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January 3, 2013
And before that, they used logarithms which, as it happens, are the basis for slide rules and, later, some of the parts in analog computers.
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January 2, 2013
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January 1, 2013
I’ve mentioned it before and today, when cleaning out some drawers, I came across a photograph of when it was a shoe tree. That’s me in the sunglasses.
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December 31, 2012
The batteries in my quick access gun safe have died and wherever I put the primary backup key five years ago, well, it just ain’t there, or here, or anywhere else I’ve looked.
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December 31, 2012
After two Timed Fire shots in the centerfire portion of yesterday’s 1800 “postal”, the slide of my 1911 failed to travel forward. I looked quickly to see if it was something I should clear and continue but when I saw the shell of round #2 still in the gun but not attached to the slide, I knew I had some sort of extraction problem. “Slap, rack, bang” would not succeed.
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December 30, 2012
In the centerfire portion of today’s L Match, I fired six 99s in a row. Annoyed, I announced, “the next one will be a 100.”
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December 29, 2012
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December 28, 2012
Make yourself into a target?
