Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Wednesday Night Blah and a Review of the Xfiles Movie.

Well I have today off, as a comp day for working through the Independence day celebration.
M and I went to see X-files: I want to believe, and while it never actually got boring, it was one of the more mundane scripts than I would have expected.

Mulder was played well and true to form, however I felt that Sculley had been turned into a waffler and a whiner. The appearance of Skinner in the flick was too late in the show to really have an impact. There were also plot holes that just didn't make any sense. Cell Phones left behind and no side arms issued to Sculley or Mulder while obviously investigating serious bad guys.

For all it's flaws, it was fun to watch it with M. For a * rating, I would give it ***** out of 10
just left me kind of blah. The whole plot was too mundane, they should have used a better X-file.

Someday I hope to review the Batman movie, but M isn't too interested.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Obama and McCain

Ok, is it possible for us to skip a presidential election? just say "Pass" to the offered candidates. We could just try maybe to skip 4 years of having a president?

I honor John McCain for his service to the country and his heroism but the man is just too old, he is not up to speed with life in the modern USA and is sheltered from the issues by his wealth and position. He admits he doesn't use computers and frankly his temper worries me.

Obama on the other hand has zero experience, and has not once revealed any details of his real plans....if in fact he actually has any real plans other than to bring us to a new socialist paradise. I believe that if he does get elected he will be nothing but a puppet for the DNC, because it is inconceivable a 1 term politician is up for the highest seat in the land. His comments that he "Will have to earn the trust of the American people" is outrageous. I am sorry but if you are to hold the office of president, you better damn well already be TRUSTED! And what is it with this press orgy for him? he has a hundred reporters following him around the world, and McCain has a single reporter show up at his arrival at a New Hampshire visit. I swear this guy reminds me of the movie The Omen, it feels like we are watching a man propelled by the dark forces of the netherworld, succeeding on nothing but flash and no substance. One last thought about Mr. Obama and that is...how bout the press start ridiculing him for his speaking gaffs? They crucify Bush for the least error while speaking but the big O gets a free pass on even the largest blunders.

I know many people are going to make protest votes for third party candidates or people who are not even on the ballot, to me this is a major waste of time and essentially a vote for Obama by proxy. Yes I want to send a message to the so called "Conservative" leaders and to promote my Libertarian ideas as well, but you do that at the state and local levels where the third party candidates can actually win, for National level elections, like it or not, you only have two effective choices, Democrat or Republican....deal with it.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Why the M18 Hellcat as my First

Sadly the answer is far too simple....it was the first picture in the directory where I keep my Tank pics.

Thanks to Machinehead, I have roughly 8 thousand photos of Armored vehicles. I am working on sorting them and labeling them appropriately, but it is a tough slog to get through. There are many that I have not yet identified but I have most of them at least separated by nationality in folders.

I think I will be doing both AFV's and aircraft as I have interests in both, though I have far more Armor pics than Aircraft.

Darn! I really need to figure out how to fix my photos, my Corsair is clipped. :(

Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Tank Thing.



In what may become a weekly event I present: The US M18 Hellcat
Armament: 1x 76mm (3in) gun, 1x 12.7mm .50 Caliber machine gun.
Armor: up to 12mm
Crew: 5
Weight: 17.9 tons
Speed: up to 50mph
Range: 150 miles

The M18 entered production in 1943, as an open turreted tank destroyer. A vehicle with a heavy punch, high maneuvering speed but little armor. The Hellcat first saw service in Anzio Italy and was used all over northwest Europe later in WWII. Smaller, lighter and faster than the M10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer the M18 relied on speed and agility and the heavy hitting power of it's 76mm gun. The 76mm gun however did not fare well against the heavier German tanks, such as the Panther and the Tiger. The development of the High Velocity Armor Piercing round (HVAP) helped mitigate the issue, but the round was never available in great quantity.

All in all the Hellcat was better in theory and on paper than in practice. High road speeds did not help much in open country manuvers and by the late war era the gun was just under powered.
Had it been developed a year or two earlier in the war it would have made a much bigger impact in my opinion.

Organizing and focusing a blog.


Studying blogs, or I should say "Successful" blogs, I see that they all seem to follow a theme. They appear to be written by dedicated and focused people, people who have deep interests in one or two particular issues. Like, Guns and Food, or Guns and Politics, or Politics and Food or dogs and politics. This isn't to say that these people are not deep or diverse. No, it is observing that they seem to have a real passion for a couple of different topics.

