November 2008 | walls of the city

speaking up

For those of you readers who live here in the Patron State of Shooting Shit with me, and who also enjoy exercising their Second-Amendment-protected rights, I have an interesting little tool for you.
While Tennessee has an alllowance [...]

happy-juice

Memo to Apple:
Look, I know you have managed to carve out quite the computer peripherals empire based off one hell of an advertising campaign. Your computer side of the house is not doing terribly well, though, but [...]

to hell with georgia

Way back when I was just a freshman at the Georgia Institute of Technology, we somehow managed to live up to our side of the football rivalry and beat the University of Georgia. Unfortunately, since then, our record has [...]

on-demand pepperoni

Did you know that one can now order Domino’s Pizza from one’s TiVo?
I weep for the [...]

too easy to fix

This topic has been raging for a few weeks now, so I guess it is time for me to weigh in. My solution for the “problem” posed by homosexual “marriages” is simple:
Get the government out of the [...]

thrift shopping

You have to love a store where you can buy monitors for pennies per inch…

the value of arms

By way of a linky-no-thinky post for today, I recently stumbled across an article entitled “Just Say ‘No’ to Gun Registration“, by a certain Chuck Hawks. While an across-the-board gun registration scheme is not seeming [...]

worshipping at the altar

So was anyone else stupid enough to get up at the ass-crack of dawn this morning (or, really, before it) to go see what kind of deals they could procure at your local altars of consumerism?
… Yeah, [...]

and it was good

I promise there is a turkey underneath all of that bacon. See?

See you all when the tryptophan wears [...]

sensor ping LIII

For those of you who are actually sad enough to post on Thanksgiving (like, say, me) feel free to ping this if you want. The general premise is that you are free to ping this post (and every other [...]

give thanks

Happy Thanksgiving to all.
That said, go do something more useful than browsing the internet. I hear people cook today, or [...]

bloody details

Thanks to a not-so-righteous hack of BlogRolling a little while back, that fun little system remains down, with no ETA of the return of services. As such, this post will stand in the place of [...]

gift horses

Today is the day of free things, it would appear.
First, get your free flashlight (just be sure to un-check the blocks, unless you want more spam).
Second, get your free Trans-Siberian [...]

collapse of the union

It is interesting how great countries, nations, and societies fall… it is never in one fell swoop, it is never here-one-day-gone-the-next, it is never a sudden event (barring cataclysmic disasters, that is). Rather, they tend to be chipped away, [...]

fable on the table

Well, hell, I will certainly write 300 words for the chance at winning $250 – mercenary, I am.
Here beginneth the fable:

Dan the Dragon worked hard, day in and day out, procuring bright and shiny [...]

fall down go …

I have seen the Burj Dubai in person, and I can honestly say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that these two gentlemn are bloody nuts.
Once you factor in the altitude, the legal system [...]

checking under the skirt

We think http://www.wallsofthecity.net/ is written by a man (70%).

Well, that is good, given that I am a man – at least last I checked.
Of course, their system seems to be batting

go back to school

One can only hope this soccer mom schools the Lebanon County Sheriff, Michael DeLeo as bad as she schooled Bryan Miller.
That said, I do disagree with one thing she said later in the article, [...]

money = rights

It must be nice being rich and famous in Kalifornistan, because then you can have paid, armed guards to defend you from sword-wielding maniacs.
Make no mistake, the security guard did the right thing. The [...]

inventory control

While hoplophobes everywhere are coming up with new and interesting ways to strip average, law-abiding American citizens from possessing their evil, baby-killing, warzone-creating, insanely-accurate-but-spray-wildly-from-the-hip “assault rifles”, certain Only Ones are giving theirs up without even a second [...]

going down

While I do have a tendency for preferring black-and-white photography, there are still uses for colors, and one of those uses would definitely be sunsets:

closing shop

… or, at least, closing sixty-day-old shops.
I recently installed two, new, powerful plugins on my weblog. The first is called Blog Janitor, and it shuts down access to trackbacking and commenting for all posts older [...]

possession is 9/10ths

America is royally and completely boned.

Cavuto asked Knollenberg: “When the housing industry CEOs come to you and say, ‘You know, [if] we go under and all the ancillary businesses – the dishwasher manufacturers, the washer-and-dryer manufacturers, [...]

just a little scary

Better Half and I are considering putting down an offer of a whole bloody lot of money on a new house within the next week or so… Unfortunately, this possibility is scary from multiple directions.
First, our offer [...]

equal rights

I may be more than a few years out of college at this point, but that does not mean this topic does not continue to hit close to home:

As usual, Oleg Volk’s [...]

black and white

Yes, I like monochromatic pictures, deal with it.

There is something comforting about a having a little fire in your abode, especially when you learn the outside temperatures are supposed to get down to [...]

one bite at a time

How do you eat an elephant?
Likewise, how do you destroy the Constitution? One line at a time…
President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama has no regard for the Second Amendment – that is already a known, [...]

who am i kidding

Ain’t nobody going to read that monstrosity I wrote yesterday.
Hell, I would not read it.
*sigh* Need to learn how to be a leetle more [...]

ack!

The sky is falling!
Wait.
No.
Funny white stuff is falling out of the sky. [...]

never would have occurred to me

If you mix MRE-grade hot chocolate with Hiram Walker peppermint schnapps, you get something that tastes almost exactly like a liquid version of those chocolate-mint-chocolate after-dinner mints.
Good stuff, [...]

infuriating, indeed

I am constantly frustrated by the number and type of individuals who are so ready and willing to dance in the blood of innocents (1755 UPDATE: It would appear as though Buck has taken down this [...]

attack of the clone

Due to some apparent confusion as to which comment link belongs to which post, I have gone and added a new comments link to the bottom of each post on the main page. If anything breaks, please let me [...]

where do we go?

So a guy at work is taking off a week, a full business week, to go hunting somewhere or another.
I like this [...]

i do not need this

You know what? I am getting really, really gorramed tired of the “need” argument coming up in reference to handguns, “assault rifles”, and all of the other fun, “evil”, nasty-looking firearms and equipments that are out there. You see [...]

building an aesthetic

Ok, so I have spent a fair bit of time researching various options online, and I have come to the conclusion that the upper package for B.O.M.B.E.R. is going to come from the good folks at

national ammo day

For those of you who were not already aware, today is National Ammo Day – an ammo BUYcott. I am not sure I agree with making an already hard-to-come by product even more sparse, and thus possibly [...]

flash me!

So I started putting up some Christmas lights today, which, all in all, is a relatively simple process for me – we still live in an apartment complex, so about the only place we can effectively decorate is our [...]

moving up

Dood. CSS2 has verticality now! Well, it has a property called “z-index” with which you can layer different boxes/divs/images/whateverthehellyouwant in an almost-three-dimensional manner.
For those of you who might have noticed (like, say, my wife), the [...]