Blueduck, the legend?

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blueduck

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well a legend in my own mind i suppose, a thorn in the side of the political "just-us" club and just another ordinary fella with ideas, dreams and goals all waiting in the wings of lifes theator to be paraded across the stage in due course.

I set up a "my space" page awhile back [ok a year ago about] and never did much with it..... to much other stuff to do, but i can keep in touch with a couple kinfolk that I seem to busy to call or write...... http://www.myspace.com/blu3duk

I started a blog series on the lawball game on a survivalist site a couple years back, and with the lawsuit Ive been involved in the past couple years it has gone wanting for attention, but one of these days i will post again [ok twice i had computer hiccups and the post was lost this year making me try to remember to save my work before i post] http://blogs.survivalistssite.com/blog/lawball.php

between the 2 websites a person can get a fairly accurate idea of who I am and what I am like, though I suppose like many people I hide my best attributes that make up my personality to some degree or other. The pictures are the same on both sites, just keep the small children away from the screen so as they dont get scarred for life by such a frightful image!!!

My desire for knowledge coupled with what I see as impending financial upheaval on the horizon in the several states as well as around the world has me looking into recovering precious metals from scrap, ergo my wandering into this forum a couple months back..... I have no crystal ball that shows me the future, but I can read the past history of the world and see the path is the same for all civilizations, and we are on a path destined for failure sooner or later [hopefully later enough I can ride it through better or maybe not at all in my lifetime, but i doubt that]. I am fascinated with taking something some one considers "junk" and turning into something that is useful or of value to another....

I live in the central Idaho mountains [ok currently in the valley adjacent to the mountains] and have been around these parts since 1988, moving from North Idaho where i was hatched. ok so ive traveled around some too in the past 20 years, but always seem to return to this area. I enjoy the outdoors probably to a fault, but nature has the most fascinating ways of letting a person know their place. Ive panned for gold before [and still do] but never "struck" the big one, mostly just to be able to justify being out there on the crick without a fish pole. I am a self educated mountain man, a believer in the foundations and principles that the several states were founded upon, not the corporation they have become, ergo I am a patriot to a fault and only wish folks were statesmen and not politicians. I think everyone should posess at least one firearm and carry the same daily to put a stop to crime on the streets as the so called "thin blue line" cannot be everywhere nor are they obligated to protect the citizery, only to protect the corporate interests...... I am a woodworker and have played with iron as well, wanting for a nice shop/laboratory to be able to play and experiment and invent or re-invent things within.

I am curious to a fault about how some things work and have been known to take things apart and there they lay.... waiting to be put back together until I get "a round tuit". I learned a couple decades ago that life is too short to take with total seriousness all the time, for it will give you little twists and turns and cause the most devout of all persons to get an ulcer from worrying over the little things that happen or do not hapen let alone the bigger problems that crop up or the disasters that strike, or the friends you lose in a logging truck accident, or the early un-expected demise of friends and relatives..... a smile costs nothing and makes other folks wonder what you are hiding and where it is at.

Family is probably the most important part of life there is, for without family where would we be? My family is small, my wife and I married in March of 2000 [tak about y2k hitting full force] and we have 3 kids born on '00, '02, and '04. My folks have been married since the year afore I was hatched back in the day, before they knew there was a problem with the government....still together after 45 and nearly 46 years [oct 1961], they live about 7 miles away and I have worked with my dad pretty much since I was 10 years old in the woods and on the farm and with the sawmill.... and we still get along, he is also fascinated by the idea of recovering gold from scrap and wastes [as well as ore bodies but we aint never found one yet], my siblings have scattered themselves several hours from us, but we get together when it is possible. My wife returned to Idaho where she was born to find the mother that gave her up for adoption, and ended up finding me as well, a person who grew up with all the people she knew as cousin [and there is a bunch of them] and our families knew each other before they moved to the land of fruits flakes and nuts [they are in the wine country so that makes them nearer the fruits for the most part].... she is a former World champion kickboxer and retired professional boxer so I am never unarmed when out in the world..... I would be no where I am today without her support over the past couple years while in the court action I ended up taking on....

Well there in a nutshell is the free radical known world over as blueduck, a generalist of all trades [goat] willing to try anything new and be able to live to tell about it [only having used the phrase "hold my beer and watch this" once, the pickup survived].

I do so find the folks on this forum very informative, knowledgeable and helpful beyond what words can say, thankyou for letting me be a part of this.

William
Central Idaho
 
Great Post. Read your myspace page and will read the survivalist later. Right up my alley. Great to have you aboard. Wasn't Blueduck from Lonesome Dove?
 
Well most folks know Blueduck fro Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove, however way back in the day, in the mid 1970's CB's were all the rage, and everyone had a handle.... and there was this political letter called Blueduck... which I kind of liked to some degree and one thing led to another and I just kind of claimed the moniker as my handle..... But most people can only associate the name with Lonesome Dove and the rebel who claimed he could fly.... and well..... he couldnt.

When i got hooked up to the internet about 10 years back the CB handle just transferred seamlessly onto the net.... then I got into the seedier side of the net and joined up with the warez traders and the haxors to learn more about computers than most people want to know..... and I became Blu3duk which still floats around on the IRC channels from time to time, though considerably less than a few years ago before I became a system administrator for a local wireless internet service [I guess I went respectable] sitting with the base computers in an air conditioned room [in the winter even] in the middle of Idaho with 10 T-1 access lines at my whim..... oh boy was I in haxor heaven..... but even though I was a member of the "Legion of Ethical Hackers" I stayed away from partaking while I worked in that position...... and then too I was never thrilled with hacking into computers.....

I was trying to upload a new blog today when a couple kids hit a lightpole while racing across this small town I live in knocking out power for awhile even though at my house we had power, it blinked and the even the next town over lost power and that is where the broadband hits the net from.... so I had to wait til it was fixed and I am now back on..... but I saved my upload this time.... the last couple times I did not and I lost my words and thoughts..... so I have changed tactics for posting things..... at least for my lawball game blog.

As far as the lawball game goes with recovering metals, I have to check into what might happen when I roast the deposits off the catalysts from the cats and send some stinking fumes into the surrounding air... currently blueduck's nest is adjacent to the high school baseball field, and a burro pasture with the football field just down the street and one close neighbor with an empty lot between us and the backside neighbor over a slight hill so I may get away with a little more then if I was one block over and had several adjacent neighbors looking into my yard.

Thanks for the compliment on my "better late than never" introduction since you folks have allowed my jumping in a spot or two, I thought it best to let you know you are dealing with as close to a real person as blueduck can be..... [artificial intelligence doesnt get any better than this does it?]

Anyhow or anyway, this forum has been a learning experience and a half for me, and I have gained more knowledge in 60 days or less than any other time in my life for actual learning time spent.... now to get to the lab work once i get enough of the shop cleaned out and piled in a manner it wont crash down around my feet.

William
Central Idaho
 

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