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Long Lost Timothy Treadwell Death Audio

Timothy Treadwell was killed when videotaping and interaction between him and a bear.  The mauling and consumption was off camera but the audio has recently been released.

The long lost Timothy Treadwell death audio is here:  Timothy-Treadwell-Death-Audio.mp3  — The salad tossing gone horribly wrong.

The tragic death of the Nick's Pansy Farm alumni and repressed flamer queen occurred in Alaska.  It was grizzly man.

Oh if only more flaming lefties could go get themselves eaten by bears! You environmentalists should all take this as an object lesson. If you really care about the polar bears reduce your carbon footprint by turn yourself into bear feces:  Treadwell told bear scientists he welcomed death by bear. He said it would be an honor to be killed, eaten and rendered bear scat. Had National Park Service rangers not killed the bear that ate him, he would have gotten his wish.   He would crawl on his hands and knees up to bears while chanting "I love you", or singing, or reading poetry.   How beautiful.  Munch.  King of the Bipolar Bear lovers.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Luka-Sem Resposta-Without Reply

Letras de Luka

Tire um pouco o peso                            Take a little the weight
Das minhas costas                                of my back
Falta pouco tempo                                  lack little time
Prá eu ir embora                                     For I to go leave
E eu nem sei se vou voltar…                 And I in the know if you going to return

Trilhe seu caminho                                Track your road
Faça suas apostas                                 Make your bets
Mas não me deixe aqui                          But do not leave me here
Sozinha sem respostas                        Alone without replies
Que eu nem sei                                      That I in the know
Onde encontrar…                                    Where to find

Eu sou apenas                                       I am only
Uma criança indefesa                           A child indefensible
Você parece                                            You appear
Uma caixinha de surpresas                To be a boxette of surprises
Se for assim meu bem                         If for thus to be my good ( honey good)
Adeus!…                                                   God

Não tô te pedindo prá ficar                   Not going to ask you to stay
E não vou te encher                               And not going to fill you
De promessas                                       of promises
Eu te quero bem                                     I want you well
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa…         But in love I have press ( need / pressure )

Vá se acostumando                              Going to accustomate you
Com a minha ausência                        With my absence
Faça logo as pazes                               Make your peace soon
Com a sua consciência                       With your conscience
E veja se você errou…                           And see your erred

Trilhe seu caminho                               Track your road
Faça suas apostas                               Make your bets
Mas não me deixe aqui                        But not me leave here
Buscando as respostas                      Searching the responses
Que você nunca encontrou…               That you never encountered

Eu sou apenas                                       I am only
Uma criança indefesa                           A child indefensible
Você parece                                            You appear
Uma caixinha de surpresas                A boxette of surprises
Se for assim meu bem                         If were thus my good
Adeus!…                                                   God

Não tô te pedindo prá ficar                   Not going to ask you to stay
E não vou te encher                               and not going to fill you
De promessas                                       of promises
Eu te quero bem                                     I want you well
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa            But in the love I am pressed 

Eu sou apenas                      
Uma criança indefesa, ahan!
Você parece
Uma caixinha de surpresas
Se for assim meu bem
Adeus!…

Não tô te pedindo prá ficar
E não vou te encher
De promessas
Eu te quero bem
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa…(2x)
Eu te quero bem
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa…

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

My theory on how ground pounder car audio systems originated

Have you ever noticed a really strong base ground pounding car stereo?  Here in Arizona we have alot of mexicans and they love these things.   My theory is that the original pounder car audio systems were set up as a way to set of car alarms.  By doing this the car break in thieves could weed out the alarmed cars and do break ins on the unalarmed cars.  After a while stupid white boys started copying.  Its in the same vein as to why crotch dragging pants started for shop lifting.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Ubuntu Screen resolution problems with ATI Rage XL graphics chip

I bought 3 Rackable Systems servers.  Turns out they have the ATI Rage XL graphics chip on the motherboard.  This is a problem because with Ubuntu there seems to be no easy way to get anything better than 800 by 600 display resolution.  As I am trying to use one of the boxes to learn about Ubuntu / Apache / MySQL / PHP this is a problem.   I did alot of diddling with the xorg.conf file to no avail.

While booting up and during shut-down the screen resolution was too high

The motherboard is a Tyan S2735-8M.

The long pci slots are:   64-bit 133/100/66MHz (3.3V) PCI-X slots

I found this riser card on ebay.  I am going to buy it and try putting a different video card in the server to facillitate development!

Looks like this guy had the same problem with a server with the same Rage XL graphics chip.

Slot keying diagram from wikipedia – My server card has 64 bit PCIx Universal slot.  The left portion of this slot is identical to a 3.3V 32 bit PCI slot.  Will a standard 32 bit PCI video card work in the 64 bit universal??

  • Will PCI work in a PCI-X slot?
  • PCIx exposed – PCI-X is downward compatible to PCI. If a PCI card is inserted into a PCI-X system the system will drop down to PCI level operations. It will not execute PCI-X based operations. Thus, to take advantage of PCI, engineers will have to rely only on PCI-X cards and boards.

Nvidia Driver model support list – Ubuntu Nvidia driver howto

 

UpDate January 30,2009

Having been driven half bonkers by 800×600 resolution I stopped by Fry's electronics and found they still sell a particular model of old fashioned PCI video cards.  The brand is BFG and the model is 6200 OC. It is based on a nVidia chip.  It took a while but now I have 1900×1200 resolution and about creamed myself when I saw it come up.  I used the Envy tool.  I tried the lastest version but that did not work.  I tried again with the next to latest and that worked.  It appears to not have used the proprietary driver. 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

I will never return to Arthur Treachers

I stopped in Long Dong Slivers to pick up an order of fish and chips.  You might ask why I choose there and it is because I prefer it over Arthur Treachers.   Last time when I went into Arthur Treachers the conversation went as follows:

When I went into Arthur Treachers and asked ” Do you have “white fish?”
they answered ” We have fish that are white.”
again I asked ” But is it white fish?”
they answered “No its fish that is white”

So I walked out.  

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago