Went shooting with Geoff at the Robinsdale gun show, tried a Sig made 1911, Cz 75 (lolweaboo), and a Sig 556. Discovered Cz 75 magazines hard to load. Am strangely more accurate with a .45 than a 9mm. To each their own.

Japanese is...Japanese. How else to explain learning a syllabic writing system with 46 basic symbols and somewhere on 50 more ( Read more... )

Kudos to whoever gets where that title is mangled from ( Read more... )

Summer classes almost over, have had an interesting 4 weeks with a Chinese exchange student here for a summer program, taking a 3000 level polisci course... But hey, it's been interesting, talk to her between our class and her next class. Exchanged parting gifts (I gave her a picture of the cathedral in winter, because she'd wanted to go back to it ( Read more... )

Thinking that 7 months should be a reasonable recovery period, P-chan did an hour of karate.

P-chan will regret this in the morning.

And now I need to actually schedule karate vs weights days.

So I'm watching Babylon 5. And I come to the conclusion, "I wish there was an RPG where I could have fleet actions alongside RPGness. But that would require, in truth, making everyone involved Admirals or Captains and the like. This presents a host of known issues when giving PCs rank, like that they tend to have highly individual ambitions with ( Read more... )

"The CHP has been against any kind of involvement in Muslim affairs and strongly propagated against those who support increasing relations with those countries."

No, there isn't a secret definition of propagating. Especially in that grammatical context.

Also, the Turkish are all "OUR TURKIC KINSMEN" about a lot of Central-Asian and Caucasus states. ( Read more... )

I know at least one of you is following Iran the correct way (through Twitter, blogs, and youtube, hilariously), but are the rest of you? The western media dropped the ball on this, even the BBC's coverage is just meh, but not questionable.

All the stat analysis and actual claims aside, what really nails the coffin that this election was a fraud: ( Read more... )

Currently working on editing a book for a professor, ona  set of concepts I find awesome (because I've argued them before): discovering the roots of international constructivism in domestic politics and interactions ( Read more... )

In theoretical political science courses, I have a tendency of picking out theories that make particular sense to me personally, and being able to fairly pervasively tie all subsequent theories back into them ( Read more... )

Writing a paper on it. SUICIDE ( Read more... )