As promised, here is my UI using the Naga Razer Epic.

The idea I had incorporating the Naga is pretty simple. Since I’m new with the mouse, I felt like I needed a guide to what buttons are available to me. Those are the “N” buttons on the right side of my action bars. I configured the keybinds using Bartender4 and the main framing is ElvUI. Those are the main ones. I’m using mouseover macros with the Naga buttons so I find it pretty convenient in both arenas and battlegrounds. Here’s an example of a macro I use:

/cast [@mouseover,exists] Shadowstep
/cast Shadowstep

In English, you shadowstep the mouseover if it exists, otherwise just shadowstep your current target.

As far as reviewing the Naga is concerned, I’d say it’s an excellent mouse for MMOs. My reaction times are improved significantly after the expected learning curve period. I’m still getting faster with it, though I do have trouble using the bottom 6 buttons (7-12) effectively.

So we made beef bourguignon. It took 3 days.

I saw this comment on HN which sums up SOPA pretty well.

“If someone shoplifts in your store, this bill allows the government to shut down your store.”

The analogy could use a few tweaks, but it’s essentially the idea of the bill. I think it’s pretty important for the opponents of the bill to reduce the number of words used to describe SOPA so that people understand what the outcry is about. It’s too easy for SOPA’s proponents to spin the meaning of this bill to get it passed.

So I was at Vertical Hold in SD by myself and some random people there had a camera.

So Gmail has a theme called “High Score” which Kristi and I both use. If you afk from an open chat window for a bit, you might come back to see this:

where that top thing is a gif that looks like this:

Anyway, we wanted a playable version. So here it is. Also a fun exercise in javascript classes and html5 canvases. Oh and, it only works in chrome. Here’s the github.

Update! kristi adds Firefox compatibility and scorekeeping!

I returned the Nostromo I recently bought. It doesn’t quite work out for me as a WoW player. The reason is pretty simple: It doesn’t have enough buttons (needs more than a standard keyboard) and just ends up being a funky interface with no apparent gain (as opposed to the Naga Epic which is funky, but has a pretty good upside with its ridiculous amount of buttons.

Anyway, I suspect one of those gaming keyboards might be better suited for WoW since you might be chatting or accessing certain panels which require the more standard keys. (e.g hit ‘j’ for the guild pane)

A bit of background first, I’ve been playing WoW for a few years now. Most of that time has been spent using logitech trackball mice and pretty standard keyboards. Recently, I’ve switched my main back to my rogue and I’m finding there are a lot of buttons to push.

Anyway, I went out and bought a few toys to help me push all those buttons.

…and…

I’ll post specifics on addons and macros that I’m using once I figure something out for myself.

So I put together a recipe largely based on this guys turkey for the edible turkey I cooked yesterday. It’s posted on recipe labs.

That said, here it is again. And again, I don’t really have solid amounts.

• turkey (I used a 6.15lb bird)
• salt and pepper
• butter
• rosemary

1. Defrost the turkey (I just left it out).
2. Preheat the oven to 475 degrees.
3. Melt the butter (I used the microwave).
4. Put the melted butter between the skin and meat of the turkey. This will take some work probably and you should be fast with the butter since it will harden within a few seconds of contact with the turkey.
5. Rosemary goes between the skin and meat as well.
6. Season the skin with the salt and pepper. I was pretty liberal in my application.

   

7. Put the turkey in a covered oven pan (I used an open one with a makeshift foil thing on top of it) and put it in the oven for 20 minutes.

   

8. At 20 minutes, turn down the heat to 250 degrees and set your timer to the following formula, depending on the weight of your turkey: (turkey weight in pounds) * 20 minutes. In my case, it was 6.15*20 = 123 minutes.
9. After it’s done, let it sit for at least 20 minutes before eating.

I just ran into Recipe Labs today. Going to try it for dinner sometime this week. Will post on how it goes.

Horray for more tools for the common geek!

I’ve been looking for a solution to code posting on wordpress. I think I’ve found it in the form of Gist, Embed Github Gist, and a jquery addon I just put together called hoverslide.

The Gist embed option prints out something like this:

<div id="gist-1378474" class="gist">

        <div class="gist-file">
          <div class="gist-data gist-syntax">
              <div class="gist-highlight">
                  <pre><div class="line" id="LC1"><span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"hello world"</span></div></pre>
              </div>
          </div>

          <div class="gist-meta">
            <a href="https://gist.github.com/raw/1378474/e2c085668a827762eb6a4faab981abe266615f07/blerp.py" style="float:right;">view raw</a>
            <a href="https://gist.github.com/1378474#file_blerp.py" style="float:right;margin-right:10px;color:#666">blerp.py</a>
            <a href="https://gist.github.com/1378474">This Gist</a> brought to you by <a href="http://github.com">GitHub</a>.
          </div>
        </div>

</div>

The usage of hoverslide looks something like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
	$(".gist").hoverSlide(330);
}

The styling for gist is pulled from this css which I’ve included in my header and made small changes to.