Posts

Shooting Blogs I Like
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September 10, 2011

Here are some gun-blog links of fairly long standing. Some are updated daily, some weekly, but all are worth regular visits.

Guinevereā€™s Rock
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September 8, 2011

There are many, sometimes conflicting, King Arthur stories.

Mine is true and accurate, of course.

Words Matter
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September 7, 2011
"Dear airlines: 'Duration' is not how much time is left in the flight. Get a dictionary and look up 'remainder.'"
Teach Them Chess
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September 7, 2011

It’s about life.

They learn consequences. They learn to like winning. They learn that losing isn’t death.

What We Make Of It
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September 5, 2011

Sounds simple: “The world is what we make of it.”

There is much truth in the movie. The dialog, the attitudes, the laws, the houses and decors of the two sides of this story are all spot-on. I saw and heard nothing that jarred me out of that era.

Strangeness
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September 4, 2011
"The older I get, the more tolerant I become of strangeness, except when it objects to mine."
RBOS
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September 3, 2011

You probably don’t know the Red Baron Operating System, “R-Boss” (RBOS). It was named for a strip bar in Houston Texas and it carried billions, probably trillions, of dollars of credit card authorizations for American Express – including long after they lost the source code for it.

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