Month: June 2009

*sigh* I’m getting old

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Some old high school friends are enjoying a free weekend of XM/Sirius, and have it tuned to Hair Nation and only Hair Nation. So I’ve been walking down memory lane, remembering concerts I went to in high school (e.g. Mötley CrĂĽe). Ah, what fun.

I don’t have XM/Sirius, but I do have Time Warner Cable and their digital music channels. They used to have a very nice setup but a little while ago they revamped the channel lineup and I’m not happy with the changes. The big change that hit me tho was that my favorite channel “Arena Rock” (guaranteed to play at least one Billy Squier tune every hour, like it or don’t) was changed and collapsed with some other channels into what is now called “Retro Rock”.

My favorite music is now retro.

And I remember as a kid that MTV was the cool channel to watch, and VH-1 was full of old people music. Now what do I watch? VH-1.

Gah… I’m getting old. 🙂

Score!

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Older kiddos heading to a 4-H summer camp next week, so we had to do a little shopping. Wife recently dumped a bunch of our water bottles due to BPA concerns, so we needed to buy some new BPA-free ones.

While at the Academy, I had to stop by the gun counter.

Picked up a box of Remington Golden Bullet, the value pack (525 rounds… the “insta-arsenal”). It’s not my favorite .22 LR (I like the Federal Champion target bricks better), but it works better than things like Thunderbolt. I could only get 1 box, but hey… I’ve been searching for decent .22 LR for a while now so I’m happy. Whoo!

Who needs a new website?

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Everyone’s all buzzing over the new Brownells website. I never found their old website all that bad, but it certainly wasn’t as sexy as the new one. Next time I need to shop for something they sell I certainly will give their website a more thorough look.

What I would like to see in a new website is one for Smith & Wesson. My quest for a snub-nose revolver continues, and I’m narrowing down what I want, but being able to do more direct comparisons would be really nice. Yeah they have some ways to “find what you want” but it’s just not as good as some other sites at helping you browse through their entire catalog, compare, and really figure what model is right for you.

What would also be really neat if S&W did was put their entire history online. A good used gun is a fine thing and finding a good used snub is just fine with me. It would be awesome if Smith had their entire historical catalog online. There’s just the cool history value of that, but it also would allow folks a one-stop repository to know about all past Smith & Wesson firearms to be able to research and say “yeah, a used such-and-such would fit my bill as well as a new such-and-such, or perhaps better”.

Ah well, just have to keep my Google-Fu high while I do my homework.

Your early Father’s Day moment…

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…courtesy of Alice Cooper.

The Pulse of Radio reports: Alice Cooper has made a career out of being scary on stage, but he’s also experienced a moment or two of fear as a father. Alice, who has three grown children, reminisced to The Pulse of Radio about the time he caught his then-teenage daughter, Calico, in her bedroom with a boy. “And there’s this really good-looking guy sitting on her bed and she’s taking a shower,” he said. “I look at the guy and he knows that I’m gonna… and he goes ‘Oh hello Mr. Cooper! Cali and I were just trying on clothes.’ And I went ‘either this guy is really good or he’s really gay. I hope that you’re really gay because if you’re that quick in order to become gay, getting caught in my daughter’s bedroom’ and Calico looked at me and she says ‘no, we were trying on dresses.’ And he was gay and it was a relief to me!”

Ah, the things one has to look forward to when your daughter becomes a teenager. 🙂

I figure when the day comes that Daugther starts dating and some boy comes to pick her up, my conversation with the boy will be simple:

You make her smile, you make me smile.

You make her cry, I make you cry.

🙂

Let the numbers do the talking

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Howard Nemerov looks at the Brady Campaign’s own data (along with some FBI data) examining how states with high “Brady Scores” also have larger police forces and also greater incidents of violent crime.

I thought more police == less crime. I mean, the police are there to protect us, right?

Those “right to carry” states…. there should be blood flowing on the streets, people solving all of their problems with guns.  They certainly shouldn’t have less police and lower violent crime. That’s unpossible!

But hey… the facts speak for themselves.

Criminals don’t want to get killed. When they know people could be armed, they tend to take a different course of action.

An observation

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Funny how the “armed self-defense” approach is A-okay at the macro scale in HI, but Heavens forfend they should entertain the notion of plain citizens being armed to protect themselves from footpads and highwaymen, ooooo nooooo.

– Roberta X