Neanderpundit

I’m not a big fan of the Hostory channel, as they have gone south in any number of ways- but I do love AxMen.

Not for the reason the producers of the program want me to. They figured they’d film this and get the kind of following Orange County Choppers has, because of the interaction between the men, the language, the roughness of the men.

Mweh.

Real men ARE rough. They cuss at work. THey lose their cool, sometimes, blow off steam.

No, that’s all old hat to me. I’m neither impressed nor surprised, I worked among men like that for ages- still do.

What I enjoy abnout it is the work. Unlike OCC, this show is about real men, who do real work, to try to get the bills paid. They’re not primadonnas, they don’t have huge budgets, they have to work to get paid. A bad day is really bad. And anyone could get killed, in a heartbeat.

Real men doing real work. I respect them, and though the series will probably die, I’ve enjoyed the episodes I’ve seen.

How else would you account for the fact that Obama hasn’t ever strayed? And you KNOW he hasn’t, because Billary would have found it and dragged it out. or maybe she has, and she’s waiting to see if he gets the nod, and intends to sell that info to McCain for a player to be disclosed at a later date.

me, I’m inclined to belive that she allowed him to use his testes to procreate, she then took them and keeps them just in case she needs to squeeze them. Which is probably often. yep, this is the guy we need in the oval office.

Tam is talking about the democrat fucktards taxing the oil companies.

yes, I do wonder how people can be that stupid, but it doesn’t surprise me. I cannot imagine what kind of a disconnect from reality it requires to WANT to vote for Billary, or Obama, when it only takes a single functioning brain cell to realize the utter worthlessness of both of them, and their ideologies, but to think that taxing oil companies will somehow make things better for ANYONE is the single stupidest thing I have ever heard. And I’m sorry, if you buy into this bullshit, you are an utter fucktard, and should neither reproduce nor vote.

It just occurred to me. Last sunday, I met Tamara K for the first time.

There’s been something stuck in my head since then. Not a surface thought sort of a thing, just a little rippling undercurrent, letting me know there’s something very familiar there. What was it? the height? the hair? the hands? the hips? The walk? something about the body languaghe was familiar but very elusive. Then I figured it out.

She’s the Stig.

A couple years back I bought an old Minox on ebay, in perfect operating condition.

last week, I bought a tank for it. For those not familiar with the process, developing Minox film requires a special tank that unreels the film, and uses a couple tablespoons of chemicals.

So today, for the first time in twenty eight years, I wander off to find some D-76, the universal developer of black and white fine grain films.

Little did I know…

Used to be able to buy developing chemicals at the drugstore, there were so many hobbyists. Now, it’s all about speed and digital.

The guy at Gary Camera, which has been in business for some ages, hooked me up. And we spent an hour and change yapping about cameras, and the changing face of photography. The store is full- has hundreds, if not thousands- of film cameras. All worse than worthless, except to old school geeks.

I’ll never be inarested in doing the film the way I used to, but I will be using and printing my own Minox. And I’ll give the guy my business, exclusively, because that’s how people like him stay in business. He has an Ebay store, where they sell odds and ends, but man, what a beautiful bunch of old glass and chrome. There used to be a camera store that sold almost everything, around every corner. Now, you’re lucky to find one. If you have one, support it.

of capsicum, blood, and other crap (from the local tractor supply store) just got sprayed on anything the bunnies might find appetizing. Hopeit’s enough. Plan to squirt some more tomorrow. Plus I peed all over the terrace where the garden is. Don’t know if it’ll help. neighbors seemed to get a charge out of it.

faster than the hawk can eat them. So I’m gonna put down some fox urine and see if that chases them off.

Match your speed with the traffic with which you are merging, as you travel down the onramp.

Find a spot to merge into

Accelerate or decelerate to get in that spot

Using your turn signal to indicate your intention to merge, smoothly drift into moving traffic, again, keeping your spped matched with the speed of traffic.

Thatisall.

Shit, shit shit shit shit.

My gunsmith, and the guy from whom I learned more about guns than from any human, has finally retired. He’s sold his business.

I have one of his rifles- this one.

it is my pride and joy.

Harry is still doing gunsmithing, but on a smaller scale. And he’s no longer making barrels at all. I intend to visit him as soon as I can, now I’ve found this out.

Look, I imagine Harry would never have sold his business to anyone unless they were going to continue to make fine barrels- but the day of being able to buy a one of a kind rifle, lovingly created, rifled, chambered, fitted to the action, blued, and pillar bedded to an action, one rifle at a time, by one of the world’s old time fine gunsmiths- those days are gone. Forever. And they will never, ever return.

Damn.

Oh, for another McGowen rifle look here:

Son of a bitch.

I went out yesterday and voted.

In indiana, you have to declare your party to vote in the primary- but apparently you can re-declare each time.

So I went and voted in the primary, and then I went home, and scrubbed myself down with a bar of Lava soap, until my skin glowed. I haven’t felt that dirty in ages.

But I voted. Did you?