One reason I see me having a difficult time getting a blog going and gaining any readers is that I am not one of those kinds of people. I have always been disappointed that no single topics or areas of interest manage to really suck me in for long periods. I tend to tire of the subject all too quickly.

My main interests tend to be along the lines of Computers, Tanks (wwII vintage), guns of all variety, Various Reading Genre's such as Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Historical reading. However, not having an obsession with any subject, I have to wonder if I would be able to draw any kind of consistent readership, even if I were to become a talented writer, which is a real long shot.

So how much does obsession play into being a successful blogger, or writer, or artist or anything? While I am successful in my chosen career I could move up, IF only I could find that drive, the fire of obsession. All too often I think, naaaah I'm bored, lets move on to something else. Hmm this is turning into a blog about a quest to become a blogger :)

A friend sent me A link to the newest iteration of MagiK



A hundred years ago in a different life, Marvel Comics had a Character that inspired my online handle.... She sure has changed over the years.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Home again at last.

A very work filled week/weekend for me, but I finally got some sleep and am sort of back into the groove.

Time to learn how to use my new Cannon DSLR an EOS Rebel Xsi which is way more camera than I will need. I want to get serious about getting images for this blog and having the ones I take be high quality. Im using an efs 17-85mm lens on this, with Auto-focus, and stabilisation, and the new buzz word "USM" or Ultra Sonic Motor for the Auto Focus feature.


I have so many digital images already, but I have to find a good way to resize them and shrink them down so they fit in the various spaces I have on this thing. Need to figure out what the pixel size is for the picture on the left at the top of my side bar is, and then figure out what size images work in post, without slowing things down on the page load.

So may things to learn :)

Monday, July 14, 2008

Sunny Southern California

Beautiful weather, lovely eye candy everywhere, and Im stuck in a building for 11 hours a day.
:) such is the life of a gainfully employed person. It would be easy to bitch and gripe about long boring lectures and tedious meetings, but for some reason I have been particularly aware of the fact that my life could be ever so much more dificult. So while I am battered and bruised from ridiculous amounts of physical pounding in the airports, running to and fro carrying a backpack and a 12 pound desktop replacement laptop, that it turns out I did not need to bring, I am still surprisingly cheerful and thankful to have a job. And glad I have a wonderful woman to return to friday night.

Love you M. See you soon.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

So much to do, so little time

I had hopes of getting some graphics work done on here, unfortunately work intruded and I have to leave for Sunny Southern California in less than 24 hours. Of course being an IT guy, I'll have the laptop with me and perhaps I'll have some time in the evenings to put up some more interesting stuff.

To all my readers (both of you) I promise, I have some more cool stuff coming down the road.
Ok maybe "more" is overstating things a bit, but I do have some cool things to post, really :)

Thank god for the Firefox plugin "Foxmarks" I'd never be able to keep all my bookmarks synced, so even while I am on the road I can read my favorite blogs WooHoo!

Friday, July 11, 2008

immagikman






What Kind of a Western Bad-Ass are You?
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You scored as Clint Eastwood

Names aren't important as you dish out steaming bowls of piping hot brutality to your enemies. You also enjoy a good spaghetti dinner once in a while.


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Charles Bronson


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Clint Eastwood


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Lee Van Cleef


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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Reloading: Rifle, Pistol

Along with the MEC 8567, I also "Early Inherited" a Dillon RL-450 press.
It came with many sets of dies and bullets, shells and powder. Once again, it is half assembled
and never having reloaded Rifle or Pistol rounds before I am beginning to think that shotgun and rifle/pistol reloading are very different. I have a box or two full of materials for reading but it is hard to know where to start.

I am sure there are a ton of gunnies out there who would love to have someone just plop all this stuff in their basement for them :) I really want to learn how to use this stuff, but I am definately going to have to get my dad back down here to finish what he started.

Reloading: Shotgun

Well a while ago my father decided he needed more room in his house for some other things so I was "Given an early inheritance" of a MEC 8567 Grabber set up with hydraulic pump. along with the Powder reserves, primers, wads and a few bucket fulls of empty 12 gauge shells.

