02.26.08
Guns Save Lives
I’m always good for one of these:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/guns_save_lives.html
02.24.08
highs and lows
Well in the last 48 hours I’ve managed to go from 40 feet beneath the water (scuba diving) to 3000 feet above it (in a glider).
Flying sort of freaks me out. I’m generally pretty unflappable, but one of the few things that can cause me significant anxiety (and sometimes outright panic, more on that later), it’s flying.
Anyway, a friend of mine flies gliders and took me up twice today. I found two little handholds on the console in front of me that I could hold onto for dear life (not unlike the “Jesus Bar” on the passenger side of Volkswagen Bugs). I got to fly a tiny little bit. On the second flight my friend did a little bit of “maneuvering”, one of which involved putting us in near zero-g for a moment. I thought I was going to die. I mean, I don’t usually panic, but I was pretty well paralyzed for a moment.
Anyway, it was a new experience. I don’t think I’d ever flown before except in commercial airlines.
02.23.08
Diving
I bought a drysuit earlier this week, and went diving with it today. These pics are from suiting up for the drysuit orientation Matt gave me. Diving a drysuit takes a little bit of extra training, mostly in what to do if you start getting air in your feet (because you can end up rocketing to the surface if you don’t take of that problem real quick). I have to say it was slightly amusing popping out of the water fins first looking like the Michelin man.
02.20.08
Angry White Men
Wish I read more columns like this:
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080209/ASPENWEEKLY06/198091324/-1/DAILYCOMMENT
I don’t agree with every single thing in there, but I do especially like this part:
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.
02.15.08
Oven Cleaning
There seems to be a correlation between cleaning my oven and the smoke alarm not going off when I cook.
I don’t really have an excuse, since I have a self-cleaning oven, but it really didn’t seem like it was that dirty in there.
02.14.08
Hack This
Finally upgraded Wordpress…your XML-RPC exploits shall now fall on deaf bits.
I was going to write some witty political commentary now, but if I have to try, it’s not going to be any good…maybe something will come to me later.
02.07.08
Random Updates
I gave $10 to the Obama campaign to help him defeat the Clintons. I am more or less Republican, for those you who don’t know. Yes, I am strongly anti-Clinton. I’m hoping for a McCain vs. Obama race, as I think I can live with either of them. See previous post “Anyone but Hillary”. Romney—the phony, gun-grabbing Massachusetts liberal who tried to purchase the presidency—is in his death throes. Poor baby.
I tried to give blood the other day (first time), but my blood pressure was too high so they kicked me out. I’m starting to wonder if high BP is a chronic problem. I hope not because if fixing it involves cutting salt, I will just have to die young.
The NRA has informed me that if I pay off my life membership now for “only” $675 they will give me a “free” NRA Life Member leather jacket.