So rather than an extensive review, since there are far better ones out there, I am just going to occasionally post some features I really like or dislike about my Kindle as I find them ( Read more... )

So nothing really cool came out of the 2011 Shot Show, not unless I missed it feel free to clue me in if you saw something ( Read more... )

Since sometime last August I have read the first eleven Spenser novels (~2472pgs paperback) by Robert B Parker and the first six Dresden novels (~2389pgs paperback) by Jim Butcher. Somewhere in there throw in Zero History by William Gibson (404pgs Hardbound). That's over 5000 pages since August. At least for me, that is a pretty fast pace for my ( Read more... )

If you have them your already know that. If you don't (or if you do) this will likely seem like a really geeky/stupid way to show it ( Read more... )

... my productivity at a sleep deprived 3:20am is really really REALLY poor.

At the 11th hour I realize a fatal technical flaw in my proposed solution. Damn! Couple hundred lines of Matlab simulation and too many hours of tweaking and playing to hit a road block like this. I could probably come up with a solution but at this late juncture the flaw is too glaring to continue without an elegant solution. Feeling sort of ( Read more... )

DoD Proposals due tomorrow morning at 6:00AM. Fun fun to be had today into tonight. And to set the tone for the day I drove pass a guy on Euclid Avenue (just west of 55th) urinating on the sidewalk. Not trying to hide it at all, standing in full view on the sidewalk. Not sure if I find this pitifully sad or stupidly funny, I think a large bit ( Read more... )

... the holidays are over!

Just a quick mobile phone pic of Abby trying on her Christmas dress.


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So myself and a few of the guys I shoot with were thinking about starting an IDPA club at my local gun club that I am a member of. It's all part of pushing our parent club to give us the OK and funds to build 5 more small pistol bays. Our present club has two larger (~25x35yard) pistol bays and running a four stage match in that venue is slow ( Read more... )