I have collected a couple of pieces of information that I found on the internet here (in PDF format).

Here is the general idea for growing roses from seeds:
1. Leave hips on rose for 4-6 months to collect in September. An
alternative is to collect the hips when they are orange and slightly
soft.
2. Cut open the hip and remove the seeds (achenes).
3. Clean the seeds thoroughly with either 1:1 water:peroxide or an antifungal.
Be sure to remove all trace of the hips from the seeds to
help prevent fungal attack.
4. Do a float test. Place seeds in water and discard the floaters.
5. Refrigerate the seeds for 4-6 weeks on a moist towel in a ziplock bag,
or until small roots start to appear.
6. plant the rooting seedlings 0.25 inches deep in a sterile mixture and
keep at room temp while the growth starts.
7. Discard any seedling that succumbs to powdery mildew.
8. Do not over-water the seedling and make sure the planting mix is
sterile to help prevent damping-off, a disease in which the stem rots
at the soil surface.

For users like me who's website host uses a UNIX-like OS, the following tar command will backup all directories including the hidden files.

tar -cvf
Example: tar -cvf backup.tar /home

If you want to skip the hidden files use this command sequence.

tar -cvf /*
Example: tar -cvf backup.tar /home/*

The * looks only for non-hidden files and directories.

Last night I played WoW with a friend. I have a lvl 34 shadow priest and he logged on with his lvl 32 protection paladin. We were clearing 4 mobs at a time (pally was tanking) that were +4 levels higher. Twice we cleared one +3 elite and two +4 mobs (the elite was a caster/healer) with the pally tanking all three and me doing DPS and heals. This was the best combo I have played in PVE. The prot pally does one hell of a job tanking and keeping aggro.

I have also run with combos with my warlock (affliction spec)/druid (bear form), warlock (afflic)/warrior (fury spec), priest (shadow spec)/rogue, priest (shadow spec)/warrior (fury spec) and none of these was nearly as powerful a combo as the priest/pally mentioned above.

(Names have been removed to protect the stupid!)
Actual Letter from someone who writes, and farms.

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.

The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.
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ISBN-10: 0553801473
ISBN-13: 978-0553801477

It has finally come to us die-hard fans! Woot!
I ordered this from Amazon in April. I should receive it on October 6th 2008.

I worked out with Slav, Omar, and a couple other guys tonight. I got a little banged up and my bad knee was achy after class.

ISBN-10: 0385334206
ISBN-13: 978-0385334204

My friend Mike let me borrow his copy of this book. It was an older version (1970s?). I read this book very slowly. It has a wonderful concept (the writer of the story is in the story as it is being written). It was a rather tedious read. I would not read this book again.

On Saturday night, my family and I went to Half Moon Bay Brewing Company. Knowing that on Sunday we would be buying oysters in Tomales Bay and never having had oysters before, I thought it would be important to try some before cooking them for my family. We ordered a half dozen Bar-BQ'ed oysters so that I could try them. They were so good we ordered a second half dozen. For a bonus, I was not allergic to them. [Read More!]

This article documents the long-hand version of finding the square root of a number. This information and explanation come from http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/squareRoot.html.
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Taken from http://www.britcastles.com/casgloss.htm.
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Taken from http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html

The version in Patton the movie was sanitized for the faint-hearted. Here is what he said.
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Warlock Epic Mount Quest

Posted January 17th, 2008 by DarkFact at http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/26321

In addition to normal epic mounts you may purchase like any other class, Warlocks and Paladins get the ability to begin a series of quests for their own special epic mount. Warlocks get access to a souped up version of their Felsteed should they complete the quest, and Paladins get access to a Charger that looks like an upgraded mount of theirs as well.

In this page, we will go over how to obtain the Dreadsteed. While the Warlock's Dreadsteed Questline is the same for both Alliance and Horde, the Paladin Charger Quest line varies if you're Alliance or Horde.
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Originally from here.

The last patch introduced the Priest epic quest. Here we will try to compile as much information as possible to help you all get and finish this quest! We will post more detailed info as we get it. [Read More!]

Understanding the Priest talents and what they are meant to do. With three different trees of unique orientation, it can be difficult to decide what you want. Each tree has a very specific idea and is used primarily to that end. [Read More!]

Many of my work buddies showed up for the workout.