It dropped.
The sound was so loud
Resonating through the halls
And my bones
But was it broken?
Or are you just scared?
Get up now.
Feel the success
Of carriying on
Forever.
Tribute post to da GBFM
da GBFM is a legendary blogger/internet personality in the red pill movement. Sometime in the last few years, WordPress took his website offline for “violating terms of service” – he has always been opinionated but in a way I respect and I value and miss his voice. Today I used the Wayback Machine ( https://archive.org/web/ ) to access his old site so I could read some content (btw: the old site url was http://greatbooksformen.wordpress.com )
Here is a repost in full of a song da GBFM wrote, which was cleverly attributed to being authored by Ben Bernanke. Enough said – here’s the original post:
NEWSFLASH! BEN BERNANKE originally wrote MILEY CYRUS’S hit song WE CAN’T STOP as a FEDzlz mission statetemenstz lzzoizzlzoz
NEWSFLASH! BEN BERNANKE originally wrote MILEY CYRUS’S hit song WE CAN’T STOP as a FEDzlz mission statetemenstz lzzoizzlzoz
last nightz as i was going to bed with my new grifeinedz miley curyrus, she condifed in me something a scertet SECTRET!! she mad me promisesz not to tellz, so i promisedz but den i thought bzaout it, and u are all my good friendz! and BROS BEFORE HOES Zlzizzlizzlzizlzoizlzizilozlzz
ao anywho many of youz do not know this but BEN BERNAnKE originally WROTE da hit MILEY CYRUS SONG we cant’ stop:
WE CAN’T STOP
by ben ebernake zlzozlzzo
It’s our House (& Senate) we can do what we want
It’s our Fed we can print what we want
It’s our dollar we can bankrupt who we want
We can bailout who we want
We can butthext who we want (2x)
Red commies and sweaty neoconz everywhere
Hands in the air like we don’t care
Cause we came to make so much debt now
And the betas here must pay it all now.
If you’re not ready to go home
Can I get a hell no
Cause we gonna pump all night
Till we see hyperinflation alright
So la da di da di, we like fiat currency
Dancing with Bernanke
Doing whatever we want
This is our Fed
This is our rules
And we can’t stop
And we won’t stop printing
Can’t you see it’s we who own the right
Can’t you see it we who bout’ thug life
And we can’t stop
And we won’t stop
We run things, Things don’t run we
We take everything from everybody
It’s our Fed we can bernankify who we want
It’s our dollar we can print we want
It’s our party we can bomb who we want
We can butthext who we want
We can bankrupt who we want
To my Keynsians here with the big butts
Shaking it like we at a strip club
Remember only Greenspan can judge ya
Forget the haters cause Bernanke loves ya
And everyone in line in the bathroom
Trying to get a line in the bathroom
Inflation so turned up here
Getting turned up, yeah, yeah
So la da di da di, we inflate with glee
Pumping with Bernanke
Doing whatever we want
This is our Fed
This is our rules
And we can’t stop
And we won’t stop
Can’t you see it’s we who own the right
Can’t you see it we who bout’ thug life
And we can’t stop
And we won’t stop
We run things
Betas don’t run we
We take everything from everybody
It’s our Fed we can pump what we want
It’s our dollar we can inflate all we want
It’s our congress we can buy who we want
We can butthext who we want
We can bailout who we want
It’s our Fed we can do what we want to
It’s our House (& Senate) we can butthext who we want to
It’s our country we can quantitiative ease if we want to
It’s your mouth you shall suck when we want you to
Yea, Yea, Yeah
And we can’t stop printing
And we won’t stop inflating
Can’t you see it’s we who own the right
Can’t you see it we who bout’ thug life
And we can’t stop
And we won’t stop
We run things
Betas don’t run we
We take everything from everynody
Yea, Yea, Yea
lzozozozlzozoz
Disc Golf Horse Shoes = Amazing!
So the other day at the place I’ve been staying we had a house party and during the prep we realized we had no lawn games!
Being the stubborn/resourceful person I can be, I decided to invent a game and after examining what we had laying around, and my overwhelming desire to play horseshoes, a new game was born: disc golf horseshoes!
It’s easy to play, easy to set up and take down, and super cheap… and I forgot to mention that it is totally fun!
What you need:
– five gallon buckets (2)
– disc golf discs (minimum 2, preferably 4)
How to set it up:
1. place the two buckets about 20 feet apart (you can change this based on your group’s skill level :-P )
2. fill the buckets 1/3 with water (weighs it down, prevents bouncing out if filled with rocks)
The rules of Disc Golf Horseshoes (DGH) are almost identical to regular horseshoes, with the exception being that in normal horseshoes only the highest scoring team keeps the points but in DGH any throws that score points count.
Ways to score:
Ringer – Get your disc in the bucket – 3 points
Leaner – Lean your disc against the bucket – 2 points
Close Enough – get your disc within 1 disc length from the edge of the bucket – 1 point
Games should be played to 21 or 11 for faster games
Try it out, have a blast and let me know what you think. Please share this with your friends and let’s take the tailgating/bbq lawn games by storm!
What Does Open Source Mean to Our World Community?
Open source is more than software. It’s more than a license choice. It’s more than one person or company or entity or idea, but rather it is the collection of ideas and concepts, whether sounds, feelings, images or words, that encourage shared knowledge, shared contribution, shared benefit.
If two minds are better than one, than 7 billion minds are better than any other combination possible.
Embracing open source as an ideology means to embrace community, to give and to receive, to yield the power of the collective conscious and collective unconscious of every individual, together, at once. At the core of the open source ideal is the idea that information should be free, and that by having information we all are empowered. In a time where curiosity and creativity are handcuffed by the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act (DMCA) and it’s not even legal to take apart your coffee machine to see whats inside, I find it refreshing and rewarding to participate in something bigger than myself where information can be shared and is encouraged to be shared across borders and languages and political affiliations.
