thanks for following.
how about some Fiocchi 7.62x39 in case lots?
Or . . . Berdan primers?
20151214
Mechanical aptitude
Mlle Sklodovska inherited one of my older Windows notebooks. It since had developed a nasty wheeze in the CPU cooling fan. She was going through a can of computer air per week trying to get some foreign object out of it.
Then one night, it stopped wheezing entirely. And started issuing dire warnings that its CPU/graphics/wifi adapter/younameit was overheating.
Newegg sold me a replacement blower that would arrive in days, not the weeks that eBay's Chinese sellers promised.
I talked Mlle through taking the old one out and putting the new one in. Which involved taking off the back, and the keyboard, and the mobo, to get the blower out. Many, many M1x4mm screws.
Thank God no soldering. The ribbon connectors---trackpad to mobo, keyboard to mobo, wifi to keyboard---are surprisingly robust.
Yes, this is a rewrite of the G4 repair saga.
Mlle also knows how to weld with wirefeed and regular stick. And her coaches at youth smallbore are coaching her to move on to highpower. She wants a shooting coat for Christmas.
Then one night, it stopped wheezing entirely. And started issuing dire warnings that its CPU/graphics/wifi adapter/younameit was overheating.
Newegg sold me a replacement blower that would arrive in days, not the weeks that eBay's Chinese sellers promised.
I talked Mlle through taking the old one out and putting the new one in. Which involved taking off the back, and the keyboard, and the mobo, to get the blower out. Many, many M1x4mm screws.
Thank God no soldering. The ribbon connectors---trackpad to mobo, keyboard to mobo, wifi to keyboard---are surprisingly robust.
Yes, this is a rewrite of the G4 repair saga.
Mlle also knows how to weld with wirefeed and regular stick. And her coaches at youth smallbore are coaching her to move on to highpower. She wants a shooting coat for Christmas.
20150315
It's not me you have to worry about, updated extensively
I have now packed heat lawfully in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Wyoming, New Mexico, South Dakota, Kentucky, South Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Arkansas, and Utah. Wisconsin. Ohio. Iowa.
No lives were lost.
The way things are looking, I will pack heat lawfully in Nyawk and Cahlifawnia before I become a grandfather.
Note that there are slackers: I'm talking about you, Nevada. And West Virginia.
No lives were lost.
The way things are looking, I will pack heat lawfully in Nyawk and Cahlifawnia before I become a grandfather.
Note that there are slackers: I'm talking about you, Nevada. And West Virginia.
20150220
fodmaps and QR codes
Another wish for the wish list: an Android app that looks up the ingredients of a food by QR codes and rates it for FODMAPs.
20150210
20140915
a difficult mother to tie
Prusik loops formed from .065" string trimmer line. For use as tandem belay on a hauling system based on .105" trimmer line. The 105 is powerful s#17, it broke a rope cleat today.
Tieing these little buggers was a trial. Next time, I soak the line in water a day or more before knotting.
20140909
Lautenberg violation for her too
So an ubicam in the elevator may have captured for Eternity that Ray Rice's at-the-time fiancee spit on Ray. Then he decked her with that left hook that even NPR's metrosexual sports commentators commentated. Sometime after that, they wed.
Question no one is asking: Will Mr Rice receive the coveted domestic violence misdemeanor conviction that Frank Lautenberg says disqualifies him permanently from firearm ownership?
Question that I am asking: does Lanay spitting on Ray constitute an act of domestic violence as well, rising to Lautenberg Amendment violation?
No, the question I'm really asking is: has a man been Lautenberged by a DV conviction, given for the act of spitting on his domestic partner? Yeah, that's it.
Question no one is asking: Will Mr Rice receive the coveted domestic violence misdemeanor conviction that Frank Lautenberg says disqualifies him permanently from firearm ownership?
Question that I am asking: does Lanay spitting on Ray constitute an act of domestic violence as well, rising to Lautenberg Amendment violation?
No, the question I'm really asking is: has a man been Lautenberged by a DV conviction, given for the act of spitting on his domestic partner? Yeah, that's it.
and that's when Jack said, "That's right! There ain't no frickin' french fries, just like I've been trying to tell ya!"
Visited a Jack in the box™ today and was invited to take their survey.
Had I known that they were running a special on a salted caramel shake, I might have dropped the burger and gotten that instead.
