This morning, while I was wandering around the ‘net during a brief break at work, I stumbled across the somewhat interesting news that Mars, the home of little green men, is actually undergoing its own version of "global warming" as…
As I promised a few days ago, this weblog will not be silent upon this, the "One Day of Blog Silence". Silence amounts to nothing more than surrender at best… consent/assent at the worst, and it is something I will not partake in this day. …
I am a science fiction fan… well, some would probably classify me under the heading of "junkie", but now we are fiddling with semantics, and that is never fun for anyone. Any way you cut it, I enjoy science fiction – especially visual representations of it. Unfortunately, the television channels…
So, apparently, my trackback spam catcher (tCode) does not get along very well with Linkfest Haven… As such, tCode is currently disabled until such time as I can figure it out, and I have implemented a new spam-catcher that basically moderates all trackback pings that do not link to…
Well, Chevrolet has taken an interesting tactic on releasing some of their concept cars… or, at least, tantalizing the American public with the examples of their concept cars, as is always the case with car companies. I have never really understood that aspect of car construction – if…
A while ago, I wrote down the random idea of using nanotechnology to generate a "master key" to prevent you from having a massive pocket of jangling and annoying keys when you have as many as I do. It would be able to take three-dimensional impressions of your keys and…
So, as you may or may not be particularly aware, I do have a CafePress store online, mostly focusing on Serenity-related items, with a few exceptions. My pride and joy of the store is the book I wrote – Everything I Need to…
Turns out today was a bumper crop for interesting news… First off, we have the distinct possibility of a second Earth having been found out in the nethers of space. Granted, its description may not be the most promising thing in the world…
So I recently filled a contact prescription I had laying around for the past six months or so… Always meant to, just never bothered to sit down and do enough comparison shopping to come up with a price I liked (I need toric lenses, and the brand my eye-doctor recommended…
In this day and age, it is remarkably rare to find anyone with the spine necessary to stand up for what they believe in, despite the assaults of philistines, non-believers, and outright attackers. Few people posses the gonads necessary to withstand the occasionally withering assault that can be levied against…
… so to speak. I finally got up off my lazy ass and took a short walking tour of the city in which I am currently residing… just as well, considering that I will be moving out of it in a month or so. Of course, my new camera accompanied me…
Detecting a pattern in the title of these open trackback posts, I am. Anywise, this post would have been up considerably sooner had my apartment complex’s network not crashed sometime last night… That, in and of itself, would not have been so bad, except no one comes in to…
Ok, as an exercise for the reader, I think it is time for a little comparing and contrasting. The Clinton News Network was kind enough to publish two differing viewpoints on the recent Virginia Tech atrocity, as a kind of "both sides of the coin" exercise… Maybe they…
It seems as though when I find one piece of news on Firefly, I turn around and find another one. Of course, I am not complaining by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, i just am vaguely amused by the coincidence, that is all.
If I did not already know that my schedule would not allow me to partake, I would bloody well find the time and money to sneak my and Better Half’s way onboard the Browncoat Cruise coming up this December. I confess that I am not terribly familiar with…
… if just one student or teacher with the will to act had been armed today at Virginia Tech?
What, was that not the question that flashed through your mind when you read about the 33 fatalities at that university? Oh, wait, let me guess what you…
Initially, I said I was never going to do this. However, after due consideration, I changed my mind. I now have an official Concealed Weapon or Firearm License, legally issued by the State of Florida.
You will forgive me for fuzzing out the personal/revealing information, of course. So…
Considering the fact that the images and multimedia buried in this post took me over two hours to upload (thanks to a piss-poor network system in my apartment complex), you bloody well better enjoy it.
As I have been mentioning, today is Buy a Gun Day… Basically,…
Though I like trackbacks… So, tell me, what do you have for this, the glorious day of Buy A Gun Day? Unfortunately, I was unable to partake, at least in terms of artillery… but more on that later.
Who would have thought that trying to give the government your money (or, rather, have the government steal your money) would be so difficult? Last year, Better Half and I filed a joint return, which made sense, and still does, since we were married, and it tends to work better…
As a special treat for me being remiss in posting here (and because I am too lazy to write up an honestly long post on my own), I will provide you a few snippets out of Michael Z. Williamson’sFreehold that I found to be interesting while reading…
And before you accuse me of inflamatory comments, flaming, and all the rest, I mean that statement in all honesty. To understand better what I am trying to say, we have to first establish a few ground rules for this post. …
What with me being married and Better Half being 800 miles away (and soon to be a continent away), this video is more than a little poignant. Granted, it covers a tried-and-true debate, but the presentation is novel, if nothing else.
At the behest of Ron, I went and secured myself a copy of Michael Z. Williamson’sFreehold, and have been hungrily paging through it… to the point of reading a hundred pages in my first hour. When I like a book, I really like a book. …
Here I promised that I would get this off on time, and then I almost forgot to actually post it. Way to go, eh? Regardless, Sundays do not seem to be the best days for these open trackback post thingies… any suggestions for better choices?
I grew up with LEGOs, and by "grew up", I mean I had a twin-mattress-sized drawer full of the colorful little plastic bricks for most of my childhood and teenagehood, right up until I went to college and my parents told me I had to either take them…
Yes, I am still alive. But in the interest of using what spare time I have to slightly more constructive purposes, I will keep this post relatively short and to the point. Better Half directed me to the report that Tucumcari was seriously damaged during these past storms…
Unfortunately, despite my recent spate of frenzied posting, you can expect it to take a serious downturn in frequency for the next few weeks. In fact, expect nothing during the work-week, and little on the weekends… I will do my best to keep the open trackback posts coming in…
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” by Dalai Llama
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