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Showing posts with label Ludditical trauma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ludditical trauma. Show all posts
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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Jul 11, 2015

Why stop there?

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Washington says it's time to update the obsolete M4 carbine in its various passé costumes.   RFPs and bids and spec sheets and dream sh...
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Jul 25, 2014

Klem Kadiddlehopper gets a new car.

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And he doesn't even have to drive it when he's takin' Alice out to see the submarine races in her frilly blue gown. My native...
Jun 23, 2014

See? Saw

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"Hitachi,'  I believe, transliterates as "rice hulls with a dragon-shit binder, carefully injection molded." But perhaps ...
Apr 29, 2014

Fashion, Sports, and the Bug-Eyed Luddite

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No matter how fast I run, I can't even catch the first slight rise in the cultural curve. For instance, watching the Drake Relays, I w...
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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...
Mar 12, 2014

What's the frequency, Kenneth? (More bizarre than...)

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This does not bode well . A trigger-lock company trying to buy Remington? Aside from writing like a bunch of long-winded nerds... (...
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Mar 6, 2014

Radio Shack

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Radio Shack is going broke, closing about 1,000 stores in a drive to streamline itself back into some sort of shaky solvency. I should feel ...
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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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Dec 23, 2013

Waiting for the house sitter ...

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.. and looking at the pile. Even discounting gaudy packages, it is disheartening. A brief case of reading and writing stuff. Another for...
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Dec 22, 2013

Sunday Symphony

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1. I have been forced to speak sharply to Tam for negativity about weapons favored by patriotic old Luddites everywhere. A sad duty here in ...
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Nov 4, 2013

Cottonwood boles at 20 paces

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Just a place holder here. I'm fully occupied reducing logs to firewood. The splitter works like a dream, even if it looks hardly at all ...
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Jul 24, 2013

My latest pome

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I be not a ze, nor am I a zir. My dad took a look and said I ain't her. So "him" I am stuck with for all of my alls, a cap...
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Jun 22, 2013

Britannia waives the rules

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I'm for Women's Lib and equal pay for equal incompetence and all that. But, jayzuss, Ladies, do you leave us Chappies nothing of ou...
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Jun 18, 2013

The Left-Handed Gun

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My youngest heir and assign -- who is everything you could possibly want in a lad --  soon becomes a legal adult. He intends to celebrate hi...
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May 28, 2013

Making the Underclass Rowdy

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While I'm enduring the fourth straight day of rain, fog, and other symptoms of  a world that needs to change its underwear, I'm occu...
Mar 23, 2013

Saturday Suckage: Remington 31 Surgery?

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It would be elective because: Not  all that bad. She is what it is, used, moderately well cared for over most of her 65 year...
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Mar 13, 2013

Tales from the reloading shack

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I finally said to Hell with it. The Catholics could probably pick a new Pope without my counsel, so I switched off the idiotic cable channel...
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Dec 30, 2012

A fire-free funk

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The little gas burner, running about half-speed, issues a hissy warmth, and the thermometer on my desk registers 72 degrees. I shouldn't...
Oct 24, 2012

Junk on my bunk

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Six pieces of it, sent my way through a friend for a value opinion and an offer. The friend will buy the scabby but working Remington 11-48 ...