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On the early morning of 2nd September 2012 Ervin McKinness proved that you do indeed only live once after being killed in a fiery car crash just minutes after drunkenly tweeting ‘YOLO’. McKinness, an aspiring young rapper from Southern...
Hello friends! I’m feeling rushed tonight, and I don’t have a quote, but I do have some early June photos I finally got processed to share. So without further introduction, here we go:I still haven’t made it out the door before the sun...
Alabama-based Kimber went double-stack 1911 in 2024 after at least a 30-year run in the field of making single-stacks. We have reviewed a couple of these excellent pistols since then and are past the 3K round mark on our original test...
Today was an exciting day for a neutral like myself. To see Paraguay defeat Germany to go through to the round of 16 was unimaginable. Then comes Netherlands being toppled by Morocco and 2 European (and world) powerhouses are out, just...
The 67-page Summer 2026 edition (Volume CXXXVIII, No II) of Armor Magazine: The Mounted Maneuver Journal, is online for free download. TOC: Link here. Enjoy!
There are many things I was wrong about, early in my career. When I posted just recently about my discomfort with “done is better than perfect” advice, it reminded me of one of those things. For at least the first half of my career, I...
Some 50 years ago today. A full half-century, “an old ship with a young crew” calls at a lost colony, “all’s forgiven.” The pride of the Royal Navy, the Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) entering Port Everglades in...
Some people take this idea further, with 36 key keyboards that eschew the outer most column of keys to reduce the burden on the pinkies. There are tricks to get more utility out of the most accessable keys, like using home row modifiers....
There was this one book with the names of two, er, unusual men printed on the cover. It had been created in the Kingdom of – no need to get into details. What was the book about? The story went something like this: After I finished...
Yesterday, I modified r730-01 by Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 – as a consequence, my log collecting jail was offline. Did it miss any logs? Let’s find out. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 (sending logs from FreshPorts...
Preface: In climbing lingo, sending a project means completing a route you were working on as a project. On the stone, on the rock One the boulder, I sit in shock. The project I dreamed about all while, I sent it with a smile. Last...
Humid and cool. The ruby throat of a hummingbird shimmers in front of a hanging bandanna’s much blander red. From the other side of the house, the rising buzz of a cerulean warbler.
I love continuing to spotlight Washington state photographers who made a living capturing the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. One such photographer is award winning Michael W. Siegrist, Sr. who created Outdoor Photo in 1981 after being...
Coastal redwoods are the tallest tree species on earth. They exist only within a mile of the California coast, sustained by fog — drawing water directly from the air to feed themselves. But the most intriguing thing about these majestic...
It’s a Saturday morning, and we’re in a taxi on the way to the airport. My clothes cling to my body and already reek of sweat, and that’s even before our 12-hour flight has started. Earlier today, the alarm went off at 5:30, and I threw...