   | 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… [...] … 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… [...] 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… [...] Better Half and I are headed to the movies this weekend, with a buy-one-get-one deal for Sorcerer’s Apprentice – go over to Fandango, find a time and theater that will work for you, and enter the promo code of “APPRENTICE”. Works for me. No idea… [...] 234 years ago, 56 men signed their lives to the following document:
… [...] Well, the good news is that the Bullitt was supposed to be done and back in my hands yesterday afternoon. The bad news is that “supposed to be” phrase. The body shop, attached to a Mercedes-Benz dealership, literally tried to hand me back a car wherein the left fender… [...] Whichever slightly-crazed technician it was who came up with the idea of putting a few USB ports on the sides of monitors should be sainted. That is all. [...] I have never once purchased something from them (the one time I tried, their inventory system flaked hard enough to cancel the order), and they invariably have far too few Random Bags o’Crap, but I have always had something of a soft spot for the wierdos at Woot!,… [...] Aside from some differences in opinion over how a Navy ship is run (which can be ascribed to artistic license, differences between sea-faring and space-faring Navies, and the oddities of a monarchy-driven civil and military structure), quibbles over his descriptions of the ships in question and how the technology permeating… [...] I attended a Roman Catholic high school for my pre-college education (despite my family not following the doctrine of the Pope – it was the only high school in the area that did not have weekly shootings/stabbings), and while their population had diminished considerably over the years, the school still… [...] Yesterday’s posting was kind of light due to me plowing through Into the Looking Glass [...] This does not come up a whole lot, so I have not really written about it before, but I absolutely hate it when multi-movie series bring on a new actor in a new movie for a role that appeared in a predecessor, and keep the character’s name the same. … [...] Remember the ghillie-suit music video? And that Rube Goldberg music video? Well, the same crazy group
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No news agencies I could find at… [...] It is writing like this that pretty much guarantees that I will buy pretty much every book Larry Correia
… [...] Try as I might, I simply cannot bring myself to be upset about Megan Fox being fired from the upcoming third installment of the Transformers [...] This is certainly not the best way to learn CPR (and neither is it the worst), but it will get you… *ahem*… pointed in the right direction (link is assuredly NSFW). (Courtesy of Moral Flexibility.) [...] Every once in a while, my diminishing faith in the human species as a whole gets bolstered a little, by honest people doing the right thing:
… [...] Speaking as someone who had to sit through the same exact four Power Point briefings (with the only changes being dates, locations, and other specific information) every time we pulled into a new port on deployment (pulling-in briefing, pulling-out briefing, security briefing, and health and safety briefing), I would venture… [...] To someone who spent a small amount of his life actively worrying about underwater weapons, as well as spent most of his life interested in military technology and equipment, this news report is just full of subtext:
… [...] In order to leave you with something relatively upbeat for the weekend, I give you the first two chapters of Larry Correia’s upcoming new book, Monster Hunter Vendetta If I were not holding out… [...] Logically and rationally, I can find no reason to believe in ghosts, spirits, hauntings, or anything of the sort. Religiously, the Bible acknowledges the presence of spirits in our world, but notes that they are either upfront and clear in their messages, or probably not the friendliest… [...] Apparently both ships I served on were sorely underequipped. More the shame. (Courtesy of SnarkyBytes.) [...] Yesterday, I finished Atlas Shrugged At this point, I can only expound upon what I said last year: Ayn Rand now has the dubious title of “Singularly Worst Fiction Author I Have Ever Had the Misfortune of Reading”, displacing J.D. Salinger and his literary diarrhea [...] Memo To Bicycle Riders: If you are going to act like a motorized vehicle and occupy a lane in the road, Stop signs mean you should come to a complete and total stop before proceeding. On one of the approaches to our new house, the rural back-road comes down… [...] In 1945, the Nazis went to the moon. In 2018, they are coming back. Low-budget or not, something tells me this is going to be glorious. [...]
For instance, the flyer to the left was dropped in our mailbox today by, as it says, a teenager in our neighborhood. In and of itself, it is nothing tremendously… [...] In light of our contractor repeatedly having issues with changing his mind, in light of our hardwood flooring turning into a God-awful nightmare, in light of my Buy A Gun Day being spoiled by one hell of a check to the Federal Government, and in light of all… [...] I scored 15 out of 25… more, if you use broad definitions of subjective terms, count prior (but expired) certifications, or equate “know where to look it up in books I have” and/or “could probably figure it out if I had to” to “know how to”. How… [...] First off, let me apologize for this review being so tardy – remodeling our house has been somewhat of a challenge, and life goes on unabated regardless of what we have planned, so writing/editing/posting this has repeatedly slid off my priority list. That is not an excuse, merely an explanation,… [...] Helpful protip for all of those pirate organizations operating off the east coast of Africa: firing on US Navy warships, even lowly Frigates, is a Very Bad Idea (TM):
… [...] If you ever wanted to know why I will always regard anti-rights advocates like MikeB302000, Laci the [...] Alright, Daylight Saving Time really needs to go away, if only because I am tired of spending that hour I gained/lost trying to find and correct all of the time-keeping devices in our home that did not update automatically. If you like more light in the evening, how about we… [...] It is time for some more gratuitous CGI-porn. Be sure to crank it up to full-HD. And then break out your copy of the original, put it up in a window next to the YouTube clip, and compare how far we have come, and not just in… [...] Just when you think you already did not have enough time in the day, it seems as though that day got a little shorter:
… [...] Earlier this month, D.C. completely shut down, to the point where schools closed, businesses shuttered their doors, most politicians did not make it to their offices (something I do not view as “bad”, mind you), and snowplow casualties were the norm, not the exception. Well, really, I… [...] [pedanticpetpeeve] If you are faced with a situation offering two options other than the option of “nothing”, and neither of those options are pleasant, desirable, or anywhere close to what you wanted, that situation is not a “Hobson’s Choice”. The phrase “Hobson’s Choice” supposedly originates from apocryphal… [...] Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the ubiquitous Frisbee disc, died on Tuesday, his long and energetic life finally having caught up with him. I think it is safe to say that one would be hard-pressed to find a person in America who has not at… [...] I do not typically include YouTube videos directly on this webpage, simply because I can still remember the days of having a connection too slow to load them, and having entire webpages hang (in fact, I remember those days quite well, due to the overcharging hacks at Comcast), but this… [...] As if there was any doubt, but Lucy Lawless (of Xena [...]  |    |
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