It can be overdone.

I’m agin it.

Can we all agree that being the architect or chief-builder for one of the greatest expressions of the Western soul and one of the monuments of western achievement, and then not even so much as signing your name on it, is the kind of bad a** that can only be expressed with expletives? That is all.

From Wikipedia: (more…)

67 years ago today.   (more…)

From Philip Cala-Lazar, K9PL, in the excellent K9YA Telegraph newsletter (.pdf; free subscription required), we get a wonderful report on the amateur radio aspects of this off-road romp across Asia in French half-tracks. 

No word yet on whether any chess was involved.

But not always the way you expect.

Lately I’ve found myself bumping into Miss Berthelina Snodgram-Upshur rather frequently. (more…)

To an exceptional physical specimen.   (more…)

For defending himself.

I have a friend who runs the local grocery and calls Walmart “the Evil Empire.” Maybe he’s right.

But my experience is that there is considerable variation in how well individual Walmart stores are managed. Maybe this is just an egregiously bad one.

On the recommendation of Mike Lief, I visited the web site The Art of Manliness.  I was particularly interested to note the article 45 Manly Hobbies. 

#1: Chess.  #2: Ham radio.  #12 Camping. 

This was particularly interesting to me because about a year ago I started the Society for the Establishment of Competitive Off-Road Radio Chess Camping.  (Join the Facebook group!)  In doing so I apparently created the manliest hobby in the history of man.  You’re welcome.

Some pertinent observations on the feminism pendulum swinging too far the other way. (more…)

… scatalogical metaphor? (more…)

The voice of experience, or senile dementia?  (more…)

Buzzing the Grand Canyon