1. Your age, gender, and time played:
20, Male, been playing since ~2 weeks before the release of TBC
2. List any alts and off specs you have gear for AND CAN PLAY COMPETENTLY (your main should be able to respec and play any spec on the fly):
I know how to play shadow, never really experimented with Disc. but I don't have gear for DPS because this is actually a boosted scroll toon
4. WOL, WMO, WWS, etc. links and/or other clear indication of your performance in a raid:
I don't have any, sorry. I'm really good at this game though. I Promise.
5. A history of your previous guild(s)/server(s), their progression, your rank and responsibilities in the guild, and reason(s) for leaving, also include any references we may contact:
I used to play a Priest on Mal'Ganis Horde. I was raiding with Wicked Mojo if anyone knows the name and some raiding with Kingdom of Ernor and Buddhist. This was on my priest "Lolbro" on Mal'Ganis Horde. I also have an 85 Paladin on Mal'Ganis horde named Brooksy, he was mainly PvP. I quit months back due to being bored with the game. I never finished WotLK end game due to getting bored with the game as well. I cleared all BC content on my Rogue on Duskwood Alliance (Brooksy).
6. It is assumed you will be available from 7-11 ST (Server Time is Central Time Zone) Tuesday and Wednesday, during progression we will raid Sunday and/or Monday as well starting at 7 ST and ending when all encounters are defeated, if you can’t make these times please explain why you couldn't make our scheduled raid times (or why you even bothered applying):
This shouldn't be a problem. I just have problems with my work schedule from time to time. My boss knows to give me morning hours, but sometimes I do get stuck with a late night shift. Proper notice would be given if I can't attend. So this is a variable, but I do know that I would be able to show up at least 1 progression night.
7. Post a screen shot of your UI and/or a comprehensive list of mods that you use for raiding?
(yes all my abilities are bound to a key so I hide them) DBM/Grid I'm good to go. Other misc mods, I use a lot actually. Just a minimal interface.
8. If you have thoroughly answered the following questions and you are confident you are what we are looking for, you have a good chance of being trialed, but we'd like to know why you want to join us? What made you choose us over the other guilds out there?
I didn't look too much into raiding guilds yet because I wasn't sure if I wanted to get back into it or not. Recruiting people today isn't like how it was back in TBC. I had actually received a tell from one of your members saying they were looking for players. I had ginvites turned off.. so I wasn't sure if you were giving me a free invite like all the other guilds, or wanting me to come here to apply. Either way.. hope to hear from you soon!
As a side note.. I'm just coming back to this game, I have a little bit to learn before I'm 100% confident in my skills to enter any raid of some type of difficulty (unless they are really that dumbed down) but I'm a quick learner. Thanks!
Great talking to you today. Please let me know if you are interested in this opening. I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks again,
Location: Markham Toronto (Canada)
Duration: 6 months
Start Date: April 16th 2012
Rate: DOE
Job Description:
Linux / VMware ESX
We are looking for a highly skilled Linux / VMware Systems Engineer. The right individual will be highly dynamic, self starting Unix engineer to join an existing team of experienced engineers. The role is challenging, diverse and at times high pressured encompassing the design, implementation and support roles. Virtualization is extensively used for Unix and Windows deployments. The successful candidate will take responsibility for the future direction of the virtual platform. The candidate must clearly demonstrate expertise in troubleshooting and supporting Linux / UNIX and Windows systems, both physical and virtual, performance management and configuration management. The candidate must also understand the performance implications of server consolidation. The candidate must also have the ability to manage small projects and directly gather requirements from the business and other IT teams.T he candidate must enjoy working in a close team environment and have the ability to manage their workload and deadlines. The candidate must be able to clearly communicate with others at all levels [IT & non IT].
In this role you will be responsible for:
Design, develop, integrate, implement and improve Customer’s VMware and Hyperv virtualization solutions to support client and project requirements.
Design, architect and implement Customer’s VDI environments while making sure users’ computing experience does not change.
Build, design, test and support Linux system and remote computing applications such as : NX protocol, VNC, etc..
Demonstrated expertise in planning, designing and implementing VMware vSphere virtualization in a large data center environment including VMware HA, DRS, VMotion and SVMotion
Assessing, planning and performing physical to virtual server conversions (P2Vs).
Perform Capacity Planning exercises with good knowledge of VMware Capacity Planner tools.
