Daily Archives: March 30, 2010

Boomershoot High-Intensity + Bacon

My Kel-Tec SU-16CA is not a machine gun, but its barrel smoked at the last two high-intensity events, after about seventy or eighty rounds IIRC. I suspect that is sufficient heat to cook bacon. I think an experiment at Boomershoot … Continue reading

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Failure to think it through

Maybe I’m late to the game in realizing this, but I think my brain finally landed on my major issue with HCR.  If I understand this correctly, part of the moral justification for mandating insurance coverage is so that people … Continue reading

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Sometimes I wonder…

Why everything has to be about “Green” or “Carbon Offsets” or other Eco-buzzwords?  Why can’t a group just donate money to plant trees because planting trees are nice, or because Seattle has a problem with assholes who damage and destroy … Continue reading

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Belated Friday Fiction: Night of the Long Knives

Forgot to post this one last week. I’ve got more than a few favorite works by Fritz Leiber; unfortunately most of them seem not to be in etext format just yet. The Night of the Long Knives is. Enjoy. It’s … Continue reading

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Your Daily Geek – Whetting Your Curiosity Edition

Dry Oil

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You might not like this

So if’n you’re not wanting to see something critical of the Michiganders/Michigeeses arrested these past couple days, then you should probably just keep scrolling.

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Geography 101 Lab Series: #9

Since we don’t have the unlimited supply of magic pixie dust discovered just yet, we were made to fantasize about how we would “Power the World” without those eevviill fossil fuels. OK. I can play make believe as good as … Continue reading

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