We recently had a black belt test at my school. During the sparring matches I worked one of the corners; water between rounds and blood cleanup. Right up close to the action I noticed some differences between the students who were testing and the instructors they fought. The main difference was in how they treated [...]
“What this guy’s day job actually is, I honestly have no idea, but based on the extremely limited information I have on the guy I can only presume that his daily nine-to-five routine probably falls somewhere between the motorcycle chase scenes from the movie Akira and John Rambo’s antics in the book version of First Blood on [...]
Just spent a couple of hours on Google Talk with the guy who packages up Busybox for Android platforms. Using QuickSSHD and a little port forwarding on my router, he was able to login to my Xoom and see what was going on with the app and provide fixes for me to try on the [...]
Here in the great state of Oklahoma, we have our fair share of gun laws. Even though every frackin’ one of us is packing heat and itching to shoot, believe it or not, there are some restrictions on where we can take our heaters. The above picture is from one of our finer dining establishments. [...]
Still in work mode. Sorry for the lack of entertaining posts. Here is something that made me spit Dr. Pepper across the table when a friend posted it on Facebook:
“The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,” declared Schiller, who runs NPR’s foundation. via The Daily Caller Read the whole thing, watch the video. Yes, there is video.
Posting light this week as I try to get a couple of computer things done. But consider this: In our school district, the elementary school is on the same plot as the middle school. So I drive right past the middle school every day to pick up my kids. Sometimes while waiting I see the [...]
I hate designing User Interfaces, but frankly I was much better at it in the days of Visual Basic. Then I could whip up a UI, add just a tiny morsel of linkage code and see how it all worked with a press of the F5 button. I am not sure why things aren’t that [...]
“If a situation comes up and you need your gun, you need it right the fuck now!” — Tom Givens Situations where you need your gun are life or death. If it isn’t life or death, then you don’t need a gun and you should go to Sonic for a nice cherry limeade. If it [...]
If you are going to get your concealed carry permit, you should commit to carrying your firearm all of the time you are legally allowed to. Charlotte Maughan has her permit, but when two dogs in her neighborhood started attacking hers, she had to go back to the house to get a gun. Brian Maughan [her son] said [...]
