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As you might have at least partially guessed by now, Better Half got a Kindle to take with us on our trip, as her somewhat-early anniversary present. We will get into the details of why that little toy is as shiny as it is when we get back from that …

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tactical pen, in review

One of the things that has always irked me about “tactical pens” is that they seem to revel in living up to their moniker, what with specifically-designed and -identified “DNA Catchers“, enough points to be a scoreboard at a soccer game, and a general appearance that, …

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igniting a fire

I just found out, for reasons that will become apparent later, that pretty much anyone can publish books on Amazon’s Kindle. So, two questions:

1. Would anyone be more-likely to purchase my book, Everything I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Firefly if it were in a …

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you need to watch this

Just skip forward to 1:38 if it does not do that for you:

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addition to fighting fire with fire

We have not talked about the Commercial Appeal’s privacy-invading database of Tennessee Handgun Carry Permit Holders for a while, but that database seems to have been refreshed recently (03JUL, to be specific), and I realized that my reciprocal listing of the public information available on the staff of the Commercial

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c.o. arms part v

Back at the beginning of the year, I expressed some misgivings about Tennessee’s new 1911 manufacturer, C.O. Arms, and specifically about their questionable advertising practices. I kept an eye on them, but have not heard much of late… that is, until I read this post of a forum …

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international travels

So, for all of my United Kingdom / Republic of Ireland readers, or anyone who has visited the British Isles, are the shift patterns in their manual cars the same as America’s? Specifically, is 1 in the upper-left corner, and R in the lower-right (at least for five-gear transmissions)?

On …

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in-progress review

Friendly word of warning: Those 5.11 “Original” Tactical Pants I reviewed a while back? If you dry them a few times, even on “low” setting, they do shrink.

I probably should have expected that, what with them being comprised entirely of 8.5 ounce cotton canvas, but I was hoping …

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designers need french curves

The topic seems to have diminished of late (or I am just not paying attentiong to the appropriate sources any more, which could also be the case), but a lot of time and effort has been expended both in America and abroad trying to convince teenage (and younger) girls, adult …

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Consistency

We better burn these holy books, to protect the troops from radical islamists.

You better not burn those holy books, to protect the troops from radical islamists.

To paraphrase John Stewart: How about we dont give a crap what radical islamists think?…

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numbers are hard

In the end accounting, Joe Huffman may be one of the most-effective pro-rights webloggers – he is as patient as Job, sharp as the proverbial tack, knows what he is talking about, and has a wonderful way of both not mincing words and phrasing things in an occasionally… entertaining fashion

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he looked familiar

First, the conjunction of “Android” and “Nexus” seemed all too coincidental.

Now, we might have seen that little dude somewhere else.

I mean, I guess if you are going to steal a graphic, you might as well do it from an absurdly obscure source, but apparently originality is …

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enjoying the backcountry

Just for the record, Piney Creek Falls… well… were not:

As you can tell, it has been rather dry here of late (I, of course, blame global warming, as opposed to… y’know… natural weather cycles), and that little trickle of water was all that was making it over the …

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thirty minutes or less

This might just be the coolest thing ever… Better Half ordered a brace of pizzas for her sister up at college from Dominos, and not only do they allow you to order online, they track that order while it progresses:

Ok, so maybe I am a little fascinated by …

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spreading the good word

You might know the co-author of this article from TV.

I honestly cannot say as though I was terribly impressed with Mike Seeklander from his time on Top Shot, either as a shooter or as a person, but he has the kind of military and law enforcement (right here …

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might want to rethink the message

Better Half listens to NPR periodically, and apparently one of the proposed tactics the Democrats are considering in the upcoming election is that they were handed this disastrous mess four years ago by the Republicans, and why would we, the American people, want to turn the reigns of the country …

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abuse through negligence

A familiar refrain amongst anti-rights nuts is that firearm registrations, requiring people to go through FFLs in order to perform any kind of firearm transfers, and requiring the associated background check for all of those transfers could never cause problems for people with no criminal record, people who are strictly …

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roddenberry really was a visionary

Well, damn, make this thing extendable, and we will be living in science fiction once again. A laser, LED light, impact points, pressure points, and some whizbang “non-invasive neuromuscular incapacitation” system (which boils down to “slightly-less-pokey Taser”, I think), all rolled up into one device… with an all-too-tactical rail, in …

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hype =? reality

Remember that uber-powerful handheld laser that everyone was losing their collective gos-se over, either in a rush to ban it, or in a rush to buy it?

Turns out, not so uber after all.

Well. That is rather disappointing. I guess it was too much to ask for a …

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sometimes, blogging pays off

Thanks to the fine folks who work there, I now have an annual range pass to Coal Creek Armory… gratis.

Shiny!

And while the guy who arranged for this did not ask for anything in return, I figured that a little link-whoring might not hurt by way of thanks. …

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