Deeper Into Another Cult: Happiness Is a Warm Springfield ’03 Bolt-Action Rifle

Pluses: Is actually from World War II. Vintage. Awakens ghosts. Has a bolt action! Spent shells sound cool as they fly onto the ground. Grants me libertarian Second Amendment cred. Endears me to rednecks. Is very loud. Teaches you what a “magazine cut-off switch” does. Holds up to five rounds. Cool Springfield Armory logo and

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My Jim Hall Kart Racin’ Monday!

Skipped work yesterday so I could go to Oxnard and learn how to kart race. Yesterday was my second (and final) day of class. It was cool. I won my heat after the guy who really won it got black-flagged on the last lap. I felt just like Fernando Alonso. Here’s a pic: I went

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Hiking at Mt. Rainier Is Better than Hiking in Orange County

There, I said it. Here’s the most picturesque scene from my last hike in the OC: Not pictured: me nearly dying from dehydration in the vertical assault to reach this cherished view. No joke — all the classic symptoms (nausea, exhaustion). And not even this new laptop’s display can make the steep gully view down

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Wildfires Are Prettier at Dusk

But photos of them are a little blurry (it was a 6-second exposure and I challenge anyone to get that doofy point-and-click to stay still on a flat surface for 6 seconds). This shot was taken from the parking lot in the condo complex where I live. On the drive home there were several folks

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Wind and Fire, Live from SoCal

Fire’s pretty cool, smoke not so much. One of the fire situations down here was (is?) going on in Irvine yesterday, within about a mile of the office where I work. They evacuated the prison across the street from us, but we didn’t evacuate, no sir. (Actually a lot of employees just left.) The air

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Deeper Into the Cult: A New Member of the Family

  Pluses: Probably the nicest looking display I’ve ever worked on. It’s not Windows. In fact, it doesn’t even come with MS Office Trial Edition pre-loaded. I don’t think there’s a piece of Microsoft on this thing. I get the free upgrade to OS X Leopard. I probably wouldn’t pay for it, but heck: free!

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I Left My Truck Window Open for Three Days While Parked at John Wayne Airport

And nothing happened. At the risk of stating the obvious, John Wayne Airport is a safer place to park than the campus of Michigan State University. bkd

The Bourne Ultra-Tedium

No, I didn’t really think it was *that* bad — I just like hyperbole in headlines. I liked the last half hour or so of the movie, once it was clear what The Problem was and the frame rate seemed to slow almost enough to see how Matt Damon was taking care of it. Still:

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Fiji and Solomon Islands Trip Photos

In case you really, really dig looking at other people’s vacation photos, here are mine: https://www.bkdunn.com/photos/Fiji-SI/Fiji-SI.html You could also go to flickr and look up “briandunn02” and check out the same set of pics there. bkd

Notes Regarding Fijian Taxi Drivers

The driver from Ba, who took me from Ba to Navala and back, was by far my favorite (see video). VIDEO (Quicktime, 600K):  Taxi from Navala Some notes and observations related to Fijian cab drivers: If you offer to buy them a Coke, they’ll take you up on it. As far as I could tell,

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