Theres an HK91 listed for sale in the paper for $700. Hmmm….no..no,no,no…I already have a .308….
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Although in my civillian life I have wierd zombie dreams all the time, I attribute those to that particular part of my life. (The civillian part, not the zombie part.) However, I had a dream the other night that really was aimed more at this particular facet of my personality. I had a dream that , I think, aliens were invading (yeah, I saw the War Of The Worlds trailer during the StuporBowl). The girlfriend came by in her truck and we were rushing to load all the gear and supplies, all the while seeing the destruction and flmaes only a few blocks away headed in this direction.
Moral of the story? everything needs to be in man-portable, durable, waterproof containers for easy transport on a moments notice. This is, for me, easily accomplished with 40mm and 20mm ammo cans (as well as a few 60mm cans for the big stuff).
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$50 for the Leatherman Wave tool that I want. However, various municipalities auction off seized Leatherman tools taken at airports on eBay. A very good value but theres just no way in hell I can support the state seizing property like that.
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Uline (www.uline.com) is a supplier of packaging materials…mostly boxes and polybags. However, they also sell FDA approved food-safe mylar bags. Hmmmm….ordered some samples to try out. They come in three sizes and should be easy to seal using a hot iron. The Commander loves mylar bags for their airtightness, waterproofness, light impermeability and general razoo appearance. Pricing is per 1000 bags which means I’ll split them up with the rest of the LMI, but at that point the price comes down to around a dime each. Not a bad value. I have some samples and will be experimenting with them soon.
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Speaking of the LMI, a late Christmas gift from one of them: http://www.eagleindustries.com/ProdDisp.asp?PartNoID=271
A scope and muzzle crown protector for my CZ550. (Or, as I explained it to the girlfriend, ‘a gun cozy’).
Nice, eh? And a very, very good choice of gift…and in my color too! OD.
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More and more interesting goodies are turning up now that the assault weapons ban is a thing of the past (for most of us). Lotsa neat new AR-15 platforms and even the AK’s are starting to get tweaked out into M4-type guns. My focus is magazines. I need smore AR mags and a few more P35 and Glock mags.
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The Chinese are building a pebble bed reactor, according to the news the other day. I am highly interested in this particular type of nuclear power generation facility. If we could get past the knee-jerk reactions to the words ‘nuclear power’ folks might come to see that a nuclear power plant (of the pebble bed variety) mixed with your hydrogen-based automobile industry would be a big step forward…nuclear energy produces the electricty to crack open water to get hydrogen which is used to fuel cars.
Nothing to add except that I am excited as well about the prospect of someone finally building a pebble-bed reactor. With CA’s energy problems, namely its reliance on power generated by natural gas, a new reactor or three would be quite helpful. Unfortunately, NIMBYism is quite rampant here, so I can’t see it ever happening. One would think that a state as supposedly environmentally conscious as this one tries to be that getting off of the dino-juice would be a good thing.
Info link on the M4-ized AK, you Commandership?
Sorry, what I meant was that AK’s are now getting the ‘M4 treatment’ of modular accessories, lights, handguards, rails, etc, etc.
But if an AK and an M4 had a few Zima’s, listened to some Barry White and knocked boots you’d get this delightful jewel:
http://www.quarterbore.com/kac/sr47.html
>Theres an HK91 listed for sale in the paper for $700. Hmmm….no..no,no,no…I already have a .308….<
DAMMIT! If only I’d seen that *last* Wednesday, heh.
Except for the front handle and shiny suppressor, I LIKE IT.
Have the prices on real HK rifles dropped so much that you’re not already driving over to collect that one for $700?
As a physicist with a background in engineering, I have very little fear of a nuclear reactor going foom. Current reactor designs are pretty good, and the pebble bed design is even better. What worries me about nuclear reactors of any design is their production of radioactive and radioactivated waste products. Pebble bed reactors produce waste that is somewhat less dangerous than traditional reactor waste, so that’s a good thing. On the other hand, pebble bed reactors produce more waste than traditional reactors, so there’s that trade-off.
Until we can think of a way to deal with the waste products that doesn’t involve piling it up somewhere and hoping it won’t be a problem in the future, I don’t consider nuclear power to be a viable long-term solution to our power needs.
I’ve seen that type of lower somewhere else too, I believe. Any guesses who else makes one now?
Hey, if I had $700 Id be on it like Bill Clinton on an intern. Sadly, Ive no money.