{"id":223,"date":"2020-10-20T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxlugcast.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:59:51","slug":"in-memory-of-5150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxlugcast.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/20\/in-memory-of-5150\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of 5150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are here tonight to share memories of our friend<strong> Donlad Grier<\/strong> aka <strong>FiftyOneFifty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifty was involved with many podcast over the years<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet\">\n<li>Obviously LinuxLugCast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxlugcast.com\">http:\/\/www.linuxlugcast.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=linuxlugcast\">https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=linuxlugcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hacker Public Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerpublicradio.org\/\">http:\/\/hackerpublicradio.org\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerpublicradio.org\/correspondents.php?hostid=131\">http:\/\/hackerpublicradio.org\/correspondents.php?hostid=131<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\/dev\/random <a href=\"http:\/\/devrandomshow.org\/\">http:\/\/devrandomshow.org\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/devrandomshow.org\/shows\/?f=all.html\">http:\/\/devrandomshow.org\/shows\/?f=all.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kernal Panic Oggcast <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=KernelPanic+Oggcast&amp;page=2\">https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=KernelPanic+Oggcast&amp;page=2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Shared thoughts and memories<\/u>:<br \/>\n<strong>Ken Fallon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was in the back room pottering away when espeak notified me that 5150<br \/>\nhad passed away. I went back to the computer and read the announcement<br \/>\nin the IRC Logs and confirmed the news. Some dude I had never met, never<br \/>\nseen in my life, and didn&#8217;t even know his real name, was gone and I was<br \/>\nin the back room crying my eyes out.<\/p>\n<p>Crying for the loss of a friend.<\/p>\n<p>When had he become a friend ?<\/p>\n<p>People have been socializing since the dawn of humans, be it at the camp<br \/>\nfire, the forge, pub, hairdresser, sports club, church, or wherever.<\/p>\n<p>For us it was via Linux podcasting. You are there because you share a<br \/>\ncommon interest. If you were into Linux podcasting then you could not<br \/>\nhelp but get to know fiftyonefifty. The guy turned up everywhere if not<br \/>\non the podcasts themselves he was commenting on them. I have 619<br \/>\nmessages from him about HPR alone.<\/p>\n<p>He submitted his first show back in 2010 and has been a regular since<br \/>\nthen. At some point after that I knew that he was on my &#8220;special list&#8221;<br \/>\nof people who I could rely upon to fill the queue if needed.<\/p>\n<p>And as I sat there crying I realized that he had also sneaked onto my<br \/>\nlist of friends.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not always been a fan of the New Year Show, but now I am glad for<br \/>\nit. While I may never get to share a beer with him any more, or take him<br \/>\nup on his promise to let me fire off some rounds on his farm, I did at<br \/>\nleast get to shoot the breeze with him for many a happy hour.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye old friend you will be missed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anonymous<\/strong><br \/>\nA Ramble for FiftyOneFifty: King of Ramblers<\/p>\n<p>I am writing a Ramble for a man I knew only as FiftyOneFifty.\u00a0 I never knew his real name,<br \/>\nnor do I know if he knew mine.\u00a0 In many things, Names do not matter, People, Actions, and<br \/>\nfeeling do.\u00a0\u00a0 We podcasted together off and on, over several years.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t recall exactly<br \/>\nhow many.\u00a0\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter now, since they are all that there will ever be.\u00a0 We grew to be<br \/>\ngood friends.\u00a0 I never met him in person, online life is like that.\u00a0 I only know my life would be<br \/>\nmuch poorer, if I had not known him.\u00a0 Hearing he died, shattered me.\u00a0 This Ramble is my try<br \/>\nat putting most the pieces back in place.\u00a0 Of course, nothing can replace the largest piece,<br \/>\nthe Man Himself.