TRUTH from Surviving the World

I am sure that at some point and time Truer words have been spoken, but I haven't read them today!

OK I don't even like him and this is FUNNY AND TRUE

APPHOLES Jon Stewart from comedy central

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LONG week- oak tree, fence repair, server failure, metal building moving

Well let's see. First I had to clear a HUGE oak tree off of my back fence. I want to give a shout out to my neighbor WDM (he is a private guy)for letting his guys help me get the trunk off of the fence, a dozer makes all the difference in the world. Once we got it off the fence, and delimbed I let them push the trunk to the burn pile and proceeded to cut the limbs up in good firewood size chunks. Mom and Dad have a fireplace and there was no sense in the wood going to waste. No joke the butt end of a couple of these limbs were over 18 inches across. Didn't get a tape out, but I'd bet one was over 24". After I got the area around the fence cleaned up, as every country boy knows you have to fix the fence. Not a real big deal, but I am going to have to cut the woven wire and re-stretch that section of fence as that's the second thing that has fallen on it.

Next bit of excitement this week is that my primary storage server had started shutting down for no discernable reason. At random intervals I would attempt to access it, and it just wouldn't be there. This is a very worrying problem as there are almost 6 terabytes of data on that system. Well. . . sorta it was there enough that the DNS server running on it would prevent my network from failing over to the backup DNS server built into my router, strange that. Anyway after 3 days of trouble shooting, I decided to pull the system out of the rack. That is not a trivial undertaking. This system is in 2 four unit rack mounts that are semi-bolted together. There are 18 Hard Drives in it and 4 redundant power supplies. Even with everything pulled out of it that can be, it is HEAVY. So I pull everything out and put it up in my workbench. Power supplies are checking out fine, no noise issues, not overly warm, but still locking up with no rhyme or reason. Thursday I finally get my fill, and tear it apart. Well one of the CPU cooling fans has died on it with absolutely no way to figure that out from the outside of the case. I have replaced that and the system has been rolling along fine now ever since. I have it on my short list to try and find some software that will let me monitor this on these older tyan motherboards.

Last, but not least I had someone donate a portable storage building to a friend of mine, and we moved it Saturday. For those of you that think I only travel around at mach 3 or higher unless I am coming in for a landing. You need to travel over to my youtube page here and check out the video I shot. It will blow your mind!

On the internet front, I have added comments to my webpage. I even allow posting comments as a guest, so feel free and drop by to leave me a note. You can also call and leave me a voicemail though google voice.

Running in a EOD suit!

There is a new world record for the mile. 9 minutes 22 seconds. In a 80 pound EOD bomb disposal suit. I have to tip my hat to Staff Sergeant Owen Duff who ran the mile to raise awareness of Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation

Talk About Contradictions

Was at a local social event the other day and I am walking through the parking lot I see these two blue cars. Well they aren't 50 feet apart, in earthly distance,BUT miles apart in almost every other way possible. Well apart from the the difficulty I would have getting in and out of them!
For anyone wanting to see more pics of the Lambo feel free to check out my gallery page located on my website!
www.samuelraileyefurd.com/galleries/cars

Fat Cat Bike with 6.5HP can move some weight around!

Buddy of mine has gotten his kids a bunch of doodlebugs with 2.5 HP motors. Well of course he needs to be able to keep up with the little speed demons. So back when he bought his oldest one a bike, a little while later he had to buy himself one. That is what I am sitting on. Let me tell you these little things can cook along pretty good. John's got a chassis he picked up from somewhere, and we are going to build me one. Probably start out with a 6.5HP I have, but there is a real good chance that I will be putting a 13hp motor in there. Oh YA.

This thing has a little short jack shaft on it for gear reduction. John and I are thinking that with a 13 horse motor we could do away with the jack shaft and just run it straight. Give up a little on low end but gain a bunch on upper end. That is what I hope anyway.

If you want details of the build you can always check them out at www.samuelraileyefurd.com/scooter.html

More new content coming! Still working on the burning bar how not to!

But, in the meantime I have added the buttons for posting content that you might find interesting. I have buttons for Face Book, digg, Stumble, and a tweet this button. Check them out and give me some traffic!
Also Don't know if you have noticed, but there is a Google Voice call me button down in the lower left corner. You click on it, enter your name, and telephone number. Right then you get a phone call from Google and they call my cell phone. Or you go to voice mail to leave me a message. Check it out and give me a ring!

All of that is on my website at www.samuelraileyefurd.com I am working on adding it here also!

Burning Bar Videos Are Up!!!

Check out! I was finally able to get the video out of the camera of the burning bar videos. That is the most dramatic. I am cutting a Chevy brake rotor with a homemade burning bar. This is a piece of 3/8 id tube from Tractor Supply in Chipley, FL. If I remember correctly it is filled with 24 1/16" 70S16 welding rod. The tube is 36 inches long plus the adapter that I had to make. I was able to cut through the one side of the brake rotor 3 times in the video that you see above.

For details on how NOT to build this type of dangerous item why don't you head over to my website. www.samuelraileyefurd.com although fair warning it might take me a few days to get the pages up. There is a lot of material to cover and I don't want to leave anything out.
Links to other videos from the nights of experimentation:
http://www.youtube.com/user/samuelraileyefurd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xcNjT7jEtc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KUvpGLfs_M

More to come in the days ahead.

Thanks for watching
Samuel Railey Efurd

Noscript blocking Google Voice Callme Widget

Am I the only person that has run into this?

OK I put Google call me widgets up on several of my web pages. I had done so on several test pages, and everything was working fine. I run Firefox w/ noscript, IE8 and Chrome. It worked on every page in every browser. Hesitated going live with it though.

Well fast forward a few days and I decided to go live. I mean what's it gonna hurt, it'll go directly to voicemail. I then make the appropriate changes to my templates and publish. Well poof, the widget disappears from everywhere. I start digging to see what might be wrong, and then finally decide to check in Chrome. There it was bigger than life. Was also working in IE8. Hmmmmmm. Well after doing a lot of digging and playing around on the net I couldn't find ANY widget. However they worked fine in the other two browsers. I decided to just disable Noscript and see what happened. Poof there they were.

I hae yet to discover what has changed, but I am sure that it is something, and I will keep you up to date in what I discover.

Chernobyl 24 years later almost to the day

Reading slashdot.org and this came up. A writer for the Linux website Phoronix decided to make a trip to Chernobyl and documented the journey inside the zone. Interesting reading and pictures. Well worth your time.

Check it out here or here. Little slow at the moment, the slashdot effect you know!

New content at the web site!

Put up a little blurb about a middle buster / trencher that I built for my father in law. Considering that I built the thing from scrap I think that it turned out rather well. He used it pretty hard and never managed to break it that I know of. So go check it out! http://www.samuelraileyefurd.com/interestingthings/8-trencher.html