Comments for The calm at the center of a pearl

Comment on New blog! by Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:28:22 +0000

Ahaha you have seen my LJ, it’s a horrid mess! Good thing no one reads it eh? I really should just post my silly art there instead of my random depressive whines.

Comment on Condos versus single family homes versus …? by szerlip

szerlip — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:08:21 +0000

Hi, Were you looking in Boston itself or the suburbs? I am a Realtor in Newton, just west of Boston and condos definitley sell for less money here than a single family. Many condos have been completely renovated, while some of the older homes need to be. That may be part of the problem, but I would say condos in suburban Bosotn cost about 20% less than singles.

Comment on Fucking A — someone will pay. by gregory

gregory — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:09:21 +0000

I too, am a not so bright I guess. How this Foodandflex got ahold of a Capital account it is still puzzling. Slipped in a $1.00 charge for six months before I caught it. Now, what a hassle. Closing accounts and so forth. Only way to insure clousure I hope. Not real happy with Capital One, wanted me to produce the actual card, my history of years shows airplane tickets, rental cars, hotels. Why would I charge a dollar a month?
Not an ad in any way and please to not take it that way. AMEX in the 70’s,80’s & 90’s would contact a person by phone when the charges did not fit the pattern. They made the mistake of pricing themselves out of the business. Maybe it was worth the cost from the spender side and the legitimate merchant side.
A little side note; I wonder what strip mall with an office that they can move in a night these people are working out of? Be kind of nice to walk in on them and ask these questions.

Comment on Fucking A — someone will pay. by Sue Foster

Sue Foster — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:34:44 +0000

My charges seemed to come in conjunction with those fromAP9-FOODANDFLIX-V. They started with $1.00 on my visa, and I blame myself partially for not checking my charges carefully. When the first CO.(term used loosely)’ charged me $29 I called the number given and they refunded mu $29. I hadn’t noticed the $29 dollars on the previous statement, and by the time I did they were no longer communicating. The second company returned most of the $1 charges…..

So those of you who do not check your credit card statements carefully, every month….you will lose less than those of us who don’t. Good luck all. Sue

Comment on Traumatized my brother — I think. by Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:37:47 +0000

I hate when parents think you are going through a phase. My parents denied mine for a bit, then were like OH WE KNEW FROM THE START LOL.

Just remember you have good friends. Sometimes that can be better than family. Yeah that was lame.

Comment on Ghost wolf no longer tame-able… /mourn by kyraninse

kyraninse — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:06:50 +0000

Hi, thanks for commenting.
In response to #6, I’m not quite sure what you’re referring to, so it’d be grand if you clarified.
I raid on Smolderthorn — or used to. It’s a fairly populated realm and so almost any guild who actually is able to do kara does not have a hunter slot open. No joke. All my friends play on Smolder, about 5 of them, so there’s no question of transferring.
I did try to get a guild going to do social raiding — but it fairly fell apart because of a variety of reasons. Not least of which people lack the patience to wait for other people to gear up or level up and so moved on.
About wrathtide — I was farming heroics to see if ANY bow would drop. Between waiting for something/anything to drop, I farmed out thrallmar exalted. Nothing dropped in the meantime, no joke there either. So I just kept that bow until I got my badge bow.
I’m not sure if we’re weighting things similarly. Mp wasn’t a huge deal for me because I never ran out and I decided that bumping up my crit to 28% was worth more than 30 AP. I could be wrong.

Comment on Ghost wolf no longer tame-able… /mourn by Systim

Systim — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:43:19 +0000

1. If you’re that sure about not seeing end-game content, you never will. It takes time and focus to get into anything beyond kara.

2. They may be keeping lots of their attention to pvp because the fact is PvP requires more attention. Having so many classes and trying to keep them in par with each other so that the greater % of players don’t get pissed off is more important that keeping an eye over an instance that never changes unless they change it.

3. Blizzard hasn’t been doing much with hunters because there isn’t much to do. The class is pretty much balanced in terms of PvP and PvE, theres no need to go and make any major changes.

4. There is an alternative: Survival and stacking agi to be a raider buffer, although I would find that less attractive than BM. A fact of WoW is that you can’t have everything you want, Blizz created each tree with a purpose and BM was the raiding spec, if you want end-game content your best bet is going to be BM.

5. If it’s as bad as you say then look up class populations on other servers, find one lower on hunters and transfer.

6. Then how can you want to PvE? PvE is based around playing with other players, if their rules don’t appeal to you, how can PvE?

7. There is such thing as social raiding guilds, I myself am in one. We never raid more than 3 times and week and don’t go past 11 pm and yet we’re in Hyjal.Try and find one, and it never hurts to try and start one with your friends.

8. If you’re farming thrallmar rep, you’re wasting time. There’s a much better bow in Heroic Steamvault named Wrathtide Longbow. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29351 Much more worth the time if you’re gonna farm something. A little pvp here and there can earn you that S2 Cbow you know, I don’t fall aupon many people who have never pvped before.

9. You’re all wrong here, Legacy > S3 axe any day for pve, if you see a hunter raid with S3 Axe then thats because they’re either stupid, or don’t have anything else. Legacy has roughly 120 AP, +460 HP, 8 MP5, and 1% chance to crit from the Agi. S3 Axe has 92 AP +620 HP and 2.08% chance to crit. I don’t know about you but 8 MP5 and almost 30 more AP looks better than some HP and 1% chance to crit for PvE.

10. Your idea about booting could work, but I would say not until they become inactive.(The debuff given to players who are reported in-game by others). And you can’t complain about BGs giving out epics, some people can’t stand PvE and don’t have the time to do it. I remember Pre-BC when PvE players rocked battlegrounds, just because anyone who didn’t PvE had crappy blues. The only thing that would stand in their way was the occasional high warlord with his premade.

Every class gets dull, I don’t have 3 70s no reason, I got bored and leveled another. I’m not saying go level another character, just take a break. I found that leveling an alt with you’re friends takes away all that “I need to get this and that done today, and do this and that instance” that causes the game to become Repetitive, the game isn’t a MMO for no reason, playing with friends makes it that much more fun.

-Systim of Draka

Comment on Fucking A — someone will pay. by kyraninse

kyraninse — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:52:49 +0000

Amanda, have you been able to deal with it at all? I found that calling them up, my credit card statement online had a phone number, and telling them to cancel my “membership” or I’d sic the State Attorney general worked well. I also called my credit card company and told them if they allowed this one more time, I’d cancel my account with them pronto. It seems to have worked!

Comment on Fucking A — someone will pay. by Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:44:29 +0000

Yes, I have got the same kinda of charges, crazy, Nasty Nasty rep on google. The Better Business B
has a long nasty list of complaints for them too.

Comment on Money blogs and college students by Useability

Useability — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:29:18 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Useability!!!