Now while I have loaded many thousands and maybe 10's of thousands of shotgun shells while a kid using a multi-stage press I have never seen one of these "newfangled" hydraulic set ups. Of course my dad and I built a reloading bench and installed it, but due to time constraints and work duties for me, We just mouted the base of this reloader and now I have no idea how it goes together or how it all works.

I really need to get him back down here to help me set this stuff up.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

7.7 Jap needs refurbished.



My one and only World War II battle rifle is a 7.7mm Japanese rifle that My grandfather came home from the war with. I never got the story as to where or how he picked it up, but it has seen some rough use.

I want to do some restoration, the "Airplane" sites are missing their fold down horizontal arms
and there was no bayonet attachment for it.

There are three Kanji characters on the top of the receiver and the numbers 56140 stamped on the side of the receiver. There are two stamped characters one on either end of the string of digits.

The Saftey mechanism is a Palm operated job on the rear of the bolt, which has what I guess as a Chrysanthemum design on it.

The hunting History I know of this weapon is that MY dad and at least two of his brothers at one time hunted white tail deer with it, as did I on several occasions.

The wood on this is a rather short front stop with a longish exposed barrel. A curious thing is on the left side of the stock there appears to be an oval plug stamped or glued into the side.

I want to try and get some pictures of this veteran weapon of war to show you what I mean.

Hmmm looks like I'm going to have to work on that image insertion thing...can't seem to do what I want.

Travel, oh how I hate it :)

You know, as a kid I moved 13 times in 18 years, as an adult, I joined the Navy and had 9 duty stations in 10 years (yes some of my stays were very short) When I became a civilian again I traveled 3 weeks out of 4. Somewhere along the way, the joy and excitement of travel sort of slipped away, I'm not sure if it is the long security lines in airports, or if the trips started being more hectic and work filled with less down time, but I have come to loathe travel. At least I loathe travel for business at any rate, and I am tired of moving. I have seen more of this planet than most regular people and I have reached the point where I don't care to experience any more "Culture"
that comes with visiting lands that I don't understand the native language.

A lady I know blogged about the feel of being "Home" and it really struck a chord with me. For at least the next 6 years and perhaps up to 10 I need to stay where I am to complete the requirements of early retirement with my present employer. This kind of sits well since I will need about 6 years to complete my B.S. But living in suburbia near the Nations Capital one does not get that sense of home and community. We have decent relationships with 3 of our 10 closest neighbors, and by that I mean we wave hello if we happen to spot each other out an about, but the DC grind is such that you almost never see each other.

M and I have discussed where we want to live after we decide not to maintain full time employment. We established a few ground rules... She needs to have neighbors close by and a fair sized city within half a days drive (I don't know why this is a requirement she just says it is, though she doesn't spend any time in the city). My must have is a high speed Internet connection and decent UPS/FedEx/Mail service. I do most of my non-food shopping on line these days so I would like to have a good delivery turn around time. I thought about Colorado but it is getting to be a bit on the political "Blue" side. PA has fair to middling gun laws at present but is still leaning a bit much to the blue as well. I think We will have to look hard to find the "perfect" place. If anyone wants to make suggestions feel free :)

All that brings me back tot he fact that I have one of my now infrequent trips to Southern California coming up, I will leave on Sunday and return Saturday on the red eye.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Eugenics


One of the things I want to explore on my blog, whether I ever get a lot of traffic or not is controversial issues that I think need to be explored. By blogging about it even just for myself or one or two others it provides an impetus for me to do the research that will help me learn.

Eugenics is one of these subjects, I'm not really sure why it seems so forbidden to discuss the idea that one would want to improve the gene pool, whether it is with sheep or cows or people I think there is some logic behind the idea.

I am not talking about Hitleresque purges or anything, I am talking about some sensible rational planning and thought going into the process. Obviously it would be easy to go completely ape shit about it and just kill off any child that isn't perfect. I think it is fairly safe to say no rational sane person would try to justify such a barbarism.

What made me want to find out more about this subject (and I am venturing far afield here) is a state program to assist mentally challenged people to not only have sex, but to become parents. We are talking about a program that is encouraging persons who cannot even function on their own to produce even more people who would be completely dependant on the state for survival.

