From the Naval Safety Center… Yes, this is real. I’ve stripped off the header… MSGID/GENADMIN/COMNAVSAFECEN/00/MAY// SUBJ/SUMMARY OF MISHAPS// GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. WELCOME TO THE LATEST EDITION OF THE SUMMARY OF MISHAPS. HEAR THOSE LONESOME COYOTES CALLING? SEE THAT TUMBLEWEED BLOWING ACROSS MAIN … Continue reading
Category Archives: Random stuff
With Kalifornia??? Is it a requirement that every little old lady in a Mercedes have a toy poodle? I swear I must have seen ten or fifteen of them this week!!! In other news, it was in the mid 60s … Continue reading
Culled from an email thread back in 2007… I found this when I inadvertently flipped the received dates… There were about eight of us in the discussion, and it went on for about three days. It started as a discussion … Continue reading
Is FIFTY years old… The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over … Continue reading
Japan is in trouble population wise… The total has shrunk for the fourth year running, falling back to a level it was last at in 2000, with more than one in four people now aged 65 or older. From the … Continue reading
Occasionally one DOES hear a good story. This is one of those… h/t JP I’m currently at the NRA Annual Meeting, if there is anything specific you’d like me to look at for you, leave me a comment and I’ll … Continue reading
I thought I’d seen some good ones, but this one out of Hunan Province in China blows me away… This is apparently from the 2013 Chinese New Year. And they are a LOT more ‘creative’ than our folks (And don’t … Continue reading
I’ve pretty much stayed out of the commentaries and everything else surrounding Sad Puppies and the Hugo, but I’ve paid my money and I will vote my one vote… BUT, having said that and having read the vitriol coming from … Continue reading
Glock slipped up and announced a new gun a ‘tad’ early… Courtesy of the NRA… GLOCK Releases Single Stack 9mm Concealed Carry – The New G43 SMYRNA, Ga – (Mar. 20, 2015) – Today GLOCK, Inc. announced the release of … Continue reading
I REALLY wonder where some people learned how to drive… Sigh… I’m betting they never learned to color inside the lines either… Of course the one on the right that started it had a DC plate, so no real surprise… … Continue reading