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I'd love to know myself - especially since I've worked with the bloke on numerous occasions and he is not known for BS.

The story also made little to no sense to me either - failsafes notwithstanding.

For example: aluminium MELTS at 660 degrees C and BOILS at 2500 degrees. Ignition temperature must be pretty high indeed - like the person who came up with the story.

who knows - the bloke could've been using thermite as a transfer gel...
 
But what I didn’t mention was that on the other side of my "house" was a Sam Adams brewery. I say house in quotes because it really was a storage shed... with carpet....

Anyway, the brewery also went up in flames. This wouldn’t be so bad, but I had tapped their production line for endless amounts of free sudds.... FREE BEER.


Well, with my house shooting off 44cal. long rifle ammo, screaming homeless orphans, and a beer factory on fire, Mr. Bush issued a national disaster warning and release 5.5 million dollars of federal funding. The morons at FEMA who received the cash figured it was there to put out the fire, and promptly tossed it at the brewery.... well it burned up of course.... not only losing 5.5million dollars, but spreading the fire into the business district destroying main street, and the suburbs.

Try googling my town... San Thyre. You won’t find it. After the great fire of San Thyre, the state of New Mexico, and the US Government disavowed any knowledge of this place. We are now classified by number.... we are area 54.
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I liked your yarn up top the point of it being a carpeted shed. Tapping into free beer was the giveaway.

That and the fact that there is no S.A. Brewery in NM.....

He would have been better to say that it was a microbrewery, although the tap line also made no sense (if you have been to a brewery, you will see that is it not an easy thing to do...)

And the icing was the "national Emergency". Prime rib BS man!




My screw ups?

I had one a few years ago, I believe it was with an athalon 1G TB. I was sitting there dissasembling a machine. I believe I was frankensteining it into another case as I got some upgrades. For some strange reason, I decided to turn the machine on, without a heat sink, just for a second or two.

My common sense kicked in about 3 seconds after I powered on, but it was too late. I turned it off and could not figure out why I had done that. Then I smelled the burnt hair smell.

Yep, slightly smoked, and totally dead. DURF! (And I was SOBER too!!!!)

First blunder was the classic no standoff installed on my first DX50. It would not post. I would get a repeating warning beep, and that was it. Took 3 hours, and calling a friend of the family over to help. I felt like such a dufus!

Others were having a monitor cable that was missing a casing screw, so the housing was loose. Going to plug it in, one pin got bent, thus squishing all images on the last 1/2 inch of the RHS of the monitor.....

Lots of other little minor stuff (Like printers and shared devices dissapearing from networked machines although nothing was changed...) but all looks good now....
 
A combination of TEC, A/C and ninjutsu.
(I actually studied the Shinobi arts for 5 years before returning to Capoeira )
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Why if you studied 5 years shinobi have you changed to capoeira? Is it better?
No martial art is better than another. It all depends on the practitioner. Capoeira suits me just like ninjutsu does. Just a bit better.
 
I learned Karate off the back of a cereal box. All that training you guys go through and then a bullet ends you. LOL Practice at firing a gun and then just getting a license to carry a concealed weapon seems a bit easier to me. 😛
 
The worst thing me and a mate done (we decided after a few vodkas) that we'd have a little look inside his PC, this was not a common thing to look in a PC (have built systems myself) but while drunk it's not such a good idea. So we had a look at his PC and wanted to look at his CPU, unknown to us that they have things such as a heat sink and a fan, but thet didn't stop us...We decided to 'help' it come off with a screwdriver...That really wasn't clever. Managed to force the CPU out and rip half the pins off. But still this still didn't stop us...So we then proceded to super glue the CPU onto the motherboard (this really isn't clever...Never do this, not even wen you're sober)

IT still works...Somehow, not sure, somewhere this should of broken when we managed to rip out the CPU, fan and heatsink in one go. Managed to damage the motherboard a bit too...
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wait it still works?!?!?! you ripped the cpu out leaving the pins in the board so you just put the cpu back, i cant beleive that, amazing. even when your drunk!

So it's there where intel took the idea of his pinless 775. 8O
 
He should go work for intel (he could make a fortune). They should just let him drink and work on pc's the whole time and he'll come up with rad new stuff.
 
A few months ago now (has it been that long already) I got this new sexy computer, the one in my siggy. When I first got it I had the stock heatsink, but after a while, I decided to get an aftermarket because I really wanted to overclock past 2.2GHz from 2.0. I got my new heatsink and I went and spread arctic silver on my proc with a razor blade.

Turn my computer on and look at the temps. :cry: It's almost the exact same temps, which confuzled me greatly. I just worked around that for a little while, about a week, I got to 2.25 GHz, but the temps were really high (54C load). I eventually found out from a friend that unless you've got a bare core processor, you're supposed to put on a blob and smash it.

I turn off computer, look at heatsink, only about a third of it has paste on it, the rest I can still see myself in it, and the part that was covered was all the outside part.

Clean it up, blob, smash, turn on. Instant deliciousness. Now sitting with a 30% overclock. Eventually looking into a water cooling kit, because for some reason I'm unhappy with 30%. Then again, that same friend has a 45% overclock on his athlon 64 4000+ bare core. A bit rediculous I might say, but damn, I wish I got that high an overclock on mine!

Oh and I heard something... I heard from somone, heard that you like mudkips. is this true?
 
It's not totally that bad but I'd kill for a kicka$$ screen like that. Anyhow, I have only about 47% sight in my left eye and can only go for an operation when I'm 24 (doc's orders, one of the best in SA). The other eye is still fine so untill it gives me problems or untill 24...GAME ON!!!!!!!!! 8)
 
I don't know. I've asked that lots but no answers. At first they said 16 then 21 and when I was there after my 21st birthday they said 24 to be safe, so I'm waiting another 2.5 years still. Eye's don't grow so it can't be that. I'll ask him again when I go see him in a while. Nothing I can do till then, I guess.
 
errr... try to say that when you're on the receiving end of a dual kick from a hand stand (a standard kick in capoera).

Right now capoeira is indeed first and foremost a dance, but it was a very dangerous martial art at its base, one which concentrated on tight moves due to chained legs and arms.

Of course, most people think about martial arts as being asian in origin, but then it would mean that pancrace, savate and english boxing are not martial arts (and watch any practitioner tear you a new arsehole if you tell them that).

Personally I prefer Tai Chi.
 
I read somewhere once (several years ago so this data is suspect) that most martial arts are in themselves dances, albeit ones that can turn incredibly deadly incredibly quickly.

Must be fun choreographing when the 'dancers' are annoyed...
 
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