Syracuse Gun Show - Sept. 13th, 2008

So, as you may or may not know, I am a card carrying member of the NRA. I like guns. A lot. Guns, however, are expensive. Being unemployed, this is somewhat of an issue.





However, as luck would have it, selling my Nintendo Wii and this seasons gun show at the New York State Fair Expo building coincided. So, I had about $300 to stretch over millions of dollars of possible purchases.

I decided to really stretch it and instead of buying a whole gun, I bought parts for two guns and some ammo for another.

$100 - Double Star AR-15 lower receiver. (Double Star - it was the cheapest stripped lower at the show, AND it has my last name in it. Cool.)

$45 - ATI Strike Force stock for my Ak-47 rifle. The stock is folding and adjustable, so it needs to be drilled and pinned to be neither before I can mount it, but it was cooler and cheaper than other AK stocks I have been looking at.

$54 - DPMS Panther Arms AR-15 Lower Receiver Parts Kit. The trigger, hammer, and parts for the stripped lower I bought. Once this is installed, I need a butt-stock and an upper receiver for my rifle, and I will have a full gun. I'm excited to be building it from parts rather than buying it complete. (And also, this will save me about a grand.)

$30 - 2 AR-15 polymer,30 round, pre-ban magazines. Some nice, light, high-capacity magazines for my future AR-15 rifle.

$18.75 - 1 British, pre-ban, 30 round magazine. This one is made from steel and is quite a bit heavier than the polymer mags. I bought it instead of another polymer because variety is good, and because with 2 different types I have a better chance of one type working well in the rifle.

$15 - 2 - 50 round boxes of Wolf 9mm Luger ammunition for my 9mm carbine. (My other project rifle that is almost complete, it just needs a barrel shroud.)

So, less than $275 spent, and I'm well on my way to completing some new guns. Yay! Today was a good day.

More pics from the Rockies

Rocky Mountain, "Hi!"

Define irony: Being in the Rocky Mountains and having no cell phone service, but yet I have Wi-Fi for my laptop.

I'm a dope, I forgot to bring my laptop charger, so I'm running out of juice. I'll update when I get home on Tuesday, but until then I leave you with my Rocky Mountain "Hi!".

The only way to power level

Yeah, my desk is a bit cluttered right now. Being unemployed makes you lazy, what else can I say?

So, for having 2 linked accounts, my guys get 3x the experience you normally get when grouped together. Add this to the fact that for every 2 levels the guy on my new account gains, he can assign a level to one of my alts who is lower than him, which means I will really be leveling 3 of my characters. Also, once my payments kick in, I get a cool mount.

You see, they announced all of this right as our World of Warcraft credit card started paying out free months of play, and right as Circuit City put the WoW Warchest on sale for half off. Hmmm, still only paying for once account, but reaping the benefits of 2? Sign me up!

Yes, I am a fanatic. Hey, I've got nothing else to do right now.

Warners Responds To "Potter" Complaints

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With Warner Bros. Pictures having delayed "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince" eight months from November 21st to July 17th 2009, it's understandable
that many 'Potter' fans are upset.

In fact they've been so vocal in expressing that resentment that Warner
Bros. President and Chief Operating Officer Alan Horn has released an official
response to all those complaints and here it is below:

"Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our
moving "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to Summer 2009.Please be assured
that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never do anything
to hurt any of the films. Over the past 10 years, we have nurtured and protected
each film, and the integrity of the books upon which they are based, to the best
of our ability.The decision to move "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was
not taken lightly, and was never intended to upset our Harry Potter fans. We
know you have built this series into what it is, and we thank you for your
ongoing enthusiasm and support.

If I may offer a silver lining: there would have been a two-year gap
between "Half-Blood Prince" and the much-anticipated first part of "Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows," which opens in November 2010.So although we have to
wait a little longer for "Half-Blood Prince," the wait from that film until
"Deathly Hallows" will be less than 18 months. I am sorry to have disappointed
you now, but if you hold on a little longer, I believe it will be worth the
wait.

Alan Horn
President, Chief Operating Officer
Warner Bros."

Dear Alan,

You can take your "silver lining" and shove it directly up your ass. Please do not stop until you find your head up there somewhere. Leave the silver lining, and remove your head.

Please, Warner delays a highly anticipated movie to make themselves more money and they ask for understanding? Fuck you, Warner Brothers.

Max Payne

Cool. I loved the game, and I like Mark Wahlberg, so hopefully this will turn out good. Or at the least it won't be complete flaming turd.

Stargate Atlantis: Canceled!

FUCK!

STORY

This is why I refuse to give one dime to the Sci-Fi channel by subscribing to cable. All they do is cancel all the shows I like and leave shit on TV. Fuck that. I will continue to buy my shows from Amazon's Unbox, and then purchase them on DVD.

I think in the future, all shows should be funded by prospective viewers anyway. Make a pilot, show it to the fans, let them decide. If you like it, you buy episodes. You stop liking it, their funding dries up. That way the fans have control of when it ends, not some retard TV channel executive that has no clue.