Oh wait, it's still at least 6 months behind schedule, after a good 6 months' delay.
That's a Central Texas joke. Google it.
That's going to be sill agency fail #2 for the day.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize? Seriously?
You have heard by now that The Obama is going to get the Nobel Peace Prize. For, apparently, what he is supposed to be going to do. Nevermind he still has less than 2 years' combined experience at national politics, and before that he hadn't even run a hot dog stand. But we Just KNOW! he'll knock America off its pedestal contribute to glowbull peas!
He was nominated after 12 days as PresBO. Wow. The achievements!
Fail. I used to think the prize stood for something . . . and in my lifetime, it's gone to a "U R 2 CoOl" award meaning nothing. What a pity.
He was nominated after 12 days as PresBO. Wow. The achievements!
Fail. I used to think the prize stood for something . . . and in my lifetime, it's gone to a "U R 2 CoOl" award meaning nothing. What a pity.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Dr. Laura Vindicates Me. Again.
She just had a call that could have been from my birth-mother (Old Mama) A woman called in who picked her controlling new husband over her son. Her new stud is an angry, and she didn't know it because they didn't date long enough before getting married. Then her oldest son was a frequent target of his anger. She sent the boy to live with his dad.
Dr. Laura called her an unfit mother, and said she would tell the son to NEVER take the grandchildren to see their grandmother. Even though (in the mother's words) he was "trying" and "better now."
I haven't seen Old Mama in . . . I don't know how many years now. Zero communication. This call reinforced the righteousness of my way. My children know Nice New Mama as "Grandma Familyname" instead of "Firstname." They could live their whole lives and never meet Old Mama, and I'd be just fine with that. It's not vindictiveness, truly. It's self-defense. Crazy New Daddy pulled a gun on Old Mama at the dinner table. He kicked a 3 year-old in the stomach for trying to go outside. I don't play with crocodiles, and I don't go around that set of crazy people.
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Sob stories: everybody has one. There's a little piece of mine.
Dr. Laura called her an unfit mother, and said she would tell the son to NEVER take the grandchildren to see their grandmother. Even though (in the mother's words) he was "trying" and "better now."
I haven't seen Old Mama in . . . I don't know how many years now. Zero communication. This call reinforced the righteousness of my way. My children know Nice New Mama as "Grandma Familyname" instead of "Firstname." They could live their whole lives and never meet Old Mama, and I'd be just fine with that. It's not vindictiveness, truly. It's self-defense. Crazy New Daddy pulled a gun on Old Mama at the dinner table. He kicked a 3 year-old in the stomach for trying to go outside. I don't play with crocodiles, and I don't go around that set of crazy people.
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Sob stories: everybody has one. There's a little piece of mine.
The Finger Hinge: Further Dilution of the Gene Pool
It teaches a child a valuable lesson to shut his fingers in the doorjamb.
The Finger Hinge is one way to make your childrens' character build that-much slower.
Coming soon to a Federal mandate near you!
(oh, and it's also good for the wheelchair-bound)
The Finger Hinge is one way to make your childrens' character build that-much slower.
Coming soon to a Federal mandate near you!
(oh, and it's also good for the wheelchair-bound)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
THEY Are Going To Devalue The Dollar!
"They" of course being the inscrutable "Them" flying about in Black Helicopters, probably the JOOOOOOOooooooos.
The dollar is, ironically, at least if not more than as 'sound as the pound' and you people should read Mish and calm down already about a devalued Dollar. Sure the US is in bad shape. Everyone else is worse. When whatever is going to happen, happens, the US is likely to come out on top still, again, as usual, thank God.
Run-on sentences: I know, I know, but I don't feel good today.
The dollar is, ironically, at least if not more than as 'sound as the pound' and you people should read Mish and calm down already about a devalued Dollar. Sure the US is in bad shape. Everyone else is worse. When whatever is going to happen, happens, the US is likely to come out on top still, again, as usual, thank God.
Run-on sentences: I know, I know, but I don't feel good today.
Boo. Not Feeling Good.
#1 pulled the impressive trick of a 104ºF fever at the doctors' office yesterday, and we're on a wait-and-see holding pattern until some lab work results come in. We hope it's not the Mexican flu but we'll see. I might be getting a little vacation soon :(
Anyway, I slept last night maybe almost as much as I was awake, so going to work today was pretty low on the priority list (behind, at least, not passing out from exhaustion and dying in traffic).
Christians feel free to pray for us, and non-Christians, go become one and then pray.
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Update, later in the day: labs are in, negative influenza, normal everything else. Thank God.
Anyway, I slept last night maybe almost as much as I was awake, so going to work today was pretty low on the priority list (behind, at least, not passing out from exhaustion and dying in traffic).
Christians feel free to pray for us, and non-Christians, go become one and then pray.
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Update, later in the day: labs are in, negative influenza, normal everything else. Thank God.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Madness @ Work
~or~
Shall I Change My Ways? No!
Here@work.com we have an inventory system that works fairly well, when proper procedures are followed. Everything with a barcoded inventory number (SKU) gets shipped to the customer. Say you have a box with multiple items all in a lot together. The SKU goes on the box, and the whole box gets pulled and shipped. If the things inside are identical, individual lots, each of them should have a barcode on the item, or the box should have a sign with the SKU on it, prominently marked "Take n per sale" or some such.
We had a customer most unhappy to receive one of two items I listed for sale as one lot. The other of the two items was still on the shelf, in a box with the SKU on the outside of the box. It was brought to my attention that I might want to individually label these (small) things with 1-of-2 and 2-of-2 labels. To compensate for a failure by someone else to comply with established practices.
