2009.08.11 10:33 - Guns
Speer Gold Dot, 9mm, 124gr, standard pressure. 20rds for $22.
Speer Law Enforcement Gold Dot, 9mm, 124gr, standard pressure. 50rds for $25.
Same bullet. Same casing, powder, ballistics, et cetera. But the cop ammunition costs about half as much. I wonder if that's something to do with liability coverage or something.
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2009.08.04 10:23 - Whining, Work-related
300+ character regular expression that can be obviated by a single call to DateTime.TryParse().
What the heck. Maybe there's some business requirement requiring a specific set of date formats be supported, but, hey, DateTime.TryParseExact() will cover that scenario. At least it's old code, so there's some hope that we'll have learned from this somewhere in the last two years.
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2009.08.04 00:19 - Guns, Internet Stupidity
Certain parties have given me some grief about my ... continuing interest in boomsticks and related malarkey. (Which, admittedly, does kinda border on the unhealthy. But only border.)
I'm mildly tempted to troll the heck out of them, but I don't think I can be bothered.
That said, here's a link to all the gun information you could want and probably then some. Here's a mildly novel, but impractical, idea from the PRC to get you started.
And one from the Soviet Union: an assault rifle made for use underwater.
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2009.08.03 15:24 - News and Politics
Possible candidates in the race include one Bill Johnson, a Navy vet and graduate of UK's EE program; Trey Grayson, the state's current Secretary of State; Cathy Bailey, former US Ambassador to Latvia; and Rand Paul, an opthamologist and son of some other guy you've actually heard of. I'm guessing Johnson's the political outsider, Grayson's an establishment candidate, Bailey is probably a long shot, and Paul is most likely staking out the libertarian position.
I will have to see how things shake out; I'm not familiar with any of these people, but it at least looks like a strong field to level against the Democratic candidate, who, I'd guess, is most likely Dan Mongiardo, our current Lieutenant Gov and 2004 Senate candidate. (Jack Conway had a failed run for Congress against Anne Northup a while back, and the rest of field are people I've never heard of.)
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2009.08.03 09:07 - Guns, Browning Hi-Power, Meatspace Stupidity
Went to the indoor range on Sunday, blew a hundred rounds and signed up for a CCW class.
Long, long, long way to go before I reach good, but I can keep all my shots on the paper at 25 feet, now, so I figure that's closer to mediocre than to awful. I ran out of brass-cased .22 last week, so I don't have anything really cheap to use for practice at the indoor place.
One thing, though. There was once when I retrieved the target from downrange and counted one more hole than should have been there. Might've been the bros in the lane next to me with the laser-equipped Glock, as I think the lane on my other side was unoccupied (couldn't see into it, though). It worries me just a bit, but they seemed safe enough other than the aim, and it's not like I'm dropping my bullets into single hole at 25 yards myself.
[Addendum: Also, also: I have a hell of a flinch (helped a lot to turn the volume down on my earmuffs, though), and am having a bit of a problem with hammer bite from the Hi-Power. Yet another reason for buying a second Hi-Power: to have a spare while the carry piece is off being
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