Hurricane Season
Today marks the beginning of hurricane season, an important date for a coastal Floridian.As always, we're prepped.We have guns, ammo, football pads and a colander.The neighbors both have food and are...
View ArticleThey Need To Die
The cats press their noses against the glass and make that little chittering noise.It's Cat for, "Everything that I need to kill is out there!"Poor frustrated things. Everything that needs to die is...
View ArticleHow Many Years
I kind of like reading about how the M16 has been in US Army service for 50 years.Kinda-sorta, I guess.The XM16E1 is made a "limited standard" in September 1963.It becomes the "standard A" M16A1 in...
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Still Not A Gun
Got a picture from the engraver.Now I need to carve out the fire-control pocket and have it anodized. THEN! it will be a gun!
View ArticleWay To Go GM
We should not single out General Motors here either. Most car makers have done this to us.There's some buttons on either side of the instrument cluster on my Corvette.The bottom two buttons are no...
View ArticleNo Gel
There's something I want to say.It's fluttering against the back of my mind, trying to get out.What I cannot do is create a hole for it to escape.It started as a casual observation about how the...
View ArticleLast Words
"I wouldn't have to mansplain it if you weren't so cuntfused."If I were to utter those words to The Lovely Harvey I am pretty sure it would be ruled a suicide.
View ArticleFrustratingly Similar
Honda has decided to emulate 1980's GM.$5 for a bulb?They're ubiquitous type 74 bulbs in a spiffy plastic holder.$9 for a ten pack of LED from the aftermarket...Yeah, guess which one I went with?
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One Down
First we ID'd the bulb.It was confirmed that the 7219 bulbs I'd bought were the correct ones.Because Marv is an electrical engineer, he knows how to solder.Because he knows how to solder, they all work...
View ArticleNot A Project Unless You Bleed
The Civic was once my Mom's.She willed it to me on her death these long nine years ago.Being a Honda it's a trooper and keeps eagerly running as long as you do the scheduled maintenance.However, some...
View ArticlePlanet Nine From Outer Space
Check it out!Our sun might be a thief!Look out for falling centaurs though.Ice Cream Sundae can happen on a Saturday.
View ArticleOne Wonders
What with the Trump supporter side demanding enforcement of those pesky laws, that if the established political class is worried that these voters mean enforcing those laws on THEM!Because on one hand...
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Speaking Of LED Conversion
The bulbs and sockets for The Civic showed up today! Yes, today. Sunday. Delivered by the USPS.Gotta love that Amazon Prime thing.As soon as it's dark and the heat of the day breaks a bit I'll tear...
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LED There Be Light
Got all ten of the bulbs in the Civic's instrument cluster replaced with the LED kit.A frustrating thing about LED conversion is an LED is, well, a diode. It's right there in the name.That means it's...
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Angry Sky Gods
Click to make bigger.This is a front being displaced by the incoming tropical system in The Gulf.
View ArticleD+ 26,298
Compare casualties from one day 72 years ago with the entire fifteen years of "War On Terror".
View ArticleYawn
To put things in perspective...A tropical storm really isn't any more violent than a line of thunderstorms rolling across the great plains.The only real difference is the flooding that comes from the...
View ArticlePerhaps Godwin Moment
"No one wants an actual President Hitler." I think you might be incorrect about that, Mr Adams.We've certainly embraced a combination of socialism and nascent fascism that's eerily close to national...
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Gun Christmas In June
Got my engraved 80% lower back today! Now it's back on me to finish the fire-control pocket.Then it will be on someone else for anodizing. Then it'll be part of an M16A2 clone.Got the M16 type D...
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