Extensive Knowledge of NFS, iSCSI and SAN technologies to collaborate with Storage Teams.
Good understanding of networking technologies.
Ability to managing multiple priorities, concurrent objectives, projects and activities.
Effective judgment in prioritizing and time allocation.
Excellent technical and non-technical written and oral communication skills.
Ability to engage across department boundaries and at multiple levels where necessary to support technology solutions and technical infrastructure.
University bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent
Implement subsequent builds and provide full cycle support for the product from project to production.
Provide after hours support and on-call duties
Required Skills/experience:
Five+ years working with VMware infrastructure, including architectural design, storage design, VMware networking configuration and server administration.
Must have designed and implemented complex Windows, Linux - and VMware -based enterprise solutions
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Must have advanced experience in vSphere and Hyperv including architecture, Deployment and support, in addition to other VMware products such as vCD, CapIQ, Converter, SRM etc..
VMware Certification (VCP) is a must.
Must have experience with VDI (VMware view 5.0) with a proven record of implementation and support.
Advanced experience in different flavors of Linux administration
Experience with Perl, PowerShell and Linux Scripting.
Good understanding of SAN / NAS administration
Good experience with Windows Operating systems.(Windows 2003 and Windows 2008)
Ability to work in a team and independently.
If interested please send your updated profile, availability and rate expectations to me.
1. Your age, gender, and time played:
18/Male/4-5 years
2. List any alts and off specs you have gear for AND CAN PLAY COMPETENTLY (your main should be able to respec and play any spec on the fly):
Just my paladin Ayeru on Sargeras. MS Holy OS Ret
5. A history of your previous guild(s)/server(s), their progression, your rank and responsibilities in the guild, and reason(s) for leaving, also include any references we may contact:
I have been through many servers with my paladin. The server i was on before Sargeras was Tanaris. I was horde then, and my progression was 5/8 normal 10m. I left that server because a friend of mine (Kiango) was on this server and also my old server's progression was really bad.
6. It is assumed you will be available from 7-11 ST (Server Time is Central Time Zone) Tuesday and Wednesday, during progression we will raid Sunday and/or Monday as well starting at 7 ST and ending when all encounters are defeated, if you can’t make these times please explain why you couldn't make our scheduled raid times (or why you even bothered applying):
I can make those times!
7. Post a screen shot of your UI and/or a comprehensive list of mods that you use for raiding?
8. If you have thoroughly answered the following questions and you are confident you are what we are looking for, you have a good chance of being trialed, but we'd like to know why you want to join us? What made you choose us over the other guilds out there?
I am choosing this guild because like i said, my friend Kiango and Jupitar are in your guild and also because I am looking for good progression. I have never been too focused on raiding untill Cata came out and since it did I have not been on a good server.
Kotaku Wrote:T.J. Brida usually shows up 15 minutes ahead of his shift. This day, he was thinking he'd be late. He pulled on his work shirt, ran out of his apartment, got in his car and lit a cigarette, cursing and smacking the steering wheel all the way.
T.J. Brida had just thrown 13 1/3 innings of perfect baseball. And then he gave up a hit.
Brida was gunning for a berth in the money round of Major League Baseball 2K12's $1,000,000 Perfect Game Challenge, a contest that began on Wednesday. The minimum requirement to advance is retiring 27 consecutive batters. Brida, using Roy Halladay of his beloved Phillies, retired 40. But he didn't get the last one.
When he arrived at work, his co-workers already knew what had happened. They'd followed his updates on Facebook. "3 more outs!!!! One problem I have no runs lol," he wrote. "OMG perfect through 12. Someone come by and teach me how to score!!!"
He had to smoke a third cigarette in the parking lot of the Philadelphia-area Best Buy where he works just to calm himself down before he started the day. When he walked through the front door, the security officer standing by it met his gaze and said softly, "Are you kidding me?"
"Trust me, I was pretty pissed," Brida told me today. There's an Xbox 360 kiosk in his Best Buy, with MLB 2K12 on it. Fortunately, Brida works in cell phones, all the way on the other side of the big box floor. "My department is so far from it. I just said hell no, I wasn't going near that," he said. "I was so stressed. You could see it on my face and hear it in my voice."