Had I known that they were running a special on a salted caramel shake, I might have dropped the burger and gotten that instead.
20140315
20140215
Bettie Jean's menu
On the left, Hornady 150gr FMJBTs in front of 56gr IMR4350. On the right, Midway blemished 168gr plastic-tip HPs in front of 48gr Win748.
20140213
A cop can find who accessed her driver license record but . . .
A highway patrolman stops a speeding cop, the cop launches a prick war against her, and she files "a public records request with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
Vehicles. It turned out she was right: over a three-month period, at
least 88 law enforcement officers from 25 different agencies accessed
Watts' driver's license information more than 200 times"
Yet NSA can't figure out what classified information Snowden got his hands into, and assumes he got into All Of It.
The technology is there, just not being applied.
Yet NSA can't figure out what classified information Snowden got his hands into, and assumes he got into All Of It.
The technology is there, just not being applied.
20140120
a chamber cast of Anduril
I took a chamber casting of the Remington 600 known as Anduril.
At the neck of the cartridge case, diameter is .348". At the freebore, it is .312". After the rifling has begun, it's .310"
that sounds a bit over. Any ideas, readers? Is this barrel d00med?
Update: using my l33t Bene Gesserit training, I managed to slip the caliper on the cast just forward of the freebore, between the lands, and it's really .308" in there, and I'm not scraping Cerrosafe off of the casting. Maybe not d00med. But the very short magazine box plus the approximately .225" of freebore really limits bullets that will touch the rifling. Would almost rather have the barrel pulled, lop off one or two threads of barrel shank, twist it back in and have a new chamber cut with less freebore.
Update 2: gotta keep in mind that Cerrosafe expands to .0025" oversize after it has done cooling, in another 7 days or so; this cast was taken Monday afternoon. That expansion is on the same scale as my measurements tell me the chamber is oversize in diameter.
And we found SAAMI specification drawings. The freebore is supposed to be only about .08" long. That may be the only problem with this chamber.
At the neck of the cartridge case, diameter is .348". At the freebore, it is .312". After the rifling has begun, it's .310"
that sounds a bit over. Any ideas, readers? Is this barrel d00med?
Update: using my l33t Bene Gesserit training, I managed to slip the caliper on the cast just forward of the freebore, between the lands, and it's really .308" in there, and I'm not scraping Cerrosafe off of the casting. Maybe not d00med. But the very short magazine box plus the approximately .225" of freebore really limits bullets that will touch the rifling. Would almost rather have the barrel pulled, lop off one or two threads of barrel shank, twist it back in and have a new chamber cut with less freebore.
Update 2: gotta keep in mind that Cerrosafe expands to .0025" oversize after it has done cooling, in another 7 days or so; this cast was taken Monday afternoon. That expansion is on the same scale as my measurements tell me the chamber is oversize in diameter.
And we found SAAMI specification drawings. The freebore is supposed to be only about .08" long. That may be the only problem with this chamber.
20131127
componetz
Propellants are slowly returning to the shelves. The slower IMRs and Hodgdon numbers in particular, and shotshell propellants. I took 2 lb of H335 to try in Grendel and 762NATO.
Still no BL(C)-2. If this is how long it takes suppliers without permanently expanding capacity, then, well . . . this is how long it takes.
Still no BL(C)-2. If this is how long it takes suppliers without permanently expanding capacity, then, well . . . this is how long it takes.
20131105
I was really looking for election returns for the Colorado secession, and I got this (updated)
Dude, it was Czechoslovakia. Just one "k."
A columnist who presumes to "edit[] Democracy: A Journal of Ideas should rely on an editor or two himself, and a human spellchecker.
In a column where he laments the underlying discord in American politics and hopes to apply that as context to a secession vote in eleven counties in Colorado, he cites other sorrowful examples of other nations who couldn't stay married, in spite of the kids, and were sundered by the "culture-ization of their politics."
No matter that a guy named Tito kept those Yugos from piously murdering one another for most of a generation (defined as four 20-year spans, if you follow the Strauss and Howe model), for example. A generational cycle of that length is about as long as any government-imposed common immiseration can be expected to hold together. The New Deal included.
(Typo corrected)
A columnist who presumes to "edit[] Democracy: A Journal of Ideas should rely on an editor or two himself, and a human spellchecker.
