X VS Y VS Z
I don't particularly care for the M1A.I think I've mentioned it before.But...Proponents of one 7.62 battle rifle or another tend to have the one we love and despise the others.We have lists! Lists of...
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Order Of Operation Matters
The TI matches the spreadsheet in both Open Office and NeoOffice (if you put it in as =6/2*(1+2))I think my math teacher taught me to do parenthesis first, then multiplication/division left to right....
View ArticleTravelling
A couple of epiphanies.The first is my acceleration spreadsheet will also tell me how fast and how long a fall will take.The trick to remembering what contragrav does is to remember that it nullifies...
View ArticlePlate
I was behind a Mazda with a DC plate today.The motto area said, "Taxation Without Representation."I get it, they pay taxes and their "representation" in congress is non-voting.I wonder if they realize...
View ArticleHow To Disassemble A Glock
Tam has indicated that she doesn't know how after being lectured on how to clean guns.First you need a disassembly tool.RCBS is preferred, but Lee will do...Then make a disassembler insert with your...
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Voted
Got the gun vote out!This is your most important act as a citizen. It's a right and a duty.I am somewhat baffled by people who don't vote. By default a no-vote is a vote for whomever wins.
View ArticleInconceivable!
An F-35C made an arrested landing on Nimitz.I read just a few months ago that this is impossible for various reasons.I guess it's just the engineer in me that read the various reasons as making the...
View ArticleFunniest Two Things Today
First is the 10 Reasons Libertarians Hate Everyone.Second is Lyle's response:It is a pretty arrogant list though. For one thing, if lib’tarians are the super, ultra geniuses of the world, you’d think...
View ArticleMedia Response
One thing that ticks me off is how the media responds to the behavior of our elected officials.You may notice that Obama continued a lot of policy from Bush. Or maybe you didn't because the screeching...
View ArticleDa Fuzz
Slinking in the slime that is the Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy that is ARFCOM (®Tam)...Whenever the topic of "we the citizens don't want the cops doing x" comes up there's almost always a "when...
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Novelty Beer
It's a gimmick, but I watch GoT, so it worked on me.It's OK. Nothing to write home about. Like if Killians wasn't mass produced.
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It's Funny
I don't particularly care for the M14.Pic from: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks#M14But every time I watch Mars Attacks, I kind of want one.It's amusing to me, as a retro AR person and as someone...
View ArticleSci Fi Vs Sci Fy
Fy isn't a thing, but I needed something...This is science fiction vs science fantasy.Niven and Pournelle provided the real distinction.Science fiction is simply a fiction story with a novel setting...
View ArticleHistory Repeating
I wrote in Nov 2006...BAM! We have a Republican Congress.What this does not indicate: A full-on endorsement of the American people of the Republican platform. What it probably indicates is that people...
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Former Friend
Every once and a while I'll google people who've left my life.Many times I am thankful they're no longer present!Finding recent arrest records is getting to be depressingly common.
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Happy Birthday Lex!
Never let it be said that we've forgotten him.F/A-18A from VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet, which I think was Lex's first gig.F-16N from VF-45 Blackbirds.I don't have a VFA-192 Golden Dragons skin for a...
View ArticleBe Honest
You bought the AK because ammo was cheap.Be honest with yourself even if you're aren't to me.
View ArticleDiatribe
The top ten reasons that Libertarians talk downaren't nice to you has really put a burr under my saddle.I am not sure where to begin.I guess for openers, most "libertarians" are anything but. Most of...
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