Recent content by jkc

I recall some story about Adams encountering a contemporary competitor at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, who asked, "So, how many photos have you made? I've made dozens..." Adams replied, "None. I'm still studying how to make them." Or words to that effect... My late father, a...

Safepacker holsters from The Wilderness in Phoenix would serve your purposes --- get their largest size, called, I think, Government Plus 2 or something similar, and also their belt to which the holster is attached with velcro and mechanically for a high-security mount. These holsters are also...

Kids today need not look further than Lewis Carroll --- the following, excerpted from Alice Through the Looking Glass: The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand: They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: 'If this were only cleared away,' They said, 'it...

SLAVE DRIVER!!, indeed, explaining the curmudgeon you've become...

Just yesterday, I "won" a GB auction for 1,000 rounds of CCI Standard Velocity .22 rimfire, @ $115 + $22 shipping = almost $0.14/round. Outrageous, yes, but I needed more subsonic ammo to feed my newly suppressor-equipped .22s, so whatcha gonna do?

Just out of high school, I was briefly employed as a blue-collar (maybe, no-collar) drone on an Oldsmobile assembly line in Lansing, Michigan. The management symbols were, actual blue, collared, work shirts for "foremen", who were only one click above common workers, and had some juice with the...

I faced a similar conundrum with an upcoming trip which involved entering Canada from Montana, then returning via the same route. My initial "bright idea" was to simply rent a safe deposit box at a local branch of my bank, and retrieve it on the return trip --- cost, about $30 for a one year...

This incident described is not a fashion statement. It is a confession to an egregious fashion offense. I'm siding with your wife, as are all right-thinking people...

I'm positive that I like these pix!

Having read through every previous post, I am disabused of my original assumption that you were referring to WASPs, the ethnicity, rather than insects, which are only somewhat problematic around here occasionally, rather than Presbyterians and Mormons, which cause us no end of aggravation...

I have --- a MK-II bolt gun, blue (black) finish, not very fancy (cheap looking) synthetic stock, just barely legal length barrel, threaded-for-suppressor muzzle, with excellent-out-of-the-box Accu-Trigger. It ain't pretty, but it's accurate, apparently reliable (at least so far), 100%...

There's actual merit to the late merge theory, as explained in some book I read awhile back, examining traffic flow dynamics, but, the theory is thwarted by drivers who aren't playing nice, and simply trying to take advantage of others, or, more commonly, are dangerously incompetent, and not...

Thanks to all of you for your great suggestions --- regrettably, I won't be able to afford the time involved to see and do everything mentioned, but all this info brings highlights into closer focus.

Well, there's nothing like one of these threads for expanding one's knowledge, and, the scope of the discussion. I've now learned about "guns 'n' loads" suitable for "hopped up meth heads", padlocks, elephants (tell Karamojo Bell how inferior a light, fast, rifle bullet is to a heavy, slow...

Well, bad memories of foul "food", good memories of discriminating against it.