Electronic bag pipes and Sonic Booms??

Posted by Greybeard on Jan 14th, 2008 in News and weather | Comments Off

Could think of any other way to title it?

LawDog  pointed out the electronic bag pipes, and I was duely impressed.

As for Sonic Booms,  tonight I we heard our first sonic boom in years.   We heard jets flying around earlier,  sounding very close.  Then about 9pm  a sonic boom,  loud enough to shake the windows in the house.  (Over Point Lookout Harbor, near AuGres, Michigan).  I was under the impression that the Air Force base in Oscoda was closed,   so if anyone has an explaination why we’d be hearing fighters and sonic booms,  I’d really be interested.

~GB

Alien Arena (games)

Posted by Greybeard on Jan 11th, 2008 in Gaming | Comments Off

I’ve taken a quick visit back to my PC game playing days,  by downloading Alien Arena.  I also pulled down Wolfenstien Enemy Territory.

Enemy Territory,  appears to be an online only game,  and I wasn’t able to find a server that actually had other players logged in and playing.  Alien Arena on the other hand,  is online based, but allows single player play.  It’s a fair first person shooter,  but get’s a little jerky when there’s a lot of action.  The graphics aren’t anything special,  but it moves along pretty fast,  obviously based on the Wolfenstien type of game play.

Kind of fun,  but I’m not as good as I used to be. 

~~>GB

And Obama wants a National “NO CCW Law!”

Posted by Greybeard on Jan 8th, 2008 in News and weather, Shootist | Comments Off

“”MICHIGAN CCW RECORD PROVES ANTI-GUNNERS LIED…AGAIN, SAYS CCRKBA
BELLEVUE, WA – After six years of expanded concealed carry in Michigan, the record speaks for itself: No shootouts at traffic stops, a decline in firearms deaths and suicides, and violent crime is down. Concealed carry works, and the hysteria pandered by anti-gun extremists who opposed the law has been proven false.

“Michigan’s armed private citizens have provided the evidence we knew would come,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “Lawful concealed carry reduces crime and does not result in mass mayhem as the anti-self-defense crowd wanted us believe. Six years ago, they pulled out all the stops, fabricated every dire prediction they could imagine, and essentially told lies about concealed carry and passed them off as truth, and too many in the media ate it up as if it were manna from Heaven.””"

And unfortunately,  the collective recollection of the American public seems to be about 6 weeks. 

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Point Lookout Mini-report

Posted by Greybeard on Jan 7th, 2008 in News and weather, Technology and Music | Comments Off

Global Cool Down!! 

We’re on our 3rd day of grey foggy wet weather.   We’ve had varying amounts of rain,  with the most rain and the highest tempuratures today.  (49 degree’s this morning)

In two days it’s gone from looking like winter,  to early spring.   There’s still ice on the river,  but it has 6 inches or so of water running over it.   All this water,  and our house,  totally out of character, is bone dry??  Normally in mid winter,  our windows run with sweat,  but this year,  they’re dry as a bone,  and we’re waiting for the fog to clear up so we can make a trip to town to purchase a small humidifier for the bedroom.

Attributable to January thaw, I guess.  Or,  I suppose the Global Warming enthusiasts could start yelling “Global warmup“,  EXCEPT,  I just heard yesterday,  that NASA scientists have predicted a major cool down,  (mini-ice age in their words),  coming in the next couple of years,  due to the Sun’s long term cyclic heating and cooling patterns.  Confusing Eh?

>>GB  

Obama??

Posted by Greybeard on Jan 4th, 2008 in Political, Shootist | Comments Off

This is from CNN, so it must be true. 

Barack Obama
Supports extending the assault weapons ban. Supports national law against carrying concealed weapons, with exceptions for retired police and military personnel. Supports limiting gun sales to one per month.