First Past The Post
The author of that condemnation of "first past the post" voting clearly wants to do away with it.A practical impossibility, and I am pretty sure that there's constitutional barriers to changing the...
View ArticleI Hate That!
I've got a large vocabulary, most of the time.What's maddening is when you know you knew a word for something, the perfect word to use, and you can't remember the word itself, just that the word...
View ArticleRepeat
I've done this pic almost before.The difference is these are my M&P's.I am continually fascinated and impressed with the advances of technology.They're of similar weight and size but the M&P 9...
View ArticleSAG Day
I have a former neighbor who wanted to participate in BAG day by buying my B-Barrel Kiv/39.That would make it Sell A Gun day for me.We're off to a bad start.She said she wanted to buy it based on pics...
View ArticleCamera Play
I got a little tripod so I'm experimenting with taking super-macro pics.Using a pocket computer, that is also a phone, to take a picture of my camera... The future is amazing!The subject is a 5 round...
View ArticleSCN Mode
There's a color substitution mode.You aim the camera at one color, select, then at the color you want to replace it with and select again.It's not perfect, and ISO is locked at 250.But you can kind of...
View ArticleJaded
My how jaded I've become.I actually looked for a better upload on Youtube for MLP: FiM s5 e4 ...Because I can't be troubled to get up at the crack of dawn to watch it on Discovery Family I watch on...
View ArticleCasually WHAT?
Watching the Tyndall F-22A flight demo.They are not demonstrating "post stall maneuvering", they are demonstrating "post departure maneuvering"!The pilot just casually puts it in a falling leaf...
View ArticleGetting Kicked Out
The Lovely Harvey has noticed that she loses like 80 hours of vacation time if she doesn't take some time off before the end of June.Since she's planning on having her mom down and doing the staycation...
View ArticleRepeat Suggestion
I don't like police officers shooting dogs.I don't want police to be unable to defend themselves should they need to.I have a suggestion to make sure that they will only shoot a dog if it's...
View ArticleBackground
I'm having so much fun taking pictures in sepia mode, that I decided to change the background image here.A clip of the "rare" and deadly M855.
View ArticleMismemory
Why do I remember the Ruby Ridge Standoff as a Clinton Administration thing?That was on George H Bush's watch.
View ArticleGo Right Ahead
Go ahead and copyright your shit, automakers.I've got a multitude of choices to eliminate you from my car if need be.Not least of which is Mega-Squirt.
View ArticleExercise
A buddy and me have decided that we are sick of being as tubby as we are and we need some exercise.Today is our second outing on bikes and we did five and a half miles in just under a half hour. Our...
View ArticleI spell M
Pulp Fiction postulated that there were just two kinds of people. Elvis people and Beatles people.I disagree.There are Rolling Stones people and Led Zeppelin people.And which one you prefer is...
View ArticleCar Control Ramble
An implication of the car makers being successful in locking out tuners and independent shops is also being able to force death on your car.A good example might be tire pressure monitoring...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning Sale
Where our prices will be reduced from way too expensive to merely too expensive!Wait, where are you going?
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