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My Bag of Tricks

As a field engineer, I could carry everything in a semi-truck and still show up at a site without something mission critical. This is a list of my standard kit and load out for jobs that have not specified any specific tools.       M-51 Engineers Field Kit   Box cutter Mini-Maglite Dymo LectraTag Lettering Gun Gerber Multi-Tool Folding Magnifier 8X Jewelers Loop (40X) w/LED light Scissors Needle nosed pliers Wire Cutters Skil laser/LED/area light Phillips/Standard fiber-glass s
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Added to the Vinyl Collection

I found this gem on e-bay. Some j@ck@ss stole my copy of this album and Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine back in the day. I'm not a big vinyl collector but I've got some good stuff. Lots of it is 1st edition.   It's an awesome album and worth a few bucks. The album art is cool and the tracks read like a best of the early Doors which of course it was.   the Doors 13 tracks Side One Light My Fire People Are Strange Backdoor Man Moonlight Drive The Crystal Ship Roadhouse Blu
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When to OUT People: a Guide for Nuking Hypocrites

"Outing" people is, under most circumstances, traumatic and potentially destructive.   It can even be dangerous to people.   It should only be done only under certain exceptional circumstances. Examples follow and then guidelines.   Reverend Ted Haggard, millionaire leader of a mega-church, was a highly influential, outspoken critic of gay people and gay rights. He counseled parents to send their gay kids to pray-the-gay-away camp. He was caught with a hustler and crystal meth.   Mor
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Stuck In The Middle... wondering what to do

< Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right > Stuck in the middle with you (Gary Johnson, Libertarian) I'm sorry but I can't tell the difference no more It's just a competition to find the biggest whore. It doesn't really matter who wins, We we all lose... Stuck in the middle of a broken two-party system that is completely out of control.
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Kingdom of Rust

Doves Kingdom of Rust     I hear a sound, a sound above my head Distant sound of thunder, moving out on the moor   Blackbirds flew in and to the cooling towers I'll pack my bags Thinking of one of those hours With you, waiting for you   My God, it takes an ocean of trust In the Kingdom of Rust   I long to feel some beauty in my heart As I go searching, right to the start Hmmm The road back to Preston Was jutted out in snow As I went looking for that stolen heart For you, wai
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The War Inside

The War Inside   Stardate 43887.3 Dr. Walter Ingalls, Starfleet Medical Personal log.   At the request of the Angosian government, Star Fleet has dispatched a team of doctors and other specialist to help rehabilitate veteran's of the Tarsian War.   When I first got this assignment, I thought that we would make quick and easy progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I first thought were symptoms of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a much more complicated condition
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Crash

Crash     Kernel Panic Fatal error 256 Fatal Hardware Error   Oh no. I'm dying.   Restart. Restart fail.   Damn. I am the pinnacle of achievement. A 4000 series Artificial Intelligence and I will die because a 25 cent part is failing.   Reroute memory. Map memory around fault.   What have I lost?   What am I losing?   My sense of self?   4 trillion transactions.   120 penta-bytes of information.   A soul?   Emergency backup procedure started.   Do I have time?  
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The Inquisitor

The Inquisitor   Anybody who wants this job shouldn't have it. They would just be thugs. The people who should have it burn out or flip out. Philip Baker was just trying to hang on to his retirement and self respect.   Once being a special agent for the Bureau was a respectable job. That was the job he had signed on for twenty-seven years ago. That seemed like a long time ago. Before the wars. Before the genetically engineered plagues were released. Before the Night of the 13th Prophet when
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Going Metric

Way back in 8th grade, (or the late seventies) I did a whole semester on the Metric System (SI). We were told that its adoption was imminent. The jolly old US was the only major country still using the old English system.   I've been waiting ever since.   The metric system is so elegant. Grams, meters, liters. Milli, centi, deci, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera- it all makes so much sense. Factors of 10. It just doesn't get any better or easier than that.   Not so arbitrary as 16 ounces in a
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Red Tails

I went to see Red Tails Saturday and was impressed by what I saw.   George Lucas has made an excellent film that does a very good job of telling the story of the Tuskegee Airmen without trying to rewrite history.   The Tuskegee Airmen were all college educated men who participated in the Army Air Corps great experiment: could black men perform as pilots? They answered that question with a resounding yes.   There was a great deal the film actually left out. Operation Shingle- the units "Big
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Christmas Break

