Category: miscellaneous

No not the kids (at least not yet).  Me, at least for the next 2 days. In 48 hours I will be an NRA certified pistol and home firearm safety instructor, assuming I can pass the test.

I hope there really is no such thing as bad press because my dad and I both made headlines yesterday. My dad made it into the local paper.  And I made it into…Maxim. This is a follow up to my far to brief (fractions of a second around the 36 or 37 second mark) of…

As I mentioned in the intro to my last post, I spent last week cloistered in the woods south of Atlanta at a week long company sponsored leadership training.  I had a combination of both high a low expectations going in: high expectations about the quality of the course which were set primarily based on the…

Not much time to post this week.  I’m out of town getting some (actually pretty good) management training.  It’s taking up most of my days and nights, but I did manage to finish one of the books (OK, it’s more like a pamphlet) that was recommended to me at Porcfest: The Politics of Obedience by…

I was supposed to miss this past weekend’s local IDPA match at Lloyd’s Wildlife Management Area in Crittenden but I ended up being able to go.  I am the match director for this match but since I wasn’t planning on being there someone else had planned all the stages and ran most everything on site.…

For whatever reason yesterday was a good hacking day.  Wasn’t exactly what was on my to do list, but just got in a flow and things were working so I kept at it.  I am not a developer, nor do I play one on the internet.  But I do think of myself as a hacker.…

I’m listening to an interview of Bryan Garner on Slate.  I will admit to not having heard of him before this interview (I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV), but I had heard of one of his primary works: Black’s Law Dictionary (he evidently serves as the primary editor).  Language is…