Author: Chris Johnson
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Liberty Doll Update
Hey folks, quick update. Current estimate for power is 10/8. We were better prepared than a lot of other folks so we’re doing okay. There are rumors of looting going on and fights over gas. I haven’t seen any, though I also haven’t ventured far from home and only went out once for diapers. Areas…
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Next Step In the Battle for the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment should be a viable defense for anybody charged with a “gun crime”. Found carrying with an expired CCW? Second Amendment defense. Cross an imaginary line and your right to carry disappeared? Second Amendment defense. We should have seen 100s if not 1000s of cases over the years where the defendants argued that…
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First Man, a review
The history of the race to the moon is amazing. There is so much that happened behind the scenes, out of sight of the public because it was that dangerous. My parents kept me awake for the moon landing. I remember watching Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon. I am currently following Elon Musk’s…
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Networking, interrelationships
Part of the task of making a High Availability system is to make sure there is no single point of failure. To this end, everything is supposed to be redundant. So let’s take the office infrastructure as a starting point. We need to have multiple compute nodes and multiple data storage systems. Every compute node…
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OMG! They killed an innocent man!
This story showed up in my feeds. I took note of it because, of course, they blamed the death of this poor black man on the conservative Supreme Court justices. The three liberals, would have granted the stay, but the six justices that insist on following the law did not. So what is the actual…
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…this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation
Creating rules for anything, a game, a business, the interaction between parties, there can be negative rules, or there can be positive rules. You can have a set of negative rules. You cannot touch the ball with your hands. This is a rule in soccer. What was the original intention? We don’t know. What we…
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Tim Walz Throws his Support Behind Trump
“We can’t afford… We can’t afford… four more years of this” Every so often the masks slip and they tell the truth. Note, the ellipsis in the quote are him pausing. Not anything being cut out.
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Honor Culture
Or Cultures of Honor. Most people in western civilizations understand the concept of Honor. Or, at least, they think they do. Most understand, “do the honorable thing.” It is a question of right and wrong. It is a moral decision. The honorable thing to do is to return the wallet you find on the sidewalk.…
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Operation Grim Beeper
Years ago, my lady discovered that one of my co-workers was plagiarizing content. She brought it to my attention. I reported it to the owner of the company. I cc’ed my boss to keep her in the loop. When I arrived at work that day, my boss was waiting for me, took me to a…
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Pasta, again
There are three ways of making pasta shapes. You can extrude the dough through shaped holes, cutting the forms off as needed. You can roll the dough thin, then hand cut the dough to be shaped. The same can be done using a “pasta machine” which rules the dough to a known thickness. Or you…
