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Saturday, June 05, 2021

Automotif CCXVIII...

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It's not just another rat rod with a Small Block Chevy. Instead, it's a rat rod with three quarters* of a Small Block Chevy. (*Ish. ...

Range day yesterday...

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I took the .38/32 Terrier to Indy Arms Co yesterday. It was my first time shooting indoors there since probably April of last year. Bobbi ha...
Friday, June 04, 2021

Bobbi and the Bat

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Our neighbor requested aid from Bobbi in evicting another bat... When I arrived, she told me one of her cats had carried it up from the base...

Negative Outcomes

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Claude Werner, the Tactical Professor, has a couple more unfortunate lessons for his collection of serious mistakes gun owners make: Deadly...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Spinning Discs and Submarines

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This was Kodak's top-of-the-line Disc camera in 1982. The 8000 added a few features over its cheaper stablemates... Yes, I know it's...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Get to the choppah!

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Here comes the IU LifeLine helicopter! Starting back in 2013, something of an event has been made of the delivery of the green flag by helic...
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

That was difficult.

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I did most of my shooting with the 5D Mark II wearing the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L, with the 2X extender ... ...giving me, effectively, a 140-400m...

Hostile Takeover

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So yesterday morning I was chilling out and watching the morning news when a commercial I had not seen before came on the televisor. Everybo...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Faster than a speeding...

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Rinus VeeKay, in the Bitcoin-sponsored car, qualified third and started on the front row. He surged ahead and led the race for thirty-some l...

Virtuality

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So, it all started with a beautiful photo essay in the NYT on the coconut crab trade on Makatea in French Polynesia. With the phosphate mi...

Memorial Day 2021

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  Remember.
Sunday, May 30, 2021

How my day went...

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The initial charge into turn one. Pardon the potato photo. I have something like a thousand images to sort through hoping something turned o...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Automotif CCXVII...

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As I was exiting Fresh Market with a sack full of dinner fixings, something there in the traffic on College Avenue caught my eye... Fortunat...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

It's Holden!

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I couldn't help it.  Holden was laying there with the light from the window on him, and my Nikon D3000 with the 35mm f/1.8 was right the...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

More of this, please.

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The internet could use a lot less political bullshit and a lot more of whatever the hell this is. https://t.co/9O77tCJ9zL — Tamara K. (@TamS...

Zoom Hate

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I think some of the residual hate toward zoom lenses comes from the fact that some early ones were truly awful , and even the good modern on...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

It makes me so mad!

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“Did you watch the news last night?” “Yeah, I watched [Tucker Carlson/Rachel Maddow].” Except that’s not the news. That’s an editorial progr...

“Why is movie blurry?”

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I'm seeing lots of chatter about the cinematography of Zack Snyder's latest effort. Some people seem confused by the blurry backgrou...
Monday, May 24, 2021

That's a bold move.

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" Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land ...

Seen it before...

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The nation's crazy uncle hasn't updated his new blog in a few days. I've seen it so many times, they always start out with the b...
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