I just squee'ed a little bit.

XCOR Aerospace totally just favorited my tweet. Sometimes it's cool living here in the future and I find myself loving the internets.
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Thank you, Marc Randazza.

Remember the big Righthaven, LLC stink? The copyright trolls whose business model for making millions was to squeeze it out of bloggers, one dinky settlement at a time?

Turns out Marc Randazza, a guy I'd only known on the internets as a First Amendment fanatic with a wicked funny sense of humor, was a big player in the courtroom stompings that have left Righthaven without a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of.

I did not know that, nor did I realize how thoroughly Righthaven was being ground into paste. Thank you, Mr. Randazza.

(H/T to Popehat.)

You might be a fanboy if...

So ToddG at pistol-training.com had a little contest running with a prize for the person who guessed the date and time of when the 50,000th shot would be fired from his HK45 test gun and who would be the shooter.

To close out the contest, he posted a teaser closeup of the pistol actually being fired, and some of his commenters piped up with "That's Larry Vickers! I recognize his hands!"

Recognize his hands? Y'know, there's a line between fanboyish and stalkeriffic, and that's tap-dancing right on it.

There's a picture of my carry gun in Oleg Volk's galleries to which I linked earlier this year, and someone asked if that was my hand holding the gun, and I had to look closely and think about it and I still replied "I believe so..." and I had a hand right here to compare it to.

Fangirl squee.

If there is one writer that has consistently been the Pole Star in my constellation of snark lo these many years, it would be P.J. O'Rourke. Oh, sure, I've been influenced by H.L. Mencken, Florence King, and Hunter S. Thompson, but I've never had a schoolgirl crush on any of them. So it was especially cool when I heard that he had a new book out, since I already had pretty much every other book he'd published and I was jonesing for a P.J. fix. It was even cooler when I read that Turk Turon had gone to a book signing at the Cato Institute...

...but all that dissolved into helpless fangirl squee when I returned home from Knoxville and found the contents of the envelope Turk had sent to Roseholme Cottage:



The new book even has a grownup P.J. rebuttal to his immortal essay "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink".

Interesting side benefit of the intertubes era:

Ultra-low-bujit fanboy film making.

Behold, Punisher vs. Wolverine. Pretty neat, actually...

I could hear the squee from here.

Breda has a visitor.

Prob'ly it ain't, but if it ain't, it should've been.

SciFi comics made of win and awesomesauce.

Big Head Press is advertising in my sidebar! Cool!

Standing ovation, with whistling and stamping of feet.

QotW:

"Each time you allow your representatives to tack on more and more "regulations", you limit your freedom more and more. Each time you vote to increase the power of the government, even when you think that particular increase is beneficial, it will never go away and always be added on to, generally by people who you didn't want to have that power in the first place." -Robb Allen, Sharp As A Marble

RTWT!

Unbelievable!

Will you look at this?

48 hours later and I'm still fairly squeeing with glee. I may actually get to vote for a candidate instead of against one. This feels weird... :D

(Found in comments at The Munchkin Wrangler.)

BONUS!: Sarah Palin pick retroactively makes the theme of #DNC08 “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead” (H/T to Random Nuclear Strikes.)

Oh, fudge.

Looks like the Para Shooty Thingy at Blackwater is the same weekend as the Indy 1500 in August. I need to make some emails and phone calls and explain why I'm not going to be able to make it to the Fun Show.

I guess "I totally have to get some training from Todd Jarrett that weekend" is an acceptable excuse.

Wannabe a superstar?

Back before I even really knew what a "blog" was, Rachel Lucas was totally my hero. She wrote cool stuff on the internet just 'cause she felt like it! And it was there for me to read! It was totally awesome. I wanted to be just like Rachel when I grew up.

But, you know, not if it means getting her fan mail, I don't.