Borepatch

Bob S writes about his new grandson, Trevan.  The young 'un had a bit of a rough entry, but is now finally home from the hospital .  Bes...

... is there a reason that Windows 7 hides all the APPDATA directories?  They're about to refresh my OS because Windows keeps losing its...

If you've ever had a salesman come in to sell you some high tech gear, you've been subjected to Death By Powerpoint - 300 slides tha...

Wish I had said that.

Yeah, it's kinda obvious.  It still made me chuckle.  And yeah, it's from Full Metal Jacket, so the dialog is not at all SFW.

And no, this doesn't have anything to do with his comment that "You didn't build that" - amusing as that may be.  His defe...

One of the most delightful parts of the highly enjoyable film Tombstone is the scene where Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo banter with each o...

Get them girlfriends.  Srlsy : Want to put a stop to hacking? The solution is simple: Get hackers girlfriends. To be sure, that prescrip...

I mean, we had this .  How could we lose?

We were huge Commodore (later Rear Admiral) Hopper fans, back at Three Letter Agency. Letterman (asking about her work on the first compu...

Srlsy.

Bob S is putting his Community Organizing skills to a productive use (as opposed to a different Community Organizer we could name).  Specifi...

Man saves girl who fell from third story window.   Wow.

I am, of course, a Colonial, exiled from the Mother Country across the Pond.  And so there's no expectation that I would speak the Engli...

Drugs?  Nope.  Gunpowder residue?  Probably.  Bacon?  Heck yeah.  Fourth Amendment?  We don' need no steenkin' Fourth Amendment : W...

Al Fin has a very interesting post about autonomous, armed micro drone assassins : The size of these tiny killer-drones is quickly shrinkin...

But it's what the Young Folk are listening to these days ... Laser dots are A Bad Thing.  Just sayin'.

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra both sent in recipes for a celebrity cookbook. Now you know why they called Frank the "Chairman of the...

Maura got her first gun.   Well done.

Good News: I got to the range over the weekend.  After all, I have a thousand rounds of .45 ACP, and it won't shoot itself.  Now I hav...