In Revision
Rant about bicycles is in revision.It will return once I've marshaled my thoughts better.It sounded better in my head when I was typing it, but didn't read near so well once I'd walked away for a bit.
View ArticleFifteen Years
You might not have noticed, but the moon has been gone for 15 years today.Really!
View ArticleBatting At The Bare Bulb
Today marks the 10th Anniversary of the expiration of the [so called] Assault Weapon Ban.It also marks the 20th Anniversary of me being politically active. I remember talk/politics/gunsA lot has...
View ArticleShare The Road (Revised)
LinkShare the road...Keep saying it.Maybe someday I'll start believing it; because by and large the people not sharing are on two wheels.Let's just discuss bicycles as vehicles-same-as-cars.First:...
View ArticleTwo Things
First, I don't need another gun.Second, I can't afford another gun.The problem is J&G Sales has an intriguing price on a Star Model B in 9x19mm.$320 for hand selected plus shipping and handling and...
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Hecho En Argentina
Willard may or may not have stopped by and may or may not have dropped off a .22LR conversion kit for a Browning High Power.That looks like this:In the box: Take-down tool; slide assembly; conversion...
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Didn't Prove What You Think
An Arsenal SAM7SF is not an AKM.Hornady 123gr SST is not 57-N-231.You didn't prove the AK was as good as an AR. You proved that a very expensive and very well made AK variant with optics is as good as...
View ArticleFucking Crooks
Someone stole my information it seems.Snipers Online UA of Green Bay, WI has been given $40 of my money in $10 increments; three on one day.It'd be one thing if I'd donated to them, but it's quite...
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.22 Conversion At The Range
While the swaging job Marv and I did wasn't enough to keep the ball captured, it wasn't a total loss at the range.We kept reading that you needed to use "high velocity" ammunition and there was a 200+...
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Much Better
An F-8D (F8U-2N) is much better equipped to handle the Godless Soviet hordes than the F-4B is during the Cuban Missile Crisis if it had gone hot in Europe.Here's my third mount in five days...It's a...
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Shark Mouth On The Gator
VF-111 Sundowners used the shark mouth on the noses of their planes.It should be an aligator mouth on a Crusader since it's nickname around the boat was "gator".
View ArticleGrumble
I now have two dead MacBook Pro 15.4"!I have an A1226, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo with 256mb of VRAM and an A1260, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo with 512 mb of VRAM.Both are dead at the video card. This is a well known...
View ArticleSilver Lining
My blog finally gets more comments than Tams!In other news, my glass is also 1/100th full!
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I Just Noticed
There's no difference between a screen shot taken with a slide-show like frame rate and one running seamless and smooth!No real sense of action. But you can see the wingtip vortices triggered by...
View ArticleGreat Britain Remains
Scotland has decided to stay a member.My heart does yearn for a free and independent Scotland.But...The reality of the political situation is that going on her own would almost definitely been a...
View ArticleResearch Project
This one is going to hurt my brain...As near as I've been able to find, so far, the statutory language that requires NICS is nearly identical to the language for the anal probe of NFA. At least as far...
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