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Good And Bad

June 10, 2015, 1:55 pm
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First the bad.

Actually, first a story...  A friend bought a 10/22 from another friend.  He's storing it here because he doesn't have a child-proof means of storing it yet.  While I was moving his gun out of the way to get to one of my guns I heard a rattling sound from his gun.

Oh crap!  What did I break?

So I take it apart as far as the manual says you can.

The bolt stop is way too short.  One end can dangle loose inside when the other end is flush with the side of the receiver.  That's what was causing the rattle.

Now the good.

I called Ruger and asked how long the bolt stop pin is supposed to be.  The nice person on the phone says it should be flush with the outside of receiver on both sides.

I tell her it is not and she immediately says, "Do not continue to operate the firearm," then she took my personal information and a new pin should be winging it's way here.

Huzzah! on you Ruger!

Although I had the serial number ready, as instructed by the call system, I didn't need it.

Now to decide what extortionate price I shall level on my friend for fixing his gun!  BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thag, that was out loud, NOT your internal monologue.

Well son of a bi...
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Death To 41P

June 10, 2015, 2:15 pm
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Moar Leverage

June 11, 2015, 12:37 am
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Marv's KSG's magazine selector was floppy.

It'd fall into the center, magazine-cut-off, position with depressing regularity.

Hoping to fix the problem with parts, he ordered an extended magazine selector.

Installation was super simple, just remove the screw holding the old one on, remove (being careful to not lose the detent and spring) then...

Wait, lose what?


That looks like a detent, but it doesn't move.


Stuck down flush with the receiver.

What appears to have happened is Marv's gun was made on Free Loctite Day at the Kel-Tec plant.  The screw was generously coated.  The brass bushing (that's supposed to move independently from the selector) was glued to the selector.  The spring and detent were glued into their hole.

Some PB Blaster and a whack with a punch freed it up and some picking at it with the end of a small screwdriver got it so it'd pop out like it's supposed.

Installation of the new selector was a breeze!


The instructions from Hi Tech CC don't mention it, but it's a ton easier to get at the screw with the butt pad and trigger group removed.
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Blunt Apology

June 11, 2015, 2:05 pm
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Lemme try to rephrase the "apology" that keeps getting made when people get caught offending someone.

What we ask for:
"I am sorry that I used an inappropriate word to describe my opponent and I hope that they will forgive me for using it."
and
"This behavior of an employee is unacceptable and disciplinary action for this behavior will be taken."
What we get:
"I'm sorry the shit heel is pissed off I called them a nigger."
and
"My employee is only a racist on their own time, not on company time."

Even when you unintentionally offend someone, you still have to apologize!
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APA Style

June 11, 2015, 9:04 pm
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A long time ago.  At a university far, far away...

I was a psychology major.

I did well in my classes, and was within three classes of graduating with a bachelor's of science in psych.

Three classes of English that I never completed because I took my internship and discovered that I would have loathed the career of being a psychologist despite how interesting the classes were.

So I dropped out.

One scar that remains from those three years is the American Psychological Association Citation and Format Style.

Because psych is all about publish or perish and brutally defending even the smallest original thought from poaching by others.

I physically twitch when I see something I wrote quoted without being cited.

The funny thing is I don't actually care for getting credit.  If I give you a great line, it's yours to use with or without telling anyone where it came from.

Yet I still twitch when someone actually uses the line.

Indoctrination is worthy of further study.  If I'd finished that degree I could get a grant, I'll bet!

I keep thinking I should see if my credits from the now-defunct Corinthians College I got my BBA from transfer to ISU to get those final English credits and get a sheepskin from them as well.  Prolly the wrong accreditation.
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WTF Fox

June 12, 2015, 10:17 am
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It is not unusual for television shows, even sitcoms to have larger story arcs.

What that means is some episodes have a proper sequence.

I've noticed a trend at Fox and their parade of one-season shows.

Firefly is probably most famous.

Enlisted was struck the same way.

Here's the corrected viewing order.