\u00a0 My heart and prayers go out to those friends and family dealing with his loss.<\/p>\n<p>His death is a harsh, unchangeable, fact.\u00a0 I shall focus on his life, and things better remembered<br \/>\nthan the wall we all will hit one day.\u00a0 Fifty was a man if Life, Joy, and passions.\u00a0 That is how I shall<br \/>\nwrite of him.\u00a0 I had a far too short time, to learn about him, and from him.\u00a0 It will also\u00a0 warm my heart,<br \/>\nwhere he live yet, and has for a long time.\u00a0 I learned this fact, only after I could no longer talk with him.<\/p>\n<p>I found him easy to talk with, and listen to.\u00a0 He was also &#8220;Vaccinated with a Victrola Needle &#8221;\u00a0 as<br \/>\nmy relatives might say.\u00a0 He could ramble on for hours. enjoyably.\u00a0 He virtually always made sense,<br \/>\neven when in his cups.\u00a0 He shared himself, his hobbies, experience, and his travels with us, on our<br \/>\npodcasts.\u00a0 While he went to Linux events, he never limited himself to just linux topics.\u00a0 He reported the<br \/>\nnon Linux features of events.\u00a0 This great for choosing family trips to them.\u00a0\u00a0 He included accommodations, restaurants, and pubs in the area.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t travel, or drive, so these second hand visit were a delight.<\/p>\n<p>His research and Linux activities made up much of his contribution to our podcasts.\u00a0 He life also<br \/>\nflowed in, to entertain and inform us.\u00a0 He lived in the country, farming, cows, trouble getting Internet<br \/>\nservice were included.\u00a0 My parents can off farms, so he even kept my ties to that life alive.\u00a0 Firearms, cars, especially his beloved Hearse were shared interests.\u00a0 tale from his tech support work, for businesses and schools enlightened me.\u00a0 Farmers are natural pack rats, so gathering all sorts of discarded computer gear was natural.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately he lost most of it in the fire which destroyed his house.\u00a0\u00a0 Losing his house, and even his dear father, never seemed to blight his spirit or life, in the long run.\u00a0 It would be natural to keep such private matters from more distant friends, as I was.\u00a0 Nor did his long illness color the side of him I saw.\u00a0 it got in his way, sometimes,\u00a0 as I recall, but never in his spirit.\u00a0 I wish I had been closer, to offer myself more to the man I miss dearly.\u00a0 I must just try to use his independent example, in my own life.\u00a0 Anyone could do much, worse.\u00a0\u00a0 His quiet touch helped heal me in ways I am only now realizing.<\/p>\n<p>I started the day in tears, still aching from losing a rare, true friend.\u00a0 Then I recalled a song from Toby Keith, called &#8220;Cryin&#8217; for Me (Wayman&#8217;s Song ) written about he loss of his close friend, Wayman Tisdale.\u00a0 Toby found about his friends passing on Friday.\u00a0 On Sunday Toby was driven to write the memorial song.\u00a0 In it he says his tears are not for his lost friend, who is now in Heaven, but for Toby himself, and all those family, and friends, Wayman left behind.\u00a0 I believe Fifty is in Heaven, with his Dad, and those who have gone before.\u00a0 He will see things from the Good Seats.\u00a0 He can enjoy all the Holidays, and never feel the cold.\u00a0 I was driven to write like Toby, to handle my own shock and grief.\u00a0 We Cry and Mourn, those left behind in the Mortal world, for our loss and pain.\u00a0 Our dear One is beyond pain, perhaps for the first time in years.\u00a0 He has earned his time in Grace.\u00a0 He as paid as we pay now, for life beyond grief, with those who have gone ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope my words and memories may help\u00a0 the ones he left behind.\u00a0 Pain is a Mortal thing. It need not be deadly, or poisonous.\u00a0 Fifty&#8217;s Life is a great example of this and many other things.\u00a0 I hope we can go forward, with his example helping heal our loss of him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God Bless You, Fifty, and those you touched in turn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1474\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-223-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/lugcast_5150\/lugcast_5150.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/lugcast_5150\/lugcast_5150.mp3\">http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/lugcast_5150\/lugcast_5150.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/lugcast_5150\/lugcast_5150.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return 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