Recent content by Orthonym

P.s. Of course, there are bacteria which eat iron, too. That's why what's left of Titanic is collapsing into the ooze of the sea bottom. Nothing lasts forever.

I don't recall where on the Net I read it, but I do seem to recall having read that there is now a bacterium which eats Nylon. In one of Larry Niven's stories there is mention of a bug which eats polyethylene. When another character asks the mentioner what was done, he replies, "We had to quit...

I would say, Colt SAA and M1911. The former because of cowboy movies and the latter because it's so iconic and American. Heck, Honor Harrington uses a 1911 2000 years in the future to kill some evil pirates, because it doesn't have an electronically-detectible power supply. Of course, that's...

Vern, I wrote "shoulder to shoulder and ten ranks deep." Ok, I'll postulate that this happens indoors, under a ceiling so low they all have to duck. I toldya it was absurd.

Well, there's the obvious reductio ad absurdum: OMG they're coming over the parapet shoulder to shoulder and 10 ranks deep! I mean, if it takes, say, 5 seconds to run out the mag, and there's serious doubt that you'll live that long... No need to worry about the fine in that case.

I have a brand-new spray can of the stuff right here, and I just sprayed some of it on my wrist. On sniffing it, it smells kind of industrial, like a combination between a machine shop and new plastic computer gizmos. Not unpleasant, though. I may spray me again. Is it toxic?

Yup, but I don't think the "he thinks I'm a prostitute" idea would have occurred to her. She's mentioned that she's autistic, and has to use her wits, not instinct, to understand how the normals think. Autistic guys may hardly ever get laid, autistic gals seem to get it a _lot_ more than they...

Umm, what's a Pessoa? As old as I am, I admit to being always a year or two behind the cool and wonderful new things. Heck, this very computer upon which I am typing into to insert into the intartubez from is not only old enough to vote, but old enough to drink. With Win95! P.s. Judging by...

Sorry about that. Yup, the silly title I put on that post definitely started it off on the wrong foot. Which is a shame, as the blog post I referred to was quite rational and thoughtful and sympathetic to the RKBA.

Cheese, with all due respect, I think you need to learn more about what is and is not spam, and internet memes generally. I recommend a look at encyclopedia dramatica. I won't make that a clickable link, because an awful lot there really is quite disgusting and revolting. I was being nice...

Please have a look at http://trkelley.blogspot.com/2008/08/equalizers-arent-just-for-audio.html The author is my absolute favorite armed autistic redneck hippy bass-guitarist nice Mommy person in the whole world. She has a link to our own Pax in the post, as well as one of Oleg's pictures.

Please have a look at http://trkelley.blogspot.com/2008/08/equalizers-arent-just-for-audio.html The author is my absolute favorite armed autistic redneck hippy bass-guitarist nice Mommy person in the whole world. She has a link to our own Pax in the post, as well as one of Oleg's pictures.

I still think it was the DEFCON sticker. Y'know, "Dirty Hippy Hackers!" How I miss the Huntsville, Alabama parachute club from the early seventies! We had students like me, we had dirty hippies, we had scary "special" Army types, we had NASA engineers, we had a guy who was on the board of the...

I bought a coupla hundred rounds of .22LR a few years back, when minding somebody else's place who left the revolver for me, but no ammo. I left him one box, kept the rest as possible trade goods in SHTF scenario. Lately, I've actually acquired a .22 rifle.

Defcon sticker? Obviously you're an Enemy of the State ... and the RIAA, and the MPAA... I suppose you've heard about the Federal injunction the clueless Boston Transit guys got against the folks from MIT who pointed out the cluelessly-hopeless security in their "smart" cards at the most...