Start a new job today. Pretty sure they block this site, and after spending 9+ hours at a keyboard at work, I generally don’t want to spend time at home doing the same.
And yes, for those of you keeping score this will by my third job in less than a year.
But as long as people keep giving me five figure raises to change jobs, I’ll probably keep doing it.
If I weren’t waiting on the Sprint version, I’d totally jump on this:
Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G Android Phone (Verizon Wireless)
It’s new customers only, so if you’ve been waiting for a flagship phone to go on sale, this is it. Dual core 1.2ghz processor, 1080p camera, and a 4.65 inch screen. Totally hot.
Pennsylvania man, 65, fatally shoots teen who pushed him off bicycle
And why did the teen push the elderly gentleman off his moving bicycle? So the teen and his friends could assault and rob him.
A more apt headline would be “Elderly man saves own life, teaches valuable lesson to local teens”
Two of us post here: me and Oddball. I have neither cats nor a girlfriend.
I love the Fenix E21 Flashlight I got for Christmas. LOVEITLOVEITLOVEIT.
The only thing i don’t like about it is that the overall length is a bit much for everyday carry. It doesn’t exactly fit in your pocket. I’d like to get something that I can carry around and not notice until I need it. I have two scenarios where this would be used: “Oh, I dropped something under my desk and it’s dark down there” and “ZOMG! I’m in a situation that I need a light on my gun, but I’m not carrying my Glock/M6 combo, so I need to use a Harries hold and my PF9.”
I’m thinking of getting the Fenix PD20 and removing the belt clip. That one takes a CR123, is 180 lumens, and has a tailcap switch. Plus it does strobe, which is neat.
The other contender is this one, which is small enough that I wouldn’t notice it until I needed it. The major con is that it’s a “twist-on” type, so it wouldn’t be as useful with my PF9.
What do you think? I’m completely open to alternatives, as well.
1 injured in East Nashville shooting
East Nashville, regular readers may recall, is the “up and coming” and “hip” neighborhood where twenty-something white kids move in next to crack houses and the projects because it’s cool, or something. Crime is rampant, and shootings occur daily. So the hipster businesses ban carry permit holders.
I really clicked on the story to see what part of East this was in, but…
Authorities told Nashville’s News 2 a man was in front of the complex when he was approached by a man armed with a handgun.
Police said the man shot the suspect, who was wearing a ski mask at the time, in self defense.
Well, that’s a horse of a different color! Good for the victim!
More stories like this and the crime rate in that neighborhood might actually go down!
Let’s put a water park next to the water park we built next to the water park we built next to a lake.
A pro-gun article in…Elle Magazine?
It starts off slow and it’s kinda long, but well worth the read. A couple of pull quotes:
On terminology:
For hands-on shooting practice, we separate into three groups: pistols, shotguns, and rifles. On my way to the pistol instruction area, I stop to ask a tall man with an NRA belt buckle for directions. “The handgun clinic is that way,” he says, pointing over my head.
“I’m looking for pistols,” I say.
“Honey,” he tells me, with an indulgent smile, “pistols are handguns.”
On that first time shooter experience:
My first thought is, I can’t believe how loud that was. I’m wearing earplugs, but you don’t just hear the firecracker noise in your ears; you feel it with your whole body. Even if, like me, you’ve never handled a gun, they figure so heavily in the entertainment we watch—from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to Sarah Palin’s reality show to movie trailers and video game commercials—that firing one for the first time is a weird combination of startling and banal. Guns are (pardon the pun) loaded with so much cultural baggage that you think you know what to expect. You don’t. TV gunshots sound and act no more like real gunshots than construction-paper snowflakes resemble real snowflakes.
My next thought is, I want to do that again!
All this comes from a woman who grew up in Chicago and has lived in LA and NYC.
A 48 gun safe with ethernet, USB, and power plugs.
I may need that later. FYI, you wouldn’t want to put a computer in there because of the lack of ventilation, but a small NAS
and then they decided to give Politico access to every user’s private messages and non-public status updates. Yeah, no room for abuse there!
Way to be creepy, Zuck. Thanks for reminding me why I left.
Via Insty
