matt | February 27, 2011
I’ve been following cnn.com because of the interesting goings-on in the middle east and north Africa, an I noticed this article on why Americans don’t travel abroad. One of the things they mention is: “There are some differences in terms of vacation time that are hugely influential,” Byrne said. Workers in mainland Europe receive between [...]
matt | February 20, 2011
Watched a documentary called Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Now, even though I was alive during the Enron scandal, I was not really affected by it, as I was still in college and didn’t have much in the way of assets, so the depths to which these guys had gone was really surprising. [...]
matt | February 20, 2011
So, I was sitting here painting tanks this afternoon, when I had an interesting thought – I fully expect to be explaining to my grandchildren what these weapons systems were, how they worked and what they did, because the sun has set on our military industrial complex. Make no mistake, this is not a swords [...]
matt | February 20, 2011
Well, my version of lazy anyway. Slept in both days, and am fighting bad glasses. I’m waiting for the new ones to come in from the lab – according to the optometrist, aside from the LensCrafters crappy knockoff transitions coating delaminating, when I had them make me another set to replace my broken ones, it [...]
matt | February 20, 2011
Watched Rampage. It was okay. I expected a modern, post-9/11, post-Obama version of Falling Down. In the end, despite both the above IMDB synopsis and the Netflix summary, it really wasn’t. It was more of that as a distraction covering a bank heist. Now, the big thing that gets me about this movie was the [...]
matt | February 18, 2011
So, I have (to test): 1 factory mag 1 pro-mag replacement mag 1 factory mag, modified by me, with a replacement spring (for a Para P14, suggested here). I’ve also lowered the front of the mag by cutting off some of the metal and then sanding it smooth. We’ll see if any of those work. [...]
matt | February 16, 2011
So, Liz and I attended Templecon two weeks ago. It was a mixed bag. Full details behind the cut..
matt | February 16, 2011
.. that as I look at world politics, more and more I miss the good old days where the Soviet Union was going to nuke us all. At least they were predictable, and it was (more or less) going to all shake out as a stand-up fight between nation states. Everything else was a brush [...]
matt | February 14, 2011
Doing a little more research, I found this petition by the guy in charge of LASIK at the FDA from 1996-2000. There is also this statement from a German company who is saying that they have a device which does a really good job mapping the surface of the eye – and LASIK eyes look [...]
matt | February 13, 2011
I need new primary glasses, as LensCrafters is crap and the fake transitions coating is delaminating, and they’re scratched to hell. I also need new safety glasses, because the old ones are several years old and he prescriptions are off. This is going to be in the $600 ballpark. And then I’ll likely spend that [...]
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