Category: General
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If Your Message Is Good, Why Lie?
A First Principle is that two things can be true at the same time. I can be fat and I can be old. Both are true, at the same time. Next, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? 50 years ago, a picture was worth a thousand words, and it could…
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AAR – TDY Dad’s House
Dad is in long-term care. He will never return to the home he shared with his wife, my mother, for the last 20+ years. Last week was a hard trip to say goodbye. He was in good spirits and doing “ok”. He is not nearly as sharp as he was a couple of years ago.…
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Taking care of infrastructure
I started caring about computer infrastructure in the early 1980s. We feed our computer via punch cards, 9 track tape, and a few dozen hardwired terminals at 4800 baud. We upgraded our network. We got our IBM 3090 on BITNET. I learned more about networking. We upgraded to 10base2 when our Sun 360s arrived. More…
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Olympic Shooting Sports
There are 15 shooting sports in the current Olympic Games: 10m Air Rifle Men 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 10m Air Pistol Men 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Trap Men Skeet Men 10m Air Rifle Women 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women 10m Air Pistol Women 25m Pistol Women Trap Women Skeet Women 10m Air Rifle…
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Where’s the Gold?
This dude looks relaxed and laid back as he takes the Bronze. What is spectacular, in this picture, is that he doesn’t look like a cyborg. No fancy gizmos, nothing except ear plugs and prescription glasses. Why is some random ex-cop from Turkey taking a bronze in a shooting competition? The top four slots should…
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Communism == Jealousy
If you are reading this, you are part of the 1% richest people in the world. I can confidently say that because there are so many people living in object poverty. Not poverty as defined by the government, but actual poverty. The government likes to define poverty in relative terms. This means that when you…
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The Loss of a Friend
Aside, there are two cases pending articles. I’m working on them. I do not have many friends. It is difficult for me to reach out to my friends to keep in touch with them. Since I work from home, I’m not forced to interact with co-workers. So, few friends. Note, I use the word “friend”…
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Cognitive Dissonance
The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their thinking when their own thoughts, words, or behaviors seem to clash with each other. Ok, but what does that mean? More importantly, what does it…
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The AK Guy Recreated the Assassination Attempt
Brandon debunks some idiot’s claims of “fake”. 1 MOA red dot on a 2 MOA rifle at 130 to 150 Yards gives you a 4 inch grouping.