I am not a cruel or hard hearted person but I am also not a moron. If one cannot even take care of and provide for one self, how in the world is it logical to to produce yet even more responsibility that one cannot meet? I guess by logical extension my rational should extend to persons who are wholly dependent on welfare. would it not be wise in these days of modern science to require that persons who are virtual wards of the state to be under some mandate of birth control? something while not permanent, that could be reversed but something that does not rely on personal responsibility and diligence to be in effect. I may be diverging from Eugenics here but this is part of the discussion. It is all about keeping the quality of life higher for everyone by preventing more of a burden on one than one can handle, and it would after all raise the standard of living to those children who are born, as the parents would at least not be a drain on society as a whole....yeah yeah yeah I know it sounds very Hitler like to me too.

Anyway on to more of the typical Eugenics fare. Modern Science is wonderful it makes life easier and safer for us all, but at what point do you really start degrading the gene pool. Take eyesight for example, I was born with really bad eyes, but thanks to glasses and much later LASIC surgery I see as well as anyone. However by being protected by all our modern safety and medical advances and having my eyes corrected, my defective gene's coupled with my ex-wifes similar defects are not doing my kids any good, People like me, left handed very myopic persons tended to die from accidents a lot earlier than they do now, now we live longer and are more likely to reproduce and to pass on our defective genes. So, just where does the line between good idea and very bad for the species lie? My eyesight and left handedness are minor corrections compared to some. There are serious malfunctions that nature would eventually weed out if man did not interfere. Where, as a society does our responsibility end? I don't really know, which is why I'm posting this long long diatribe.

The idea of Eugenics is not new, it has been around for as long as man has been at least an agricultural being. Selectively planting the strongest of our crops. The field and concept of eugenics was really kicked off by Francis Galton in 1883 who was inspired by the works of Charles Darwin. This long before Hitler and the Nazi's brought about the horror of the concentration camps. Such notable intellects as H.G. Wells, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, William Kellog and Margaret Sanger, were supporters of the practice of eugenics. Many if not most Colleges and Universities taught that eugenics made sense and was desirable. The Carneggie Institution, The Kellog Foundation, Harriman Family funded the ideas. The whole subject did not fall into disrepute until the 1930's when it was used to support the political and racial agenda of Nazi Germany. Seeing the horror and the carnage that Hitler and the Nazi's perpetrated it makes sense that the idea be reigned in and kept in check, but was it really the best idea to completely obliterate the subject as a topic that could at least be discussed?

At this point in time I see a decided move by politicians of all stripe attempting to make "We the People" more dependent on them and less self sufficient, less able to do for our selves. Is this in fact a governmental system bent on using the concept of eugenics against it's populace? Is the process of natural selection being blocked by our civilization and a group of leaders trying to breed a better class of domestic sheeple?


I don't know the answers, but I have some sneaking suspicions. I have gut feelings that tell me that it is right to help people who need help, but that it is wrong to let them bring new life into the world if they are unable to care for themselves. I feel it is in our best interest to help those with some forms of physical and/or mental handicaps, but is there a point beyond which it is counterproductive?

Anyone wishing to weigh in on these weighty subjects please feel free. Just bear in mind, that I am not advocating anything here, I am just trying to put one of those "Taboo" subjects out in the light of reasoned discourse.

Monday, July 7, 2008

I was curious.




You Are 84% Tortured Genius



You totally fit the profile of a tortured genius. You're uniquely brilliant - and completely misunderstood.

Not like you really want anyone to understand you anyway. You're pretty happy being an island.

Are You a Tortured Genius?

Saw this on Little Joe's blog at http://assrot.blogspot.com/
His intro comes off as pretty hostile but he seems to make some very good points in his posting.

Movie Review: Hancock


Ok, yes I know it has been out since last week. However since I do the majority of my work on Friday and Saturday I choose to see movies on Monday or Tuesday, preferably in the early afternoon.

This movie did not get great reviews in the Washington Post or People Magazine. I find that I generally disagree with their assessment of the films anyway so who cares. Being a fan of comic book superheroes from earlier in my life and being a typical geeky guy, If the trailers don't look too horrible I am likely to go see this type of flick. It helps that my other half, Mysti likes most of the same kinds of flicks that I do. So off we went this afternoon to see the show.

I should note that going to the movies on a Monday or Tuesday afternoon also means that often we have the theater almost to our self. No crowds or distracting side conversations going on while we are there. Having read the reviews but no spoilers I went into this film expecting it to not really deliver much. As usual My opinion and Mysti's differed from the professionals, whom I think seem to be way too elitist in their critiques.

