They cost about $2.00 each and from the video I’m guessing they are equivalent to a few ounces of “Boomerite”. Nice packaging.
Author Archives: Joe
Quote of the day–James Burnham
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies … the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.
James Burnham
Suicide of the West
1964
Machine Gun Sammy
Gun Guys claim Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is:
Known consortion with practically criminal organizations, including the NRA.
When the truth is that it is the people in groups like the VPC and Gun Guys actually are criminals.
If it were only true that Alito has a NRA membership.
Thought for the day
If you stop to think, men should be the ones riding sidesaddle.
Quote of the day–Aristophanes
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
[When reading this I immediately thought of the two Senators from New York.–Joe]
A better mouse trap
It has been said that if you build a better mouse trap the world will beat a path to your door. I’m not so sure that is true but no matter. The more sexually aware of you will know the Sybian has been around for several years and gets a lot of praise. I’ve talked with several women that have tried it. Awesome reviews. It would be more than a little intimating if you thought the primary reason your woman hung around was for the orgasms. But then you knew that already.
But what I’ll bet you didn’t know is that in Moscow, Idaho there is a guy building prototypes of a better machine. Cheaper and more natural in action. Same great results. I know three woman that have tested one or more of the prototypes and gave them very positive, if somewhat incoherent (oh, oh, oh, oh my god…), reviews. I haven’t checked with him on his machines for a year or more not and should do that. It’s not exactly a mouse trap, in fact it is sort of the opposite of a mouse trap. But I wish him luck in his endeavor. I just wish I could help out in his research. Surely he needs some good photographs taken or something…
Government help
Q: What should you do if a pit bull is humping your leg?
A: Fake an orgasm.
This so reminds me of the government trying to “help”. You certainly don’t want to resist their “help”. That will only make things worse.
Implementing the police state
Ry sent me an instant message today with a link. The plans to take the UK another step closer to a police state have been leaked to the press:
A “24×7 national vehicle movement database” that logs everything on the UK’s roads and retains the data for at least two years is now being built, according to an Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) strategy document leaked to the Sunday Times. The system, which will use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), and will be overseen from a control centre in Hendon, London, is a sort of ‘Gatso 2’ network, extending. enhancing and linking existing CCTV, ANPR and speedcam systems and databases.
Which possibly explains why the sorcerer’s apprentices in ACPO’s tech section don’t seem to have needed any kind of Parliamentary approval to begin the deployment of what promises to be one the most pervasive surveillance systems on earth.
The control centre is intended to go live in April of next year, and is intended to be processing 50 million number plates a day by year end. ACPO national ANPR co-ordinator John Dean told the Sunday Times that fixed ANPR cameras already exist “at strategic points” on every motorway in the UK, and that the intention was to have “good nationwide coverage within the next 12 months.” According to ACPO roads policing head Meredydd Hughes, ANPR systems are planned every 400 yards along motorways, and a trial on the M42 near Birmingham will first be used to enforce variable speed limits, then to ‘tackle more serious crime.’
My new friend who wants to put the chips in everyone’s head would do well to watch this and see where it leads. A lot of us will be watching. There are lots of changes going on in the U.K. This is a scary time to have friends or family there.
Steve has a question on concealed carry
Steve at random thoughts is from England and has some questions about why we have such an intense interest on being able to carry concealed. In one link (I don’t have time for this until tonight) this is my answer.
Be gentle. He is a friend of mine.
Update: Steve and I had lunch together today. After chatting about “old times” and catching each other up on the people we both knew, the beauty of Montana, traveling with kids, how he met his wife, and a few other odds and ends he asked what I thought of his post. “No”, I told him, “You didn’t sound a like a liberal gun hater. You were thoughtful and asked a good question.” Then I went about trying to answer his questions. I explained that with all the studies that have been done they are unable to show any benefit from gun control. There are between 1.5 and 3 million defensive uses of guns each year with only about 10 thousand crimes committed with guns. Criminals, who violate the laws against murder, rape, and assault, will be less affected by any gun control efforts than the “good guys” that will be deprived of the tools to defend themselves. And putting the onus on the gun controller I ask them my One Question.
Steve listened careful, understood what I was saying, but didn’t commit himself one way or the other. That’s fine with me. I enjoyed the time with him and that’s what was important.
Quote of the day–King Abdullah of Jordan
To walk into the lobby of a hotel, to see a wedding procession and to take your spouse with you into that wedding and blow yourself up — these people are insane.