Then I heard about another, similar, foul-up on the same day. We had a big box full of 5" widgets and a big box full of 8" widgets, on the same shelf (and so with the same location in inventory). The paper in the widget-fetcher's hand said 8" widgets. The fetcher fetched 5" widgets. This would normally not be a problem because the fetcher was supposed to scan the barcode to deduct 1x from inventory, and it has to match the SKU on the paper in his hand. There is a manual override so he can enter the SKU of the pulled item manually. Which he did, in error.
You have a VERY CLEAR PROBLEM of somebody ELSE not doing it right, and then you want me to try to work around their crazy?
No. Train or fire them; don't break what works to accommodate someone who can't get it right.
(/rant)
Shall I Change My Ways? No!
Here@work.com we have an inventory system that works fairly well, when proper procedures are followed. Everything with a barcoded inventory number (SKU) gets shipped to the customer. Say you have a box with multiple items all in a lot together. The SKU goes on the box, and the whole box gets pulled and shipped. If the things inside are identical, individual lots, each of them should have a barcode on the item, or the box should have a sign with the SKU on it, prominently marked "Take n per sale" or some such.
We had a customer most unhappy to receive one of two items I listed for sale as one lot. The other of the two items was still on the shelf, in a box with the SKU on the outside of the box. It was brought to my attention that I might want to individually label these (small) things with 1-of-2 and 2-of-2 labels. To compensate for a failure by someone else to comply with established practices.
Then I heard about another, similar, foul-up on the same day. We had a big box full of 5" widgets and a big box full of 8" widgets, on the same shelf (and so with the same location in inventory). The paper in the widget-fetcher's hand said 8" widgets. The fetcher fetched 5" widgets. This would normally not be a problem because the fetcher was supposed to scan the barcode to deduct 1x from inventory, and it has to match the SKU on the paper in his hand. There is a manual override so he can enter the SKU of the pulled item manually. Which he did, in error.
You have a VERY CLEAR PROBLEM of somebody ELSE not doing it right, and then you want me to try to work around their crazy?
No. Train or fire them; don't break what works to accommodate someone who can't get it right.
(/rant)
Col. Cooper on Good Field Marksmen
Those who read his Commentaries will know that Jeff Cooper was not as much impressed by bench rest shooters as he was by field marksmen. Here is a compilation I snagged from a few of his Commentaries on the topic.
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"What then is a good field marksman? In my opinion, a man who can hit a tea cup at 100 meters with his first shot, from a field position, in a 5 second interval is a good shot."
" . . . any man who can place ten shots into a 4 inch circle at 300 yards from a field position is an outstanding shot."
"We are constantly reminded by our African friends of the value of quick position assumption. A good rifleman should be able to assume a looped sitting position, starting from standing erect and slung, in five seconds. This may be a little too demanding for the dilettante, but it pays off in the field. Almost every report we get from Africa reinforces this idea."
"As we have often stated, marksmanship could be improved if we could simply persuade shooters to get away from the bench rest. The bench rest is a useful device for identifying and isolating mechanical shortcomings, but it helps a marksman no more than a dynamometer helps a race driver. The sooner a marksman can get away from the bench rest, the better shot he will become."
"The field rifleman should be able to hold his piece out at arm's length, one-handed, for sixty seconds, without misery, and he should be able to get off a precisely aimed shot, from a field carry, in five seconds from a supported position - two and a half seconds from offhand. These are things to work on."
"On the subject of proper bolt work, we should point up the outstanding achievements of Shooting Master Marc Heim of Comano, Switzerland. Marc, as you know, once broke four out of five flying clay birds with his Steyr Scout. What you may not know is on that occasion he recovered from a miss by working the bolt instantaneously and catching the bird before it got away. Now that is good trick!"
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"What then is a good field marksman? In my opinion, a man who can hit a tea cup at 100 meters with his first shot, from a field position, in a 5 second interval is a good shot."
" . . . any man who can place ten shots into a 4 inch circle at 300 yards from a field position is an outstanding shot."
"We are constantly reminded by our African friends of the value of quick position assumption. A good rifleman should be able to assume a looped sitting position, starting from standing erect and slung, in five seconds. This may be a little too demanding for the dilettante, but it pays off in the field. Almost every report we get from Africa reinforces this idea."
"As we have often stated, marksmanship could be improved if we could simply persuade shooters to get away from the bench rest. The bench rest is a useful device for identifying and isolating mechanical shortcomings, but it helps a marksman no more than a dynamometer helps a race driver. The sooner a marksman can get away from the bench rest, the better shot he will become."
"The field rifleman should be able to hold his piece out at arm's length, one-handed, for sixty seconds, without misery, and he should be able to get off a precisely aimed shot, from a field carry, in five seconds from a supported position - two and a half seconds from offhand. These are things to work on."
"On the subject of proper bolt work, we should point up the outstanding achievements of Shooting Master Marc Heim of Comano, Switzerland. Marc, as you know, once broke four out of five flying clay birds with his Steyr Scout. What you may not know is on that occasion he recovered from a miss by working the bolt instantaneously and catching the bird before it got away. Now that is good trick!"
End-Run Around the First Amendment.
Chairman Obama has been hard at work with that freedom-loving nation Egypt to come up with a UN resolution on free speech. Great success, it was adopted!
Except that it is a very ill-concealed attempt to crush free speech, I'm all for it! I mean, who could possibly be against free speech?!
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Now is the time to develop your contacts.If When it comes down to a hard choice for the Oath Keepers, you will need to know already on whom you can depend. I still think this is gross incompetence. I don't think The Obama really wants an armed revolution in the U.S. of A., but I do think he may blunder into one by well-intentioned tyranny.
Except that it is a very ill-concealed attempt to crush free speech, I'm all for it! I mean, who could possibly be against free speech?!
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Now is the time to develop your contacts.
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