Author: Chris Johnson
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Something SIGnificant
Monday, I had an opportunity to visit the SIG Academy/SIG Experience Center. In the late 70s, I had a chance to visit NYC for the first time. That feeling of awe, looking up at the skyscrapers. Trying hard not to have pidgin droppings fall into our open mouths. That is sort of how I felt…
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Tuesday Tunes
Image you are a school bus driver. You’ve just picked up a load full of elementary school students to take them home. And they start singing “Joy To The World.” Every. Single. Day. That is how we tortured our bus driver.
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Getting Old
I’ve had a slow leak in the right front wheel of my truck for the last year. When I went to have it fixed, I found that it wasn’t the tire. It was the wheel that was leaking. Leaking tire? $20. Leaking wheel? $150+ Well, that slow leak isn’t slow anymore. Ally asked for a…
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Extant, Reproduction, Good Enough
Doing work at the Fort is wonderful. It is also an exercise in interpreting what you are seeing vs what you expect to see. When you look at the different items in the Fort, it is often surprising to find that they are “modern” items. We laugh when people pick up the wooden cup because…
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The Silence
Ally has an event at the Fort this weekend. I drove her up Friday to stay the next two nights. We arrived after dark. The moon was bright, the skies clear. Ordinarily, visiting the fort is stepping back into a bustling place where I have so much to do. Tonight it was silence. There was…
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Introspection
Hopefully, a short one. I’ve been accused of reacting quickly to situations. Mostly, this is a result of anticipating different situations and making a plan, long before anything happens. I used to need to walk about a mile from where I parked to the office. This meant I had to carry my briefcase, with “extras”,…
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Are you Standing?
During the dark days before Heller, the rogue inferior courts, like the Ninth Circuit, came to the consensus that the phrase “a well regulated militia” was more indicative of who had the right to keep and bear arms than “the right of the people”. The result of this piece of stupidity was that we, The…
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One Step Forward, ??? Steps Back
Networking used to be simple. It is unclear to me why I think that. Maybe because when I started all of this, it was simple. Networks are broken down into two major classes, Point-to-Point (P2P) or broadcast. When you transmit on a P2P port, the data goes to a dedicated port on the other side…
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How Could You Vote For a Convicted Felon?
I have a friend who voted for Kamala. He is an intelligent person. Reasonably educated, firearms guy. I like talking to him and hanging with him. We don’t talk politics because politics stresses him. I didn’t know he was voting for until recently. I got about ten minutes of his time and asked him if…
