions for as long as I can remember.  They’ve been 5+ years behind the market and had absolutely no concern about the future.  Their products are average at best and do little to entice the consumer.  They’ve made decisions continually assuming the government would be there to help them out and it never should have gotten this far.  Let them go bankrupt and let the UAW see what the real world is like.  Had they been willing to make some sacrifices and concessions in the best interest of their employers ability  to be able to compete over the last 10 years none of this would be nearly as bad as it is.  Ego and greed…the American way…..the outcome is inevitable….welcome to it.

The new bike should be here next week…..can’t wait!!

For those of you living under a rock, World of Warcraft is the biggest online role playing game on the planet.  I wouldn’t say I’m a total addict but I’m not too far from it.  I’ve been playing for about a year and love just about everything about the game…until I got hacked today!

Now let me state a few things before I continue….I’m not retarded enough to give out any account information or anything of that nature.  I don’t click things that are obvious scams and I always check the actual URL before following any kind of link whether it’s an email or on a website.  My anti-virus is always up to date and I do regular scans.  So now that we’ve covered that…on to the main course.

I’ve never had any security related issues with WoW…never really had any issues at all….until today.  I found out this morning that my account had been hacked.  If you’ve ever had something important stolen from you then you know how it feels.  What’s different is this is worse than getting most material goods stolen…for me anyways.  I’m taking it much more serious than when my truck was broken into just earlier this year.  Why?….because of all the time I had into my WoW characters.  They got all of my gold, all of my inventory, and all of my bank items including the bags that they were held in.  If that wasn’t enough they deleted or sold everything that was soulbound (stuff that can’t be traded or auctioned) including my damn mount!!  I’d seriously beat the hell out of whoever did it if I ever got my hands on them.  It took me a year to get all of that stuff and it was gone in a matter of minutes.  Whether or not Blizzard is going to be able to restore everything remains to be seen but I’m sure I won’t get everything back.

So how does this happen you may ask?  Well I’ve got my suspicions.  Last week I heard about an addon called Questhelper that I wanted to check out.  I’ve been using an addon management program called UI Central from Inc Gamers but this addon wasn’t available through them so I had to goto Curse Gaming to get it.  So I got the addon last week and loved it, wish I had it a year ago.  Curse seemed to have a lot to offer so I created an account at their site and was going to check into their automatic mod updating program but never got to it.  A few days after registering at Curse I start getting spam email from WoWminer.com about buying WoW gold….hmm…probably not a coincidence.  Then a day after that my account is hacked…go figure.  A few quick searches about Curse and WoW accounts and it seems I’m not the only one with problems after getting stuff from Curse.  Intentional or not I think it’s a pretty safe bet that my interaction with them has something to do with my account getting hacked.  Supposedly people are getting Trojan’s from their site or addons they download from there that are keylogging your WoW account information.  From the reading I’m doing it appears there are some Trojan issues with UI Central too.  So basically you need to watch what mods you’re using and always do a google on them before installing them to make sure people aren’t having similar problems.  I’m going to do away with the automatic updaters too…not worth the risk.

So now I sit and wait to see what Blizzard can do for me…guess I’ll actually have to get a life for a few days.

I recently learned that I’ve been setting my race sag wrong all these years, which explains why I’m always having to stiffen up my rear shock.  So I decided to snap some pics and blog it the way it’s supposed to be done.  Maybe someone will learn something.  In the article I’m using my 1999 Honda CR250 as the example but the steps and methods will be the same for almost all newer bikes.  Once you know what you’re doing the race sag can be adjusted in well under 30 minutes but if you’re a first-timer give yourself an hour or so…..

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How ironic that while filming a documentary explaining how everyone has been misled to believe that stingrays are dangerous……Steve Irwin, the croc hunter, gets killed by guess what….a stingray.  Sorry people but you play with fire and it’s just a matter of time until you get burned.  I must admit I always figured it would be a snake that put him in the ground.  As far as him helping me better understand wildlife goes….bullshit.  All I learned from him is that there are actually people stupid enough to mess with creatures that really don’t want to be messed with.  Every time he’s telling me how wonderful and beautiful something is it just so happens to be trying to kill him.  I hate to think of how many people have/will die from messing with animals just because they saw him do it.  And just for the record….it’s not okay to hold your 1 year old baby in your arms while feeding a crocodile…it’s actually just plain stupid.  Let’s see….Michael Jackson holding baby over balcony = bad….. Steve Irwin holding baby while feeding crocodile = okay.  I don’t think so…