Borepatch

That's some righteous Global Warming : Residents claimed this is the first snowfall in the city in over a decade, and flooded social med...

Miguel experienced a really dangerous one . Get better, buddy! 

Suppose you have one of those sweet, sweet M1 Carbines - you know the ones: light, short, handy, low recoil and fun to shoot all day.  You l...

Shamelessly stolen from David Drake .

Amidst the global panic that is shutting down the economy, there are some reasons for guarded optimism: 1. After a long delay, we are fina...

I've been saying that what we don't know about the Coronavirus outweighs what we know.  This makes it really hard to estimate how ba...

This is a holiday classic.

There is a sensational Bloomberg article claiming that Chinese intelligence agents added chips to motherboards in servers used by Amazon and...

Folks, it's called a "Nor'easter" .  "Bomb Cyclone" is just clickbait.  I grew up in Maine, and we had these all...

They'll want background checks for sure. Probably has the shoulder thing that goes up in there, too ... (Seen on the Book of Face...

Rick emails to point out another example of why God hates yankees : If you felt like it was freezing in Boston [Monday] morning, you were...

And where can I get one?  Want. Hat tip: long time buddy Burt via email.

ASM826* posted on what caliber would you use if you (like the lady in the story) were attacked by a crazed rabid deer .  A bunch of you left...

Jay emails to point out this from the More Of The Same Department : Paris (AFP) - UN scientists are set to deliver their darkest report y...

Hat tip: 2cents , via email.  And yes, you should start blogging again.

In the Northeast, the general rule of thumb is that you won't see a snowflake before Thanksgiving, and you won't see snow on the gro...

I've never been the biggest Jean Claude Van Dam fan, but if this is as described, then my respect for his real world (not Hollywood) cap...

Image via Wikipedia Halloween is an interesting challenge for classical music blogging.  At first it's a delight - you're surrou...

There's a new IPCC Assessment Report out, and so it's Global Warming silly season again.  This time, it's the Caribbean nations ...

This question was asked in a session about security problems in crypto-mathematics.  Half the hands went up.   I wonder if the speaker reads...