The movie was a typical summer entertainment flick, action, adventure and special effects. There was a plot twist that sort of took me by surprise half way through which these days doesn't happen often. Will Smith typically delivers a solid performance and I am pretty sure he can play the part of Canned Spam and make it interesting. If you go into this movie expecting a light story without literary aspirations then I think you will be entertained. I gave it a solid 3 stars and perhaps 3.5 out of 5.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Well My week is about done.

All in all not a bad week. Made a new friend, started a blog, cleaned out my office, cataloged about 60% of my books and put out 150 pounds of recycle material in the form of old magazines and unnecessary hard copies of papers I have written for the last couple of school years. Oh yeah and I put in 52 hours at my paying job.

I like this blog thing, since I started it, I have managed to clean up the office and really get a move on organizing the thousands upon thousands of digital images I have collected. In just two hours I should have 2 or 3 days all to my self. Perhaps I will get this place really squared away. Or more likely I am going to veg out and relax a bit, and work on getting the knack of using my newest toy a Cannon Rebel Xsi DSLR. With which I hope to supply this blog with some interesting scenery.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Time to give thanks,


I want to thank Brigid from over at mousersandmuffins at blogspot.
Her blog Home on the Range helped me figure out how to start this blog thing.

I want to assure everyone that any similarities between the two sites are strictly coincidental,
I can't help it that she has all my favorite books too, and apparently the same interest in TV/Video
products.

So should anyone accidentally find their way here, they really should check out Brigid's site for the quality material. Home on the Range is in my list of Blogs to the left of the screen.

The coming election


Normally I am energetic and enthused for National Elections. This time around I feel as if I have lost that energy that I normally feel. To anyone who knows me, it is obvious that I could never support Mr. Hopeychange nor any other wannabe socialist in the Democratic party. I think Zel Miller was the last Dem I had any real respect for. McCain an honest to goodness war hero has my gratitude and respect on that account but he is about as conservative as my aunt Shirley who used to be my uncle Bob.

I am not sure if it is just the lack of a candidate that will stand firm on our Constitutional Rights or if it is just that I am getting older and have just seen this play too often. I honestly respected and admired Ronald Reagan as the archetype of what a "True American" ought to be. He was up front about his opinions and he was a real man in a world of girleymen and metro-sexuals but I really don't think that the Republicans will ever get back on track for conservative values. (and Im not talking about pushing religion and right to life issues, I mean Constitutionalists). To vote for the Libertarians is just a waste of time, although on a local and some times even State level it is doable.

I just find it very dificult to be optimistic about the direction the Nation as a whole is moving. It is all too easy for me to just focus on finishing out my professional carreer, and then downsizing and moving out into the open spaces, keeping to myslef and enjoying the shooting range that I will have in the back yard, reading and watching old movies.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Obligatory Narcissism: Or all about me.

So when one starts to write a blog they have a few options about how much they reveal about their person. So I guess I will put what I am comfy with sharing into this little Bio-post so any visitors to this blog will have some clues.

Born and raised by a married man and woman. The eldest with 2 sisters and a brother. We always lived in fairly rural areas, mostly in PA but with occasional periods in West (by god) Virginia and Minnesota. Always had guns around our home, hunting, fishing and trapping equipment was abundant, it was with the resources from the hunting, fishing and trapping along with my dads day job that we managed to eek out a fairly comfortable lower middle income existence. We ate what we killed or caught and sold the hides from trapping, beaver, muskrat and fox for extra spending cash...back before fur became un-PC well, before there was even a term PC.

I learned how to survive in the wilderness, how to shoot and provide for myself. I also spent huge numbers of hours reloading shotgun shells, and of course shooting. 12gauge for a skinny little kid (116lbs at 5'10" on my 18th birthday) was an experience but I managed and I could not guess how many cases of .22 rounds I fired from various single shot rifles and later in my teens a Remington semi-auto. I learned a lot of useful skills from my dad, skills I would have liked to had the chance to share with my son but circumstances would rule that out.

