Get Scammed Lately?

PDB drew my attention to a good post on OODA loops and Conditions that caused me to respond with an anecdote.
Nice call.
Recently had a recollection of the Carter Era when some lady in the parking-lot of Safeway asked if I had jumper cables. The car was new and a mid-sized adolescent kid was in the back seat.  You can't jump cars nowadays like you could back then. 
Suddenly another guy passing by who overheard her question walked up and said to her, "Hey, this is why ALL women should have Triple-A, you don't know WHO I am (pointing at himself) or who this gangster is." (pointing to me)  And then he said to me, "You remember what people were doing back then, when times were tough.  It works both ways too."  Fried a Hyundai lately?  Think I couldda paid for a new electrical system - or something?
And all I could think of was Cheech and Chong and a garbage-can full leaves and old beer-cans and crud - all sloshing around in gasoline they just siphoned.  Be Cool. Like back around when I hitchhiked from the Golden State down to Colorado and out East, things were a bit jumpy - and funky.
When I came out of the store she (and the kid) was gone. 
Jumper cables?  Check your gas-cap lately?  Crap, now I have a blog post.

Noted Nobel-Prize Winning DNA Researcher Follows in the Footsteps of his Famous Geneticist Mentor.

...and finds a link between cellular melanin content and career suicide.  Sullivan pulls a Shockley.
I honestly don't know why anybody at all listens or reads the crap he spews out, or how he manages to sustain himself - and I don't care either.

Running against the gloom

More deliciousness: a miniature papaya...

And you pay good money for this in a salad at a Sushi bar:

To counteract the effects of cold

Just a quick and temporary visual remedy:

I'm not there now, I was a week or so ago.

Up and running with the main-box. 
Backup is actually functional (for once!) and data loss was minimal. The snorkeling on Maui is much better, but the Oahu waves were made to surf... Vacation was fun and a return to the cold and damp was not, but there it is.
I'm ready for some seasonal shopping (Midway!) but I'm not sure if I have any money (left)!  #OccupyMidway~??

Morning, clouds over the Pacific

You're looking at 2,388 miles to California right there...
Click to verBigulate.
The Lost banyan tree.

Windows-7 #OccupySystem Failure

Still having a bitch of a time reloading the OS on the big AMD64bit Quad box..
WTF it keeps stalling and balking and sluggishly moving along to do any f*ing thing like a G*damn 17-year old.

UPDATE: Clean boot, re-boot, Anytime Upgrade fails, Windows Update fails - it's a stink-pot mess.
I'm about ready to "format c:" and just start over...

CHKDSK and what is "Heavy Match"...?

Since the return from the Islands my main 'puter box went on an #OccupyFail smelly-sluggish slow-down, and to reassert Mah Authoriteh I re-installed Winderz-SiebenUnProfi - and the balky bastiges bytes kept only truculently travelling so I set upon them with the curse of CHKDSK - the joke being on me that even a Quad-process tractor running a big-terrabyte bit-platter will take an afternoon or better to finish the farm furrows. At 71% as we speak, 241805966 clusters...etc...

So to kill some time I go to the local funshop to chat with my testosterone-fueled friends and get a whiff of steel and oil. Neat ACOG AR scope only costs $879 or something, substantially more than my Christmas/Birthday budget allows... And I wander the aisles of balistic happiness and spy this familiar shiny face, only different.
Back when I was employed and flush and had my own healthcare-plan and a 401K and all that Evil Corporate Grteed crap, before I got into Career#4 Unemployed-House-Husband Aged Graphic Has-Been Loser, I had the handy scratch to outright buy a case of this stuff at a decent (or at least semi-rational) pre commodities-spike price.
Now it's much higher (closing in on almost double, locally anyhow) and it's HEAVY. Same 68-grain (Sierra?) non-molly hollowptip has gained a marketing degree in Heavy.


Heavy?  Not this box, it's my old one (and full).  At le4qstr I still have some, maybe enough to break into  Expert if I apply myself.

Stonkin' North Shore Wave Action

So I take off to enjoy some surf-action with Harper's kid (and his security detail) on the North Shore about the time the Vans Triple Crown is being held, and come back to a dirt-ready computer that's running slower than molasses in Vermont and weather that sucks heinous cold-ness! Wassup with that, man?

At least the Canadians didn't hit the water with hockey sticks, and could stand up on the board, which is about better than me - but we both luckily missed the Michelle-O Motorcade that tied up Kualoa for a day...we were heading into town when they passed us with all the lights on goign the other way. You had to wonder what's up with all the stiffs in suits standing around itching their armpits, when the weather dictated boardshorts. Sheesh, some people just need a KelTec instead.

