UFC vs. The River...
Well it's another Holiday season, and I really wanted to go see my buddy fight in the UFC. Me and my friends have put down some serious money on John Alessio to beat Diego Sanchez. He's a really big underdog, and we got +400 odds... so if he wins then we get over a grand... Boo-Yaah
I have been to the last 4 UFC's... and I was ready to go to this next one out in LA, but I'm heading out to Lake Havasu, AZ to party it up with my Uncle, Cousins, and Brother. It's gonna be a blast... we haven't all hung out in a long time.
"These Women... they are compliant... yes... they know the deal?"
Hopefully I stay out of trouble just enough to where I have a great time... but don't get arrested. BRING ON THE FREE HOOCH!!!!
I can't say the same about my family... glad to see that we are finally posting again on Spyder-Fonix.
Now all I need now is for Romeo to get me that picture of my future wife that we saw at the UFC... bring it... I need that picture of my wife in the green bikini!!!
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I'm from Chino and PROUD OF IT!
"i'm out"
norm
Editors Pick...
I don't know if you know it or not... but I'm kind of a bid deal.
TextAmerica loves the fact that I'm back posting pix
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I'm from Chino and PROUD OF IT!"i'm out"
norm
yeah, I did it,... cried two tears in a bucket...
Looks like the Enron guys are going to jail... I think Norm called this one though, he says Lay will be pardoned when Bush Jr. leaves office... ( if not earlier )... Oh well, it really doesn't matter, justice could never really be served in this case...
Yesterday
slashdot had a great post about
what it means to be "computer litterate" thats a great topic... I think potentially it could be answered a million different ways, and all be correct.
More immigration WoesMy friend Ryan sent me this article about how Americans wont do
construction work for even $30 an hour because we are lazy...
here is a direct quote from the email Ryan sent me on the subject...
"The article above basically says that more than $30 / hour is still not enough to get Americans to do an immigrants job… apparently we really are that lazy."I dont think I read that article the same as Ryan did, because I did not get the same meaning out of it at all...
When I read it, I discovered that it must not be the type of work, or the pay that is making americans not take these jobs... I say that because there are many americans who have really crappy jobs that get paid less...
Example: when someone takes a crap on the floor of the bathroom in burger king, do you know who has to clean it up ???
I'll give you a hint, it is not the manager getting paid 30 grand a year, it is the highschool student getting paid minimum wage...
which would make most people ask:
"why would a highschool kid choose to flip burgers, over doing construction, or picking fruit"?...
I'm glad you freakin asked... I bet it's because those are hard jobs to do when you have to go to school...
I could be wrong about that point... but I bet I am right when I say it's not the pay, or the work...
there are pleanty of american farmers, and I bet there are pleanty of american farm workers... likewise, there are pleanty of american construction workers, pleanty of americans who are maids in hotels, pleanty of americans who cook...
I am not saying that there aren't also a lot of immigrants doing that kind of work, but just that americans do that work too...
I dare someone to prove me wrong...
and, in my infinate wisdom, I have come up with a kick ass immigration plan...
The Immigration Lottery Idea by Matthew Fatheree
We take all the illegal immigrants and we give them each 5 lottery tickets. We then give them each one more for each member of their immediate family living here legally. Then we hold a big ass lottery, where like 2,000,000 people get to win citizenship. And we ask the rest to go home. We dont force them to go home, we ask them to...
now, lets say you are an immigrant who doesn't register for the lottery... Well, if that happens, and we catch you, and you did not register for the lottery, we make it a felony, and we prosicute your employer, your land lord, etc etc etc down the line...
If you registered for the lottery, but didn't win, and didn't want to go home, we allow you to work in the country, but it must be at a job, for minimum wage or less, and if we catch you, we deport you... ( in this way, registration for the lottery, would be like an expired work visa )... and the incentive to register would be better treatment if caught...
I say we also make it possible for people to sell, or give away a winning citizenship lottery ticket...
problem solved...
my work here is done...
~grey out...
The Grey Team...
In 2002 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Chino underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem - if no one else can help - and if you can find them - maybe you can hire: The Grey-Team.
Gotta love the A-Team
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I'm from Chino and PROUD OF IT!
"i'm out"
norm
So long, suckers...
My ship just came in, and I'm bailing out of this seedy business!
I just received the opportunity of a lifetime in a private email, and believe you me, I'm not going to let this golden proposition pass me by.
Here's the email, read it and weep.
Try not to hate me for my good fortune:Dear sir,
I am the translator to the former Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe in Africa.I am contacting you on behalf of my Boss.
My name is Afonso dos Santos. We have some funds in financial instrument valued at $8.1million .
I am contacting you as regards investment in your country ,these funds can be used for investment within the next ten years.Any business that is profitable and viable in your country, subject to accounts and audit.
The profit after tax and other miscellaneous expenses, will be splited at the end of every fiscal year.
Please I will like to know your level of interest on this proposal.
Thanks as I await your response.
