Doing It In Bed
The best positions
Lets vote - which is better
Song is Harder Better Faster by Daft Punk
Loving Life
Watched Star Wars (the original one) with my 6 year old last night.
Great memories. Boy they grow fast.
The Nuts Are Out In Force
Seriously.
You can check out the comments in the docket to the proposed National Park Carry Rule here
Frankly, just casually scanning those posted so far (there are 122 pages to the docket - with links to about 25 comments on each) I haven’t seen any opposed to the change. I’m sure there are some in there, and that there will be other submitted, but more troubling are the pro gun comments I have read, that talk about bigotry, hoplophobes, sheepdogs, revolution, etc.
Looks like GOA has gotten their base out, and thats going to make the job of actually improving this rule that much more difficult (its good, but needs improvement).
Gunning for the Dead
For years, in response to Juan Non Volokh’s (now Jonathan Alder) Sunday Song Lyric, I’ve presented an on and off Monday Song Lyric.
Well, I really enjoy that. But I also enjoy guns. And the Grateful Dead. A lot. So I figured, what better way than to combine all of them and present you Grateful Dead lyrics that involve guns and there are a ton - which isn’t surprising considering they are more than just mere hippies, but rather astute chroniclers of the American experience.
I sort of like this description
I have several friends who refer to the Grateful Dead as the best “American band of all time.” Not necessarily the best band that happened to come from America, but the best band to take America’s roots music: bluegrass, the blues, jazz, appalachian folk-songs and distill it into a wild and beautiful psychedelic mess. I happen to agree with them.
Today’s first installment -
Loser
Lyrics by Robert HunterIf I had a gun for every ace I’ve drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don’t you push me baby cause I’m moaning low
You know I’m only in it for the goldAll that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
You’ll never find another honest manLast fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go downDon’t you push me baby
because I’m moaning low
I know a little something
you won’t ever know
Don’t you touch hard liquor just
a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up
in the morning and goEverybody’s bragging and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shine
Come to Daddy on an inside straight
I got no chance of losing this time
No, I got no chance of losing this time
Dosed or not, that’s there is just gorgeous.
Clear Thinker of the Day
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker called a federal gas tax holiday proposed by Republican colleague and presidential candidate John McCain “pandering extraordinaire” today.
“I think all of us realize this is solely pandering,” Corker said of suspending the gas tax over the summer.
…snip…
Corker pointed out that both Clinton and McCain are in favor of so-called “cap and trade” legislation coming up for debate next month in the Senate — legislation that Corker says, “actually is a tax on gasoline.”
Unconscious Mutterings
- State :: of the Union
- Lively :: up yourself and dont be no drag; Lively up yourself, cause this is the other bag
- Valet :: Parking
- Traction :: Control
- Official :: Designation
- Red hot :: Chili Peppers
- Powder :: Eskimos have 20 words for snow
- Replies :: quickly
- Flagrant :: abuse of discretion
- Tweet :: y bird
Word Pressing
So’ I’m a wondering . . . I made the upgrade to the new WP 2.5 and well, I liked the old word press better. it wasn’t that I was just more used to it, I think it was more user friendly. That, and when I accessed it via blackberry, the over the top scripting didn’t crash the blackberry.
So here’s a bleg -
Is there a lo-bandwidth way to utilize WP 2.5 on a mobile device?
Is there a good way to make remote posts??
Why would I know want to upgrade to 2.5.1???
A dogs life
Spent the weekend hanging with the dog. Yesterday, we went to Roosevelt Island for a nature walk. Saw a baby turtle, a bunch of ducks in the marsh, and two different snakes sunning themselves. That got the oldest pretty excited.
Oh, and we also went to the beach opposite the Georgetown waterfront and played fetch with Rex. He’s a little leary of going too far into the water - wont easily go up past his tummy but after sploshing around has no problem getting fully immersed, as long as he can still stand. Its not really a problem, yet, as he is still a puppy so I want to ease him into this.
I’m training him according to Dick Wolter’s Gun Dog book - which co0incides with the instructions he has received and will receive from Jack Jagoda (his breeder and trainer) later this summer (who, incidentally, is mentioned a number of times in the book).
The one thing Wolters recommends is playing it slow and letting the dog have fun in the water and get used to it at his own pace. We did that, and I further walked out with him into the river (the air was 80 degrees, but the river was fricken cold) and held him as he got a hang for paddling. It seemed to work for a second, but then he splashed around hitting the bottom again.
We did that for some time, and then some other dogs showed up which made it difficult to train, but made it very exciting for him to play. And, he is a playful puppy after all, so play they did. Of course, in playing with others (even dogs that aren’t nearly as trained as he is, he is still learning - and from these he learned a bit about swimming).
Incidentally, some bitch came walking up to the beach - and was just standing there amidst all the dogs, when she suddenly started yelling at them all to behave as they started coming up to snff her (as dogs do). She was clearly not a dog person, which begs the question, why would she put herself amidst 3 playing dogs????
The rest of the walk went well. Rex is really progressing, and I showed off some of the skills I was working on that morning to the wife - much to the amazement of others who saw him. For instance, he will know (largely) sit on (whistle) command from a distance and then stay till I release him. I was able to walk 150 yards away from him whistle him to come, and then stop him on a dime half way to me, to sit, until I released him again. Its a pretty basic skill, but still something to see in a little puppy.
Today, I took him over to the Izaak Walton league to introduce him to gun fire. Went first to the skeet range, backed my Cherokee up to the field I was on and opened the back with him in the crate. We shot 3 rounds of skeet (I sucked hard), with him there and then I went to the rifle range and played with the WASR (more on that later), in a similar setup (though he was a bit further away). Afterward, we jumped into the pond and splashed around. Without a beach, he was a lot more hesitant to jump, or even, crawl in so I laid off the training and just let him chill and play and splash.
Tonight, though, things got interesting. We had some chocolate cake for dinner, and my son got up without finishing his. It took only a second for the dog to jump up and grab it (a bad bad habit that seems terrible difficult to break - especially with my wife unwilling to properly discipline a puppy) so I ended up spending the night at the emergency vet clinic. They induced vomiting and gave him some medication, and kept us there for 4 hours. Oh, and it cost $389, which is a lot but not as bad as I thought it would be.