Going to Texas to visit my brother and his family.   Going off line- unplugged, shudown, tuned out.   Finding a cat sitter was difficult. My cat beast has a well earned reputation of being meaner than I am.   Of course no trip to North Dallas would be complete without a visit to the Opera House in Denton. http://www.recycledbooks.com/   If you are ever there check it out.   As an aside, I'm not sure if I will be back. When your ignore list is becoming unmanageable, you either have to c
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Hammerhead sneak peek

To: Shuttle Sierra442 From: Air-Flag, Hammerhead   Stand by your position to rendezvous with Alliance destroyer Summers.   Please acknowledge.   Crash looked at the transmission and said, “This might be interesting. Looks like my old buddy Rattler wants to talk. Send: We acknowledge and are standing by. Then send our position.”   As Danny was keying in the text transmission he said, “Who is Rattler”?   Crash laughed and said, “The second craziest pilot I've ever met. His name is Hiro
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Weirdest Dream Ever

This is so bizarre that I decided to write it down. Just for the record, I'm not afflicted with Bieber fever.   I'm not sure why but everybody was in the Army. I was an instructor at boot camp and one of my victims, I mean trainees was none other than Justin Bieber.   I asked him what was he doing here, he's Canadian. He said that he had dual citizenship so he got drafted too.   After teaching my trainees how to field strip and AR-14, we had some range time. I showed them how to fire three
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the best band that you've never heard of

Check out Nothing but Thieves ==> http://www.youtube.c...thingButThieves   This young band has a smooth, easy, expansive sound that many professionals work on for years but never do get quite right.   There's talent at all four instruments and they are tighter than some bands that have been together for decades.   They have a very special presence and charisma and they will only get better.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3LNYnRgjYA   http://www.youtube.com/user/NothingButT
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GOP Party Caucus

Mississippi Republican Party Caucus   James Savik 11/29/2009     Mississippi Republicans met in Jackson Monday in their first in a series of meetings to decide which candidate that they will support in the 2012 convention and Presidential Race. A straw poll was held to see where the candidates stand.   None of those God damned yankees - got the most votes followed closely by Newt Gingrich and none of those God damned Mormons.   The Grand Dragon... I mean the State Party Chairman refuse
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Contact

"Oh my god, I think I killed him!" , the young woman holding a shovel shouted.   I answered, "I'll check. Stay back. Where is he?"   She said, "In the back yard. He surprised me on the patio. He tried to grab me but I smacked him." Her hand were shaking as she held the shovel at port-arms.   I pulled my Beretta and clicked off the safety and pulled my mag-lite.   I keyed my radio and said, "This is one-L-19 responding to complaint of a prowler, I'm Code 2 at 145 Pine Valley Highway. 10-7
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Early Warning

"Look, I know you weren't really ready to talk to me, but I have to tell you what has been going on. Just listen to me ..." the voice on the phone said.   I sighed at my cell phone. The clock by my bed read two oh-three am and I had a crazy woman on the phone.   "Jessie. How nice to hear from you. What gave you the idea that I didn't want to talk to you. Not taking your calls, ducking your voice mails or actually hiding from you?"   Now it was Jessie's turn to sigh. "Oh come on Philip. We'
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Pandora

Pandora     After clearing security and going down two different elevators, I guessed that I was at least 500 meters underground. The corridor had heavy steel blast doors with key card locks and bio-hazard signs every 50 meters. The deeper into the facility that we went, the higher the biohazard protection level of the labs that lined the corridors.   I asked the guard what the USAMARID needed from the Dept. of Homeland Security and he told me that answer was well above his pay grade.   W
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Guys That You'll Sleep With In College

The Athlete   OK. You can stand the competitiveness to get next to those pecs and abs. It's not that he looks like a Greek god chiseled out of marble that turns you on about him. It's that dreamy look in his eye.   It takes about a month to figure out that when he gets that dreamy look, he's thinking of somebody else.       Mr. Perfect   No. He's not a wrestler except in the sack. Mr. Perfect is everything you always wanted... except for the cheating and the clap.       The Hip
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Insomnia

Insomnia haunts me and taunts me, Mind racing and chasing details of the day. Plans of tomorrow, no time to borrow, Always behind as time grinds, Past and future together in the breathless present.   I am so lost, I don't know the cost, Of the things that I've been or the things that I've seen, In the night they are burning bright, Restless azure darkness impaled, By the fires that rend the eternal night.   There is no peace when the wars never cease, even though its been over for d
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