Questions for the wisdom of the internets

1. Does anybody have a picture of the prototype Browning BAR from the 1950s that was in bullpup format? I heard such a thing existed, so I need to see it! 2. Is it true the new KneeCapping Trade bill includes a provision where you have to get your home inspected for environmental stuff before [...]

HK hates you, but they especially hate Airsofters

http://www.c3airsoft.com/showthread.php/hk-vs-airsoft-becaause-17511.html?s=376c1949cabcab3592ffef8d58c29224&t=17511 Apparently H und K is now suing every manufacturer of Airsoft guns for copyright infringement…   Oh, you have no idea the delicious irony of this moment. See, when I wrote my “HK, because you suck, and we hate you” rant a couple of years ago, I did it as somebody in the gun [...]

MHI ships in ONE MONTH!

We are now exactly one month away from the shipping of the Baen edition of Monster Hunter International. I’m positively giddy. If I get a little too giddy, I’ll just watch the news to bring me back down, but until then I’m eagerly awaiting July 28th. When I signed my contract with Baen and discontinued the Print [...]

A cartoon from 1948

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY Say what you will about it, but can you even imagine somebody making this today? And that probably says more than anything.

California can go to hell. Go to hell and die!

Ladies and Gentlemen! Allow me to show you one of the finest pieces of straight-up propaganda I have ever had the pleasure of reading! I give you the article from TIME: California’s Fiscal Crisis: The Legacy of Proposition 13.   http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599190493800   Today I stand in awe. I stand in awe of the sheer amount [...]

Transformers 2 script

After posting about how much Megan Fox sucks and wants ya’ll to just die already, my buddy Rabbit sent me this. It pretty much sums up Michael Bay’s awesome style.  Warning, Mr. Bay’s doodles may not be work safe if you are a nun or teach 4th grade or lower. http://www.cracked.com/blog/transformers-2-michael-bays-rejected-script/ That said, if Michael Bay showed [...]

Excellent sample chapter

 Marko at Munckin Wrangler has just posted a sample chapter of his military-SF novel.  I read it over lunch. This looks like a really promising work. Marko’s got a great voice, and he’s one of the more intelligent folks on the interwebs, so I’m looking forward to this. http://munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/a-free-sampling-of-the-wares/#comment-16393

Megan Fox sucks and hates you

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=13818  “TotalFilm recently interviewed the actress and asked her how she would stop the villainous Megatron from demolishing the planet. Fox first said that she would “make a deal with him,” adding: “and instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle [...]

Capping Trade, it’s just like capping knees

So there has been some discussion about pushing through this new 1200+ page law that no one has read, that will take our already weakened economy and kneecap it with a baseball bat, all in order to stop global warming. Wow. Does this actually make sense to any normal person? Does anyone in America who [...]

Writing Music

And no, from the title, I don’t even know how to read music, let alone write it. They just look like a bunch of squiggles that go up and down, and my wife always cringes when I try to sing along with the hymns in church.  I’m talking about the music I listen to as [...]