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Travel day.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Light blogging ahead.

Updates will be catch as catch can through next Monday.

I was constantly hearing “Get to the Austin airport three hours early! It’s a cluster! Three hours ahead of your scheduled flight!”

So I got to the airport at 0330 for my flight at 0640.

My bags were checked and I was through security by 0400. And the TSA people were actually pleasant.

(“Why are you taking a flight at 0640?” Wasn’t my choice: I originally booked it for 0830, which I thought was more reasonable. But Southwest changed it.)

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Administrative note.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

Today’s my birthday.

Blogging is likely to be spotty, since I intend to spend as much time as I can messing around.

“Normal” schedule will probably resume tomorrow.

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Administrative note, for those sent this way by Borepatch.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

I’m going to wait until tomorrow to post the Gilbert Gottfried obit roundup.

Generally, I like to wait at least a little bit after the passing is reported before I post an obit watch. The early obits are often just that: early, and incomplete. And sometimes (I’m looking at you, New York Times) they contain errors that are corrected later.

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Dear Ross Ward…

Monday, April 4th, 2022

…I live in Austin, Texas.

Spamming the comments in my blog (especially the “Contact information for the Austin City Council” page) with posts about your campaign for South Carolina House District 112 is a bad idea for the following reasons:

  • I’m not going to vote for you, since I don’t live in South Carolina.
  • The vast majority of my readers aren’t going to vote for you, since they don’t live in South Carolina.
  • Any of my readers who do live in South Carolina won’t vote for you anyway because you are a spamming scumbag. Let me repeat that: Ross Ward is a spamming scumbag.
  • If you keep spamming my blog comments, I will be going to your ISP and I will be asking them to shut your site down.

Is there any word in what I just said that you have trouble understanding?

Hugs, kisses, and die in a fire Ross Ward you spamming scumbag. Sincerely, your friends at sportsfirings.com.

P.S. Strongly worded message follows.

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Geopolitics.

Thursday, February 24th, 2022

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I am not an expert on geopolitics.

If you’re looking for Ukraine coverage, there are a lot of people covering it who are much smarter than I am.

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Travel day.

Monday, November 15th, 2021

Heading home. Light blogging ahead. Some patchy fog. Otherwise clear and cold.

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Travel day.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021

On the road again. Blogging will be catch as catch can for the next few days.

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Administrative note.

Thursday, October 21st, 2021

I value and highly esteem all of the people who comment here.

(Except Eric from talk to customer dot com or whatever it is today. He can die in a fire.)

If I don’t respond to your comment, it isn’t because I don’t like you. It may be because I don’t have time. It may be because you said what needed to be said and responding “Mega dittos, Rush!” would be as superfluous as painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

(Duchamp did it.)

(You know, if you’re going to put a button on your page that says “Order Oil Painting Reproduction”, when I push that button…take me to the page where I can actually order an oil painting reproduction of that specific piece, not your generic art page.)

(Of course, the original wasn’t an oil painting anyway, so an oil painting reproduction would be odd.)

(“1940, Paris
Color reproduction, made by Duchamp from original version
Stolen in 1981 and never recovered”

Yet another piece to add to the “decorate my house with reproductions of stolen art” list.)

But I digress.

Anyway, thank you to all my valued commenters, especially the ones who have been commenting over the past week or so. This isn’t prompted by anything in particular or any specific complaints. Just wanted to get this on the hysterical record.

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Travel day.

Monday, October 4th, 2021

Heading home. It will be a long day of driving. Expect blogging to resume sometime tomorrow.

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Travel day.

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

Going to be driving pretty much all day. Blogging will be catch as catch can today and for the next few days.

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With twelve you get eggroll.

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021

It seems that I have been blogging for twelve years as of today.

This is, frankly, a number that astonishes me. I really don’t know what to say, beyond the obligatory anniversary post.

And also, thanks to the readers and contributors: Borepatch, Lawrence, Joe D, tim kies, Glypto Dropem (who left a very perceptive comment the other day on chest seals and pennies), Jimmy McNulty, RoadRich, The Real Kurt, Heather Dobrott, and a bunch of other folks I’m probably unintentionally forgetting.

