Random Thoughts Thread

[landpoke]

You always have to try something more than twice.

Good point.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bugle-Boy-Ny...ht_1974wt_1161

I'm having them overnighted.

[RobinFinderson]

I think you're wrong about it being a cheap costume weapon. I didn't want to spend $5000+ on a traditional Japanese katana but still wanted something functional and dependable. I think it's better than you suspect. I have many good knives... and some that just cost too much.

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I've seen them and watched people chop things with them around ranges at lunchtime and that always provides entertainment... but I don't know.

I'm sure they would crack/cut your freakin' skull.

Good to hear, and I am happy to take your word for it. You aren't going to get a properly folded blade at that price point (the steel has been folded over and over again, perfectly aligning and compacting the metal grain, and introducing just enough carbon into the matrix to achieve an ideal mix of hardness (holds an edge) and malleability (resists breaking)).

BTW, as a sculpture student at BYU, I apprenticed under a master blacksmith who makes the most amazing knives. Neil Hadlock:





Very cool guy, and important regional artist. I never made any blades with him, but he taught me how to blacksmith, and most of my artwork incorporated forged pieces.

[Tim]

I think you're wrong about it being a cheap costume weapon. I didn't want to spend $5000+ on a traditional Japanese katana but still wanted something functional and dependable. I think it's better than you suspect. I have many good knives... and some that just cost too much.

What the fuh? You've gotta be kidding me... why on God's green earth do you need to own a sword that's functional and dependable? I can't imagine a single practical human use for an effing sword in the year 2012!

Oh... unless... wait... are you using it to protect your tin foil hat supply? Guarding the gates of the food storage with a non-mechanical weapon? Now it all makes sense...

[Uncle Ted]

What the fuh? You've gotta be kidding me... why on God's green earth do you need to own a sword that's functional and dependable? I can't imagine a single practical human use for an effing sword in the year 2012!

For slicing deli meats...


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[Devildog]

What the fuh? You've gotta be kidding me... why on God's green earth do you need to own a sword that's functional and dependable? I can't imagine a single practical human use for an effing sword in the year 2012!

Oh... unless... wait... are you using it to protect your tin foil hat supply? Guarding the gates of the food storage with a non-mechanical weapon? Now it all makes sense...

Ah yes, the highly prized tin foil hat collection.

I have heard that once or twice before. Especially after friends see the mechanical weapon collection... and those friends are usually gun nuts themselves.

You can't imagine a single practical use... imagine my poor wife, she probably could have found something else to spend a few hundred bucks on.

[Devildog]

BTW, as a sculpture student at BYU, I apprenticed under a master blacksmith who makes the most amazing knives. Neil Hadlock:

Very cool guy, and important regional artist. I never made any blades with him, but he taught me how to blacksmith, and most of my artwork incorporated forged pieces.

You are absolutely correct IMO in calling him an artist.
Well made Damascus steel is an art.

Very cool.

[Tim]

Ah yes, the highly prized tin foil hat collection.

I have heard that once or twice before. Especially after friends see the mechanical weapon collection... and those friends are usually gun nuts themselves.

You can't imagine a single practical use... imagine my poor wife, she probably could have found something else to spend a few hundred bucks on.

LOL! Great response.

[mUUser]

More of a random observation:

Most families with children look for homes based on quality and rigor of school (district). LDS seem to look for homes based on ward boundaries, especially as it relates to the YM/YW program.

[wuapinmon]

I could've written several headlines for this article that would've been Rated R.

http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlin...138423709.html

[Parrot Head]

LOVE this! No, ma'am, you are not better than the rest of us so move your tail to the back of the... jail cell.


Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies use Taser on woman blocking McDonald's drive-through
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/02/03/1155055

Deputies used a Taser on a woman who wouldn't surrender to them after she cut into a McDonald's drive-through line and then refused to move her car without being served, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

Evangeline Marrero Lucca, 37, of the 100 block of Snow Hill Church Road, pulled up to the window of the McDonald's on Legion Road, near Black and Decker Road, on Friday afternoon and held up the line for about 20 minutes before deputies arrived, said Debbie Tanna, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.

Staff at the restaurant reported that Lucca drove her Ford Taurus to the pickup window, bypassing the order screen and payment window, and tried to order her food there, she said.

"She did not want to wait in line," Tanna said. "They told her she had to go around and wait like everybody else did and place her order that way, that they weren't set up at that window to take her order or take her money. ... She wasn't having any of that."

[Uncle Ted]

I get worried when the former top lawyer for the NSA says OMG...

Key Internet operator VeriSign hit by hackers

[...]

"Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the National Security Agency. "That could allow people to imitate almost any company on the Net."

[Uncle Ted]

Social Media explained in terms that Donuthole can understand...

[wuapinmon]

[LA Ute]

[wuapinmon]

Weird, I know that elder on the left.