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Showing posts with label Ludditical delight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ludditical delight. Show all posts
Sep 22, 2017

Idiots of the Corn

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Here in the idyllic heartland, one of the common crimes is  burgling and vandalizing isolated old farmsteads. The optimistic thugs are usua...
Sep 30, 2015

Gun show giggles

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As World War Two segued into Korea, a hot spot in the Cold War, I was almost old enough for the Boy Scouts and all those camping adventures....
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Jul 27, 2015

Elsewhere in America

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In Macon, Missouri. They are to transportation as the Colt 1911 is to weaponry, and they never fail to trigger my acquisitive mania. ...
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Jul 26, 2015

What I saw in America

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Beautifully restored and maintained atop "The Pinnacle" overlooking the Cumberland Gap. The Civil War piece, originally ...
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Apr 11, 2015

Lust object in multi-hued steel

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An example of what  may result from a couple years of thought and experimentation and adaptation of equipment meant for something else. The ...
Aug 13, 2014

Walter does not dream of Windex and Pledge

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A cheery note from the Caspian folks is disrupting my plans.  Some family is visiting this weekend, and I vowed to tidy the place in their h...
Jun 18, 2014

Another junk post -- Winchester 97 junk

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Poor man that I am, when someone offers me a Winchester 97 for $25,  I'll find a way.  Maybe borrow a bicycle and go can collecting alon...
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Jun 17, 2014

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The federal government has learned that Marshalltown, Iowa, is full of lazy, flabby kids, a crisis of deep national concern, so: Last fall...
Apr 7, 2014

A once and future life

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Three days ago, in the deary morning: A little later that day; A few minutes ago: j In a f...
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Apr 1, 2014

Second Prelude to a Loophole AAR

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Not meaning to over tease, but the loophole isn't actually over yet. The afterglow continues tonight with a rendezvous in the Great Room...
Feb 25, 2014

Loophole AAR

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I don't get to this one often enough, especially considering it is my natal city, a couple of hours southeast. But it was time. I had my...
Feb 18, 2014

Jah, but some of them Fokkers is Messerschmidts

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Here's a set of dandy  photos that will all but put you in the seat of  1939-1945 war birds.  Click on that Fokker and you can manipula...
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Feb 14, 2014

Sic transit cellulose, so you just lay in a lot of it

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And while I had the 3-volt Nikon Cockroach in hand, I decided it would be pleasant to record the main stash of propane substitute here at Ca...
Feb 2, 2014

Arctical Loopholing and Some Other Weekend Wrapup Reports

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The Emmet County, Iowa, sportsman's club knows how to run a loophole, friendly, well organized, and well advertised. The guys even hang ...
Jan 29, 2014

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Brigid on tools. Not only graceful, but wonderfully ludditarian for the most part,  both the implements and the attitude for getting along ...
Jan 25, 2014

Mid-Winter Symphony; Minor Chords

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1. The disasters continue.  The 15-year-old Sunbeam quit this morning. An emergency trip to WalMart for replacement. Naah. ...  Head for Sta...
Jan 24, 2014

The Renaissance Libertarian Shivers

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It is a little chillier than I like here in the Commandant's Quarters this morning, too cold for comfortable showering. That happens f...
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Jan 22, 2014

The Renaissance Man Knows

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Just teasing -- getting ready for one or more really tiresome  screeds. With a free math application (newspeak "app" -- oldspeak...
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Jan 20, 2014

Miss Mossberg of 1948...

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(...or so) Hardly anyone sets out to collect Mossberg .22 rifles. Among firearms aesthetes it's declasse , like acquiring a hoard of ...
Jan 18, 2014

A warmup; anarchy; a little light porn for desert rats

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Assemble the trumpet chorus of tall vestals in flowing white gowns.  We need to rehearse for the big day tomorrow. At the coordinates of C...
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