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Recoil Springs
Note to self - don't change the recoil spring on the only pistol you use for the weekly competition. This spring is critical in the operation of a semi-automatic pistol - it's purpose is to return the slide to battery after a shot, and take up some of the recoil. They wear out after a few thousand rounds and mine was so badly worn it was ( Read more... ) -
Early Windows 7 Mobile review
This guy makes me feel as though I've been nice to Microsoft in my rantings ( Read more... ) -
SpongeBob's Jeep
Somewhere around 4am I awoke to the sound of a fully-running Seattle rainstorm. This surprised me only in that our weather reports called for 0% chance of rain. That, and I remembered that due to these reports I left the top down on my Jeep... out in the driveway. I thought for a second or two about going on and putting the top up, but by then ( Read more... ) -
"The Catalog"
Every hobby has a minimum investment of about $1000, which usually buys you enough crap to get going. The costs don't end there, unless you hate the hobby. There's always more stuff to buy, to bring into the mix. And every hobby has that one company with a huge catalog of every cool bit you'd never heard of, things you didn't consider buying but ( Read more... ) -
Backing up my tunes
After my Mac G5/iPhone4 debacle, I ended up just moving my iTunes library to my laptop. Luckily I don't have a ton of music, but it was still a hair under 8GB, more than I'm comfortable storing indefinitely on a laptop. So now I'm going to have to explore other options ( Read more... ) -
And the obvious joke is...
Combine this robot with the one that folds laundry, and a fleshlight, and you get a motherfucking future that I can get behind...
http://bit.ly/aRzAOD
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Predictions on Microsoft Kinetic
Microsoft's "Me Too" attachment to the XBOX 360, giving it Nintendo-Wii like abilities (without the need of a controller), is set to debut this holiday season at a price hovering near the cost of an entire Wii system. Aside from early indications that Kinetic won't work unless you're standing up, the technology is appealing as a computer input ( Read more... )
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