Ain’t That A Bitch
Well, now, this is interesting.
The apartment that George Orwell wrote 1984 in has CCTV cameras mounted on it that will soon be upgraded to capture sound.
Mileage
I think I drive too much. Tonight when I pulled into the movie theatre I noticed my odometer. I thought it was broken at first:
Crikey! 111,111 miles! I hit 100,000 miles on my way out to Montana back in mid July.
Custom Service
Had some good experiences lately. Thought I should share.
Comcast:
Call the up last week because the cable internet connection was down. TV was still working so I figured it was a local outtage of some kind. I called up, the nice lady on the other end said that they couldn’t see the modem, and scheduled to have a tech come out in a few days. Spiffy. I got off the phone with them, asked the girlfriend where the cable came into the house, fiddled around with it a bit and tightened up a connection or two. Fired right back up. I called Comcast back to cancel the appointment. Whole thing took like 10 minutes. Not bad!
Verizon:
The night previous to the cable experience I picked up a new phone from Verizon. I ordered it online a couple of days previous, got it activated, and called customer service to get my number ported over. Twenty three (23) minutes was all that took. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
Ha Ha!
Looks like the local boys down in Kalamazoo, MI intervened in the transfer of some stolen property. Good on them.
Investigators say the men had broken into the home of one of the suspects’ fathers earlier in the day and stole the firearms.
Nice one, skippy. Stealing firearms from your own father.
Practical Long Range Rifle Shooting
Zak Smith has posted the final 2 in a series of 3 articles on practical long range rifle shooting.
PART I: THE RIFLE & GEAR
PART II: OPTICS
PART III: SHOOTING
Certainly worth a look if you’re thinking of getting into that particular discipline.
Len Savage on the BATFE
I hadn’t seen this yet, but it ties in prety well with the last couple of posts. Aaron Zelman of the JPFO interviewed Len Savage a couple of times last year. The transcrips are online: Part 1 and Part 2
Some snippets:
The government asserted that Mr. John Glover of North Carolina possessed an illegal machine gun. … What basically happened is the government came in, seized all of his firearms and tested them, and they asserted that one of his firearms was a machine gun.…out of 12 tests, it would only do it twice and only with one particular brand of ammunition and not every time with that brand of ammunition.
He [BATFE agent in the Firearms Technology Branch] admitted that he didn’t even disassemble the rifle to find out why it was doing this, what it was doing, but since it had more than one shot go off with the pull of a trigger, it was a machine gun. Under that definition, a malfunctioning double-barreled shotgun would be a machine gun.
You can actually watch the field tests in the JPFO video BATFE Fails the Text.
There’s much much more. I’d urge you to go read it all.