As amazing as his 40 consecutive outs with Halladay were—36 is the all time record in real life—Brida himself was unable to score against Erik Bedard and the Pittsburgh Pirates' bullpen. He botched a squeeze play in the third inning with Freddy Galvis (called "Gonzalez" in the game because he had yet to appear in a major league game at that point), and stranded Chooch Ruiz on second in the ninth.
For eight hours at work, "All I could think about was, 'When the hell can I get out of here to go home and play MLB 2K12 again,'" Brida said.
He is convinced that he would have punched his ticket to the contest's final playoff in New York, and a shot at the million-dollar prize, with an absolutely untouchable score. The qualifying round taking place from now until April 30 will score all the perfect games thrown—and 36 were already confirmed as of Friday—judging them by an algorithm that factors in things such as the quality of the opposition, the number of strikeouts, and other influences.
One of them is pitch count. A 2K Sports representative told Kotaku on Saturday that Brida's predicted score for a 13-inning perfect game is incalculable. He would have been "heavily rewarded" for his 17 strikeouts. However, the longer he pitched, the more his score would have fallen, actually, because a lower pitch count is judged to be more effective.
2K Sports' algorithm doesn't give a bonus for extra innings because never in the 136-year history of Major League Baseball—and as far as I can tell, never in the history of any professional league, here or overseas—has someone thrown a complete perfect game longer than nine innings.
Because a perfect game is when no opposing batter reaches base against a single pitcher who pitches the entire game. No matter how long the game goes. And Brida didn't get his last man, Jose Tabata, who whacked a two-strike curveball inches wide of Halladay's mitt, for a line drive base hit up the middle.
We don't even know how the game ends because Brida stood up and punched off his Xbox 360, in the hardest-earned, most deserved ragequit of all time. The time of day is stamped on his brain: 11:37 a.m. He had to get work by noon.
"Why didn't I score that fuckin' run in the third!" he screamed, hurtling down Pennsylvania State Route 420.
***
For a time, Harvey Haddix's extra-innings gem, on May 26, 1959 was considered a perfect game.
Fifty-two years ago at Milwaukee, against Hank Aaron and the Braves, Haddix retired the first 36 batters of the game. But the Pirates were likewise unable to score against Milwaukee's Lew Burdette. On the first batter of the bottom of the 13th, an error by Pittsburgh third baseman Don Hoak ended Haddix's perfect game. After a sacrifice, and an intentional walk to Aaron, Joe Adcock then ripped a home run for the Braves' only hit, and the win.
On May 26, 1959, Harvey Haddix retired 36 consecutive batters and lost. "Dear Harvey," read a letter to him from a fraternity at Texas A&M. "Tough shit." But because he had set down the first 27 men he faced, Haddix was listed as a perfect game pitcher for more than a quarter century. A scoring definition change in 1991 retroactively declared he was not.
In that year, Major League Baseball revised its record book to declare that a no-hitter was "a game in which a pitcher or pitchers complete a game of nine innings or more without allowing a hit." Haddix's gem in 1959 was not grandfathered in. It became just another one-hitter.
Ten years ago, in his Little League debut, T.J. Brida, now 20, threw a one-hitter.
"I still have the ball," he said.
He threw his second career one-hitter on Thursday.
***
You can see at the end of the video above, after Brida sets the pitch with the gesture, he taps his Xbox 360 controller nervously (there is no command input during Halladay's windup and delivery). T.J. Brida looks to his left. He knows he's made a mistake.
Then Tabata blasts the ball back up the middle.
"It was an 0-2 count," he said, with perfect recall. "I threw a curveball that I had initially aimed down. But as soon as I pulled it down ..." he said, lingering on the thought. "It goes real quick. I had to do the motion quick."
Brida had chosen Halladay, even though he would get a lower degree-of-difficulty score with the all-star (and the cover star of MLB 2K11), because of Halladay's 99 stamina rating, which gives him a pitch count range topping out at 115. The game will occasionally remind you that your pitcher is tiring by showing a diminishing bar representing his stamina or composure. In the seventh, with the tank nearly empty, Brida struck out the side with Halladay.
"Being able to do that late in the game, with the high pitch count and the fatigue, gave me goosebumps," Brida said, "because if I could do that in the seventh inning, why not two more?"
Yet the game wore on well beyond the ninth. "Out of the whole stamina meter, he had, maybe, one-tenths of the meter," at the end, Brida said.