In a column where he laments the underlying discord in American politics and hopes to apply that as context to a secession vote in eleven counties in Colorado, he cites other sorrowful examples of other nations who couldn't stay married, in spite of the kids, and were sundered by the "culture-ization of their politics."
No matter that a guy named Tito kept those Yugos from piously murdering one another for most of a generation (defined as four 20-year spans, if you follow the Strauss and Howe model), for example. A generational cycle of that length is about as long as any government-imposed common immiseration can be expected to hold together. The New Deal included.
(Typo corrected)
20131029
Open Letter to the GOP Congressional Delegation
Dear Republicans in the US Senate and the House of Representatives:
I am not a Republican. You owe me no particular debt. I may have voted for one or another of you while registered in several States over the years, but most of that time I was registered with a third party. I remain so today.
For some of you I had very great hopes. Some of you then turned and betrayed those hopes.
So don't get an inflated ego when I say that I generally despise the Democrats across from you, partly for their refusal to pass a Federal budget for the last 4 years they held a majority in the Senate, partly for their mischaracterization of your newer, more energetic, and dare I say more ideological members.
You can yet earn my malediction, and the best way to do so is to cave in to those Democrats. The next best way to do so is to turn on those newer, more energetic, and more ideological members of your own party. They have led a dangerous, risky, odious effort to defund, delay, or repeal the PPACA. They drew the line and they tried to defend it. The leadership of your party has abandoned and abused them.
If you're from Wyoming, you should be familiar with the name Lane Frost. All he had to do was stay on the bull for eight seconds. It took everything he had for those eight seconds, and he trained a (short) lifetime just to know what to do during those eight seconds, to last that long.
Your job is easier than what Lane Frost had to do. All you have to do is, well, nothing. Just hold on, ignore the bucking, ignore the noise of the crowds. Don't give in on a delay now, don't insist on defunding. Just keep the law exactly as it is right now, and leave the Obama administration's people in place too. Keep his team exactly as it is for a few more weeks. Insist on no firings. Pass no "if you like it you can keep it" bills. Carve no new exceptions. Mind your damned manners with your own caucus.
All you have to do is nothing but hold on. When you get thrown, the sand will break your fall, and there will be clowns unwittingly helping you to run to safety.
If you don't even bother to climb on the bull, you are on the sidelines forever.
Cordially,
Fûz
I am not a Republican. You owe me no particular debt. I may have voted for one or another of you while registered in several States over the years, but most of that time I was registered with a third party. I remain so today.
For some of you I had very great hopes. Some of you then turned and betrayed those hopes.
So don't get an inflated ego when I say that I generally despise the Democrats across from you, partly for their refusal to pass a Federal budget for the last 4 years they held a majority in the Senate, partly for their mischaracterization of your newer, more energetic, and dare I say more ideological members.
You can yet earn my malediction, and the best way to do so is to cave in to those Democrats. The next best way to do so is to turn on those newer, more energetic, and more ideological members of your own party. They have led a dangerous, risky, odious effort to defund, delay, or repeal the PPACA. They drew the line and they tried to defend it. The leadership of your party has abandoned and abused them.
If you're from Wyoming, you should be familiar with the name Lane Frost. All he had to do was stay on the bull for eight seconds. It took everything he had for those eight seconds, and he trained a (short) lifetime just to know what to do during those eight seconds, to last that long.
Your job is easier than what Lane Frost had to do. All you have to do is, well, nothing. Just hold on, ignore the bucking, ignore the noise of the crowds. Don't give in on a delay now, don't insist on defunding. Just keep the law exactly as it is right now, and leave the Obama administration's people in place too. Keep his team exactly as it is for a few more weeks. Insist on no firings. Pass no "if you like it you can keep it" bills. Carve no new exceptions. Mind your damned manners with your own caucus.
All you have to do is nothing but hold on. When you get thrown, the sand will break your fall, and there will be clowns unwittingly helping you to run to safety.
If you don't even bother to climb on the bull, you are on the sidelines forever.
Cordially,
Fûz
20130827
shortage of reloading componetz, updated
My sticker shock on primers kicks in right around 4 cents each, like a bout of GERD during a hangover.
No sticker shock here. Five thousand Large Rifle arrived in one box.
20130616
Proof, if you needed it, that guns make one stupid
I literally slapped the table with my hand upon reading it: "Few students ask to have guns on Wyoming campuses, and when they do, the answer is likely to be 'no.'"
