Ask not “Where did the weapon come from?”, rather “What fuck-nozzle judge let the scumbag criminal out on the streets in the first place?”You’ll find the answers to crime reduction much faster.
Archive for August, 2007
What He Said
August 15th, 2007Reuters: Owned!
August 12th, 2007Seems Reuters included some footage along with their story about the Russian subs planting a flag at the North Pole. A 13 year old Finnish boy saw them, noticed that they were Finn subs, not Russian, and alerted his local newspaper. Oh, he also noticed that the images were from the movie Titanic!
Hah!
Rather unfortunate for Reuters, wouldn’t you say?
Getting Lucky Lately
August 12th, 2007Last weekend Charter Cable sent out the same technician for the 3rd time in relation to my internet connection dropping out.
Thankfully he resolved the issue. Seems the cabling within my house, specifically the one that conects the exterior to the interior was damaged. Looks like the original owner of the house installed it himself and used electrical staples to secure it in place. With enough jostling, like perhaps yanking a bit on the bit of cable on the outside of the house, it seems reasonable that the wiring would be damaged.
With a new cable installed I’m now back to 100% uptime. Good.
Also, my laptop seems to have sprung back to life. I figured I’d use an Ubuntu Live CD for a while until I got the thing back in order, so I burned one, shoved it in the drive, and it booted up to OS X. I gave it another go, trying to get the thing to boot from the CD, failed, and ended up back at OS X. Gave it a whirl and 6 hours later it’s stll running perfectly fine.
I think I just plum got lucky with this one.
Beretta 90Two
August 8th, 2007So, Beretta has a new pistol out; the 90Two.
This isn’t the 92, but the 90Two. Say them both aloud.
What cock nozzle thought this one up?! Apparently somebody that forgot human beings primarily communicate verbally, and not through printed marketing material.
Are They For Real?
August 7th, 2007Seems the VPC has done a new study and SayUncle has some issues with their methodology.
I’m pretty sure using Google News search results wouldn’t fly in a 7th grade social studies class, but the VPC seems to think it’s peachy keen.
Why did the image of Weird Al staring at a pile of mashed potatoes in the movie UHF as he says, “This means something!” pop into my head?
Oh yeah, I know why: They’re both piles of shit that have no meaning.
Range Report: Walther P22
August 5th, 2007The more I shoot this gun the less likely I am to recommend it to anybody else.
I hit the range with one of my brother’s today to play with some pistols. I ran a mag through the Walther, had a malf in the first 10 rounds, handed it off to him, and he got at least 5 in the first mag.
Bleh.
The gun ran around 40-50% reliable today through 100 rounds. I suspect the failures are because I grabbed a bunch of Federal Lightning instead of the Remington bulk packs that I’d been running through it so well in for the last 700-ish rounds.
What’s happening is the slide comes back hard, too hard perhaps, and rams into battery before the magazine spring can get the next one in place. Gah! I’d try a different mag but of the two that came with it I managed to destroy one.
Further, the faux ported barrel weight (I have the 5″ target model) worked itself loose again.
I’m gradually starting to regret ever buying the thing. The similarly priced Ruger 22/45 that I originally intended to buy might have been a far better deal.
More Laptop Woes
August 5th, 2007Thursday the Apple Store technician got my laptop bootable again. Upon returning home I found that there were still some issues, and I’d probably need to restore the whole OS.
Then I got the feeling that the underlying disk really was damaged at the physical layer. I wasn’t able to do much of anything with it when booted into multi-user mode.
So, back to single user mode, manually load in drivers for an external USB disk, mount it up, and start copying over. Multiple errors on reading from my original disk, but that’s not too big of a deal — I’m still getting 99% of my data over.
This evening I thought I’d give it another pass, quite happy with myself, when Chuck followed a cat under the table where everything sat. I yelled at him, he jumped up, and magically found a way to knock the laptop and the external hard drive off the table.
Hard.
Guess what? Now my fucking external hard drive is unresponsive. So, a cat kills the laptop’s disk and then Chuck kills my backup disk.
Fuck me standing.
Laptop Woes
August 1st, 2007This morning upon venturing into the living room I found my trusty Macbook lying on the floor. I didn’t put it there. It seems the cat knocked it off it’s resting spot during the night.
I picked it up and it wasn’t responsive. So, I just killed the power figuring it’d boot up fine when I got home from work.
Since I’m posting about it you can guess that it didn’t.
Yep… total boot failure. Unable to load the kernel image even. I guess the particular sectors that hold the kernel image got “nicked” during the fall. Bummer. I grabbed my copy of OS X Tiger to restore the OS but I find that the retail version of the DVD won’t work on an Intel based Macbook. I can’t find the DVD that shipped with the Macbook itself, and I figure I must have left that at my desk when I was laid off from my previous job.
Bummer.
So, I put in a call to the Apple’s tech support and they said a local store should be able to help me out. I called the store to verify, then scheduled an appointment for tomorrow just shy of the lunch hour.
What fun.
Still.. you think you could drop into your local Best Buy and have them restore Windows on the HP laptop you bought from them? Not a chance.
