Posted in merchandise, politics, technology on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines is a good read.
What does it boil down to? The CEO had no business skills and spent money on really stupid stuff.
Instead of making an interesting machine people could use, they made a machine as a very expensive foray into interesting hacking projects and the result was an [...]
Posted in E/N, beer, merchandise, tagged beer on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
SCHLITZ - BEER OF THE POLISH is back with it’s 1960s recipe. From a historical perspective, this might be really neat to drink. However I’m not going to spring for a case of it before I establish that it’s interesting in owning 24 pieces of history I have to struggle through.
Posted in Hunting, guns, merchandise, politics, shooting, tagged Add new tag, Hunting, NRA, politics, shooting on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a weird relationship with the NRA. They occasionally offer the life membership option at a discount for $300. I would give $300 for a life membership to the NRA. The price used to be $700ish for a long time, now it’s up to $1000. My parents gave my brother the discounted membership option, [...]
Posted in Hunting, merchandise, shooting on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Dad picked up a neat piece. It’s a Marlin 1895 in 45-70 government. Shooting Times gave it a positive review. My take on it is that it’s wildly fun to shoot.
Never heard of it? The cartridge was introduced after the American Civil War but never actually saw combat action. The cartridge was considered the ultimate [...]
Posted in TV, guns, merchandise, politics, shooting on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in car, merchandise on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I finally found a Camry I liked. It’s a 1993 5SFE engine with an automatic transmission in reasonable condition. It’s completely unremarkable (which is good) except that I really love cup-holders, and it gets 25MPG. Trav has said they’ll get 35MPG if you’re really careful with it. I don’t keep that close an eye on [...]
Posted in car, merchandise, tagged buying, cars, selling, the free market on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love craigslist, it’s second only to insurance auctions for cars which are mildly beat up but still running. There’s a really bad signal-to-noise ratio on craigslist, probably worse than ebay. And I find the stuff on craigslist car-wise is stuff that wouldn’t sell on ebay. Case in point: 1998 (actually I think [...]
Posted in guns, merchandise, politics, shooting on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I swear you can’t make this stuff up. The names and locations will be changed to protect the innocent.
It was Smith and Wesson Day at the local range, so I was doing my two favorite weekend activities: Giving advice and spending someone else’s money. He had been looking at a few different guns but since [...]
Posted in car, merchandise, tagged china, motorcycles on February 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Continuing the horrors of automobiles thread here, I recently ran across Chinese motorcycle imports completely by accident. The company is called LiFan, and it makes just about everything you see in the corner of your local pep boys. The importers don’t say a whole lot about the bikes, but it seems that you purchase a [...]
Posted in car, merchandise, technology, tagged cars, fuel economy, mechanics on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I drive a 1991 Turbocharged Toyota MR2. According to the government, it gets about 18 and 24 MPG. This is all well and good, but the maintenance interval is incredibly short. You will change the oil every 3000 miles and it will take all four and some change quarts. The timing belt itself needs changing [...]
