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I heal wasted all the time.

It's way more fun.

downloading the whole game sucks...downloading at 500kb/s makes it a little more bearable...dreading the patches though...

Kali, you're probably the only Shadow Priest out there who gets asked to go Shadow so much and hates it. I swear, if I were to create a Shadow Priest, I'd be forced to heal everywhere.

Also, went a-browsing on the Oboards and apparently the general belief is that Blizzard, in their latest patch, requires certain new ports to be opened to play. Something they gracefully forgot to mention. Now I just need to find out what ports are now required so I can clock in again.

This is the second unintentional cold turkey in barely a month. I'm starting to get cranky.

I wouldn't mind so much if I were better prepared. As it is, my shadow gear is better than my healing gear anyhow (apart from the fact that I do wear healing T9 even in my shadow gear and am therefore missing out on the set bonus, and ideal gemming for Shadow), and I've raided as Shadow before. I just hadn't set up my UI - that is fixed now, just need to spend an hour or two with the training dummies to get used to the setup I've got now. And I was in a healing mindset (really!) and it was all so hectic and unexpected and I do not like underperforming that badly. I do need a minute or two to remember the intricacies of DPSing that healing really doesn't have.
I feel that I would have squeezed out another 500 DPS or more if I had been prepared for that in any way. I was all like WHEEE RAID OH SHI- I'M DPSING WHERE ARE MY BUTTONS!! and that is just the perfect setup for really bad performance. I am pretty sure I'd have been fine healing even if that was my first raid (lolraid) in about two years or so.
It's all Delinja's fault. He made me do it.

Also, missing you. I want to run heroics with you. :P

***** you, I've got a lot more threat now, and 36.7k hp self buffed.
If you die now it's because you stand in fire, or are a 6k dps arms warrior.

It wasn't even a guild raid. It was just Deli, me, and 8 randoms.

Also, protein person (what should I call you), you there? A lad I met earlier today who is studying computational science up in Scotland mentioned something about a "fold your own proteins" website, so I asked the almighty Google and it came up with this. Is that the thing he was talking about, and is it actually good (functioning, correct, useful, full of delicious hydrogen bonds, whatever)?
Also², you're one of the people who don't hate on organic, right? Right?


Also³, OMG 6 days till Aethien.

We went back to ToC last night to do the weekly, and decided to finish it off since we were there. Before twins we did the usual: "does everyone know this fight" check.

Me: Anyone need a refresher on this one?
Boomkin: You just make sure you're damaging the opposite one, and change when DBM says ya?
Hunter: Ya that's kinda the gist of it.
Me: <Performs ready check>
<Everyone is Ready>
Tank: pulling!
Priest: Wow, I wish I understood the auras that well, I never know what to do...

So the priest died 3 times (go go battle rez...), and I got to rock the healing meters. Long story sort, we've still never wiped on that fight.



Protein works.

Um ya, I can only what the guy was talking about, but ya the site certainly fits the description. I'd heard about the project in the past (but never heard anything about if it's been helpful with the science). Predicting how proteins will fold is one of those things that seems to take enormous amounts of computing power, and doesn't work so well yet. The idea that people could do a better job isn't far-fetched at all. Fortunately this is more my field, so I can leave that protein folding stuff to others.



Loved Organic; hated quantitative analysis. Doing (or I guess not doing) calculus at 8:00am almost cost me my minor...

Mhh, working with those people who do the protein folding stuff was one of the best experiences of my life. It's what got me decided on the whole computational science deal. I don't know. I think some proteins are not that interesting. I like neurotransmitter-related stuff and while some folding certainly needs to be done to be able to predict receptor affinities, the predicting of the receptor affinities is much cooler. Also, biodegradation of some random man-made polymers that have caught my fancy. I don't even know where I'm going with this.

Anyway, so you're actually looking at what the proteins do? We did that sort of thing in simulation at that place where they also did some folding, it's awesome. Well, we did it with a thing that was too small to be a protein, I think. But still awesome.

I miraculously managed to score 100% on my chemistry exam and 90% in maths/mechanics without cramming more than an hour between the both of them, and after having low enough attendance to cause concerns. I realise it will get harder in the years to come and I'm trying to sort out everything anyway. Really, calculus is one of those things I just get. I actually find it easier to use logs and exponentials for calculating half-life stuff (lol nuclear chemistry) than multiplying by 2 a million times like our teacher suggested.

Also I think I'm a bit sleep deprived and thus ranting about random stuff. Sorry.

It's mostly about mapping signal cascades and other biological pathway. Finding out which proteins interact with which other ones. You try and build a large scale model of the interactions in the cell, and identify when the levels of different proteins are up and down regulated (such as in a mutated or diseased individual for example). Is good stuffs.



I'm jealous, that's just not fair. Should make things easier for you though. Always nice to have something like that under your belt.


Apparently WoL liked our twins fiasco, and it put a number by my name. I've never had a number by my name before, so it made me happy. I'd say it made me feel awesome, but 74 is a rather large number, and that pops the ego. I'm not quite sure what it means exactly, but either way, I'm going to have to ask our priest to die more often if it gets me ranked.

Side note: It appears all sorts of people solo heal that fight now. I'm dying to try it, putting out that much HPS is addicting.

Ooooh, a number. That's pretty cool. My guild still won't let me bring my druid to raids.

And Kahliva, if you can get basic QM right now, you can get the rest later. Two words: chemical physics

I can never keep the names and acronyms strait in biology (my wife can, she's a biologist), but I'm happy with my physics and chemistry.

Why are you people typing in some weird made up language with English words in it?



And look!

I totally changed the colours of our guild tabard to match my druid T9.
Also 36.7k hp, 38.02% dodge self buffed now.

Ahhh - I started on this way back in the day when Seti@Home started it all. Then they brought out their BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing or something) platform and I had about 15 PC's at work and home running various projects like Seti, Folding@Home, Climateprediction, LHC(Large Hadron Collider) and a lot of others. We got new PC's at work and I never got organised again - mind you, that was when I was still using dialup at work :)

For those interested BOINC and a list of some of the available projects



On another note - less than 2 weeks till my new toy arrives!