Twelve years. I mean, seriously, the mind boggles. The blogger goes to get another cup of coffee. (In the current official mug of WCD. There is a story behind this, which I may tell at some point: but for now, I do not get any royalties from the sale of these mugs by the NYPost Store.)

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Happy Bastille Day!

Wednesday, July 14th, 2021

This is a little more off-the-cuff than usual, as I had to go see the bone guy this morning.

Did you know you can get casts in black? I didn’t know they offered a variety of colors.

I’m now very low speed, high drag, but with a tacticool cast. If I apply myself, I may even be able to rig some MOLLE attachment points to it.

Anyway, happy Bastille Day to y’all. Guzzle some wine and listen to “Revolutions” starting right about here. You can thank me later.

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Administrative note.

Monday, July 12th, 2021

Saturday night, I broke my left wrist.

It was just about the stupidest accident possible: I was at the top of Lawrence’s stairs, lost my balance, and fell all the way to the bottom of the stairs. I gather it was quite spectacular to watch: as best as I can remember, it was somewhat spectacular to experience.

The broken wrist is the worst of it: I have a few bruises, but no head injuries and nothing else broken.

This is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox…er, I mean, blogging might be a little slow while I deal with the fallout from this.

UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.

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Not part of the main jail feed…

Saturday, May 2nd, 2020

A couple of things I wanted to make note of, but didn’t want to put in the main video feed:

Great and good FoTB (and official firearms trainer of WCD) Karl Rehn did a really cool short video targeted at newer shooters explaining ammunition (and the various types thereof):

This was done for the Polite Society Podcast, which does, of course, have a YouTube channel.

It’s also worth pointing out that Karl has his own channel as well.

Ryan Cleckner, author of the excellent Long Range Shooting Handbook: Complete Beginner’s Guide to Long Range Shooting, has a playlist on the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) channel devoted to long range shooting. This is something I’ve wanted to work on for a while, and I’m hoping once things get back to normal I’ll be able to pursue that.

Also on the NSSF channel: Bryan Litz, author of Applied Ballistics For Long-Range Shooting 3rd Edition and other related works. I got my copy of Applied earlier this week, but haven’t had a chance to crack it yet.

(I should note that any Amazon links here are affiliate links, and I do get a small kickback if you purchase something through those links. I use those small kickbacks for good, not evil, though others might differ with that assessment.)

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Obit watch: April 6, 2020.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

It is the stated policy of this blog that, if you were a Bond girl, you get an obit watch.

Honor Blackman, “Pussy Galore” in “Goldfinger”. She also preceded Diana Rigg as Patrick Macnee’s partner on “The Avengers”, but left the show for the “Goldfinger” role.

Before “Goldfinger,” she made dozens of appearances on British television and more than 20 feature films, among them “A Night to Remember” (1958), Roy Ward Baker’s drama about the sinking of the Titanic; “The Square Peg” (1959), a comedy with Norman Wisdom set during World War II; and “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963), in which she played the goddess Hera.
Ms. Blackman continued her screen acting career well into her 80s, including taking a small part as a glamorous party guest in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (2001) and a recurring role on the classic British soap opera “Coronation Street” in 2004.
She worked in the theater for decades as well. In the 1980s she did a British tour of “A Little Night Music” (she deemed Madame Armfeldt in that show her favorite role — “That part just fit me like a glove,” she told the British Huffington Post) and played Captain von Trapp’s child-averse love interest, the Baroness, in a West End revival of “The Sound of Music.”

Ms. Blackman was 94 when she passed.

Her final movie was the 2012 horror comedy “Cockneys vs. Zombies,” in which bank robbers unwittingly unleash an army of the living dead in East London. Her last screen role was in a 2015 episode of the British sitcom “You, Me & Them.”

You know, Lawrence, when things get back to normal, “Cockneys vs. Zombies” might be worth putting on the list.

Speaking of Lawrence, he also tipped me to the death of actress Lee Fierro at the age of 91. She has three credits as an actress: two of those were “Mrs. Kintner” in “Jaws” and “Jaws: The Revenge”.

(“Mrs. Kintner” is the woman whose child is gobbled up by the shark in “Jaws” and then slaps Chief Brody.)

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