Range Update
My Browning Hi-Power shoots well. The surplus 13 round magazine I got doesn't reliably accept 13 rounds. The Mec-Gar 13 and 15 rounders work like they should. My spur hammer bit my web.Marv's FÉG...
View ArticleTraveller Cartography
Directions in the real world.Alpha Centauri is trailing.Sagittarius is coreward.Orion is rimward.Epsilon is spinward.
View ArticleInflation
Well, it seems that since we only send lawyers to Congress instead of Scientists, Engineers and Economists, we're going to get a stupid-huge increase in the minimum wage.Oh my Gods the fallacies flying...
View ArticlePassing
The first lesson I internalized with my minty fresh third stripe was that nothing was the fault of the people I supervised.Anything I was supervising was my responsibility and if they fucked up, it was...
View ArticleMoney Saving Idea
This might not work for you, but I am going to give it a shot.If I can live without it long enough to save up the money to afford it; I can probably keep living without it.It's crazy simple.Now to find...
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This is Kaylee.
Kaylee is my first AR-15. She started life as an attempt to make a clone of an XM177E2. Unfortunately, I didn't know much about XM177E2's when I started; in fact I thought CAR-15 was the proper...
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History of Dottie
Dottie has seen almost as many changes as Kaylee.Dottie's name derives from a line in the movie, "Armageddon". The amateur astronomer who discovers the planet killing asteroid wants to be able to name...
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Just 1,600 ly Rimward
Dahveeie dimmed the lights on the bridge down to nothing and covered the tell-tale and master indicator panels with her tablet.Space is dark!I started to ask what she was doing, and wondering if this...
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Po Boy
What the LaRue Tactical Po Boy is: A Hensoldt Wetzlar 2.5x 25mm telescope mounted in a standard LT-649 30mm pivoting mount with a spacer to take up the 5mm difference in the tube diameters. Update:...
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Tat Concept
Here's what I was thinking of...It's a bit of a double meaning...Rolling a 3 is a critical success in GURPS.Facing the viewer is 2-2-3... One of my favorite calibers. Can't do 277 or 308 with six...
View ArticlePotential For Evil
People like to invoke Godwin's law when comparisons are made between something done today and something done by the National Socialists.But one must always look very carefully at anything such evil...
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Crit Up My Sleeve
I am thinking the angle is as important as the count of the pips.I think I like it more from the top.Than from a lower angle.4 is still a crit!
View ArticleRe-Entry
The drives on a Traveller ship are immensely powerful.Interstellar Wars equivalent to the Type-A aka Beowulf is the Hero Class (Vilani Siigiizuni).It pulls 1.5g acceleration and can do so for many,...
View ArticleChanges
GURPS: Traveller: Interstellar Wars has pulled a bit of a retcon on me.The aforementioned Type-A/Hero/Siigiizuni is mentioned in canon LBB Traveller. Same J-1, M-1 as the later Type-A/Beowulf.In...
View ArticleColor Me Intrigued
I see on several blogs that Remington is going to be selling a new 9mm.Single stack and compact... MSRP under $400...I just added 9x19 to the collection with the Hi Power, so I am officially intrigued.
View ArticleIgnorant
I not only don't know what I thought I knew.I don't know what I don't know or the questions to ask to find out what I don't know.Evidence has appeared that seems to support that I don't know...
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Get Hahpah To Dah Chahpah
The NY Time has a neat little quiz.Not bad considering I was born in Dubuque, IA, spent the next nine years in Bolingbrook, IL then two years in Nevada, IA, two years in Blaine, MN, two years in Ames,...
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Nuclear Bomb Material
Got my tritium illuminator for my Trilux, thus restoring the TRILUX part of the optic.Not much to it really.An o-ring to seal the recess and a snap-ring to retain it.Tritium vial held by hobby...
View ArticleNo You Did Not
You did not stop smoking.You are now using a nicotine inhaler.You did stop using tobacco, but you're still smoking something.Changing the delivery system for your vice doesn't mean you've stopped...
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