A common misconception about open source is that money cannot be made by using open concepts as the foundation for business; but I disagree. Open source 3D printing has evolved rapidly and becomes more affordable every day by not having a licensed or proprietary overhead (thank you RepRap and the other pioneers). Microcontroller layouts and circuit board designs also have harnessed the same benefits through projects like Arduino, resulting in a 90% cost reduction versus traditional, closed controllers. Open source programming languages like PHP grow more rapidly with increasingly increasing stability versus their closed source competitors. Blog management software from WordPress took the web by storm, easily becoming the most dominant, versatile content management system in just a matter of five years, accomplishing a task the giant corporations could not have. In the days of for-profit open source, the code is no longer the product and the consumer wins by having options as to who and how their systems get serviced. It’s hard to talk about open source and not mention Linux, and through Linux our small company has tools that compete with the big boys for which I am grateful, but the prime example of for-profit, open source success is Red Hat, who broke the billion dollar mark in recent history, not through direct sales of software, but through enhancements, support, consulting and system design among many other streams of income.
At this day and age, where vendor lock is a scary yet real problem, one of the few ways to avoid it to to implement systems that can be managed by any number of worldwide experts. Open source offers a real solution here through competitive technologies, stable platforms, opportunities to re-invent, improve, enhance around the individuals and back upstream around the world.
Is the strength based in the thousands of minds focused on solving one problem?
Is the advantage of open source the ease of access to the product? Or to the documentation? Or to a competent community, willing to help each other tackle the impossible?
I don’t know what the most exciting and promising part of open source is for you, but I know that my reasons are ever changing and evolving, liquid to the problems we face, morphing to our needs, and benefiting our customers for each of their unique applications and needs.
So people of the world, as you open your code and open your patents, I hope you too find peace in the reward of your opening hearts and minds. And as you go into your lives and you are faced with challenges, remember that you have a community, maybe I’d even say a family, ready to help you, ready to empower you to help yourselves, ready to say no to the status quo and demand the excellence we all deserve, together, moving forward through time and space as all of our individual challenges and goals somehow unite into a destination of fascination, connectedness, trust and monetary savings.
The Grouch – Some People
I used to have love and now I can’t stand this fool
This couldn’t have happened even if I planned it to
Friends for life on a spectrum so wide
Nobody works perfect believe me, I tried
But when two worlds collide you gotta give somethin’
Take a step back and learn to live humble
You know pride, it’ll eat you up inside
And all that self-pity will turn your whole world shitty
I’m on old girl’s titty tryin’ to hang on, dearly
Live days sincerely and see both sides clearly
There’s no room to build enemy ships
Especially out of old friends, when’ll we quit?
Went from penalty kicks to it don’t mean shit
Ridiculousness actin’ like bitches at this age
Being. Turn the page pout quit actin’ like a child
Are are you wild up and ready to be petty? that’s a heart breaker
Well i’ll be the charge taker and make sure it don’t happen in the future
Extend my hand while you cryin’ like a rooster
Damn, dig up the root and be a man
Some people get better with time
And some people have a hard time (yeah)
Some people, they age like wine
And other people, they can’t find themselves, man
Some people get better with time
And some people have a hard time (y’know?)
Some people, they age like wine
And other people, they can’t find themselves
You gotta move on, move on, move on, move on
Move on, move on, move on, move on
Man move on, move on, move on, move on
Woman move on, move on, move on
With every stroke of the clock it’s more precious
Who could fully understand the growth of a child
More or less this innocence exposed free form
No mold, to experience livin’ in possibilities
I hold, visions in my head I wanna spread to these children
Before they get sidetracked, what sport are you wieldin’?
And im not talkin’ about shieldin’
What’s in the glass? or comin’ half ass?
Me I don’t really want the last laugh
Just to be lapped and on my last leg
Because somebody else is passin’ up the mark that I made
Turnin’ dark to light or bark to bite
Blindfolded client and all without a fight
Im all about in the night tryin to kick down the demons
With my big sound screamin like he-man
Fuck the power of grace go to my skull is great
Everyday all day I’m a never fall prey
Some people get better with time
And some people have a hard time (yeah)
Some people, they age like wine
And other people, they can’t find themselves, man
Some people get better with time
And some people have a hard time (y’know?)
Some people, they age like wine
And other people, they can’t find themselves
You gotta move on, move on, move on, move on
Move on, move on, move on, move on
Man move on, move on, move on, move on
Woman move on, move on, move on
Your body is a tool, mind is too
Shape them well, feed them the finest food
If knowledge is power then most of us are bustlers
It’s easy to be that you’ve got to tussle with the fact
Bring yourself back to the essence
Make your presence felt when you’re there and you’re stressin’ your points
Put oil on your joints kill the t.v
Deal with people face to face
If you don’t believe me join the race
Flow some oxygen through the brain
Remember that you learned and apply it so you gain
Drop dame on a lame and later he’ll be walkin
Chalk it up is just choppin on frozen options
Never frozen cause we are the chosen
Bout to set it in motion and keep coastin
Keep coastin, keep coastin, keep coastin
Some people get better with time
And some people have a hard time (yeah)
Some people, they age like wine
And other people, they can’t find themselves, man
Some people get better with time
And some people have a hard time (y’know?)
Some people, they age like wine
And other people, they can’t find themselves
You gotta move on, move on, move on, move on
Move on, move on, move on, move on
Man move on, move on, move on, move on
Woman move on, move on, move on
funny stuff!
