Archive for the ‘Bagatelle’ Category
Reminder.
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024Short random gun crankery.
Friday, August 16th, 2024I am hoping to be able to get back to gun crankery (and gun book crankery) next week. I expect things to be a little less busy (famous last words). And I have a hysterical historical letter coming from Colt about another old gun (though not quite as old as the last one) so I want to put up a post about it.
In the meantime, I wanted to highlight this: “Killing Lincoln: John Wilkes Booth’s Philadelphia Deringer” by Dr. Dabbs. Greg Ellifritz had this in his weekend link dump (which you should really be reading: I resisted for a long time, even though Karl regularly linked to it, and now I regret not reading it) but I probably would have gotten to it eventually since I subscribe to American Handgunner.
I note this for two reasons:
1) The blog’s ongoing interest in presidential assassination weapons, which appears to be shared by Dr. Dabbs.
Brief notes on film: “The Concorde… Airport ’79”
Sunday, July 28th, 2024Brief programming note.
Monday, July 22nd, 2024For the benefit of those who might want to watch it, it looks like the Bob Newhart tribute special will be airing at 8 PM Eastern, 7 PM Central, tonight. This is per the online CBS schedule.
Revisionist history watch.
Friday, July 19th, 2024“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Cook, the director of retail business development at Sanrio, the creators of the iconic cartoon, told Today. “She’s actually a little girl.”
In fact, she’s a tiny girl — who “weighs three apples” and stands five apples tall — raised in the London suburbs with her twin sister Mimmy, their parents and even her own pet cat.
Breaking the law, breaking the law…
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024I think this is a rare example of a headline that does not comply with Betteridge’s law of headlines.
Obviously, the answer to that question is, “Yes, and you should ignore the joyless fun suckers who want to suck all the fun out of life.”
It must be fun to tell people at parties, “I’m a sloth inspector.”
Wordplay.
Thursday, July 4th, 2024As Mike the Musicologist likes to point out, this is a local crime story that doesn’t deserve or need national coverage.
I agree with him, but I do want to note: it is wonderful to see “canoodling” in a headline. “Canoodle” is a delightful word that deserves to be used more often.
Happy birthday to you…
Wednesday, May 29th, 2024Happy 150th birthday, G. K. Chesterton!
“The Innocence of Father Brown” on Project Gutenberg.
“You attacked reason,” said Father Brown. “It’s bad theology.”
NERFed.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024First, we had the NERF machine gun.
How do you follow that?
Would you believe…NERF night vision?
It looks like a camera with (probably) a cheap magnifying lens that’s also IR sensitive. It almost certainly isn’t great, but for $35 it might be fun to play with.
And it seems like there’s already a hacker community around it, mostly on Reddit. (No link, because Reddit.)
Hattip to awa over at Gun Free Zone, who points out there’s a meme around this too.
Bagatelle (#110)
Friday, April 26th, 2024Shot:
Noem also detailed how she killed a “nasty and mean” male goat because it had not been castrated.
She described the animal as smelling “disgusting, musky, rancid” and claimed it “loved to chase” Noem’s children and knock them down.
The goat was also “dragged to a gravel pit,” but jumped when she pulled the trigger, and subsequently survived the wound. Noem went back to her truck to retrieve another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down,” she wrote.
Chaser:
A hoarder “squatter” with a large aggressive goat refused to leave a house in San Antonio for months — as the belligerent billy goat attacked the homeowner and police, sources said.
The four-legged baaaad boy stormed and butted house flipper Daniel Cabrera, who bought a five-bedroom abode for $175,000 from a woman who refused to move out in June, he told realtor.com.
Spicy bar snack:
Ammo cuffs from Andy’s Leather. So you don’t have to go back to the truck to load another round. Or you could use a rifle with a magazine.
Gonzaga!
Saturday, March 30th, 2024Oh, well. There’s always next year. And maybe next year, Lawrence and I will be able to pull it together and make a bet on the games.
Norts spews.
Friday, March 29th, 2024The baseball season started yesterday.
As we all know, Bob, this means the Astros won’t be able to sell beer at Minute Maid Park the rest of the season…
…because they lost the opener.
(“222 best dad jokes to tickle everyone’s funny bone“. See also.)
In case anyone was wondering, Gonzaga plays Purdue tonight. Purdue is a pretty heavy favorite, but we’ve seen a lot of favorites get knocked out this year. I wouldn’t count Gonzaga out just yet.