#Occupy Hoth Ice Planet

Seen on a Honda minivan in downtown Googlopolis.

#OccupyMorgue

#Occupyfail 6-shots fired and a man was killed at OccupyOakland now known as #OccupyMorgueSlab. Just what the Anarchists hope-for, how soon before they blame the cops? But there's always this: "Don't forget, we're in downtown Oakland." Duh, didn't they know that already?  Where's Horst Wessel when you need him... Occupy a morgue slab - it's freaking Oakland, don't these out-of-town nimrods know anything about OAKLAND??  Home of the Hells Angels, anyone?  If you want peace and love you go Up To The Country (as the song goes), not to Oakland. Home of gangster rap, home of getting shot, home of murder, robbery, aggravated assault and more, an entrenched Socialist Government.
They thought they could get away with all the civil disobedience and unrest they could generate - only in Oakland the violence generates back on the occupier, or more often, the actual resident.

UPDATE: The current #OccupyMorgueSlab camper was an OAKLAND protestor.
A post at the PJ Media Tatler mentions the Police statement issued which says in part:

In a statement today, the Oakland Police Officers Association said the protesters need to leave their downtown camp “so we can get back to fighting crime in Oakland neighborhoods.”

“Our officers are the 99 percent struggling in Oakland neighborhoods ever day to contain the 1 percent who rob, steal, rape and murder our law-abiding citizens,”

The Tatler makes the point: Note also the interesting evolution of the “1%” concept in the police union statement: They redefine “the 1%” not as the wealthy but rather as the street criminals and thugs ...
HELLO!
History Lesson: The "1%" concept originated in Oakland many years ago, back in the '60's with Oakland the city being the home-base of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, and the self-identified most bad-ass time-serving notorious Angels being the *first* and original 1%-ers - like the guys who were on-duty as Security at Altamont when the Stones played there...just up the road over the hills. The Hells Angels MC Daily City website has a slightly different interpretation. (They have a website?!)
This is also when the original "OMG!" designation came about, standing for Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Read up on your Hunter Thompson, please...
Sheesh.

#Abandon all hope

I have a QR code for the blog. Short for ¿Quel Rétard? What's it all about, really?

With wild #Abandon

Now the the #Occupy movement has proven to be a nest of vipers and begun to stink like a brain-gutted zombie and to join them is to Abandon all hope ye who enter them, so isn't it about time to #Abandon them, the Leftardos, and their locations?

Colt Facebook

Colt has a Facebook page? Whatever happened to their AOL account? ;-)
No wonder I missed the news of the new Colt Mustang.

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC, celebrating its 175th anniversary this year, is proud to introduce a new and improved version of the classic Colt Mustang. The new Colt .380 Mustang Pocketlite is small, lightweight and boasts enhanced durability, reliability and accuracy, making it an ideal handgun for personal protection.

I'm still waiting for the Sig clone with the pseudo diamond-plate to come with a chrome trucker-girl on the grips...

I like Sigs but this is kinda...something else.

UPDATE: The Sig looks like it ejects to the left but that's just the Sig-barrel lock-up style (more tacky Sigs) The P238 Extreme, P238 "Lady" and P238 "Gambler" - WTF?   Where's Kenny Rogers when you need him?:

Midway Small Range Bag II

More pictures to illustrate the enormous capacity. It's actually properly called the Compact Competition Range Bag and it's still on sale, down from $49.99 to $29.99 but they don't have tactical black, just this lovely OD color.
The other-side pocket (opposite the earlier post) has seven magazine loops, and some stitched-down elastic that will hold three more - and pens and other Gun-Bloggy implements, like a q-tip for cleaning stuff. Belly-button lint perhaps.

At each end there's also a flat little zipper pocket that easily holds your Pocket Constitution (mine's a freebie from the Federalist Society), or a Gadsden flag, or a multi-tool, or whatnot.

You can load this baby until you can't carry it anymore, but it has a very nice shoulder-strap with a curve in it and some textured rubbery stuff that grips the shoulder. It's a lot like the ones (my preferred ones) on my Eagle Creek duffle-bags.

UPDATE: Huh? What happened to the title? Blogger is acting the spazz.

