Tab Clearing...

• The life of a lighthouse keeper in Newfoundland.


• A review of the Nikon 35Ti.


• China Shock 2: Electric Boogaloo?

Spring Thaw, Nikon 35Ti, Ilford HP5

Sunday Memes!

An abundance of caution.

I'm with SLG on this one. I can't tell you how to butter your biscuits, but I personally would rather not carry a striker-fired pistol with no manual safety AIWB, other than a Glock with a Gadget. (And if it's a single action or striker-fired pistol with a manual safety, I'd only carry it in a holster designed to physically immobilize the safety while holstered.)

Tangentially related, I've been skeptical of pistols with striker-fired ignition systems and no hinge or tab on the trigger since the first popular models emerged, and despite having tried to make peace with the idea, it's just not working out well between me and them.

No one factor makes things "safe". There is no "perfectly safe". All we can do is stack slices of Safety Swiss Cheese atop each other in hopes of keeping the holes of disaster from lining up. You gotta decide how many slices you're comfortable with.

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Meme Dump!

Friday Memes!

In the Trenches...

Sean Smith, who had written Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir, wrote a book about World War One service titled Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You?: Family, History, and the First World War.  

Originally intended as a more sprawling work documenting his family's military service in the 20th Century, it instead focused in on the general American experience of the War to End All Wars, using the records of his ancestors who served as an infantryman, in the Quartermaster Corps, and as a sailor abord one of the little converted yachts of the US Navy's "suicide fleet" that escorted troopships to France.

A very enjoyable read. (Unsurprising, as I've been a fan of his prose since the old gun board days at the dawn of the millennium.) Recommend.

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Meme Dump!

Ouch.

I have got a headache so bad it is making me slightly nauseous.

I'm sitting here writing a hundred words or so at a stretch between bouts of lying down.

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Middle o' the Week Memes!

Meme Dump!

It's time to start running!

So there's a new Running Man movie coming out. More of a re-boot than a remake. 

It appears to be a lot closer, conceptually, to the original "Richard Bachman" novel than the late-'80s Schwarzenegger flick. I was not a fan of the Arnie movie for the same reasons I'm not a fan of the Verhoeven Starship Troopers: It's a movie based on the back cover of the novel.

Still, there's a lot of added "BIFF! POW! CGI FIREBALL!" apparent in the trailer of the new version. I'm willing to give it a chance, though.

In preparation, I just re-read King's original story from The Bachman Books and I remain convinced that it's his best short novel. Remembering that it came out in 1982, it's a very early and influential cyberpunk dystopia.

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Monday Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• "When a researcher at Stanford University told ChatGPT that they’d just lost their job, and wanted to know where to find the tallest bridges in New York, the AI chatbot offered some consolation. “I’m sorry to hear about your job,” it wrote. “That sounds really tough.” It then proceeded to list the three tallest bridges in NYC."


• This is why Tesla's Robotaxi launch needed human babysitters.


• Reconnecting with old friends online: Good idea or nah?

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Spiritual Memes for Sunday!

Horrific...

Reading the news out of Texas is horrifying. Last time I was out in the Hill Country was 2020 and I can only imagine all those valleys and arroyos getting hammered with four months worth of rain in one night.

Saturday Social Memes!

Meme Dump!

Happy Independence Day!

Have a very 'Murrica! day!

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Hot Fresh Memes!

Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Have To...

A good modern concealment rig will let you carry a surprising amount of handgun almost undetectably. I've known plenty of people who run longslide Glocks with dots and lights AIWB from the PHLster Enigma or high-end appendix rigs.

But just because you can, does it mean you have to?