King Abdullah of Jordan
November 13, 2005
From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1871428_1,00.html
[Or they are showing their dedication–their willingness to die for their cause. This atrocity reminds me there is some symmetry in this conflict.–Joe]
How to game The Black Death
Now that Analog Kid has posted the results I’ll explain how I was going to “game” the October postal rifle match Analog Kid called “The Black Death”. Because you can shoot the target as many times as you want what I was going to do was put up ten targets at 200 yards. Then:
- Take one shot at each of the smallest, 0.5″, squares. With no wind I can connect with a 0.5″ square at 200 yards about 48% of the time as predicted by Modern Ballistics. With 10 shots I should hit five of them.
- On the five targets I hit the 0.5″ square on I would shoot at the 0.75″ inch square. The odds of touching a 0.75″ square is predicted to be 63%. With five shots I should hit three of them.
- On the three targets I hit the 0.75″ square I would shoot at the 1.0″ target. The odds of touching a 1.0″ square is predicted to be 75%. With three shots I should hit two of them.
- On the two targets I hit the 1.0 target I would shoot at the 1.25″ target. The odds of touching a 1.25″ square is predicted to be 83%. With two shots I should hit one of them.
- On that target I would shoot the rest of the squares with the odds of 90%, 96%, 99%, 99.8%, and 99.99% of hitting the 1.5″, 2.0″, 2.5″, 3.0″, and 3.5″ targets. The odds of connecting on all of them is predicted to be 85%.
So…with 25 shots I have an 85% chance of creating a clean target at 200 yards. With 50 shots I have a 98% chance of doing it.
Unfortunately I procrastinated too much and didn’t make time to get out to the range until it was raining and almost dark.
First day at work
Lots of little things went wrong but it went fairly well overall.
I got through big stack of paperwork in orientation without a hitch and arrived at the work-site one minute early. The guy that walked in the door just ahead of me used to run the Tuesday night handgun league at one of the shooting ranges. We probably haven’t seen each other in five years or so. I chatted a bit with him as he picked up a temporary badge and I checked in with the receptionist.
The guy I was supposed to report to didn’t answer the phone and the receptionist sent him an email. About 20 minutes later another guy I used to work with at Chromium Communications and one of my firearms students showed up to have a meeting with people at my new employer. We chatted for about five minutes and the receptionist made attempts to find someone else to come out and greet me. The guy I was supposed to meet finally showed up about 30 minutes late with the excuse that his phone was turned off or something. Whatever… it doesn’t matter. Just lead me to my office and computer. Oh, the computer that has been on order for me for two weeks still isn’t here. We had to scrounge for one.
I had a domain account and password but when I tried to set up my email the Outlook Exchange server said the account didn’t exist. Checking with other people revealed some servers recognized me and others didn’t. It probably will just take some time for the email alias to propagate to all the servers. It still hadn’t made it to my server by 17:30 when I left for the day.
As various programs were installing I started reading up on C# and wrote my first “Hello world!” program in it. That will be the dominate language in this new job. It’s past time I learned it and it’s great they are paying me to do so.
Probably the most amazing thing to me is that just a few months ago both Ry and I were living in Moscow 300 miles from where we now work and now we are working so close to each other that we can easily walk to lunch together. And there was no “intervention” by him to get me my job or vice versus.
Incoherent ramblings of an anti-freedom fighter
Gun Guys put up this post about a lawsuit that may be dismissed because of the recent law passed by Congress on frivolous anti-gun legal actions. I’ve read the post three times now and still can’t make sense of it. The facts are that a lawsuit was in the works blaming the manufacture, the dealer, a gun show operator, and “others” for the shooting of one Daniel Williams. The gun used by the “mutant” shooter was illegally purchased at the gun show by one James Nigel Bostic. The Gun Guys say:
James Nigel Bostic is a criminal, and his criminal negligence costed Williams and many other victims of violence many things, physically and financially. Williams was a star high school basketball player, and lost a scholarship because of the shooting. Because of Bostic’s criminal actions (Buffalo News documented his straw purchases in a previous article), Daniel Williams’ life is forever changed.
And yet, because of the gun immunity bill (now the gun immunity law, passed by Congress under the gun industry’s lobbying), James Nigel Bostic will likely never see a day in court with Daniel Williams.
…
Because of this law, hundreds if not thousands of illegal dealers like Bostic will never see their day in court.
What they don’t mention is that in the source article for their posting is that Bostic is in prison because of his illegal purchases.
So Bostic broke the law, went to jail for it and Gun Guys are whining that he won’t have a day in court for his crime?
I guess the post doesn’t have to make sense to their audience–it just has to arrive at the conclusion that makes them feel good.
