Just had a LOL filled text message exchange with my brother.  Had to share with both of you that read this blog

Elf on the moon

Komrade Elf

Elf on a Mil-Surp

Robot Gardeners

A buddy sent me this news story of some hipster built a robot to tend his garden:
An Open Source Robot Could Be Tending Your Backyard Garden Very Soon

So, being a smartass, I replied back with this very quick and dirty photojob done with a substandard editor:

Frozen Friday random internet stuff

It's cold (well, central TX cold... barely freezing), so most things have shut down.  There was a report of ice on a bridge somewhere within MOAB blast range, so the city has shut down.  The stores are out of firelogs, Menthol Tobacco flavored vodka, milk and Lone Star beer.  Reports of cannibalism in the remote parts of West Campus have been coming over the wires.

In compliance with the FEMA warlords that have taken over my sector of the city, I am hunkering down in my encampment with a makeshift spear made from a broom handle and a MacBook Pro motherboard.

In the interim, here is some random stuff from the Internet:

Star Wars Bohemian Rhapsody:

Scary Computer News (H/T Borepatch):

Computer scientists have brewed up prototype malware that's capable of communicating across air gaps using inaudible sounds.
The mesh network capable of covertly communicating without wireless or wired connections was developed by Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz. It borrows its founding principles from established systems for robust underwater communication.

Now my computer is talking about me behind my back.  Great.

Wikipedia details of Moonshine by county
Interestingly, the Armenian moonshine is a phonetic spelling of the sound you make the morning after drinking it: aragh

In honor of some sportball team winning some contest

Sick sense of humor

News Link:  Native American farmer grows amazing multi-coloured corn

 Short version.  Sumdood breeds some wild colored Indian Corn*.  How wild?  Wild like the paintjob on an east-Austin Monte Carlo*:

 

...and the first thing I think is: "That will look freaky as hell the next day."

*in honor of the Govt Shutdown, I have decided to be as Un-Politically Correct** as possible

**Orwellianspeak is completely intentional

Culinary and Automotive geeks collide: Gordon Ramsay vs James May

Not in MY Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia!

This made me laugh

Rednecking up a Reloading press

One of the reasons I've been bugging 45er to get back into rolling his own ammo is because I have been spending the last few weekends getting my workbench/ reloading bench up to snuff.  

I'm 90% of the way setting up the progressive press, but decided I should have a single stage press for doing low volume loading and rifle loads.  So, instead of buying a new press, I just rednecked up a mount for my old standby Lee Hand Press:

I'll test this out tomorrow and see how it works like this.

Random pics for Friday

How thoughtful

Necessity is the mother of... For God's sake, just use a knife.

It's a Trap..pist ale!

Dave said it first.

An Award for President Obama

45er posted about the latest stunt our Attention-Whore in Chief has pulled. 

GBBL made a great reply that the President deserved a Participation award for the last 3 years.

So, I decided to throw that together for him:

Here, have a juicebox.  Go sit in the corner while the adults are talking.

United States Postal Service

This is actually pretty funny

Don't mind if I do...

Heh

T-Rex in a helicopter. Your argument is invalid

T-Shirt for our times

Robb at Sharp as a Marble made me laugh myself silly with his bumperstickers this morning.  I saw the Romney Shirt and had to do some Q&D mods using Snagit.

Not even on a dare

Gun Porn! Something rarely seen.

Artistic pictures of a complete piece of crap.

Behold the glory that is the Jennings J-22.  A single stack, striker fired, single action .22LR pistol made of pot metal, some springs, and radio-age plastics.  This is the epitome of what the racist Democrats call a 'Saturday Night Special.'

This... well, there's not much you can do with it.

I bought this back in the early '90s at an Austin gun shop for probably $90.  Maybe $75.  It was junk then, and is junk now.  The safety is small and impossible to use, the trigger is tough and gritty, sights are miniscule, and the finish is ugly and obviously fragile from the scratches and dings.  But what it lacks in refinement, it makes up with lack of reliability.  This was fired for the last time probably back in '95 or '96.  The last round ever through it's barrel fired in what is called a 'Slam-fire.'  The gun fired as the first round was chambered from the magazine.  When it did that, it was thrown in a range bag and forgotten.  

That's more like it... jammed.

So, why do I still have this thing?  Because it is junk and dangerous.  I cannot risk someone buying it and hurting themselves as it slam-fires again... or God forbid someone wants to trust thier lives to it.  So, it sits in my safe.  The only thing I can hope for is that there will be some dumb-ass, misnamed "Gun Buy-Back" program that I can get $100 for it (and since we have an idiot Californian as a police chief now- that could actually happen.

Hope you enjoy the pics!