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Run – Hide – Fight

 Hmm..., wisdom  17 Responses »
Dec 042015
 

Here’s an interesting piece:

What to Do in an Active Shooter Situation

The advice seems to make a whole lot of sense. First thing you do is run away. Second thing you do is hide. And lastly, if the other options aren’t available, you fight. How do you fight? Like a friggen’ madman. One of the examples given was the takedown of the Jihadi on the French train some months back; three Americans and a Briton beat him to a pulp (including beating him in the face with the muzzle of his own gun). It quotes Chris Norman, the Brit on the train, who later said:

“My thought was, ‘OK, I’m probably going to die anyway, so let’s go.’ I’d rather die being active, trying to get him down, than simply sit in the corner and be shot. Either you sit down and you die or you get up and you die. It was really nothing more than that.”

 Posted by at 1:28 pm

I don’t even

 Hmm..., photography, Utah  12 Responses »
Dec 042015
 

This here photo I took yesterday at a WalMart in Logan (a university town, so kinda overloaded with weirdness) is an indicator of a lifestyle *way* different from mine:

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 Posted by at 12:26 pm

I’m shocked, SHOCKED

 Crazy, dumbassery, Hmm..., news, politics, religion, ಠ_ಠ  8 Responses »
Dec 042015
 

San Bernardino shooting: Attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS, officials say

It seems Mrs. Shooty McJihadpants pledged allegiance to ISIS on Facebook during the course of the attacks.

The whole thing seems to indicate a shocking level of amateurism. The bombs they made were apparently crap; the planning seems to have been non-existent. Extremely oddly, the landlord let the news media tromp through the couples apartment (apparently law enforcement officials are Shocked and Appalled by this); it seems reporters have found things like a half-eaten sandwich apparently abandoned on a moments notice.  What that seems to indicate to *me* is that these two were planning on carrying out an attack some time in the future, but Farouk went to the Christmas party, got all P.O.’ed for some reason (perhaps his Secret Santa gave him a canned ham), raced home and told the missus “We Go Now.” Perhaps the planned target of the attack wasn’t the place that actually got attacked, but they just didn’t have the self control to wait that long. *Perhaps* that’s for the best. If they’d had more time, *perhaps* they would have made more and better bombs. But then, *perhaps* they would have been found out and arrested or, even better, they would have accidentally blown themselves to bits while making more crappy bombs.

 Posted by at 12:20 pm

Proposed Cyanotypes

 aircraft, art, cyanotype blueprints, drawings, history, Hmm..., new products, Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, nukes, projects, rockets, spacecraft  7 Responses »
Dec 032015
 

I’m planning on producing some new cyanotype blueprints at some point. Some will be copies of vintage blueprints, but some will be all-new CAD diagrams. Below are some CAD diagrams at various stages of completion. All are based on a 10-inch by 40-inch format; this will make them appropriate for folding into a book, or hanging on a wall. They would go for $25 per sheet as cyanotypes; I might also do them in frosted (white) mylar for probably a bit cheaper and maybe on regular paper for a lot cheaper. However, before plowing ahead I’d be interested in feedback… which of these are of interest? Which might you actually plunk down funds for? Additionally: I’ve produced a *lot* of CAD diagrams for APR and USXP. Is there anything I’ve done you’d like to see expanded out like this?

1: USAF 10-meter Orion, two sheets, 1/96 scale

NPP-0500X-Model

2: Have Sting orbital railgun, one sheet, 1/200 scale

ussp03-02-wide railgun-Model

3: X-15A-3, 1 sheet, 1/35 scaleussp 02-03 wide X15A-3-Model

4: Rockwell MRCC, 1 sheet, 1/60 scaleusbp-12-107 wide rockwell MRCC-Model

5: Rockwell D645-3, one sheet, 1/144 scaleusbp-07-104 wide rockwell d645-3-Model

6: X-20/Titan IIIc, two sheets, 1/72 scalemisc-132 wide X-20-Titan III-Model

7: XB-70, one sheet, 1/144 scalemisc-127 wide XB-70-Model

8: ITHACUS troop transport, two sheets, 1/200 scale

ustp04-002-1 wide ithacus-Model

 Posted by at 11:26 pm

San Bernardino: PC Success Story?

 AARRRGH, Crazy, Forward!, Hmm..., news, politics, religion, ಠ_ಠ  1 Response »
Dec 032015
 

There have been, and will continue to be, a whole lot of stories about the San Bernardino massacre. This one is mostly just like the others:

Authorities Search Redlands Home Tied To Suspect Syed Farook

It ends with an un-named person describing how he had seen things in previous weeks that made him suspicious, but decided not to report it for fear of “racial profiling.” Is the person telling the truth? Was what he saw *truly* suspicious? Impossible to tell without more data. It would be interesting to follow up and see if the person is being interviewed by the police and/or FBI. But on the off chance that he did actually see something that could have been actionable, then a dozen people died in part due to political correctness.

 Posted by at 9:01 am

Trench Mauser

 history, weapons, ಠ_ಠ  2 Responses »
Dec 032015
 

A video describing a Mauser bolt-action rifle with a factory modification: a periscope. This would allow the shooter to stick the rifle up above a trench and shoot at the enemy without putting his own noggin into the field of fire. Looks incredibly cumbersome, but under the circumstances, it’s better than getting shot. A modern version would be something like a webcam that clips to your rifles optics and runs down to a small screen or something like a militarized Google Glass. That would have the advantage of not only being far less cumbersome, but also lighter, cheaper and with the ability to aim any which way, including around corners.

 Posted by at 8:48 am

The Force Awakens

 art, humor, science fiction  7 Responses »
Dec 032015
 

Just a bit over two weeks until what I hope is the first good Star Wars movie in over thirty years. In the mean time, here’s a Motion Poster for the movie. I’m not entirely sure that this is exactly official…

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I *really* hope this lives up to expectations. It’d be nice to not be disappointed in a movie, after getting my hopes up.

This…

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Not this.

painrighthere

 Posted by at 1:22 am
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