Episode # 1 Pilot (aired as episode 1)

Episode # 2 Rear D Day (aired as episode 5)

Episode # 3 Pete’s Airstream (aired as episode 3)

Episode # 4 Parade Duty (aired as episode 7)

Episode # 5 Brother and Sister (aired as episode 6)

Episode # 6 Randy Get Your Gun (aired as episode 2)

Episode # 7 Vets (aired as episode 8)

Episode # 8 Prank War (aired as episode 10)

Episode # 9 Homecoming (aired as episode 4)

Episode # 10 Paint Cart 5000 vs. The Mondo Spider (aired as episode 9)

Episode # 11 The General Inspection (aired as episode 11)

Episode # 12 Army Men (aired as episode 12)

Episode # 13 Alive Day (aired as episode 13)

If you bought the series on iTunes, as I did, then right click on the episode, select "Gef Info", then change the "episode number" in the video tab from the aired order to the corrected order.

Suddenly several things make more sense, and really improve the flow of the show.

If you haven't seen Enlisted yet, make a point of it.  It's funny.

Also, it's not a documentary or a drama...  Try to keep that in mind when, "but the Army doesn't/isn't" bubbles up.
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Not Black

June 12, 2015, 10:54 am
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The plastic on my M&P isn't actually black.

It's very dark gray.

Weird.
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Too Cynical

June 13, 2015, 8:12 am
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Rob Bishop (R-UT) has introduced HR 2710.

It's about removing ATF's discretion over the meaning of sporting purposes, which has apparently never been defined by law.

I think I have officially been paying attention to politics too long.

All I can think is, "this is just to score some NRA A-rating cred for 2016 because it's sure to be vetoed, assuming the Senate passes it too."

Representative Bishop could be a staunch, constant, and unwavering supporter of gun rights for all I know, I've never looked into him.  But there's doubtlessly going to be support for this bill that's going to be given because they expect it to die in committee in the Senate or be vetoed.
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Ten Years Man!

June 13, 2015, 12:00 pm
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Ten years ago, today, I made my first post to Livejournal.

That's a long time to babble incoherently.

Plenty of time to pick up readers and alienate them too!

I hope I've done more of the former than the latter.

I've moved a lot of my posts from my Livejournal account to this one, go check the archives and marvel at how the writing gets worse over time and less articulate.
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Narrow View

June 14, 2015, 11:10 am
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Today while reading blogs on my laptop...

Crispy is a refurbed Lenovo T420s with a 1600 x 900 display.

My phone is a Motorola Moto X 2nd gen with a 1920 x 1080 display.

I held my phone up to what I was reading and noticed that the 5.2" display on my phone readily covered the portion of the blog I was actually reading on a 14" display...

Most of the left and right margins are wasted space on many blogs and chock full of ads on most commercial sites.

I sometimes wonder if the content is still living in SVGA with 800 x 600.
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A Pattern

June 14, 2015, 11:32 am
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Remember back in November when I mentioned that The Lovely Harvey's car had been broken into and her carry piece stolen?

Turns out that several of her co-workers have experienced the same sort of theft from their cars at their homes.

We've updated the po-po on it, not sure what happens when the crimes are tied by everyone working in the same place but living across three different counties.  Prolly some sort of interdepartmental deal is already in place since our area is very intertwined.
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Bad, Good and Great

June 14, 2015, 12:19 pm
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The bad and good are detailed here.

The great is the pin they sent arrived yesterday.


As you can see the one that came with the gun is a bit short.

It was not broken off, as a couple of people have speculated.



Which pin is the short one?  Why ever the bad pin was too short, it was turned to this length.  My guess is that it was the end of the rod stock.


Ready to go shooting, assuming he ever gets something he can lock to keep it in.  Not that I mind him paying my extortionate storage fees....  BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Not The Second

June 14, 2015, 1:38 pm
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The NOAA assigned the A storm name (Ana) to a storm that formed before June 1st.