I'm not surprised. Only one or two students, staff, or faculty need be told 'no' at local Community Cawlidge before the word gets out to likeminded others, not to bother asking. Cause and effect are likely reversed.
This is unfortunate, considering that not all that long ago, a concealed weapon would have been rather handy against a kid planning to kill his father with a compound bow and a knife. Whether bringing the edged weapons on campus violated campus policy or Wyoming law is no consolation, because the father is dead and the kid didn't ask in advance.
This pearl though: “The presence of too many firearms can inhibit the educational process.” We can see that the absence of a firearm (where and when needed) surely as hell Inhibited the Educational Process. Jim Krumm, RIP, did not finish teaching that day, let alone the semester. "[S]tudents watched horrified as Chris Krumm stepped into the classroom and unleashed an arrow at his father" sounds rather, er, educationally inhibiting, doesn't it? "Casper College, where some 5,000 students are enrolled, canceled classes for the rest of Friday;" well, there you have positive sighting of Educational Process Inhibition.
I'm willing to cut UW's Chief Samp a little slack. What cop would use such stilted and pretentious terminology? I suspect he's parroting a talking point given him by his superiors in UW administration, and woe be unto him if he were to deviate from it. That line goes something like, "guns make people stupid, if we have more guns on campus we'll have more stupid people, stupidity inhibits the educational process. Universities are supposed to have no inhibitions on the educational process, we need no stupid people in them. So no guns. The law of this unenlightened land at least requires the unwashed to ask permission, so we simply deny it." This from folks who claim to be teaching Critical Thinking to the generation who will be creating wealth to fund my Social Security benefits.
The likely result is, as suggested above, that the truly intelligent people who want to protect themselves on a college campus will simply pack heat carefully, without asking, or telling, anybody.
Which is how Wyoming law on the limits of the CCW permit ought to read in the first place.
I'm not surprised. Only one or two students, staff, or faculty need be told 'no' at local Community Cawlidge before the word gets out to likeminded others, not to bother asking. Cause and effect are likely reversed.
This is unfortunate, considering that not all that long ago, a concealed weapon would have been rather handy against a kid planning to kill his father with a compound bow and a knife. Whether bringing the edged weapons on campus violated campus policy or Wyoming law is no consolation, because the father is dead and the kid didn't ask in advance.
This pearl though: “The presence of too many firearms can inhibit the educational process.” We can see that the absence of a firearm (where and when needed) surely as hell Inhibited the Educational Process. Jim Krumm, RIP, did not finish teaching that day, let alone the semester. "[S]tudents watched horrified as Chris Krumm stepped into the classroom and unleashed an arrow at his father" sounds rather, er, educationally inhibiting, doesn't it? "Casper College, where some 5,000 students are enrolled, canceled classes for the rest of Friday;" well, there you have positive sighting of Educational Process Inhibition.
I'm willing to cut UW's Chief Samp a little slack. What cop would use such stilted and pretentious terminology? I suspect he's parroting a talking point given him by his superiors in UW administration, and woe be unto him if he were to deviate from it. That line goes something like, "guns make people stupid, if we have more guns on campus we'll have more stupid people, stupidity inhibits the educational process. Universities are supposed to have no inhibitions on the educational process, we need no stupid people in them. So no guns. The law of this unenlightened land at least requires the unwashed to ask permission, so we simply deny it." This from folks who claim to be teaching Critical Thinking to the generation who will be creating wealth to fund my Social Security benefits.
The likely result is, as suggested above, that the truly intelligent people who want to protect themselves on a college campus will simply pack heat carefully, without asking, or telling, anybody.
Which is how Wyoming law on the limits of the CCW permit ought to read in the first place.
20130417
Panic! panic! shortage of reloading componetz!
I'm down to just 3 8-lb jugs of WC846.
And an 8-pounder of W231. And 6 lbs of Unique-ski.
And an 8-pounder of W231. And 6 lbs of Unique-ski.
20130311
12V rechargeable flashlight
Blegging for recommendations for a metal bodied flashlight:
- impressive, maybe even intimidating, light output
- replaceable bulb or LED assembly
- rechargeable
- . . . by 12V via a cradle
- available replacement battery pack
- suitable for mounting in an automobile, constantly on charge by permanent wiring into the vehicle's electrical system
- body stout enough to use as a bludgeon, at least twice
- low enough price to put on an Amazon wish list without sheepish grin
- lanyard, or place to attach one
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