MWCA Show in January

P-B article regarding turnout at the January MWCA gun show.  I forgot to post it here.

On Using Silk Road

An interesting guide; but perhaps you'd be wise to read it via Tor!

Melissa Harris-Perry

The Interwebz are afire with the fallout from an ill-advised MSNBC ad featuring one Melissa Harris-Perry.

We have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. "Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility." We haven't had a very collective notion of "These are our children." So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's, then we start making better investments.

Personally, I find the big-government ideology behind that drivel to be offensive.

Shooting Mask

One of the learned gentlemen noted that he's taken to using a mask when shooting at the SMSC indoor range due to the lead residue from the primers.  He indicated that a 3M 7500 with filter 2097 P100 is most suitable for minimizing lead absorption, the latter being the chief reason that I no longer attend the indoor sessions.  Supposedly the 8233 N100 filters also cover lead exposure, but the lack of a tight seal around the mask makes this a less desirable solution.

Epigrams

Apparently many famous epigrams that are used in everyday English derive from the writings of one John Heywood.  To wit (from Wikipedia):

• What you have, hold.
• Haste maketh waste. (1546)
• Out of sight out of mind. (1542)
• When the sun shineth, make hay. (1546)
• Look ere ye leap. (1546)
• Two heads are better than one. (1546)
• Love me, love my dog. (1546)
• Beggars should be no choosers. (1546)
• All is well that ends well. (1546)
• The fat is in the fire. (1546)
• I know on which side my bread is buttered. (1546)
• One good turn asketh another. (1546)
• A penny for your thought. (1546)
• Rome was not built in one day. (1546)
• Better late than never. (1546)
• An ill wind that bloweth no man to good. (1546)
• The more the merrier. (1546)
• You cannot see the wood for the trees. (1546)
• This hitteth the nail on the head. (1546)
• No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. (1546)
• Tread a woorme on the tayle and it must turne agayne. (1546)
• Many hands make light work. (1546)
• Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake? (1562)
• When he should get aught, each finger is a thumb. (1546)

Some are phrased in outdated English, but it's amazing how these epigrams endure some 470 years later.

Cast Iron

I've read many different ways to season cast iron pans, but this method using flaxseed oil sounds the most promising.

Turns out that highly acidic ingredients like vinegar or tomato sauce will strip the seasoning off pans.  The author of the article above also mentions that boiling water is a no-no, but then recommends boiling water to loosen baked-on gunk.

Other Silver Shops

Via a liberty-minded individual, I'm now aware of another couple shops selling silver: Amagi Metals and Agorist.

At Amagi, the Freedom Girl, Unite or Die, Ron Paul, and Minuteman rounds look neat.  The Silver Bullet "rounds" are cute, but I'd rather have cast projectiles that I can actually handload!  And what's up with the 1 gram coins?!  31.1 to the troy ounce....

There's also the HnH Coins store; someone gave me one of their copper rounds at an Appleseed last September.  HnH's prices on pre-'65 silver aren't bad, either.

VNC over SSH

Apparently it's possible to use local port forwarding with SSH to secure a VNC connection.  I can't imagine it'd be very fast, though....