Ry’s Blog

didn’t stop them from taking away 1, 4, 5, or 8.
Yup!

sitting at the beach with the girls; they’re in the water wading. I’m listening to the two most aggro divinity students you can imagine; picture Alex Baldwin’s character from GGR giving the ABC speech. I’m impressed by these two SPU students planning the next five years; the surfer slang combined with hardcore tattoo planning is producing some cognitive dissonance, though.

Dude! Isaiah 5:53 in the original language would be tight!

I’m getting the apostle’s creed on my leg right here, but I’m taking one line out. I’m doing it in Aramic.

I want a letterman’s jacket with “brothers of thunder” in Greek

No, you need that on your back.

Ah, the exuberance of youth.

“lolvtec” had a form 4 approved in eight days.

Eight days! That’s almost less of an infringement of the second amendment than the multi-year waits of the late 90s, or the (current) six month-one year waits. As pointed out in thread, it’s certainly an abberation, but congratulations regardless.

It does look really cool at night when someone drops flares and I totally understand that it is just to say hello, but those things are not as reliable as you fancy them and the burn out distance can be much greater than they are rated it. It is horrifying when you drop them on us and they burn out ~20 feet from your fuel point or next to you. It is bad enough already that the Iraqis think buzzing us at unsafe heights to show off is terribly amusing. I did 14 months and about 3 weeks before I was going to leave I almost got hit by a flare. Really, we all know your choppers are cool and what not and we can hear you coming, just quit dropping the fucking flares.

A pilot replied:

They are automated countermeasures…
The crews simply turn the system on or off…
They are not intentionally fired at you…
They save lives…

from here

My sister Leah has been banging the drum for one of her clients, I Fight Dragons. I finally got over the hump, signed up, and downloaded the EP. Shortly thereafter, I got an email saying they had ten other tracks that people could download. I grabbed them both, but the presentation, tbh, kind of sucked. They’re in Mac-specific zip files, some of them are missing basic meta-data, blah blah blah. I sent IFD an email asking if I could set up a torrent; they said yes, so with the band’s permission, here it is. If you ever played Nintendo, SNES, or other early consoles – it’s for you. Really, it’s 81 megs; what have you to lose? If the link to Demonoid doesn’t work, here’s another.

If you’re on a windows machine and you need to do some diagnosis, you can:

net use * \\live.sysinternals.com\tools

or

copy \\live.sysinternals.com\tools .

Good times. No website to mess around with, no zip files; just sweet love.

PDF right here. Went with 220 grain SMK instead of 210 VLD due to consistency. At the end, they show some new bullets being developed with a thick copper base; this base functions as a second penetrator. Neat stuff. Also, if you reload 300 win mag, there’s some once-fired brass on the market.

Someone needs a class in outcomes management.

Fourth graders find gun, do wrong thing. Eddie’s rules are easy:

If you see a gun:
STOP!
Don’t Touch.
Leave the Area.
Tell an Adult.

not:

STOP!
MESS WITH!
CALL OVER BUDDY!
REMOVE MAGAZINE!
TAKE IT TO THE TEACHER!

I blame the parents.

The U.S. Army has ordered 38.4 million rounds of .300 Winchester magnum ammunition for its newly modified M-24 sniper rifles, as well as similar SOCOMs Mk13 models.

Finally. One bit of concern, though:

By replacing the barrel and receiver of the $6,700 M24 sniper rifle, for about $4,000, you can fire the .300 Winchester Magnum round.

$4000? Holy cow! One upside is that 38.4 million rounds will soon be once-fired and on the used market.