Anglo-Viking Geekensprache

In the course of following up thoughts on weird Viking-age culture and practices, pre-Medieval stuff, I came across this very interesting web-page from Wheaton College that deals with the actual spoken word of Anglo-Saxon, the language as it was spoken some 1000+ years ago.
It really puts the WTF in Beowulf, a strange co-mingling of what was German (the Angles and Sachsens were Germanic) mixed with Scandahoovian sounds and comes off very Middle-Earthy-Elvish.
I get a lot of the Germanistic word-sounds, but still the meanings are not exact analogs and what you hear may not be what you think you mean...

There are various poems and writings and homilies, and a charm to use if you are afflicted by a dwarf. I mean, how common was that then? Also a recipe and charm to cure "Water-Elf disease"?

You can click on a link to hear it, or have it read-aloud to you in a pop-up. It's really kind of weird and wonderful - and might be better understood, or understood at all if you had a read-along text to guide you.
What's even weirder is to listen to the Anglo-Saxons speaking Latin, as in Wulfstan's Homily, Incipiunt Sermones Lupi Escipopi
http://acadblogs.wheatoncollege.edu/mdrout/

According to Wikipedia:

English changed enormously in the Middle Ages. Written Old English of 1000 AD is similar in vocabulary and grammar to other old Germanic languages such as Old High German and Old Norse, and completely unintelligible to modern speakers, while the modern language is already largely recognizable in written Middle English of 1400 AD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language

Yeh, no shit, and it makes trying to track-down proto-Sanskritic words look easy.

Midway Small Range Bag

Was on sale, so I bought one.  It's quite capacious.

It holds a lot of crap, and that's not the entirety of it. 

The zippered outside pocket on the opposite side has pistol mag loops/pouches.

Anatomy of a Riot: Direct Action by the Black Bloc

The late 70's actually sucked pretty much big-time, but West Berlin was a fairly interesting place for it to suck, what with a couple divisions of East German's finest armor surrounding the little island of Liberty in the midst of the dismal Prussian low-land swamps of Gunter-Grass Stalinism.
The sign reads, "The Wall must go! KPD/ML Red Guard" - which voices the peculiar sentiments of local (and free) in-Berlin Leftardoodles, who want the Berlin wall that they are so free to graffitti-paint on the free-side, to go away, so that they can Harmonize with their East Berlin Comrades.
The KPD/ML on the sign is translated as "Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands/Militant League" The Red Guard was also that stalwart group of Lefty pin-heads who lead Mao's "Cultural Revolution" stomping around the by-ways and rice-paddies of China a few years earlier, killing people with whom they disagreed - especially the educated eye-glass wearing Bourgeoisie.
"Harmonize," a word so common in the edicts of the EU today, where the Old Left has won a place of power and political prestige...and that has wrecked the economy/economies of greater Europe with their ignorant, idiotic, and ideological economic (of which they know actually very little) policies.
Anyhow the Red Guard referred to in the sign-painting was also known as the Red Brigade, and they were the direct-action group who attempted to mobilize the Proletariat - only instead of the Proletariat they had the hated (and dull) Bourgeousie with whom they had to deal, and were fairly unsuccessful except for a couple of guys named Baader and Meinhoff.

(sorry about the damn commercial they insert before the video)
Here in the video we see the modern reincarnation of the violent Direct Action Gruppe, the Black Bloc, sliding-in and taking their places among the ignorant and delusional, the misguided and stupid but but fairly placid hippies who think that they are the reason for this sit-in event - who actually believe that they have somehow COLLECTIVELY and spontaneously arrived en-scene to "demonstrate" against "income inequality" as it appears to exist in America.
These are the Useful Idiots of who Stalin spoke so fondly and who are useful still today as Obama's tools-in-the-street.

Random Word Generator: "Income equality/inequality"

Don't be faked-out just because the speaker has the apparent ability to string a sentence together, there's nothing in the void behind the forehead and between the ears. "Income equality/inequality" really has nothing to do with anything, and is just being used as a diversion and a sound-alike sloganeering designed to distract thinking people while acting as a rallying cry to the mindless zombie hordes.
Leftard rhetoric is often and mistakenly taken by normal people as something with real and intended meaning - but it's basically just random word-generation. It's real purpose is mainly an identifying signal to the other Left-Religious - like a mating call - it only sounds like it actually means something because they use English words and word-patterns, but it's just a sociopathic vocalization, a tribal cry.

Weekend in the Country

Went up to catch the last rays of summer, the evening was balmy warm and the air was soft.


The critters had a rock to climb, and I climbed it too - and slipped and bashed a hole in my shin.  Damn granite messed up my golf-game the next day, or it was the rum and cola, anyhow I suck at golf but it'as nice to get out and get a bit of sunburn amid the trees and ponds and sand-traps.