August 2007
The Archives
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08.31.07Skill: Rope Use Seen on the 'Net (2)
The other day when we were trying to move a 600+ pound gun safe up a moving truck ramp, this little instruction on how to pull a van uphill with a rope would have come in handy. I’d seen it 2 weeks before, but I couldn’t remember the instructions clearly enough to actually replicate it. […]
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08.30.07Too Close to Home 12 to Midnight (1)
I’ve been 12 to Midnight’s president for either for more than two years. In that time we’ve put out several top-notch titles, taken on two complimentary imprints, and even put one of our e-books into print distribution. We’ve also seen a steady decline in the market, former customers who have forgotten about us, chronic missed […]
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08.29.07Beware the fury of the Legions Miscellaneous Comments Off on Beware the fury of the Legions
“If it should be otherwise, if we should leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware of the anger of the Legions!” – Marcus Flavinus The above quote is a favorite of author Jerry Pournelle, and I think wholly appropriate to today’s post. This post is not about the war in […]
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08.28.07Summer Fun Seen on the 'Net Comments Off on Summer Fun
This video of a home-made slip-n-slide looks like the kind of thing my friends and I would have done when we were in college. Heck, it looks like the kind of thing we might have done last week. We haven’t really matured lost our zest for life.
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08.27.07WWN, We’ll Miss You Seen on the 'Net (1)
What non-living-in-a-remote-mountain-fortress American hasn’t spent time enjoying the tabloid headlines as they wait in line at the grocery store checkout? From the latest celebrity gossip to “Men Reveal Top 10 Secrets for Keeping Them in Bed” (a tv remote and empty bladder are probably numbers 5 and 6), the tabloids have long catered to their […]
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