Author: Chris Johnson
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Project Management
Love it or hate it, project management is a thing. It has to be there. If you don’t think it is there, you are just doing it badly. Project Managers are a different kettle of fish. Some need to be boiled alive. Others can just dance on hot rocks. And a very few can sit…
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I can do that
Good points on flintlocks. Then again, making your own primers is definitely possible, including the charge inside. I ran into a reference (online) about making primer charges. You do need some chemical skills, though not a whole lot more than what it takes to make powder for some of the options. I once made mercury…
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Preppers and The Zombie Apocalypse
I grew up a prepper. Most of the people I knew were preppers. The difference was that it was normal. My parents were born at the tail of the great depression. They lived through WWII as children and suffered the rationing that took place in the US. My grandparents planted and tended a garden every…
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On the wall…
There are five rifles on the wall. Four lever action and “Mrs. Pink”, an AR-15 platform with pink furniture. Don’t ask. They are known as “Bear”, “Deer”, “Raccoon”, “Squirrel”, and “Mrs. Pink.” Bear is a Henry Big Boy in 45-70. Deer is a Winchester model 94 in 30-30. Squirrel is a Henry Golden Boy in…
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Bondi v. Vanderstock 604 U.S. ___ (2025)
This is an outcome that I disagree with. This was a 7-2 option in favor of the state (the bad guys). Thomas wrote a great dissent, I agree with him about the correct outcome. Alito did a better job of explaining why the court got it wrong. On the record here, I would not hold…
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How Many Languages Do You Speak?
In computer languages, there are very few that are structurally different. FORTRAN is like COBOL, which is like Pascal, which is like BASIC, which is like ADA, which is like … Forth is not like those above. Nor is APL or Lisp. Assembly languages can be used in structured ways, just like FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal,…
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Sham Marriage
Immigration law in the United States is garbage. For many years, we did accept immigrants. Americans to be. We were the melting pot. You came to the United States, proud of your original country, or hating it, then you work to become an American. The stories of parents demanding that their children only speak English,…
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Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, (U.S.)
Back in the depths of time, a foreign national wanted to become a U.S. Citizen. He married a young woman who was a U.S. Citizen, living in the U.S. He received his visa to come to America. When enough time had passed, he asked his wife to sponsor him to become a U.S. citizen. She…
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It’s Complicated
Networking should be simple. Even when it was big, it was simple. Plug the wires in correctly, assign the IP address your system administrator gave you, and you are up and running on the internet. We built each node on the net to be able to withstand attacks. Each node was a fortress. But when…