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When I was young, I was insulated from “rock and roll” music. My father strongly disliked it (and still does). More importantly, I grew up in a fundamentalist religion, and I was lead to believe that it was sinful. I just wasn’t exposed to it, and I was less-than-subtly discouraged from embracing it. However, I […]
Allow me to present the formula for creating a bad-ass film superhero (or super-villain). Step 1: Design a bad-ass costume, one that seems faintly suited to combat, one that tightly fits and augments the figure, and has a few high-tech gizmos. Add boots. Add a minimal mask that hides or obscures the area around the […]
Every now and then, people talk about pick-up artists and deplore the deceitfulness they perceive. These are generally people who have heard about the pick-up community and maybe read a little about it. They don’t really understand it, they don’t really believe it works, and they certainly feel they wouldn’t want the techniques to be […]
Once upon a time, I bought Pro Tools, which is software for recording and making music electronically. I spent a lot of money on it, and when I got it home, I discovered that it won’t even work with a sound card. (It can, with a piece of software that emulates an ASIO driver, but […]
I have photographed numerous bands on stage, and it took a while for me to develop the skill. This is a summary of what I’ve learned. I hope it will be useful to others who want to produce good photos of bands performing live on stage. There are three basic challenges to overcome: Bands Perform […]
In some ways, I have a strong sense for music, and I am fairly clueless in other ways. For example, there is always music in my head, running in the background, often unnoticed. I have fairly broad musical tastes. On the other hand, I usually don’t pay much attention to lyrics, and my memory is […]
Is the Constitution of the United States a meaningless document? The other day, I was driving down the highway and listening to NPR on the radio. On it was a discussion about re-integration of criminals after their incarcerations. The producers of the program were interviewing people, and one of them rather shyly admitted that he […]
I receive this question frequently when discussing CCW with new people, and it throws me every time. It comes from so far outside of my everyday thinking that I can’t come up with a spontaneous explanation that bridges the gap. However, the next time someone asks, I will have this answer ready: No, I’m not […]
The standardization of the .338 Federal cartridge was announced at the end of 2005 and made a reality during 2006. It was a popular wildcat before that, being a .308 Winchester case necked up for .338″ diameter bullets. Federal claimed the performance of a 7mm Remington Magnum but with notably lower recoil. This was made […]
Several years ago, when my father retired, he moved up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near Escanaba, where he has a house on the lake. He quickly came to understand that hunting is very important to the area. As my interest in hunting was budding at the time, he suggested that I should visit […]
