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this really should be obvious, folks

… but since it does not appear to be, I will go ahead and say it.

The Beginner’s (and Idiot’s) Guide to Successfully, and SAFELY, Navigating the Tail of the Dragon:

1. Unless you are turning off the road, or getting into one of the designated pull-off spots along …

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guns do not kill people

Advanced, microprocessor-controlled, high pressure inert gas cannons, however, can be used to kill people… among other things.

It is not a “firearm” by ATF definitions, in that it does not “expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” (after all, inert gasses are, by definition, non-explosive); however, this …

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inception

Inception: The story is damned near as old as time, and the ending was predictable from about 10 minutes in, but both were handled magnificently, the graphics and effects were stunning, and the seamlessness of it all left you breathless… though I cannot say as though it raised my …

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quote of the day

*snort*

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone, I carry a gun because I don’t want to have to beat them to death with a rock I found on the side of the road. I’m just a humanitarian that way…

That certainly sounds better than my …

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far too reasonable

So, does anyone know anything about the Firepower Extreme FX45 Thunderbolt? Because, let me tell you, Google is failing me miserably, and the whole “Compatible with most 1911 parts, and accepts 1911 magazines.” bit at the end kind of concerns me – is it a 1911 or is it …

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capitalism + firearms = wonderful thing

Remember the wholly unimpressive condition of Gunny’s Indoor Range in Maryville? Well, it looks as though they might be getting a spot of competition in the form of Frontier Firearms down in Kingston, TN:

THE NEW STORE IS OPEN BUT STILL EXPERIENCING DELAYS IN RANGE. We have INSTALLED the Mancom

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uhm… you spend it?

So this search string showed up in my referer logs yesterday:

how to live on $10,000,000

Well, the first step is to give all that money to me…

Seriously? People actually search for things like that? Are we not teaching basic economics and money management in middle school these days? …

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big bunny

Speaking of coincidental crossovers between a particularly well-endowed land cannon and a particularly short-fuzed mini-lop, behold.

There are certainly few more-fitting tributes to a murderous, switchblade-equipped rabbit than naming it after a county-destroying supertank featured in a rather good science fiction story. …

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alexander tristan riley, back at it again

Personally, I find multi-hundred person “doomsday shelters” kind of dumb. If the excrement has well and truly impacted the vectored air-moving device, how are you going to get there from here? Do you know the other people who bought into the shelter? Do you trust the people you bought your …

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choose wisely

Note to fellow Tennesseeans: Birdshot is not the appropriate load to be used against bears. Sure, it worked… this time, but now the bear knows it will not kill him, and it might not successfully discourage it next time. Birdshot is demonstrably less effective against humans than alternatives

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*headdesk*

Note to self: The word “easy” should never be in the same sentence as any of the tens of thousands of names for various Unix distributions.

*sigh* And now I understand why people pay for things like TiVo service…

Also, how is it appropriate for a computer company to charge …

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summon undead

If anyone out there remembers the old browser-based game TDZK, its next incarnation goes live on the 29th.

Or. Well. Sort of. This new game will have about as much in common with the old TDZK as Ghost would have had with StarCraft, and I am not entirely sure …

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you are screwing up the message

A lot of anti-rights nuts make a lot of noises about how the Second Amendment is nothing more than an outdated, ananchronistic relic of an earlier time, and can simply be ignored or disregarded due to its inherent inapplicability to the present day. This “argument” is, of course, hogwash, but …

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sign up and go

If you have not yet signed up for the Gunblogger Rendezvous, you really should. This year, work, other plans, and money are all conspiring to block me from attending, but the one year I was able to make it (thanks to some very considerate assistance from USCitizen at

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exile machine’s hammerhead ar-15 rifle grip

Regular readers (all two of you) might recall an interesting gadget I posted about back in February, and an offer I made at the end of the post to try out an example of the unit, and post up my thoughts of it afterwards. Surprisingly enough (at least to me), …

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for sale

2x Diamond ATI Theater HD 750 USB TV Tuner – $54 for each, or $105 for the both of them.

1x SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual Networked High Definition TV Digital Tuner – $130

All three items are effectively brand-spanking new, having only been out of their boxes for about six hours …

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playing catch-up

In a slight departure from my normal posting styles, here is a collection of things I was going to write up individual posts about last week, but never really got around to it.

It does not really matter if this movie sucks in every other way possible… I am still …

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QOTD: JournoList Edition

In a discussion about Trig Palin, and the idiots who thought (and still think) that his birth was some sort of conspiracy and coverup, Lindsay Beyerstein gives us this gem:

In the post-Rathergate era, journalists should be on their guard for Republican dirty tricks.

That’s right, kids. The “fake …

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getting really, really tired of this

After having to deal with our brand-spanking-newly-remodeled-in-its-entirety kitchen leak a not-insignificant amount of water into our basement (and through our particleboard Ikea cabinets), I would like to again, for the record, STRONGLY recommend AGAINST anyone using Hammonds Contracting, LLC, of Knoxville, TN.

That is all. …

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unholster your camcorders

I suck at videos – both being in them and making them – but if you are not like me in that regard, and you want a free holster, get to making a video. Michael has the specifics over at his site, but here is the brief rundown:

So,

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