… on my way to work this morning.
“Normal people scare me
But not as much
as I scare them!”
Friday, September 26, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Now with more video!
Guess who just opened up a brandy spanking new YouTube account?
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNgGdNF6o14TyPLOJEfsSQ
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNgGdNF6o14TyPLOJEfsSQ
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
And good ridence to "13"
Let's hope that the new year is better than the one that preceeded it...
Let's hope that the new year is better than the one that preceeded it...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Taking a page from Tam’s book…
Overheard through my driver side window:
Cop: (working a detail for the phone company) “Didn’t you see that double line?”
Me: (tossing a thumb over my shoulder) “Didn’t you see that double-parked car?”
Cop: “He ain’t double-parked.”
Me: “Yeah right.”
Cop: (apparently seeing other cars going around the one that’s double-parked) Waves me on.
Cop: (working a detail for the phone company) “Didn’t you see that double line?”
Me: (tossing a thumb over my shoulder) “Didn’t you see that double-parked car?”
Cop: “He ain’t double-parked.”
Me: “Yeah right.”
Cop: (apparently seeing other cars going around the one that’s double-parked) Waves me on.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Friday, July 5, 2013
Well Said
This comes to us by way of a link over at FaceBook posted by Oleg Volk:
JUST PEOPLE: July 4th, 2013
Well worth a few moment of your time.
JUST PEOPLE: July 4th, 2013
Well worth a few moment of your time.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
My traditional Independance Day post:
This day is not about burned hotdogs and hamburgers. And it is not just about having a day off from work.
Today is the anniversary of a far more impotent event in Human affairs than even many of our fellow countrymen remember.
Today is the anniversary of an event that changed the world.
Today is the anniversary of a far more impotent event in Human affairs than even many of our fellow countrymen remember.
Today is the anniversary of an event that changed the world.
This is a test
This post is only a test.
We will return to our regular lack of posting
after this test...
We will return to our regular lack of posting
after this test...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
And another thing...
As I was riding along on Rt. 495 in Westford yesterday I saw a pick up truck pulled over on the shoulder with his hood up. There was steam wafting away on the breeze. The driver was walking back around the truck with a posture that seemed to say 'It could only happen to me.'
And that leads me to my next little question:
Who does the AAA SAMARITAN TRUCK call when HE breaks down?
And that leads me to my next little question:
Who does the AAA SAMARITAN TRUCK call when HE breaks down?
Monday, June 17, 2013
Just a quick question:
When does compulsively checking FaceBook for new updates become addictive behavior?
Friday, June 7, 2013
It’s been a running joke …
... around the HerrBGone household: When there’s been interference on the phone I
have often commented “Guys, your monitoring gear is interfering with my
conversation again…” as if the .gov might be listening in.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Breaking
NECN is reporting 'suspect #2' in the Boston Marathon bombing has been taken into custody. He is alive but wounded.
Today’s Weather
Today in and around eastern Massachusetts we can expect temperatures in the low 70’s, partly to mostly cloudy skys with a 20% chance of showers later in the day mixed with sporadic gunfire and the occasional hand grenade.
If you are in the Boston metro area, particularly in Boston, Brookline, Newton, Cambridge, Belmont, Waltham and especially Watertown:
You don’t want to accidentally take out one of the good guys. There are still a few out there, you know. Lawdog as a case in point (although he’s rather obviously not in the Boston metro area)…
Oh and a note to the local media: The FAA has issued a No Fly Zone over the area of interest. After all, we wouldn’t want there to be any independent video that might conflict with the “Official Account” of what went down, now would we?
Tinfoil hat? Naw! I find that a well-grounded stainless steel salad bowl works much better!
BTW: Does this vehicle look familiar to any of you?
If you are in the Boston metro area, particularly in Boston, Brookline, Newton, Cambridge, Belmont, Waltham and especially Watertown:
- Stay indoors
- Keep your head down
- And you AR aimed at the door
- And remember Rule 4: Know your target and what’s beyond your target
You don’t want to accidentally take out one of the good guys. There are still a few out there, you know. Lawdog as a case in point (although he’s rather obviously not in the Boston metro area)…
Oh and a note to the local media: The FAA has issued a No Fly Zone over the area of interest. After all, we wouldn’t want there to be any independent video that might conflict with the “Official Account” of what went down, now would we?
Tinfoil hat? Naw! I find that a well-grounded stainless steel salad bowl works much better!
BTW: Does this vehicle look familiar to any of you?
Image from Boston.com
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Pelham traffic stop yields weapons cache
Yeah, right…
From the minimal description provided in the article I would speculate that the likely make and model was one of these:
I don’t happen to have one of those myself. But they do look like a fun plinker. Basically the one I handled at WalMart seemed to be a along the lines of a Pumpmaster 760 dressed up in an AR-15 costume. If I was in my teens I’d probably be drooling all over the idea of getting one. And the stock really is adjustable, just like its metal cousin. Did I mention that these are almost completely made of plastic? Metal is used where needed but the entire outer frame is injection molded probably polystyrene.
The newspaper reports that the van was stolen as were the airguns. That got the driver arrested on felony charges for receiving stolen property. His passengers were arrested for not being able to convince officer OMG they got gunses! that the baggies in their pockets contained oregano for their home ec class later that afternoon.
UPDATE: It turns out that the "rifles" in question were not BB guns. They are much more realistic airsoft guns. I shouldn't expect the media to understand the difference, or even that there is a difference...
Adding drama to their investigation of the suspicious vehicle at about 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Officers Thistle and Barbato, while questioning the three suspects, "observed in plain view several semi-automatic firearms/weapons" in the rear section of the Toyota van, McCarthy said.
The BB guns' resemblance to actual firearms was so significant that the officers at first believed the air rifles were the real thing, McCarthy said. – emphasis added
From the minimal description provided in the article I would speculate that the likely make and model was one of these:
Crossman M4-177 -- Image via the manufacturer’s websight.
I don’t happen to have one of those myself. But they do look like a fun plinker. Basically the one I handled at WalMart seemed to be a along the lines of a Pumpmaster 760 dressed up in an AR-15 costume. If I was in my teens I’d probably be drooling all over the idea of getting one. And the stock really is adjustable, just like its metal cousin. Did I mention that these are almost completely made of plastic? Metal is used where needed but the entire outer frame is injection molded probably polystyrene.
The newspaper reports that the van was stolen as were the airguns. That got the driver arrested on felony charges for receiving stolen property. His passengers were arrested for not being able to convince officer OMG they got gunses! that the baggies in their pockets contained oregano for their home ec class later that afternoon.
UPDATE: It turns out that the "rifles" in question were not BB guns. They are much more realistic airsoft guns. I shouldn't expect the media to understand the difference, or even that there is a difference...
Lowell Sun photo
UPDATE II: I just thought I'd point out the nice job the local cat box liner did in cropping this photograph. Trim a little off the stock and you don't really loose anything. But if you trim an inch or so off the muzzle you can completely eliminate the ORANGE TIP that all airsoft toys are required by law to have. Suddenly it looks like a real AR-15. In terms of the oath administered to every witness in every court across this land that would be a failure to "tell the whole truth."
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