John Laura 82% Geek 20% Geek I think most of Laura’s 20% came from actually knowing the answer to the Firefly question: she remembered going to the movie! Attagirl!
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A totally random collection of stuff. Though now that facebook exists, its mostly guns and video games…
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Random Review: Howard Leight Impactâ„¢ Sport Earmuff
So i bought some fancy electronic ear protection from cabela’s to use at the range. I had searched some places and this “Impact” model fit my real requirements: has to muffle sounds, have to fit into the range bag. They…
Dear CoD4 computer team-mates: shoot that guy 3 feet in front of you!
An open letter to my computer controlled squad-mates in Call of Duty 4. Dear highly trained SAS/USMC squad mates, Thank you for providing covering fire from behind that pallet of stuff and those barrels, you’re doing a great job. But…
thundersnail!
So in the last 3 days we’ve had 6″ of snow, rain, then hail, then snow-hail (“snail”) and then it even thundered and lightninged while snailing! hence, my newly coined weather-phenomenon “thundersnail”:
Carbon Fiber Madness! (again!)
Put some more CF stuff on this week. One ebay, one MY.IS marketplace item. License plate garnish from AAC (via a MY.IS member) Before After And some mirror covers: The CF + GGP color is perfect, at least to me.…
Mass Effect was awesome!
For the first time in a long time (portal is a close second: portal better ending, mass effect better story), this game actually made me want to to watch cut scenes. It felt kindof like a movie, kindof like a…
2 Years Later: Marvel Precision .22LR 1911 Conversion Review
My mini-2 year review of my Marvel Precision .22LR 1911 conversion. This is a continuation of my adventures with it, continued from the original post, and my 1 year followup! I’ve been keeping religious track of range time in a…
TripIt saved my butt!
I’d heard of TripIt from people at work, but hadn’t used it. We’re going to AZ for Spring Training, and i needed to be able to print out all the itineraries and confirmation numbers and all that, but can’t from…
What kind of D&D Character would you be?
Even more fitting the week when Gary Gygax died. So sad! Although technically, this would be an AD&D character, as the original D&D didn’t have “classes”, it just had races, didn’t it? Anyway, here are my results: You are a:…
Awwwwwwwwww maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Brett Favre retires. A sad day in the NFL. The best reflection of my feelings is from Making Peace With Favre’s Final Days, from Jeff Bercovici@Deadspin: Sadness. Maybe Green Bay will get another quarterback as great as Favre during my…
