January 2009
4 posts
All's well that ends well.
I lost $175,000 in a taxicab tonight.
Alright, allow me to clarify. I didn’t actually lose that much money in cash. Rather, it was in the form of an RFP (known to you political outsiders as a Request for Proposal) package that I had worked on for two months, wherein I eloquently beg our friendly local government to pony up some cash to the tune of $175,000 on behalf of a local non-profit legal...
Fakeweiler's "My seven things."
As a favor to @Fakeweiler of Twitter fame (who, sadly, doesn’t have a blog of his own), I have agreed to post his response to the My Seven Things meme, after having been tagged by the irrepressible Queen @lindstifa. The Rules are as follows: link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post; share seven facts about yourself in the post; tag seven people at the end of your post by...
WTF.
I’ve gotten an overwhelmingly positive response to my blogging efforts, so for that I say Thank You. Here is where things are likely to get interesting, for this post is intended to address the surprising number of questions I’ve received regarding Fact Number 6 in the My seven things post. Some responses were what one would expect – just plain stupid. But the majority of the emails were more...
My seven things.
1. I know more about high caliber weaponry than any civilian has business knowing. In addition to coming from a family of avid sportsmen, I worked for the then editor-in-chief of Machine Gun News throughout high school and college. I’ve assembled, disassembled, cleaned, welded, and have fired almost every kind of automatic weapon that has made its way onto North American soil. So yes, I support...