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When things like this scroll across my screens, I really start to wish I knew more about lower-level programming and microelectronic circuits. I mean, stuff like this is crazy-cool.

Then I remember what little I learned about that kind of digital magickery, and how not-fun it was in practice, and …

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Facts vs Feelings

Claim: If we allow guns where alcohol is served, tourism will suffer

Reality: CMA Festival attendance up 17%, tourists spend $24 million, and 95% of hotel rooms were booked that week.

I really have to wonder about the people that make these easily-disprovable claims and the reporters who never follow …

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calling it something does not make it so

I will be perfectly honest: short of a few million dollars, there is extraordinarily little that would convince me to own a “Smart” car and use it as my daily driver… or, really, drive one any longer than a test-drive would take.

However, I do have to admit …

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the joys of modern technology

Remember the ghillie-suit music video?

And that Rube Goldberg music video?

Well, the same crazy group is back at it again, only this time with a time-warping video:

The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is

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to the ops

I grew past begging at about the age of two. Sorry. …

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moving up in the world

Our WordPress installation just got upgraded to 3.0. Do let me know if anything broke en-route. …

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language barrier

Do not lie. This kept you up at night as a kid, too… …

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forgetting his place

It is probably just as well that I probably never will have a job interacting directly with our annointed overlords duly-elected representatives, simply because, while I cannot guarantee exactly what my reaction would be to totalitarian bulldren like this, I probably would not keep that job for terribly …

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lies, damned lies, and…

The next time some anti-right nut goes off on a tangent about how much less crime New York City has now that they have banned effectively all firearms from their streets (unless you are a criminal, or able to pay off the police department / politicians… but I repeat myself), …

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an invasion, by any other name

Imagine that you are the ruler of a country – this should not be hard for the megalomaniacs in my readership. Imagine that country is bordered by a few other countries, and that those borders are generally unregulated… there are, of course, designated border-crossings, with gates and fences and all …

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tennessee time

We had our accident on the 30th. The car made it to the body shop on the 3rd. They were hoping to have all the parts in-hand and start working on the 9th.

They are currently planning on having all the parts by the 21st.

It is going to take …

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so wrong

And yet so very right (and probably NSFW, to boot).

(And, in case you missed it…) …

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bad criminal, no gun

Note to Would-Be Criminals: do not use firearm while engaging in your illegal activities, lest those firearms be taken away from you and used against you:

The 33-year-old man was walking with another man in the 1700 block of Swanee Quintet Boulevard about 11 p.m. Friday when the three

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*zap*

Given the sheer number of puns, interpretations, and general-purpose idiocy that could be made out of an incident like this, I am at a complete and total loss for words.

Well, apart from, “Jesus may really have touched down…” …

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reciprocation

I wanted to take a minute and thank Everyday, No Days Off, MArooned, hyperprapor, SayUncle, Sharp as a Marble, and 3 Boxes of BS (drop me a note if I missed your site) – due to the efforts of those webpages, my post disproving the

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this could be good

In addition to rightfully jettisoning Megan Fox, it looks as though Transformers 3 will pick up Alan Tudyk, of Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse fame.

This movie is looking better and better. …

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it is the little things

Installing a second full shower head at the “foot” of our new master bathroom tub might just have been my best idea ever.

[Update] At Rustmeister‘s request:

Shiny, ain’t it? [/Update]

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did representative bob etheridge commit assault and/or battery?

I know you are are coming due for re-election to your seat as the Representative for North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, Bob, and I want to ensure that the following video is all-too-easy for your constituents to find, should they be so inclined:

That small detail dispensed with, allow me …

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leading the charge

Being a Mustang owner, I have no particular love for Challengers, and given that Dodge did take bail-out money, and is now partially owned by the federal government, I have no particular love for that company as a whole.

That said, this is simply awesome. Ludicrous, but awesome:

“Couple of …

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On press checking

You should do it frequently. I have apparently been walking around for three days with an empty chamber.

Whoops.…

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