Yours Faithfully
Afonso dos santos
Sounds pretty lock solid to me.I'm basically going to quit everything and devote all my time to this project. Take care, everybody... oh yeah... I stole this from Joe... from his forum
golf, fire and brimstone, and other chambers of hell
"Also, the Scots are said to have invented golf. Then they had
to invent Scotch whiskey to take away the pain and frustration."Imagine for a moment a world without Scottish sports, and scottish food...
now, I know what you are thinking... Matt, what have the scottish people done that is so bad ?!?!
and aside from the obvious answers like haggis, and other parts of sheep that people on fear factor wouldn't eat... The scottish people gave us golf...
dont get me wrong... I have a set of clubs, and I go out there and play a few holes with friends every now and then, but I am talking about pro golf, in it current format... it... sux...
here is a short list of reasons why todays golf sucks: When you play golf, most people dont play against actual people, you play against the course, trying to beat par.
When you do play against an actual person, if they are worse than you, they get a handicap... I mean... seriously who would go to a football game if at the start of each game the number of points in the point spread was given to the underdog team...??? Or how fun would baskettball be if they lowered the hoops only for the smaller guys on the team, so everyone could slam dunk???.. why does golf feel like it has to make everyone equal ??? A sport like that shouldn't even be a sport...
and prolly the biggest thing wrong with golf today is
Michelle Wei is not 18 yet.
Golf is one of the few sports where watching the pros play is about as painful as going to the dentist...
so... I submitt for your approval, in no particular order:
the top 10 things that would make golf better
10. when teeing off, your opponent should be standing out on the fairway wearing some sort of head protection... if your opponent can get hit by your ball before it hits the ground, you get a stroke added to you total.
9. sink a putt, take a shot...
8. uhhh... this chick would make golf better...
7. you should be able to taunt your opponent while he is swinging... like the "hey batta, batta..." we see in baseball...
6. Laws reguarding "consent" are suspended any day Michelle Wie plays
5. Old Dirty Bastard from WU tang gets cloned and becomes the golf announcer...
4. Twin turbo super charged golf carts, with spinner rims...
3. miss a putt, take a shot. ( basically, there should just be more hard alcohol overall )
2. Change the handicap rule. Make it a real handicap. In stead of evening the playing field by awarding negative stroke to one player... for each stroke in a players handicap they get one swing with their sand wedge, at their opponent below the waist... ( hint: go for the knee caps )
1. plaid pants with mismatched tweed sweater vest, or pirate costume required to play.
Seriously guys... The scottish people as a whole dont do too many things that require little or no change for hundreds of years...
I know what you are going to say...
"But Matt, the scottish are very smart, they cloned a sheep"
does anyone know what happened to that sheep ???
well, I dont want to go into details, but that sheep is currently collecting child support from at least two of the scottish scientists that cloned her... you do the math...
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4th de mayo...
Let me say some words about this illegal immigrant / undocumented workers thing...
before I start I should say please direct all hate mail to
matthewf@spyder-fonix.com, so I can laugh at it, and wonder why you think I care about your emails...
Okay here goes:
First, I can't understand the rationality of the pro immigrant side. Their argument seems to be:
Yes we came here illegally, but now that we are here, you should just let us stay, and become citizenswhich, to me, is like saying "yes I stole your car, but now that I have it, you should just give it to me"... Makes no sense to me, to use that as a justification...
Also, I dont like the argument that they are just here for work, and it's work americans wont do...
lets be 100% honest... they are not here for work ( per se ), they are here for money... Or at best, good paying work... And americans would pick fruit, but your typical american just doesn't think it pays well enough for their time...
I'm not about to start saying we should increase the salary for people who pick fruits and veggies, cause I like my produce cheap, I am just saying Americans will do damn near anything for the right amount of money... It just so happens the the right amount of money goes much further in pesos...
So to the immigrants and their supporters... lets be real, you guys shouldn't get to break the law and get away with it, AND you are here for the money, not the work...
now, for the people who are in opposition to illegal immigrants and undocumented workers being fast tracked into citizenship...
you guys are dumb... I mean, it's already against the law to come into the country without papers... you guys are gonna try to make it
really really against the law...
AND you want to punish the people that keep my produce cheap... thats not a good idea... dont punish the employers... punish the law breakers...
and the minute men... dont even get me started with that bunch of idiots... I mean, whos bright idea was it to keep mexicans out of a place called "new mexico" ??? geez people...
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Mexico... I love you guys...~grey out...
random stuff today
Just a bunch of random crap for you today...
first off, I got a new cell phone,
the LG vx9800it's pretty dope...
anyways, just for anyone else out there who was wondering there is a pretty simple way to convert videos you might have on your computer, so you can watch them on your phone...
using ffmpeg just do
ffmpeg -i input_file.avi -s 352x288 -r 12 -ac 1 -ar 8000 -b 30 -ab 12 output_file.3gpthen copy the *.3gp file to your phones memory card...
for more info look at
ffmpeg, and
mencoderand
here's a lil doc on how to turn nearly any video, into a DVD video
now for some trully random crap: meet an inmate - new dating service ???
Man Boobs
I'm not really sure what this is, but it looks kinda cool
the graffiti machine
toys from the G.O.P.
lets end with a joke
A married man was having an affair with his secretary. One day they went to her place and made love all afternoon. Exhausted, they fell asleep and woke up at 8 p.m.
The man hurriedly dressed and told his lover to take his shoes outside and rub them in the grass and dirt. He put on his shoes and drove home.
"Where have you been?" his wife demanded.
"I can't lie to you," he replied, "I'm having an affair with my secretary. I had sex all afternoon."
"You lying bastard! You've been playing golf!"
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