Blog O'Stuff

Three years ago I bought my wife a 13" MacBook Pro (mid-2012, MacBook Pro 9,2). For the time it was an excellent system, with an i5 CPU...

This morning I took my daughter to go see Star Wars Episode VII . No spoilers, just go see it. It's awesome. After lunch I took the Sami...

My 11 year old daughter was ready to move up to a "real" bow from her kid's bows. After doing a good bit of research, I bought...

Shooting arrows at a regular target is a lot of fun, but sometimes it's nice to mix it up. Previously, we've used plastic cups, ball...

Today I received the second batch of bamboo arrows that I ordered from Chinese eBay seller arrowmaker2013 . I ordered a full dozen this tim...

I worked from home today and shot the new recurve bow some more during my lunch break. I also tried the bamboo arrows that I got for my 5...

Recently I was able to get some shooting in over a friend's house (he lives in the country). One of the guns I shot was my Rossi 92 leve...

Tonight Hanukkah begins, in which we celebrate not just the miracle of the one night's worth of oil lasting for eight, but also the tri...

Continuing with my archery theme, I present for you consideration this 45 lb. draw takedown recurve bow that I bought from China Archery Sup...

I was able to get some shooting with my Mongol bow in every day over my Thanksgiving break. Yesterday I took my daughters out to a friend...

Back in 2012 I bought this late Mongol, Manchu-influenced horsebow from "handmadebow" on eBay . It draws 50# @ 28". The riser...

Today I went out and got a table to get my rack of Cisco gear off the floor. I first went to Lowe's and bought a 5 foot long folding tab...

Today I got to put into practice at work some of the stuff I've been reading up on. I was configuring the integrated lights-out manageme...

The equipment I ordered to use in my CCNA studies arrived yesterday. As expected, the switches and routers show some wear but overall, they...

One of the challenges of a career in IT is keeping up to date and learning new skills. For the past 14 months or so, I've managed the pr...

One of the canards trotted out by anti-gunners after every mass shooting is that the Framers could not have envisioned the power of modern w...

I've been following Sparks 31's blog for awhile now, and bought his book Communications for 3%ers and Survivalists . He's decid...

The last couple of times I've gone shooting it's involved charcoal burning and I've really been enjoying it. So, today I hit the...

Back in April I e-filed a Form 1 to turn my TNW Firearms M-31SA Suomi into a short barreled rifle. BATFE approved the Form 1 on July 19th, b...

One of the challenges of using a caplock muzzleloader in the field is finding a convenient way to carry your percussion caps. If you keep th...