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Tuesday, October 13th, 2026Drink!
Friday, October 2nd, 2026Shot:
Chaser:
(I would really like to know what that gun is. It looks like a small 1911-style .380, like maybe a Colt Mustang or one of those SIG Sauer .380s?)
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Saturday, September 19th, 2026It has been a busy Saturday, between catching up on sleep and trying to catch up on all the undone tasks, plus all the new tasks I have as a result of the Symposium.
But I did want to get this in.
What is a pirate’s favorite weapon?
Some people say the cutlass. Some people say the AK.
But they are wrong.
A pirate’s favorite weapon is, of course, the AR-RRRRRRRRRRRR!
Somebody doesn’t like Cody.
Friday, September 18th, 2026In 2018, there was a fire at an apartment complex in San Marcos. Five people died. Fire investigators say it was arson, which makes the deaths homicides.
Our local Fox outlet published a story yesterday: investigators are asking for help identifying some wireless networks that were in the area.
- belkin.bff
- CCGuest
- Cody Really Sucks
- FBI Surveillance Van
- KitaGirl
- lolwut
- Suddenlink.net-4C82
- Swagpad521
- Wake The Dead
“Sir, can you explain to this court why you named your network ‘Cody Really Sucks’?” Say what you will about keeping the default name for your network, at least it probably isn’t embarrassing if you have to explain to the police.
Also, can we agree that the “FBI Surveillance Van” joke is old?
(This is actually a matter of some interest to me at the moment. Spectrum replaced our router on Tuesday. Which meant that all of our network names and configs are gone. At some point, I have to try to rebuild the configs, or at least change the network names. And the new Spectrum box has a very limited GUI: if you want to do anything like change a network name, you have to install Spectrum’s app. Not that I’m bitter or anything.)
TMI Bagatelle. (#148)
Friday, September 4th, 2026Inspired by “Hey Borepatch – Nice Gleason score!” and a recent medical report, which states:
The Boston Bowel Prep Scale score total is 9.
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A Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS) score of 9 is the highest possible score, meaning your colon was completely clean and provided an ideal view during your procedure.
Remember that test they gave you in school? “I AM THE BEST AT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS!”.
(I brought this up with several of the nurses, right before they shot me full of Michael Jackson juice, and they all remembered it, too.)
(Also, folks: get yourself checked out. Dave Barry would approve, but I don’t think he’s sending out those certificates any longer.)
Quotes of the day.
Monday, August 31st, 2026Yes, more than one.
“Ferret people, we are a lot,” said Michele Paulhus, who drove her ferrets from Massachusetts to the show in Columbus, Ohio. “You kind of have to be because they are freakish little animals.”
“But I don’t think we’re as bad as the reptile people,” said her friend Skyla Fay.
Wait, wait. It’s not legal to lock a 2-year-old or a teenager in a cage? Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Short random AI thought.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2026Remember Ashley Madison?
They must have had battalions of people creating and manipulating fake accounts.
These days, all you need is a single generative AI instance, and you can create all the fake users for your dating site that you need.
Another example of hard working people losing their jobs to AI.
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Friday, July 24th, 2026
Bagatelle (#144)
Thursday, May 28th, 2026This made me laugh. By way of Mike the Musicologist:
This week in 2001, the movie 'Pearl Harbor' was released. To mark the occasion, we decided to share footage of the 1970 epic 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' instead. pic.twitter.com/vgYRJr5tpo
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) May 27, 2026
Bagatelle (#143)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Relevant to my interests.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026I have my share of issues with The Firearm Blog. But one thing they’ve been doing that I do like is “Small Business Spotlight”. Yesterday’s entry pushed my buttons:
As everyone knows, Bob, I already have my own official trainer. But Rick Barrett looks interesting as heck, and it seems like he’s up near Waco, which isn’t too far for me. I think I’d like to spend some time hanging out and talking with him.
And there’s a lot of good resources on his site about how Catholic social teaching interacts with the idea of self-defense. I think this site is worth a bookmark.
Miscellany.
Monday, September 29th, 2025Another quote for your pleasure:
I don’t have room for this elsewhere, so: my thanks to SP RN and Bones. I finished Metzger’s Dog over the weekend, and their recommendations were right on target.
Quotes.
Saturday, September 27th, 2025A few quotes I’ve run across recently that amused me:
…“Michael, anybody that eats chocolate cake alone is an a–hole.”
“You ain’t gotta get real technical to dish out death sometimes.”
By way of Mike the Musicologist. He didn’t provide me with a link, but the context is a woman commenting on how hard it is to carry concealed while wearing a dress:
Edited to add: Link added.
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2025Shot:
A merchant’s sheltered but cheerful daughter, fighting to control a fire spirit that lives inside her, and a grieving half-orc warrior, who, like many an orc of his kind, has green skin and tusks, fall madly in love while he escorts her to marry a prince in a far-off kingdom. During their journey, the human and the half-orc have a lot of raunchy sex.
It sounds like a fever dream, but it’s actually the plot of “Tusk Love,” a romance novel that landed on the New York Times best-seller list last month. How the book got there is as twisty as the novel’s central love affair — and the latest, and perhaps most unusual, example of how internet-driven fandom can intersect with publishing to create hit books.
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Spicy bar snack: I, Libertine Kindle edition on Amazon. Wikipedia.
Bagatelle (#138)
Saturday, July 19th, 2025“Justified” is full of timeless wisdom about how one should lead their life.
One of the best examples of this is Raylan’s Rule:
Another good example of this:
Art Mullen: I got a call this morning from AUSA David Vasquez. Wants to talk to you about you shooting Boyd Crowder.
Raylan Givens: What’s there to talk about? He pulled first. There was a witness.
Art Mullen: But you see, ten days ago you shot a man in Miami. Put it like this: you were in the first grade; bit a kid every week? They’d start to think of you as a biter.
“They’d start to think of you as a biter.” What brings this to mind?
A summer associate at white-shoe firm Sidley Austin began biting colleagues and roaring at them on her first day — and by the time she was canned, her body count had reached double digits, insiders told the legal news site Above the Law.
The bites were not “in an aggressive, ‘we’re beefing’ way” – but rather, “a faux-quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed with the Donner party vibe,” the outlet reported.
“Though I’ve seen pics of the results post-Biglaw Biter, and ‘nibble’ is probably too tame a word,” the article’s author noted.
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