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Peguicon 8.0 writeup
This year, Penguicon was held at the Troy Marriott. Since it was again within striking distance, I decided to attend...and once again wrangle Geeks with Guns. GwG ran well, if perhaps not quite as smoothly as I would have liked. Including Guests of Honor, we had about 20 people show up to the Double Action Indoor Shooting Range on Friday morning ( Read more... ) -
Strippers & Dirty Magazines, post-Notacon edition
First off, an apology, I meant to get this info out there long ago, but a number of crises have sucked all of my available time recently ( Read more... ) -
Caldo Verde recipe
Caldo Verde is a Portugese cabbage soup recipe. Here is the one I prefer. It can be made totally vegetarian by substituting vegetable broth/stock for the chicken broth ( Read more... ) -
Weird woodcock
03:30 < niteshad> I just ran across what I presume to be a woodcock on the
sidewalk into my apartment.
03:31 < niteshad> It was dead, with bloody froth on its bill, and its eyes
shrunken in their sockets.
03:31 < niteshad> Right now is about the time that the peak of the migration ( Read more... ) -
Just a reminder
I write quite a bit on my journal about guns, target shooting, concealed carry, hunting and related topics. However all of them are behind a filter that you have ask to be included in. If you want in, comment on this post, ask and you'll be added. -
The end of the Moratorium
Since it's been two years since Rockwood PD pulled me over for "speeding" at 12:30pm after the Buggstompers Open House, my self-imposed moratorium on Downriver is officially lifted. How shall I celebrate this event? Let me know ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on the state of our space hardware
At the end of 2010 (the year, according to Arthur C. Clarke that we're supposed to be launching our second manned mission to Jupiter) NASA will retire the space shuttle fleet from active service after nearly 30 years of operation. At that point in time, we will lose our ability to effect on-orbit repairs beyond the vicinity of the Space Station. ( Read more... ) -
Meditations upon Iran and upon the nature of revolutions
I've been trying to keep up, as best as I can regarding the rapidly unfolding events in Iran following their election. Everywhere I look, I see Americans, Westerners and Anglophones wishing the Iranian people a peaceful victory in their struggle with the oppressive regime of the Islamic Revolutionary government. In an ideal world, I share these ( Read more... ) -
Treo 600 Alzheimers
Many of you may have heard me hinting darkly recently that my old Treo 600 smartphone was ailing. This was one of the main reasons I jumped on the bandwagon on June 6th and bought a Palm Pre. Unfortunately, due to all the rumor and innuendo, and just plain FUD (which I foolishly bought into) I waited to upload all of the info from the Treo 600 to ( Read more... ) -
Considering a trip to Toronto
I've been thinking it's been a long while since I was in Canada, and am considering a trip to Toronto, with multiple, freeform objectives. Except for one boozy, wasted (not because of the booze, because it was unexpectedly a holiday weekend and everything in Toronto was closed, including the restaurants) weekend in 1994, all of my trips to Toronto ( Read more... )