Month: April 2013

Interwebbing is Hard!

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You wouldn’t know that I’ve been involved in technology in one way or another for the last 30+ years: I’ve just recently discovered the little Google Followers Stalkers gadget/widget for Blogger.

And what’s really depressing is that now that I’ve turned it on, it appears that I have gained, uh… let’s see here… one follower.

That’s funny right there.

So, for Eastern Iowa Firearms Training, thanks for the hat-tip. If I ever find myself out that way, there’s probably going to be a range day involved.

For everyone else, welcome to the random and mostly sanitized thoughts that rattle around in my head. Feel free to hit the Join This Site button in the righthand sidebar.

Also, as an aside, if I were to actually click that link myself, it would:

  • technically double my registered readership
  • be a bit like high-fiving myself in public; much the same way as Liking one’s own post on Facebook.

Yeah, I’m kinda strange that way.

QOTD

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Far better is to dare mighty things than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat. –Theodore Roosevelt

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Though I suspect that it only appeared in the single context from which I recently observed it.

Know Your Enemy — Laugh At Their Skills

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A video over at Focus.de (auf Deutsch) on North Korea shows some behind the scenes propaganda from the North Korean army found on YouTube evidently.

You don’t need to know German to get the gist of the video.

Go have a watch then laugh and laugh.

  • poor stance
  • horrific trigger and muzzle control
  • teacup grips
  • painfully inaccurate aim

No, North Korea’s military is not a threat to anyone other than perhaps themselves.

What I did find interesting was a clip of the women’s obstacle course: those girls look like they scaled the obstacles much more efficiently and gracefully than the men.