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The Making of an Agent

A story of one class’s journey to become US Secret Service agents. A good read. It’s just a good story and a peek into the training involved to become a Secret Service agent. You can also pick up a few...

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Back

Back from Granddaddy’s funeral. More in the morning. Things to tend to. Posted in administrata Tagged: Other

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Housekeeping

Fiddling with the blog settings. Comments should show avatars. RSS feed should show summaries instead of the full text. Fiddled with the CSS slightly. Other little settings changes. All of this...

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Quiet

Busy. Will write more soon. Posted in administrata Tagged: Me, Other

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Testing

Let’s see if I can get WordPress for iPhone to post not just this text but also a picture. Updated: It appears to work. The image is hosted out of WordPress’s files area, which makes sense, but isn’t...

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Endorsements

So the FTC says that bloggers must disclose. When did the FTC start having jurisdiction over blogging? I obviously missed the memo. Actually they don’t, it’s still regulation over advertisers, but it’s...

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Quirkology

Quirkology. A term coined by author Richard Wiseman to refer to psychological research that is quirky. Much of this work uses mainstream methods to investigate unusual topics, or unusual methods to...

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1000

This is my 1000th post. That’s all there is to say. It’s like those Monty Python sketches with “this is my only line” as the only line. Posted in administrata, Me, Other Tagged: Me, Monty Python, Other

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Fiddle with twitter

I’m just not into Twitter, only because it doesn’t have a place for me. I mean, only 140 characters? You’re killing me! Nevertheless, I do have a Twitter account. I mainly snagged it to ensure I got...

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Twitter Fiddle 2

OK… I’ve disabled twitterfeed and enabled the wordpress.com native publicize to Twitter support. So… this is a post-fiddling post to see if it posts. Time will tell. Posted in administrata Tagged: Other

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Movie Review – Where The Wild Things Are

The book Where The Wild Things Are is a favorite in our house. It’s been on our bookshelf for years, and of course with the movie now out the book found new life again. All 10 sentences of it, all...

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Could Be Oldest’s Favorite Website

Pickles and Beef Jerky… dot-com. Looks to have been a short-lived venture into the world of pickles and beef jerky (natch). Yes, Oldest could love this website. Things I found to be pretty cool: The...

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Random stuff

From today… just some random bits of things. iPhone I’m peeved that my iPhone went dead. I have no idea what caused the sudden drain of battery. Google turns up this isn’t an unheard of thing and...

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Thank You

To folks like my father, my uncle, my brother-in-law, my father-in-law, and all those who have and do serve, thank you. Posted in Other Tagged: Freedom, Other

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Mandelbulb: 3D Mandelbrot

Check out the Mandelbulb, a 3-D mandelbrot. Incredible! Posted in Miscellaneous, Other Tagged: Miscellaneous, Other

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Stuff from stats

It’s been a while since I looked at my stats and the search terms people are using to get here. Looks like this one turned into a gun one. can you reload brass for springfield xd Yes. what is the most...

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Shooting at the University of Texas

So today there was an odd shooting at the University of Texas. I say odd because, at least from reports we have so far, 19-year-old Colton Tooley took an AK-47 (and are we sure it’s an AK?), fired some...

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Drought + wind = high fire conditions

Most people associate “drought” with “summer”. They think because it’s cold out right now, we don’t have “drought conditions.” But folks, drought means lack of water. We haven’t had any good rains in...

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Question from Daughter

“Dad, why do dogs and cats get black eye boogers and we get tan ones?” This is what Daughter asked me this morning as I wiped the black eye boogers out of the eyes of one of the cats. So of course, I...

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The Beauty of Pixar

Just watch. http://vimeo.com/18251660 Updated: Well…. it looks like the original Vimeo-hosted video was deleted. Here’s YouTube… until it’s deleted: Filed under: Other Tagged: Other

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As seen on Facebook

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Clearing the backlog

I’ve had a bunch of links backing up in my queue, things I wanted to post about. Just going to clear them all in one fell swoop. It’s a smorgasbord. “What’s Behind The Shocking Collapse in Violent...

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Looking for a new flashlight — do you have any input?

For many years I’ve carried a SureFire E2L Outdoorsman. It’s part of my every-day-carry, and in fact I use it almost every day. It’s because of that daily utility that I chose that particular model of...

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Thank YOU

To you who comes here and reads, for whatever reason you come here and read… thank you. Filed under: Miscellaneous, Other Tagged: Miscellaneous, Other

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My new EDC Flashlight – SureFire E2D

For the past 3-4 years, I’ve carried a SureFire E2L Outdoorsman as my every day carry (EDC) flashlight. I carry a flashlight all the time and at the ready because it’s useful. I didn’t realize how...

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