I finished the Steve Jobs biography last night. Nothing I read will motivate me to change my long standing bias against Apple products. In the Gates vs Jobs battle of very closed systems versus mostly closed systems, I stand with the penguin and open systems. They talk a lot about the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion […]
I always say that you should be nice to law enforcement officers. If you don’t, it can make your case much worse. That’s what happened when country singer Randy Travis was arrested for DWI in North Texas. Apparently he went into a convenience store naked, asking to buy cigarettes. He left when the clerk questioned […]
I commented on this sign last December, and came across it again recently during my random internet travels. Given so many recent events in our country pointing out the absurdity of “gun free” zones, I realized I’d like to see the sign posted in more p…
The Virginia State Bar wants me to tell you that EACH CASE DEPENDS UPON THE FACTS OF THE CASE. PAST CASES DON’T PREDICT FUTURE RESULTS. I say it all the time: hire an attorney who regularly handles cases like yours in your court. Even if an attorney has been practicing for 30 years and has […]
There’s an old adage that the scariest phrase you can hear a drunk say is “Hold my beer.” It’s usually followed by “Watch this.” But a Serbian tourist in Egypt has taken the phrase, or warning, to a whole new level.
“Dragan climbed on the jumping…
Flying Dog Brewery recently sent over a sample bottle of the latest addition to their Single Hop Series of beers. The Chinook hops version is the fourth beer in the series that’s been reviewed in these Musings. I think it’s one of my f…
I’ve edited the videos from yesterday’s chase east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I posted the video of the “funnel” on YouTube and I’m posting the video of the first wall cloud here for review. It is sped up 4 times and shows the rotation of…
This month’s USPSA match at Fredericksburg Practical Shooters was a “Classifier” match, with 4 classifier stages and two field courses. Many of the USPSA classifier stages are “stand and shoot” stages but this event the match directors picked ones that…
My son and I headed east toward Gretna this afternoon for some family business and a thought that we’d keep an eye on the sky in case anything worth chasing showed up. Sure enough on our way eastward a nice storm built over the Blue Ridge mountai…
After two consecutive career related posts – it is time to lighten up around here. And yes, This week #1 was 5 weeks ago. I never actually promised to do this weekly. The week in books: I finished The Hunger Games Trilogy that I started last week. Book 1 was brilliant, book 2 was very […]
