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merry christmas

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…to you and yours.

Here is to the greatest gift of all – our families and the ability to keep them safe.…

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not quite what i meant

In an effort to make Christmas shopping easier for my family, I generally try to maintain an Amazon wishlist, and then provide it to them a month or so before the holiday… this year, since everyone has varying degrees of smartphones or other portable connectivity devices, I went ahead and …

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you know how important those rulers are

Thanks to the domain hosting “The Blog Readability Test” apparently being bought out by some reverse-SEO company, you will have to look elsewhere to satiate your burning need to know how erudite your writing may or may not be, so I instead recommend this Readability Test, which will provide …

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out of pocket

Better Half and I are headed south this afternoon to spend Christmas with her family, and while I will have my phone with me (is that a Droid in your pocket?), do not expect me to be posting too terribly much… I do have a few posts scheduled to show …

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tanstaafl

Earlier this month, I wrote up a post on some essential (as I see them) Android applications, and from comments and online reactions, it appears to have been one of my more popular and helpful posts of late.

Well, today I bring you the seamier side of smartphone applications

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once again, registration lead to confiscation

Why, it seems like just a few days ago when I observed that registration of firearms invariably leads to their confiscation

Oh wait. It was only a few days ago.

At any rate, turns out I was right:

Several gun owners are refusing to surrender a semi-automatic rifle

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curse your sudden but inevitable statistics

Firearm sales continue to increase, while violent crime continues to decrease… and still those darned streets just refuse to run red with blood.

Of course, any student of statistics and history would already know that there is effectively no correlation between firearm ownership and crime rates, and …

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kindle woes resolved

Thanks to a helpful hint from commenter Lynn H, our Kindle woes appear to have been resolved.

Short answer: it was the official Amazon case‘s fault.

Longer answer: we were not alone.

Even longer answer: We called up Amazon, explained the whole sordid story to the customer …

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Even when they’re seconds away, they still can’t help.

I try to read the news from all three network affiliates and two local newspapers every day. You usually get a better picture of what actually happens because different reporters have different ideas on what’s important to a story.

A byproduct of this is that you get to the point …

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gorram clouds

That is all. …

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money is the root of all gun control

(Alternative title: if they cannot manage their money, how do they expect us too trust them with our rights?)

It is funny how very many things boil down to nothing more complicated than money.

Despite their flash-in-the-pan existence, I probably do not need to rehash the history of the liars

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hard to miss a bus that never came

A little over a month ago, I presented Megabus as a welcome potential alternative to being groped-and-poked by the TSA; however, it would appear as though the wheels on the bus do not go ’round and ’round:

Still no Megabus from Knoxville to D.C. Did I mention that

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it is not the falling that hurts

I do not care if the world has ended, the zombies are surrounding us, and that is the only safe place to be – you will never find me in a place that will allow me to take this kind of video.

Good. Lord. The rational, engineering side of …

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registration leads to confiscation

Historically speaking, firearm registration invariably leads to firearm confiscation – the only significant variable is time.

This was true in Canada:

Ten months after Rock’s remarks, Parliament passed the Canadian Firearms Act, and confiscating legally owned firearms is precisely the first thing the new law did. The first of

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the last airbender

The Last Airbender – If this were a just and fair world, that would have been M. Night Shyamalan’s last movie, thanks to actors, writers, producers, and production houses wanting to distance themselves as much as possible from a source of such mind-numbingly atrocious dreck in the future… so …

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fictional incongruity

Why is it that we are supposed to run screaming from, and do our best to fight against, aliens that want to kill us and eat our brains; but we are supposed to give rapists, robbers, murderers, and other criminals what they want and pray they go away? …

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tron: legacy

Tron Legacy – stunningly beautiful, visually compelling, and something of a natural outgrowth of the original, but do not expect too much out of it. …

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eventually, everything falls down

This, ladies and gentlepeople, is what happens to a 5.11 Stitched Leather Casual Belt after two years’ worth of every-other-day wearing:

As you can hopefully see, despite the difficulty in photographing it, the Permastiff insert inside the belt broke in two places, and has moved around inside the belt… The …

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hat trick

One important thing for all firearm-carriers to remember is thankfully also quite simple: all handguns suck. No, this is not going to devolve into some 1911 vs. Glock debate, or something along those lines, but it is rather an honest observation regarding the relative efficacy of handguns, and handgun …

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way to prove your idiocy

There are so very many things wrong with this headline that I am not even going to bother delving into the article that spawned it.

And, no, unfortunately I was not at the theater at 0001 this morning… I plan on going this weekend, though not wasting my money on …

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