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Looks like the T@B just got some pretty stiff competition.

Just from looking at the spec sheets, the Cricket Trailer (*.pdf warning) is smaller on all three axes (at least when it is folded up), has more headroom when it is opened, weighs less, and carries more water and …

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just another money-sink

I really, really did not need to know about Ballistic Reload. Think “Woot-for-gunnies” and you have the right, though infinitely dangerous, idea. …

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set them up and knock them down

Time for some good, old-fashioned myth-busting. Why? Because I am feeling lazy today and want to do the whole linky-no-thinky schtick I say it is.

Myth #1: Stay out of the criminal’s way / give the criminal what he wants / hide and call 911, and everything is going to …

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customer service fail

As you might have guessed, Better Half and I are in the process of procuring new footware for our European vacation – for me, it was merely a matter of going to enough stores, and trying on enough shoes, since I seem to fall in the all-too-common 10-11 size …

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Small Wolrd

I used to live across the street from the house in this picture.…

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follow the money

Anti-rights nuts often make a lot of meaningless noise about how organizations endorsing and espousing their particular breed of bigotry are, in their minds, just as powerful as the organizations seeking to preserve and protect civil rights, as can easily be demonstrated by the copious quantities of pro-control legislation making …

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it’s so shiny!

If you really, really liked me and/or this weblog, you would buy me one of these.

Or, at least, you would buy yourself one, so Toshiba gets the clue that this might just be an awesome idea and keeps it around, rather than sticking to their initial “limited run” …

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fender-print on your forehead

How do you know when your leadership skills are insufficient for the task at hand?

When your employees – the people who literally depend on you for their future paychecks – sell you down the river:

President Barack Obama’s decision to make public comments Friday that further stoked an

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evolution

I am pretty sure that “Do not give firearms to carnivorous plants” should probably be an addition to the Four Rules. …

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Wherein I steal my co-host’s schtick

One line movie review–The Expendables:

The action sequences more than make up for the bad CGI, red laser beams, and the fact that Dolph Lundgren is now 112 years old.

Oh, and apparently it beat the snot out of “Eat Pray Love” at the box office. Mission Accomplished.…

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for sale

1x Acer AspireRevo AR3610-U2002 Desktop (Dark Blue) – Effectively identical to the one on the Amazon listing, except the included wireless keyboard and mouse are black, and the hard drive is 250GB. Comes with all hardware included in the original packaging (wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, wireless USB dongle, power cables, …

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you are responsible for your actions

This is the simple truth that you will never catch an anti-rights nut admitting, lest their precious reality bubble come crashing down upon them:

It’s not the NRA’s fault that Lakeisha Gadson refused to do her most basic duties as a mom. No amount of gun control laws can change

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orly?

It always amuses me when people say inherently stupid things, like, say, this:

Local police spokesman Benoit Dumas said of the latest case that “nothing can justify a speed of 290km/h”.

“It is not controllable. It must have taken 500m to stop,” he said.

Well, not to point out …

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release the babelfish!

After coming to a somewhat amusing (at least to me) revelation a few days ago, I will be fooling around with automatic translators for this webpage over the next few days, so things may be looking a little odd now and then, though hopefully not for too long. Anyone have …

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peter hamm responds

Or, well, not. Specifically, Petey Hamm left a comment on the post wherein I pointed out one of his most-recent lies, but I would hardly call it a “response” – it comes across as more of a reaction; an amalgamation of childish namecalling, schoolyard projection, and complete denial. …

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Marketing tricks

This morning I decided to treat myself to some Starbucks. After paying, I was asked, “Would you like a free reciept today?”
I chuckled, declined, and couldn’t stop thinking about this.…

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A very moving post

From Bonnie.

It’s always good to talk about those kinds of things. It helps the survivor heal, and it helps the rest of us avoid bad situations.…

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the numbers are out there

Currently, once-Great Britain “enjoys” the highest violent crime rate in the world, measuring in even higher than South America, and nearly four times the rate here in America.

Likewise, the rate of firearm-related cimes is increasing over seven times faster than once-Great Britain’s population growth rate… does that …

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we can rebuild it. we have the money.

*sigh* Would that all fictional firearms were this easy to reproduce.

Speaking of, to all the enterprising firearm fabricators, manufacturers, and designers: create a fully-functional copy of Captain Malcolm Reynold’s sidearm, and I can guarantee you at least one purchase. And by “fully functional”, I do not mean …

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pretty lights

I guess I should have known the night was going to be odd when the heat lightning was neither “diffuse” nor “flickering”, and was, in fact, bright enough to light up our front yard as if it was daylight outside… just without the expected sound. However, 0130 rolled around this …

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