If the blob in The Gulf of Mexico forms up and is named Bill, while it will be the second named storm of the year, it will be the first named storm of the season.

That's because Hurricane Season runs from June 1st to November 30th.

I sometimes think they're overeager to assign names to get the global-warmering-increased-hurricane-activity-count higher.
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Whom I Have Wronged

June 14, 2015, 8:29 pm
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Someone I used to know searched their name and found themselves looking at their name on my blog.

They asked if I could change that.

Done!

The only thing I asked was if they had a preference for a name to replace theirs in the post.

It's good they had a nom de Thagsblog because I'm not very imaginative about such things when I'm not angry at the person.

That's why the Shitheel family has very creative names and others don't...

Their contact also gave me a chance to say I was sorry about how the friendship ended.

It started by my trying to make a joke in the comments to their blog.

It ended with comments from many people at several places going off on each other and a "please never contact me again," issued to me.

While I was upset and sad, I didn't try to contact them until they sent this request.  Nor will I make further attempts should they not wish me to.

I did not comport myself to the highest values of the regiment that day.  I wanted, more than to be right, more than to be their friend; I wanted to win the argument that fell from my lame joke.

Gods that was stupid.

My first (sadly not last) lesson that in a pissing contest, everyone gets covered in piss so it doesn't really matter who wins.  Also that I should shut my stupid pie hole before I stuff my size-tens in there.  Especially since there were likely more civil and intelligent ways to express my opinion once the fight had begun.
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Three Hours North Of Indy

June 14, 2015, 9:17 pm
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I think I can do that.

Wednesday the 24th works best.
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Resonance

June 15, 2015, 12:23 am
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It might just be me, but I don't think it is...

One line from Zero Dark Thirty that scares the shit out of me.

"When you lie to me, I hurt you."

It was a real, "where are we heading here?" moment for me in that film.
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Religious Idiots

June 16, 2015, 12:06 pm
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If football (or any other sport really) were legally made a religion, would the fans behave any differently?

I am fed up with paying for the mechanism that's hurting so many children beginning in middle school.

I am fed up with the best paid public employee in the state being a college football coach.

I am fed up with the constant proselytizing of the faithful and their needing to know if I attended or watched services the game.

I am fed up with the knee-jerk defense of their Faith sport when you complain about the money it siphons away from higher education.

I am fed up with the malfeasance and fraud associated with college sports to give the appearance that they are not a drain on scarce university resources.

I am doubly fed up with the Faithful fans who believe the shell-game accounting methods that hide the parasitical nature of their religion sport.  Accounting methodology that'd get your ass sent to jail if you used them outside of government.

When I make the mistake of comparing their religion fan interest with more conventional religions I nearly always get the "well we all pay for churches because they're tax exempt." Really?  I'm pretty sure that fallacy had a name in one of my econ books.

Because when you try to nail the jello of that argument to the wall you're going to find that the "tax supported" services are nearly all public utilities.  As if the church didn't pay directly for utilities used, just like you do.  It's an especially weak argument where I live because only the sewers are government owned.

And at any rate I can opt out of paying for a conventionally recognized religion, I simply don't put anything in the collection plate when I don't attend services.  Show me where I can opt out of paying for the football team of my local middle and high schools.
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I Had It

June 18, 2015, 10:16 am
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Then I lost it.

The strands of a really good post just flew apart.
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Again

June 18, 2015, 6:36 pm
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I would like to point out, again, that it was not me who murdered anyone.

Because it was not me, again, nothing I owned was used to murder anyone.

Yet, for some reason I am being blamed, again, as if I had murdered someone.

Because am being blamed, an attempt will be made to punish me; again.
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Hanging Out In Indy

June 22, 2015, 12:23 pm
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I'm here for a few days and missed Tam by mere hours

Sad faces...

Did the Indy Museum of Art.  Saw the Bugati.  Saw lots more, fun place!

Today was the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  Must be white trash tourist day.

Hanging and having a couple of brews at Sun King Brewing.

Just paying so that people would celebrate my demise

😀!
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