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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Sci-Fi Hot Take...3 hours ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
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- Still Got It. And It's Creepy
- A Never-Ending Fount Of Wisdom
- Kitchen-Handy
- He Makes My Brain Hurt
- McDonald v. Chicago
- Repopulating Vermin
- Tamara's Video Wargame
- Hope And Change What?
- Busted
- Where Angels Fear To Tread, Even In Pairs
- Sunday Morning, Quckly [sic]
- I Want The MP3
- ...Invited Who To Where?
- Link Some Of You Will Follow
- Carrying A Handgun In The Hoosier State
- I'm Getting Better
- Even The Bad States Aren't....Them
- Sick Day, Only Not
- July Fools!
- Another Day, Another Disaster
- New Content At I Work On A Starship
- Tree Update
- Saving Spacecraft Of A Past
- Another Tree Falls
- Find The Lady
- Within An Order Of Magnitude Either Way
- BlogMeet: 20 June, Rock Bottom, 3:00 p.m.
- The Tree Is Gone, Long Live The Tree
- I'm An Outlaw? In-Law?
- Says So Right Here
- Inside An Editor's Mind
- Did I Mention Storm?
- Made Of Win -- And Storm
- Arrgh; or, Made Of Fail
- If You're Gonna Come Here And Work, Learn The Lingo
- This Is An Ex-Tree
- June BlogMeet
- Roseholme Cottage Under Seige!
- June BlogMeet
- Shooty Goodness
- Seven Years On The Ultimate Sea
- "He's Down, Kick Him Again!"
- So, They Showed Us Air
- Air Show Report Coming
- Sticking Point
- See A Weather Forecast, Find A Drama
- Inja, Don'cha Know
- "Tick-Tock, Ms. X, Tick-Tock"
- Conan The Objectivist
- Carry Me Back To Old Vergina
- Incidental Idiocy
- You Thought Zoning Fights Were Bad Here?
- Helen Thomas Bigotry Timeline
- It's A Better Morning
- What To Do Next Weekend
- Gun Show P.S.
- Yippee.
- Is That A Little Giant On My Television?
- Um, Hullo? Plus, Gun Show Report
- Tickets, Please! Azuza, Caneveral And Low Earth Or...
- Mutually Hahaha's Mild Kingdom
- Indy 1500
- Burning Fiddles Whilst I Roam
- When Sauce For The Goose Is On The Other Foot...?
- Eeeeediocy
- I Can Has Surface Mount Electronics?
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What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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7 comments:
I deleted the above because it was a re-post of my first comment, which didn't show up thanks to Blogger being down.
I hated seeing Mike Seeklander go down right off the bat. Mike lives in the Tulsa suburb where I got my start in police work and lived for about 15 of the last 25 years. For me, he was the "hometown boy". I hope Caleb hangs in there!
I was sorry to see his poor showing. Tam was tellin' me he can shoot well under stress but I think equipment unfamiliarity flummoxed him.
Not knowing the rules for the rifle practice makes it hard to know how much trigger time and known-specific-issues talk they had; one of the very hardest things to do if you've been sold as An Expert is to admit ignorance when encountering a new gun. If the youngest is their best rifle shooter (and possibly one the likeliest to know what's what), that doesn't make it any easier.
...There really is a level on which interpersonal interaction does count -- less whining, more hardware talk-talk!
Roberta,
Mike is definitely awesome with a handgun and is on staff at the United States Shooting Academy here in Tulsa.
One of the commenters over at Tam's linked to a video he made when he got home using a borrowed Springfield to show he was not as bad as he looked on TOP SHOT.
I had to call BS on the video because he was using an '03A3 (with peep sights) instead of a 1903 or '03A1 with the damn complicated V-notch/ladder sight situated way down there.
Mike has a lot of experience with peep sights on rifles (he's ex-USMC) but obviously not with sights like the original '03 used (the OLD Corps would be mortified). I emailed him today to offer a loaner '03A1...
Knowing he's in the training business explains to me why he felt he had to make the video.
I understand a bad day. I understand being unfamiliar with the equipment. I'd expect, say, Clint Smith to make that shot cold, because his unit had to turn in their Mk I, Mod 0 Rocks for T&E Springfields, but it wouldn't shock me if plenty of other instructors had similar results under similar circumstances, and I'd still have no problem paying to take a pistol or carbine or shotgun course from them.
But Joe and Jane N00b might not understand that, and he needs to re-sell himself as a trainer.
Tam,
You're right, and he told me that a lot of the reason he made the video was just for his own peace of mind.
Besides, the average non-gunny wouldn't notice the '03 / '03-A3 difference or understand it, but what a topic it has become at VFTP!
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