You Get The Superheroes You Deserve

And Perth, Western Australia, has Wheel Clamp Man. --No, he doesn't clamp the louts who fail at parking (pity, that), he unclamps motorists with his handy angle grinder -- after asking, and in return for a donation to an actual charity, mind.

Proper Authorities are not at all amused.

He may've been inspired by Britain's Angle Grinder Man, who fought The Clamp Menace* a decade earlier, half a planet away. ...Fought and won, at least for a given value of "win:" wheel-clamping on private land will be banned in England and Wales come October. (Northern Ireland and Scotland, well, y'see, this is yet another manifestation of a very long and dark history we're not likely to see set right at any point in human history. Also, you can still get clamped there.)

The caped-crusader thing, it may be catching on.
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* Not to be confused with The Clam Menace. Oh, hells no.

Overheard, Underhanded

Tam (on headset to her WoW buddies): "...My upgraded bow is super-tactikewl powerful now!"

Roberta X (listening in): [Begins whistling Help Me Make It Through The Night.]

Tam: [glares]

Roberta X: "Um, wrong kind of 'bow,' then?"

Barsoomian Sunset

Can you hear them? Tharks, just over the horizon!

Good Fiction

....And an "Oh, dammit." I just discovered Kage Baker's "Company" yarns recently;* and this morning I find out she's been gone awhile already.

Ave, Ms. Baker, and thanks for the works you've left us.
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* The collection Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers, specifically.

What Passes For breakfast Around Here

Rich, smokey Surry sausage on a bed of rice, quinoa and scrambled eggs with leeks and a touch of green-pepper salsa, garnished with caramelized leek slices, marinated home-garden jalapenos, etc.

I'm not finding any direct links about Surry sausage per se. Buy some and try it yourself, just be advised it wants some rice, mashed tatties or the like on the side, lest you faint from joy.

Work Rules

It's Labor Day

I'm laboring on breakfast.

Why not May Day? --Commies, is why. But I do note one political party's convention starts today. Pretty much same reason?

The Hidden Frontier...Unhid?

Perhaps a bit: remember Lupine's fusion-over-MHD primary realspace drives? I wasn't kidding -- and neither's NASA.

Heh.

Blue Monday -- Bleu Monday?

Like Blue Cheese, do you? Does it make you think about washing machines?

It should; Maytag Dairy Farms have dominated U.S. Blue Cheese production for decades, and yes, it's those Maytags. 50 years after the last Maytag was at the helm of the appliance company,[1] they're still running the diary[2] dairy farms. (And the reigning Maytag, or one of 'em, is also one of the fathers of the modern microbrewery!)

Alas, they haven't made gas-engine Toy Racers since WW II started. I don't think they ever restarted production of the little gasoline washing-machine engines that made 'em go. Still, it's creditable record of achievement.
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* Arguably, their products were never the same after the last Maytag left.

2. A typo duly noted -- and the never-ending work of a diary farm described -- in Comments. :D

A Visiturk At The Gun Show

Turk Turon visited last weekend, in time to go to the Indy 1500 with a specific gun in mind -- found it, and more besides. It's an interesting tale, and a lesson, too.

Breakfast Treat: Egg Targets

Not low cholesterol:

Punch a circle from a slice of good white bread. Melt a pat or two of butter in a pan. Drop the bread in; get the down side buttery, then flip over and break an egg in the center. Pop the yolk and drop a slice of marinated* jalapeno in the center of it, and a ring of mild (or to taste) pickled bananna pepper around the jalapeno slice, so the whole thing looks like a bullseye. You can cover it once it gets going; this will make the top set more quickly.

Cut 4 to 8 radial slits around the perimeter of a lunchmeat-sized slice of cotto salami and fry over low heat (I used a separate skillet -- 'cos all the big ones are in the dishwasher).

When the egg is set enough to flip, do so; the bread should be golden brown. Drop a slice of Muenster or whatever cheese you favor on top, followed by the salami slice, and cook 'til the cheese is melty.

Put on a plate and enjoy! Needs no seasoning. Barely needs silverware, in fact. The leftover disc of bread can be fried up in the salami grease and/or any butter left in the pan.
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* We have some mildish ones from Tam's garden soaking in a mixture of pickle juice, red wine vinegar, a dash of salt and a splash of balsamic vinaigrette in a covered dish in the fridge. YMMV.

In Fact, There Is No One In That Chair

...And it's better that way.