Outdoors
Getting Into Kayaking
Jun 4th
When I moved to Tampa, my sister has been mentioning that I should try out kayaking. I also have a friend that just got a kayak and we’ve been talking about fishing out of them so I finally went kayaking the other weekend and was hooked. My sister and her boyfriend David went out to Weedon Islands and paddled their 3 mile trail. We went through some open water and also tunnels of mangrooves which were really cool.
So I picked up a kayak from my sister’s friend. Its an Old Town Loon 160t w/ rudder. I got it rigged up for fishing with two rod holders behind the back seat, two mounts on the sides for a rod holder or cup holder, anchor system with rope that runs the length of the boat, and other stuff I needed. I can’t wait to go out again!
FW: Catastrophic Firearms Failure – LE Warning
Mar 5th
http://www.lukemccoy.com/files/Catastrophic Firearms Failure.pdf
All Armed Officers:
The attached intel report concerns the reloading and firing of handgun ammunition. If you have chambered a round and then extracted (by cycling the slide back) the same round, the force of chambering causes the bullet to seat slightly deeper into the casing.
The problems described in the attachment were catastrophic when the same round was chambered and extracted several (5-6) times and then fired, causing the barrel and slide to be propelled downrange.
Glock and SigArms confirms that this type of accident can occur by rechambering ammunition, and SigArms says in the report that rechambering a round once voids the warranty.
As a word of caution don’t rechamber a round of ammunition once chambered and extracted. We need to make sure that the extracted round is segregated from the empty casings for proper disposal.
Thank you,
Dean Fittz
SAC/Dallas
Senior Firearms Instructor
Human Glider
Feb 2nd
Looks fun but I don’t think I’m crazy enough to try this!Click the picture to watch the video.
Snowboarding in Brianhead
Jan 29th
This past Saturday, some friends and I went up to Brianhead Resort in Utah to go snowboarding. It was my first time but had a blast. Half of me thought I would pick it up pretty quick since I used to skateboard but the other half thought that wouldn’t help at all. Well I don’t think it was that much like skateboarding but I felt like I was starting to pick it up after the last run. I’m definitely hooked though and am planning on going back this Saturday.
Brrreeeport: Scoble’s Keyword Experiment
Feb 16th
What started out as an apparent debunking of an A-list blogger conspiracy has evolved into a made-up word shedding light on the search world. Microsoft’s controversial employee blogger, Robert Scoble, invited readers to use the word ‘brrreeeport” on their blogs as a way to get “Z-list” blogs noticed, while testing the reach of the various search engines.
Scoble’s snarky experiment was in response to the notion of the supposed Blog Club, where A-list bloggers only link to each other and thereby keeping lesser-known bloggers out of the loop of recognition in typical Critical Theory style.
The invention of the word “brrreeeport” and the invitation to put on a person’s blog created a vacuum to Technorati’s blog listings and popular tags. Very soon, the term was listed at the top of Technorati’s most searched word. Two days later, “brrreeeport” is out ranking searches for information on the Dick Cheney hunting accident, and is third on the list of tags.
The original purpose of the experiment worked. Technorati returns some 487 results for the word, leading searchers to blogs they may have never encountered. But the memetic results led to another exploration of the efficacy of various search engines.
At the time this article was written, a search on Technorati returns 487 results; Google’s Blog Search: 452; Feedster: 569. On that information alone, it would appear that Google Blog search is missing an element the other blog engines aren’t. But the more interesting question Scoble brings up on Wednesday, when he compares results of Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
Google’s main page (as of present) says it found 22,400 results for the word. Scrolling through, however, there are only 353 results after similar entries are omitted. Re-searching with omitted results included returns only 979 results, as the other 21,000 are apparently inaccessible.
Scoble calls this an example of “lies that are going on on search engines.” Scoble reports that MSN returns over 1, 369 entries (though my results continue to say 221), and Yahoo! returns over 1,010. The varying numbers does bring up an interesting question as to the veracity of any given search engine’s reach.
One thing’s for certain, many are taking advantage of the memetic appeal of the word, “brrreeeport.” Bloggers have committed to throwing the word onto their blog posts. Even the famous New York City gay and lesbian publication The Village Voice has thrown it into a headline for an unrelated music review.
There are even sponsored links for the word on Google and Yahoo!’s SERPs. On Yahoo!’s system though, it’s not the exact word, but ads served up based on similar keywords.
Whatever the deeper implications, the immediate benefit was for Z-list bloggers who otherwise may have never been found. Someone’s even reserved the brrreeeport domain.
About the Author:
Jason is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
Man Kills Buck with Bare Hands in Bedroom
Nov 2nd
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry battled a buck with his bare hands in his daughter’s bedroom.
Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter’s home Friday. When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay dead on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.
Goldsberry was at his daughter’s home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer.
“I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom,” said Goldsberry. The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom — “jumping back and forth across the bed.”
Goldsberry entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.
Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house.
“He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for a while,” Deputy Doug Gay said.