Top Ten Reasons Why Homework is Better Than Sex
[For my kids in school.]
10. You can usually find someone to do it with.
9. If you get tired, you can stop, save your place, and pick up where you left off.
8. You can finish early without feelings of guilt or shame.
7. When you open a book, you don’t have to worry about who else has opened it.
6. A little coffee and you can do it all night.
5. If you don’t finish a chapter, you won’t gain a reputation as a “book teaser”.
4. You can do it, eat and watch TV all at the same time.
3. You don’t get embarassed if your parents interrupt you in the middle.
2. You don’t have to put your beer down to do it.
and the number one reason is …..
1. If you aren’t sure what you’re doing, you can always ask your roommate for help!
Solving the worlds problems
I was talking with a new friend the other night–“Solving the worlds problems”. And his solution was two fold; 1) Sterilize everyone at birth, 2) Put a chip, with a GPS and radio transmitter, in everyone’s skull at birth.
His thinking on item 1) was that after people really wanted kids then they would be able to get the sterilization reversed (we are talking utopia here, not the reality that many sterilizations can’t be reversed). With only wanted kids the quality of the childhood environment would go up drastically and crime, child abuse, gangs, drug use, etc. would drastically reduce and our looming exhaustion of natural resources would be relieved. On item 2) it was his belief that this would almost completely solve all crime where the criminal planned/hoped to escape. His biggest concern was how to deal with all the police, prosecutors, judges, lawyers, and prison personal that would be put out of work by his grand plan.
I think I bruised my jaw from it hitting the floor so hard. Apart from all the unsurmountable technical problems, with both 1) and 2), his ideas fail my Jews in the Attic Test in the most spectacle fashion I have ever seen. I outlined the test and said his ideas would usher in a police state and result in the deaths of millions. His response was that he would get rid of religion too so there wouldn’t be any need to hide “Jews in the Attic”.
Yup. There really are people like that out there. I tell you…just don’t get weirded out when someone starts talking and they will tell you the most “interesting” things.
He’s a nice guy and I like him. He’s very entertaining–but I don’t want him voting.
Quote of the day–Aristotle
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
[This topic was brought up yesterday by someone I was talking to. More details on the proposed solution later.–Joe]
Seein’ Spots e-Postal pistol target
This was surprisingly tough. The area of the targets is proportional to the square of the diameter. Those small dots are tough to hit. Click on the picture for the hires version. If you put an overlay on the bullets near the 40 point dots on the upper right and the lower right the bullet did intersect the spot.
I know some interesting people
I started my collection of quotes and things in ’84. I now have over 8000 of them. A lot are jokes and “fortune cookie” type things. And a lot are quotes of dead presidents and politicians, that sort of thing. But also I have collected quotes of some of the more interesting people I know. If you ask the right question at the right time it’s amazing what people will tell you.
I know a guy that, even though a multi-millionaire, considered himself failing in his quest for more money. I asked him what he would consider rich, in his terms. He told me:
I will consider myself rich when I’m standing on the moon with the sunlight reflecting of my visor as I’m looking at my initials carved into the soil. They will be big enough and deep enough that when people on the earth look up they can see I was there.
That was just his start. He also wants to be immortal and be the first man to set foot on Mars.
Barb says that I seem to attract “interesting” (my word, not hers–she uses “different”, “strange” and “weird” a lot) people. What is amazing to me is how people will open up to you and tell you things if you let them. Just don’t get all weird on them if they start talking about things that are a little “different”. For example, Susie:
I was driving around late one night and turned around in a motel parking lot. These two truck drivers asked me to have coffee with them … it was the first time I ever had sex with two men at the same time. It was like being plugged into an electric circuit — I knew then I could never be in a sexually monogamous relationship again.
Susie
Member of a swingers club.
December 9, 1997
I’m going to branch out into the more “interesting” side of human sexuality here from time to time. There are some people that read this blog (or might) that about now are probably getting a little “concerned” about the quotes I might attribute to them. Stay calm. If I decide to use some of your “interesting” material that you probably would prefer remain private I’ll strip out all the identifying material before publishing it.
More porn from Xenia
Mostly cats with one porn shot.
Quote of the day–Dave Smead
All the advances that mankind has made over his environment have been done using a formal system whereby man has hypothesized, “If I observe A then I can conclude B” and thereafter presenting the hypothesis and the formal system to the scrutiny of others.
Dave Smead
[I include political environment in this line of thought. Anti-freedom bigots apparently use some other failed system.–Joe]