Brida had recognized in this game that the Pirates were waving at breaking balls low and away, and that's what he intended to throw to Tabata. In MLB 2K12, an exhausted pitcher will have a shorter time in which to complete a correct gesture on his right analog thumbstick. Deviations in the gesture lead to an ineffective pitch.
The 12-6 curveball that Halladay throws in MLB 2K12 requires a sharp southwest draw-down on the right stick and then a 345-degree winding motion counterclockwise. It is the most input-intensive command in the entire game. At this point in the game, given how far Halladay had pitched past his endurance, Brida had maybe a quarter of a second to complete it effectively. He hung the pitch.
"It went directly up the middle, you can see, it missed his glove by six inches," Brida said.
The video above, recorded on Brida's iPad, begins in the bottom of the ninth because he realized then what he had going and wanted to record it for posterity. (In this video, he edited out his batting appearances except for his final at-bat of regulation. Brida said he only got one baserunner on in extra innings,
Because of the rules of the contest, you can't pause the video game, make substitions or a mound visit, or anything. Brida waited until the Phillies were batting to set up the iPad on a desk behind him, figuring he'd eat a couple of pitches thrown by the computer if necessary. He couldn't do it in an inning in which he was in the field because if you linger on the mound for longer than ten seconds, the game considers that as good as a pause and disqualifies you from the perfect game contest.
You know you're disqualified when that "$1 Million Perfect Game Challenge" logo disappears from the lower left of the screen. In this video, it never does. Not until Tabata singles with one out in the 14th inning, and Brida punches the power button, and the screen goes dark.
***
In 2010, an Alabama accountant named Wade McGilberry came home from work, made a sandwich, set down 27 straight New York Mets, and paid off the house playing MLB 2K. In 2011, a Louisiana music teacher named Brian Kingrey retired 27 Houston Astros and bought a new car.
T.J. Brida got 13 more outs than those guys, and he's living with his folks. He went 13 perfect innings and is still driving a Kia.
4. I've no recent logs. I played my priest for the beginning of DS and am 1/8 HM (don't laugh)
5. I was 6/7HM Firelands post nerf when I was on alliance but the guild quickly fell apart so I moved back to horde. ATM I am returning from a break (had some life issues) and am looking for a guild that doesn't raid 20 nights a week but also gets shit done, you guys seem like the spot. Plus I know your girl Kiango.
6. I can make Tusedays/Weds but the other days are limited. I have a boyfriend (four years) who has a high stress job (I don't work because I have a circadian rhythm disorder) and to sacrifice a night to raid with you and not be with him when he is the only reason I'll live past fifty isn't fair to him or me. I'd really love to be a sub, that way you can take more dedicated raiders and use me when you really don't have anyone, that way we're all happy.
7.
I use
ForteXorcist: (for cds, timing my procs, drainsoul ticks)
Recount: (gotta top charts, lol but really I use it to make sure my damage is proportonal, recount has shown me where I should/shouldn't go full dots Immo/Cor/BoA over just one dot Immo/Incin/CB spam)
Dominos: it makes my buttons all nice
Xperl: Cleaner, smaller UI with more adequate dot timers
Quartz: To track my casting latency and preque more spells
DrDamage: To know when to reapply certain dots
8. I want to join your guild because I know one of your raiders, I want to come back to WoW, and I want to raid in a guild that doesn't raid 8/7 days a week for 36/24 hours. I need time to myself but I also wanna get shit done.
Bike has good spark + new spark plug.
Battery is new, charged, and holds decent voltage over attempts, and doesn't drain down.
Alternator and stator have been checked - they're fine.
... Starter seems to be fine.
Tried quick start spray stuff below the air filter.
Have been trying push start, and electrical sitting start. It has no kickstart. Have been trying with choke in, half out, full out, no throttle, full open throttle, on main gas tank, reserve / prime, all in various combinations.
Knocked the starter / carb bowls a few times to loosen anything sticking.
Checked fuel flow from fuel tank - no blockage.
Can only detect the quick start coming from exhaust, no gas at all.
Put some techron in with fairly recent gas.
Oil is recently changed.
Air filter is not dirty / no obvious obstruction.
When trying to start, it rolls over and tries to catch, but won't crank up past a sputter on the first time (then repeated attempts are just clicks + roll over).
Potential next steps -
Drain carb bowl (tried, but had to WD-40 up the release screw, and couldn't get it off before dark).
Remove carbs and clean out / soak.
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