Coralin of Kael’thas

Things may be “funky” for a bit; I’m changing hosts/database servers/etc., and things are not going as smoothly as I’d like…

Hello, and welcome to the inaugural post of Addon of the Week Month.

I’m going to try and make this a weekly post, to be posted Mondays around noon-ish, Arizona time (Mountain Standard time- “Daylight savings time” is for chumps. ^_- ) actually post another one of these some time…

… As you can see, I’m running a bit late on the very first posting in the series, so that’s a good sign…

I thought I’d start with an addon that I feel is very poorly known and generally forgotten- EmptyBag.

(Also, you will note that images don’t display on my front page. I have no idea why, but yeah… so while I fight with Lightbox/ACE, you can open the post on it’s own page to see the mod in all it’s minimalistic glory…)

We’ve all had that moment of horror- you’re in an instance (or in the field, or anywhere, really,) and an item drops that you want. You win… but can’t find it in your bags- Crap! Your bags are full! “Well,” you think, “it’s time to start searching through the bags, trying to find something I can dump…”

But that will be difficult, seeing as the damn fool Fury warrior with the standard Fury-spec ADD just pulled another group. So there you sit, battling not only the mobs, but also your bags.
But hey- you won’t need to bother with that any longer, thanks to Empty Bag!

EmptyBag gives you a single, movable, lockable button that displays the cheapest item in your inventory, so long as it’s not Blacklisted. (More on the “blacklist” in a sec.) The icon itself has three main functions; click to delete the item displayed (or sell it if you’re at a merchant,)
Right-click to temporarily skip the item (until you’ve cycled through all potential deletions), and middle-click to add the item to the custom blacklist.

Speaking of the Blacklist- there are actually a few different “blacklists” in the mod; a couple can be modified from the GUI, so let’s start there- to access the (rather basic) GUI, enter the /ebconfig command.

Well; Hide and Lock are pretty straightforward; hide the button, lock it in place. (Also accessed with /eb lock, /eb unlock and /eb show, /eb hide)

Safety bags- this setting lets you designate certain bags (Ok, so a certain # of bags starting from the left…) as a part of the blacklist; any items in these bags are counted as blacklisted. (I’ve never used it, so I don’t know how well it works, nor can I provide slash commands.)

List Items displays the custom blacklist; this list is both items that you have middle-clicked, and any items you’ve manually added.

As you can see… you don’t have to specify REAL items… ^_- (You can manually add items with /eb additem [item goes here].)

The remaining options are really rather straightforward; you can set it so that items of a certain quality or greater will ALWAYS be blacklisted;similarly, it comes with pre-made categories, so you can simply choose to never delete pots, or drinks, or food, etc.

One nasty little caveat that will mean a lot of middle-clicking- the last time this mod was updated was pre-ish-BC (Meaning Feb 1st, 2007,) so the categories? Yeah, they don’t include BC or later items.

Still, I’d heartily recommend this mod; it’s a part of my “standard install” package.

Next week month-ish, I’ll be posting about Trinity Bars, unless I’m distracted, or bored, or just too dang lazy…

Heck; Trinity bars is going to be a big one… I’m thinking that I’ll split it into multiple weeks, so you may well actually get next week’s post on time… Nice!

Well Fed Buff’s recipe this week is for “Fizzy Fair drinks” (AKA floats of all vareities. ^_- )
This, of course, awoke the ex-Baskin-Robbin’s employee in me, who once upon a time fell madly in love with a secret menu item that you can order at your local Baskin-Robbins; the Ice cream soda, generally know as simply a Soda.
You’ve all heard the legendary origin of the Ice Cream Sundae; how there was some kind of special, super-awesome treat that was deemed to be so good, it had to be evil, and was subsequently banned on Sundays in some crazy little towns, resulting in the local Drug Store counter workers inventing the Sundae? Well, that story is about the Ice Cream Soda. (Just remove the Soda water… there, now it’s not a Soda. It’s Ice cream and syrup/flavorants [whipped cream- the original "cream sodas" were just that; sweet cream and soda water.])
The method of creating these beautiful treats that we were taught, as follows this disclaimer:
This recipe is TOTALLY vague, YMMV, this is more art than science, and if you screw up… seriously, it’s easy to fix, and all you have to do is remember that any screwups require you to eat MORE of the tasty tasty treat… heh.

Necessary Ingredients:

Soda Water
Ice cream, preferably both Vanilla and a flavor of your choosing.
Flavored syrup.

1. Fill the cup about 1″ full of Soda water (Remember, we’re working with a standard-sized restaurant cup; so modify amounts to match YOUR chosen vessel)

2. Add a “decent amount” of your selected flavored syrup to the soda water- generally, around a tablespoon or more. You’re flavoring a full glass, not just what’s in there now.

3. Take a small spoonful of the vanilla ice cream (around 1-1.5 tsp), and stir the syrup, vanilla ice cream, and soda water together. It may well look like something you do NOT want to drink. That’s fine- I’ll take it, if you don’t want it. Well, so long as you aren’t using some weird flavor… let’s leave those in the roaring ’20’s where they belong… heh.

4. Add more soda water, ’till the cup is about 1/2 way full, and stir to combine.

5. Add a scoop or two of the Ice Cream flavor you have decided to use as your float, then add soda water until the glass is as full as you’re comfortable with.

6. Eat, Drink, and get fatter, for tomorrow, we exercise. Actually, tomorrow’s no good for me. How about next week some time?

Yep, it’s essentially a “home-made” “Cream soda”/Ice cream float. But damn, is it good. And since you’re using flavored syrups, you can get some awesome combinations that you just can’t get if you rely on pre-flavored sodas.

My favorite? Chocolate soda and a Mint ice cream. ^_^

Ya know, it’ll be REAL nice to get back into WoW, if only so I’ll have something to post about.

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I’ve decided that this should stay a primarily-WoW oriented site; If I feel the need to go Politico/geek very often, I’ll just throw up another blog. Granted, there will, of course, be the occasional leak over; but that’s to be expected.
Hmm…
Actually…

I think, in the meantime, I’m going to try and remember to go through my Addons folder; put out an Addon-a-week feature.
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Hell; with my folder, I could probably do an addon-a-DAY feature, and not run out for half the year… ^_-

My Readable Feast has the Carnival of the Recipes this week; I’m a bit late with the news, but meh… the recipes won’t go bad. ^_-

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