Man shoots, kills estranged wife’s ex-boyfriend
I was expecting a crazy jealous husband hunting down and killing the man his wife had been sleeping with.
As it turns out, the ex boyfriend was under a restraining order and broke in to the wife’s home. He then attacked the husband, who shot him.
“Man defends himself against wife’s ex-boyfriend” probably doesn’t get as many hits, though.
In response to me asking how, exactly, I should gain experience if he would bar me from attending, Paul Helinski says:
So, apparently there is no value in going to the media only events. If it offends him so much that bloggers get media credentials, then perhaps he should stop going to the media events. He also refers to media as “we” or “us” so clearly he thinks he’s attending SHOT in a media capacity, not in a vendor capacity.
Ah. Now I see. You want to be more specialer than us icky bloggers. Note he says “internet readership” and he’s been saying all along he’s an internet journalist. If he were complaining as a vendor or buyer, that would be an entirely different kind of stupid.
Since he likes to harp on the fact that the commercial site GunsAmerica.com has high rankings from arbitrary sites like Compete.com (which, until today, I’d never heard of) and Alexa, let’s see how his internet journalist site–or what the rest of us would call a “blog”
–fares. My arbitrary metric?
Google Reader. Here are the subscriber numbers for this site, which has been open for about 5 months:
Here are the numbers for JayG’s site, open since March of 2007:
And here are the numbers for the GunsAmerica blog, “after 15 years of hard work and dedication”:
So please, tell me why you should be there with a media pass but me and JayG shouldn’t.
Refer to the people who have an audience and might link to your site “nobodies” and insinuate they are fraudsters and thieves, like Paul Helinski of GunsAmerica:
Now the question is when you are going to start qualifying internet media? We have to crawl over nobodies who can install wordpress and have nobody reading anything they write, It isn’t so hard to qualify internet media using Alexa.com and Compete.com. Why do you waste the manufacturers’ time and make the real internet media have to deal with wish I were internet journalists who are just using your stamp of approve to solicit review guns and accessories? You’ve created this giant gorilla in the room and we all have to deal with it, and you may think the industry takes your numbers seriously, but everyone sees things for what they are. If you are serious about bringing value to your exhibitors, you need to vet the press list.
In a later comment, he argues for protectionism by denying press credentials to any “internet journalist” who hasn’t been covering SHOT for years. Pulling up the ladder is always a winning strategy!
Also: What Alan said.
ETA: Just in case you were wondering, you can’t go to the SHOT show as a member of the general public:
He’s appealing, and no word on whether or not he gets to keep his POST certification (allowing him to just go to another jurisdiction). The bulk of the article quotes his union rep bemoaning the fact that he was fired even though they “discovered” he had PTSD….for eight years and no one noticed.
Obviously, he’s not going to be charged.
That’s me!
This year is the year of training for me, so I started off early. Last weekend I took the NRA CPI class put on by Leroy Farris of Farris Firearms Training in Murfreesboro, TN. It’s a two day course where you don’t learn how to shoot–you learn how to teach people to shoot.
There were about twenty of us in the class and I’m pretty sure the vast majority of students strap on a Glock as part of their day job. I made some good contacts with people who already run training facilities across Tennessee and I’ll be reaching out to them later for class offerings.
One thing I did learn is that I really need to progress from shooting for precision to shooting for speed. When I started carrying 5 years ago, I could hit a silhouette at 10 yards about 80 percent of the time. Not the x-ring, or centermass, or headshots: anywhere.
Yeah, I was pretty terrible. I’m much better now 😀
On day 2 we did a little bit of shooting and the first exercise was 6 rounds in a target about 3×5″ at probably 10 yards. We paired up and one person watched while the other shot, the point being for the non-shooter to learn to look at the gun and not the target while giving instruction. After all twenty students had put six downrange, I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who made six hits. That’s probably because all I practice is slow, aimed hits at a known distance against a stationary target with no stressors present. At the LuckyGunner class by Tom Givens, I was the only student to miss an a-zone hit when we were shooting against each other. So I know what I need to work on, now.
All in all, it was a good class. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes taking new shooters. My paperwork should arrive in the next few weeks and then I can submit an application to the state to teach the Handgun Permit class. I haven’t decided if I’m actually going to do that, though.
UPDATE 7/1/2012: Several people have emailed in and said that instead of making a cable, you can use an iGO Charger A00 Tip
UPDATE 1/24/2014: If you’re thinking about buying the F8Z492-P for in-car use, I have two alternatives to suggest. First, this product
ORIGINAL POST:
As I mentioned in my Christmas Bounty post, I got a Belkin F8Z492-P Bluetooth Music Receiver
Now, seeing as this is the marketing photo:
I falsely assumed that it was rechargeable. Otherwise, how would the power light be on with only the audio cable attached, like the picture shows? As it turns out, this device is designed to connect to a home stereo and get power from the included 5v 180ma power supply.
That pretty much defeats the purpose of me getting this, since I don’t have/want to run a power inverter just to run bluetooth audio. So I decided to get around that problem.
At first I went into my box o’ junk and found an adjustable DC power converter. That device is kind of like this one
ZAP! Blew the 1A fuse on the converter. Well, crap. Back to the drawing board.
I thought about buying a 5V Voltage Regulator
USB spec is 5vdc @ 500ma. PERFECT! Now I just need a cable. Which I don’t have.
So I made one. I took a standard USB cable and cut off the end. There are four wires, but we only need the power ones (Black = negative, Red = positive). So I took my stripped cable and my barrel connecter, along with some heat shrink tubing:
Soldered the wires to the connector, after slipping the heat shrink tubing onto the cable:
And voila! I tested the cable and it worked! Then I slipped the heat shrink tubing over the exposed wires and got after it with a lighter. That should keep it from shorting. Works like a champ!
For fun, a student at Hickman County High School walked around asking students to say “Bitch Ass” in front of a video camera.
This is the video he made (Obviously NSFW due to language):
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17SsVdxLsfY&w=420&h=315]
Now, from the reaction of some of the people in the video, it’s clear that the videographer walked up to people and said “Hey, can you say Bitch Ass for me?” The way some of them respond quizzically makes me think that. Sometime over the winter break, school administrators found the video and suspended everyone in it for three days.
Everyone except the student who created the video.
He was expelled and sent to an alternative school. The same place they send you if you assault a teacher or police officer or get caught with a gun or drugs.
For making a damned video, he gets to spend a year with those lovely folks.
“Unfortunately, a lot of them are learning a hard lesson.”
Yes, Dr. Jerry W. Nash, they are. They are learning that you and your employees are authoritarian pricks with no sense of humor, and no sense of what appropriate punishment ought to be–assuming that this would be something someone should be punished for in the first damned place.
Later: I’d like to welcome all the Hickman County High students who stopped by over the weekend and commented. I was apparently linked on Facebook, but unfortunately the way Facebook refers links I can’t see the actual discussion. If there’s anything I can do to help out, y’all just let me know.
Oh, and if your comments don’t immediately appear it’s because first time commenters are moderated–meaning I get an email asking to approve a comment, and I have to click a link before your comment will appear. As long as you’re not libeling anyone or inciting violence, I’ll approve it.
One of these is a Coke, the other is a Diet Coke.
It’s a very rude awakening when you grab the wrong one out of the fridge
WHY! Why would you do that?
My niece got a flashlight for Christmas as a stocking stuffer. Cute little Disney Princess one
But the thing I found interesting, which you may have already noticed, was the head on the flashlight:
Is it just me, or does that look a lot like a crenellated strike bezel?
