Category Archives: technology

one-sixth

Posted on Friday, 2003 December 12 by Anton

For Dad‘s birthday I got him a brass sextant. “Thank you, a GPS unit is one gadget that I didn’t have!”

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live and learn

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 29 by Anton

QOTD: I’ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies. Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional … Continue reading →

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do bullets tell tales?

Posted on Thursday, 2003 November 27 by Anton

Bullet matching (another link from Paul Hsieh). I seem to remember hearing about a decade ago, in the context of some sensational shooting, that a gun barrel does not mark a bullet as clearly and uniquely as folklore would have … Continue reading →

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the other “religion of peace”

Posted on Thursday, 2003 November 27 by Anton

Why do gun-grabbers hate people so much? 2006: The link is now stale. I don’t remember the item, but I’ll bet it was a piece of hate mail from someone who hopes advocates of RKBA are gruesomely murdered.

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the mystery caliber

Posted on Sunday, 2003 November 23 by Anton

Saturday at a gun shop, my eye was caught by the archaic stocks of a couple of Ruger “Vaquero” revolvers (modern versions of obsolete guns, made for rodeo sports). Looking closer, I saw that their calibers were .45 and .32. … Continue reading →

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Flash hacks

Posted on Sunday, 2003 November 16 by Anton

If you like my mathematical doodles you’ll like BIT-101 ActionScript Laboratory — hundreds of little exercises in Flash, by Keith Peters. (Found on Joshua Schachter’s muxway by Dan O’Neill)

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overlooked aspects of Web infrastructure

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 08 by Anton

One useful 404 notice: The requested URL /~bthomas/vamp/vampecology.htm was not found on this server. bthomas is not a current Leland user. That saves me the trouble of climbing down the directory tree.