As I approached age 18 my father ensured I knew well in advance that once I reached the age of 18 I was expected to move out and make my own way in the world. There was neither money nor desire for my parents to send me to college and was rather pointedly directed to the military. I always did well in school and graduated 10th in my class of 500. The US Navy a sporadic tradition for my family recruited me for it's Advanced Electronics program which I decided to pursue. My scores on the aptitude tests were high enough that I was urged to take the Nuclear Power program or to follow the path to the Naval Security Group. I was not interested in the Nuclear Power program so went the Security group route. I entered an intense series of schools which imparted the equivalent of a B.S. EE education in a mere 2.5 years. At the end of that training I still did not know what I would be doing for the Navy, I was granted a Top Secret SCI clearance and then entered another 10 months of education on the systems I would be supporting. I cannot say what I did, but I can say that it irks me to no end that Tom Clancy could write all about what I worked on and make millions from it. :)

I spent 1980 to 1990 in the US Navy stationed at various remote facilities and spending a lot of time on planes going to places that I "Did not have the need to know" where they were. I came to really appreciate the leadership that Ronald Reagan brought to our Nation and witnessed first hand the transition of the US military from being a Joke form the 1970's to being respected world wide in the 1980's. In 1990 with the collapse of the Soviet Union the Armed Forces in general were drawing down so after completing another 10 month training course and receiving a rather large reenlistment bonus, I was let go from military service.

I married a woman whom I had served with and traveled with her for several years from duty station to duty station and worked as a civilian contractor. We had my son and daughter and had wonderful plans for the future when we received word that we would be posted to Fort Meade Maryland for the last 4 years of her active duty service. The only snag was that she would be away from the kids and I for about a year for training. I set up house in Maryland and found a decent contracting job with one of the beltway bandits and at the end of my wife's training I found out that we would not in fact be sharing a future together. Life sucked for a while but I got through it and moved on.

It was while I was working for the Beltway Bandits that I learned the trick to making a career. I learned that employment was a sort of game, each side maneuvering to get the best deal it could, and that everything was negotiable no matter what "Policy" said. If you were needed bad enough then you could negotiate. Salary was also something I learned to negotiate and I owe this education to one specific person who was an African Immigrant that worked with me on one project. He pretty much explained the "game" to me and it was like a light switch being flipped.
With this information I managed to exceed my life goals that I had set as a naive kid from rural PA before I hit the age of 30. Needless to say I had to set some new life goals.

With all the training I had from the Navy and a public school education I managed to do fairly well for myself and finally met the love of my life, with whom I now live in Maryland. I work from home as a technical expert and keep horrendous hours. We live with our 3 dogs Kodiak (kodi), Bailey (bailey pig) and Calley (rat dog). Kodi and Callie are American Eskimo rescues and Bailey is a Beagle/Doxie mutt also a rescue. My children now live with their mother in PA and my son has graduated from HS. Bailey is the Boss Bitch around the house when Mysti or I are not asserting our dominance, and is also the pigdog, not a scrap of food falls without her scarfing it up....and when feeding time is over, Bailey is in charge of making sure that the dog dishes are cleaned down to the chrome finish.

Life has accelerated it's pace for us and I have started working on getting a degree just for my own enjoyment. I recently finished an AA in transfer studies to facilitate my pursuit of a BS in Computer Science. Where I go from here, I am not sure, but my hopes are to retire from full time employment within 10 years and do something I enjoy more than what I am doing now, perhaps something a bit more people oriented and less machine oriented.

That is a capsule summary of my life to date, Next I guess I might post my personal interests.

Independance Day

Hope everyone has a good weekend and takes a little time out to remember those who fought to make us free. only 3 people know about this blog so I'm not expecting a lot of comments :)

Everyone remember to go out and shoot a few rounds at the range, just as a commemoration, me I still have 5 hours to work before it turns into Saturday.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Moving on

I integrated the "Library Thing" java script so now I have random books from my collection on the page, still loads to learn.

If this blog continues I am not sure what direction it will take. It may end up just being a random subject thing. Themes will revolve around Guns, Books, Conservative political musings and any other subject that gains my interest.

Day 2 of my Bloggage

Well, I am getting more aquainted with how this all works. I will be working on the format and look and feel for the next few days as I get time. On the up side, I figured out why some people on Brigid's blog had graphic icons with their posts. The people with blogspot identities have their picture pop up.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Grand Opening.

An experiment gone horribly horribly wrong....or not. Time will tell.