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New Percheron at the Indiana State Fair Pioneer Village this year. These were shot with a Nikon D4, using a Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G VR zoom lens . You can click to embiggenate to their full 16MP glory.
If ever there were a pistol with my name all over it, it'd be the Langdon Tactical Beretta 80X Cheetah. It's got a sweet DA/SA trigger, that cool bronze-colored coating on the frame, and it holds 12+1 of .32ACP, my favorite little semiauto chambering. You can even get holsters from PHLster, a Skeleton like the one in the photo or a fully set-up Enigma Express . .
Naval Estimates , a browser-based game of warship design in the Dreadnought Era. Looks like big nerdy fun! Tales of crossing the Russian border in the Current Era. Run by slavers, manned by captives, the internet scam compounds are moving deeper into Myanmar, adopting AI tools . .
Ruger P-85 Mark II (click to embiggen) It came with the Hogues . Not a fan. The original Ruger P-85 had a situation where the firing pin could break and the hammer-dropping safety could thereby cause an unintended discharge. The fix was adding a block that rotated into place between the hammer and firing pin as the safety lever was manipulated. It was retrofitted to existing pistols and new ones…
Me 163B at National Museum of the USAF It was fueled by "C-stoff", which was a combination of hydrazine hydrate and methanol, and "T-stoff", which was 85% pure hydrogen peroxide. If there was leftover fuel in the tanks on landing, it could explode. If the takeoff were aborted and the plane nosed in hard, the 275 gallon tank of hydrogen peroxide behind the cockpit could rupture, sloshing into the…
China's getting extra frisky with Taiwan and the Philippines, and meanwhile we're stripping our last carrier out of the Pacific to go plug holes in the Gulf. "Pivot to Asia" my ass. The deficit continues growing at a record pace , nearing $40 trillion. We live in a world of miracles and wonders . .
