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’cause i’m leavin’…

You know, after having done long-distance relationships for the past five-six years, give or take a little (both with my previous girlfriend and now with my wife), I have started to develop one hell of a sizeable dislike for airports. I love flying… I honestly do. I like going places…

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happy halloween

So, I have to admit, those stupid little five-dollar tool kits from WalMart make all the difference in the world. As a child, I was only able to make use of the tools, knives, and implements I could scrounge up around my mother’s kitchen (and that she would allow me…

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damn skippy

… and is damned proud of it. Ok, I have to admit, I firmly believe this “Net Authority” website is a hoax of the finest nature (the varieties that are easily believed because they are just so damned believable). But on the off chance that it is, in…

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airborn particulate matter visuals

So I do not actually have any pictures of the flames, but what I do have are some semi-decent pictures of the smoke:




This last one was taken of San Miguel Mountain after…

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sensor ping XXXIII

Ladies and gentlemen, here are the open trackback posts found on my weblog. These are your chances to spread some of your better work, get it out to potentially a different crowd, and, if nothing else, get more links to your writings and weblog. Feel free to ping this post,…

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san diego fires of 2007 situation

Here’s how it is. Starting sometime on Sunday morning, fires started lighting all around San Diego, mostly centering around Witch Creek and Harris, and then spreading rapidly from there. Augmented by the wonderful Santa Ana winds, those fires just took off, and by Sunday afternoon, most of San Diego was…

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ain’t that the damnest thing

Far be it for me to ask potential atheists and agnostics to pray, but if all of you could take a moment and hope that Better Half and I do not have to evacuate, we would take it as a kindness. We can see the glow of the fires over…

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sensor ping XXXII

Ladies and gentlemen, here are the open trackback posts found on my weblog. These are your chances to spread some of your better work, get it out to potentially a different crowd, and, if nothing else, get more links to your writings and weblog. Feel free to ping this post,…

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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

I am a bleeding moron.
In other news, my wife is a bleeding genius.

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doubledamnit!

Even after I wiped all of my old MT2.x and 3.x templates and installed the newfangled 4.x templates (look at this shitty thing), they are still all jacked up with the columns and crap.
HELP!

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damnit!

If anyone can help me with the bleeding columns on my webpage, I would do… er… something for you. Gratuitous linkage or something. I have gone thorugh the code twice, ran it through two separate validators, and I still cannot figure out what is wrong with it.
By way…

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seasonal slaughter

So Better Half and I are going to go shooting sometime later next week, out at the Carrizo Creek Range nearby. Last time I tried introducing her to the shooting sport, it was at a relatively small indoor range, that was quite crowded the day we went, and…

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blinding daystar

Tomorrow, Better Half and I have a little apartment-work scheduled, one item of which will be hanging a curtain. Yeah, I know, it must look rather strange for me having been living in my current apartment for quite a few months now without something to block off my windows effectively,…

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should be obvious

I have a pop quiz for you all this evening, shamelessly stolen from WizBang:

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2)

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billboard + wind = world spin

Well, what with all the advertisements, news coverage, debates, and all the rest, one cannot help but to know that the national Presidential election is coming up about this time next year. One of the things that always amused me about elections as a child, though, are the massive amounts…

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poor kitty

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window of opportunity

A few days back, I asked for suggestions concerning the possible/probable addition of a red-dot/holographic scope to my new M1A. The first response I received was from Brass:

I sucked it up and payed the money for an EOTech, haven’t regretted that choice in the least. I went

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what will it be?

So after reading all of the nonsensical laws coming out of Kalifornistan over the weekend, the first thought running through my mind was “I need a drink.”
… Well, not really, especially considering how little I actually drink on a daily basis, but it does sound good. Either way,…

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king of morons

Otherwise known as the Governor of Kalifornistsan, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided yesterday to demonstrate a level of ignorance and stupidity that may be difficult for his future successors to beat.
You all remember California Assembly Bill 1471 – the bill that would, starting January…

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sensor ping XXXI

Ladies and gentlemen, here are the open trackback posts found on my weblog. These are your chances to spread some of your better work, get it out to potentially a different crowd, and, if nothing else, get more links to your writings and weblog. Feel free to ping this post,…

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for those in peril on the sea

Resolved, That a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months, and that the commander be instructed to cruize eastward, for intercepting such transports as may be laden with

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sighting downrange

Ok, so here is a random question for the surprisingly increasing number of people who read my weblog (but annoyingly do not leave comments… argh!): Are any of you familiar with Ultra Dot West rifle scopes? I ask this for a variety of reasons…
First, I am…

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thank god for tivo

So THAT is who the [warning, spoiler-laden link] Face of Boe [/warning, spoiler-laden link] was! Son of a monkey… I guess when you are paradoctoring paradoxes and violating just about every single Einsteinian law of reality and physics, things like that are bound to happen from time to…

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knowledge is wealth

Towards the end of the month, the Wealth Expo will be held in New York City. This event, sponsored by MyWallSt.net: Your Financial Social Network, is an event primarily designed to help investors build their personal wealth. During its three days, it will offer chances to interact…

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feichang ganxie

I try and keep from being repetitive and redundant on my weblog, but sometimes, something is worthy of note more than once. A little while back, David, of Random Nuclear Strikes fame, sent me an email about my book, Everything I Need to Know

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calling in the calvary

So here’s how it is.
As some of you may be aware, my job regularly takes me away from home, sometimes for remarkably extended periods of time. I just returned from one such period, but have been blessed with relatively good connectivity for most of it. That said, my…

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pahrk the cahr

Having lived on all three coasts of this country, I have gotten relatively used to showing up in a new town, and figuring out how to get around on my merry own. That said, there exist multiple companies and corporations out there that specialize in giving tourists and newcomers to…

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well, that makes a little more sense

A recent conversation I had… or at least what I heard from my side:

Other Person: So, did you hear that the Chargers won yesterday?

Me: Oh, well, that is good. Who were they playing?

Other Person: The Browncoats.

Me: Wait, the who?

Other Person: The Denver Browncoats.

Me: You

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damnation through inaction

Just remember, boys and girls, that it is only firearms that emit some manner of strange, mind-controlling aura that make people go all manner of stupid and start shooting and killing other people.
Knives would never do that.
A few interesting things stand out in…

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I should just start numbering these

… kinda running out of quippy titles, at this point.
  

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please, please, please

Please, please, please, please, please
Ok, yeah, I am a little behind the curve on this apparently, but the possibility of an honest-to-God Serenity 2 (even though both Wash and Book kicked the bucket, which I still very much dislike) is just too gorramed shiny…

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*beep* *beep* *beep*

Fifty years ago today, an oversize and remarkably overambitious lawn dart became the world’s first artificial satellite. Its regular beeping could be heard around the world as it completed approximately 1440 96-minute orbits before falling back to Earth. Though less than two feet in diameter, this little thing…

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shiny smoothness

So I received my first “skinhead” accusation today. Some of my readers may be somewhat confused by this statement, but those of you who are as pale-skinned as I am, and who also shave your heads, will definitely understand. However, this one was notable for a variety of reasons.

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