The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

The family dynamic

| September 11, 2005

Okay, so I'm reading The Ten Things You Can't Say In America by Larry Elder. Now, in chaper five (America's Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Rasicm, or Bad Schools – It's Illegitimacy), he discusses how: Other studies have found that the best predictor of violent crime in a community is not race or economic status but [...]

Bear

| September 9, 2005

Bear smells like farts. Rotten or freezer burnt bear smells more strongly of farts. If you boil/simmer it in a heavily spiced sauce, it becomes tender and tasting not unlike a cross between beef and lamb. If you do not simmer it enough, it tastes like one would imagine farts do. I have butchered perhaps [...]

Siezure of firearms in NO

| September 9, 2005

LEO's are siezing personal firearms, unless you are a private security guard: http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/malven/2005/09/gun-seizures-are-unacceptable-mr.html Apparently, FEMA can do whatever they please in an emergency: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/090605_greeks_gifts.shtml You don't even need martial law anymore.

Daaaa bears…

| September 6, 2005

Lizzy got a bear. It's chocolate brown, she said, about 200lbs., with a nice coat. She got it yesterday. It was hot there, so the bears weren't hitting the baits (they were staying further up the mountain, where it was warm). This one they got when the hounds chased it down. It was the only [...]

Firearms, 101 (or, Love and a .45)

| September 5, 2005

Okay, so it occurs to me that I've been talking about firearms lately and some folks out there might not be 100% up on all the lingo. So, it works like this: A “caliber” (cal) of ammunition is in hundreths or thousanths of an inch. So, a .22 is .22 inches across at the widest [...]

More kitty pictures

| September 4, 2005

Toby, looking cute for the camera. He's actually playing in this big chest freezer that I have open so that it can defrost because Liz's dad is taking it back so that he can use it to store all the meat he's going to be getting on his next trip to Idaho. It makes sense, [...]

Survival stuff

| September 2, 2005

Okay, maybe I've gone a but nutters, or maybe I'm just really thinking about this seriously for the first time in my life. I always kind of scoffed at my dad's doomsday preparations, but this Katrina thing has got me thinking – what if we had to evacuate? What if we have to live without [...]