A Dixie Carpetbagger

“The Promise” by John Schneider… yeah, Bo Duke.

Robb has a post pointing to a song called “Don’t try to take my gun” by Joe Bear.  (Good country song, great message.)

Via a comment on another website, I found Lance Truscott Morrison– a Deputy Sheriff who does music.  Pretty good stuff.

After the last post, a spoon full of sugar.

The Portal 2 trailer.

Six organizations you didn’t know were Bad-ass.

The nine most bad-ass Bible verses.

And most importantly, The Benny Hillifier.

Darth Vader + Gunnery Sergeant Hartman =

The best line– “Disappear, scumbags!”  (chuckle)

(H/T ENDO)

Rush Limbaugh got married… and Elton John did the music.

Look, if Obama buys himself a white horse, I’m heading to the mountains.  And don’t even say anything to stop me.  “You even say, ‘huh’ and you’ll be talkin’ to yourself…cause I’ll be gone!”*

*I’ve been wanting to use that quote for a long time.

Short post today, still dealing with finals.  Had a sample final due last night (final final due next Sunday… after the semester ends… thank you, Mr. “I can’t figure out due dates*”), and more through this week.

1- Finally had a failure with my Mossberg 702.  With a Remington Golden bullet.  Curse you, Tam, for jinxing me!  This is the first RGB I’ve had fail.  Meanwhile, the high-end CBee has been nothing but trouble.  My Mossberg’s like me– it likes to eat simple, hardy and cheap.

2- MikeB’s at it again.  At this point, the only use MikeB and the rest of his little playgroup have is that every time they begin spewing their crap, gun bloggers show up to correct them… which leads to me finding new gun bloggers.  Thanks, Sparky!**

3-If you aren’t already, watch Justified.  I hope this one doesn’t get killed off…

* His name is Mr. (prophet we’re not supposed to draw) (honorific of Umar) (religion of peace).  No, I’m not making that up.

** I wonder why Sparky and the rest don’t ever mess with Tam?  Hmm…

There are things so horrible that they’re great.  For instance, F My Life, really bad jokes, and most movies made between 1980 and 1995.  Two examples:

Cobra (1986)

There are even fan sites.

Flight of the Intruder (1991)

My personal favorite “so bad it’s good” movie. Just because it stars one of my favorite aircraft.

It also inspired a level in a video game I seem to have missed, Tom Clancy’s HAWX. I think I’ll correct this oversight soon…

Having flown “Iron Hand” and “Wild Weasel” simulations, I gotta say… that looks fun.  Just remember: “Fighter pilots make movies.  Bomber pilots make history.”

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…

The official website and the forums.

Here’s the intro for the original:

(Please note: there was no “Deus Ex 2,” no matter what anyone says.  There was an abomination that called itself a sequel, but I refuse to admit its existence.)

The original was pure awesomeness in digital form.  From Gunter complaining about the Pepsi guy screwing him over to the main character trying (and failing) to look normal, it was an awesome game.  (I still use one of the lines quite a bit, due to my wearing sunglasses as often as I can.)  I took great pleasure in finding inventive ways of eliminating one of the more annoying enemies any way I could.  (Mistah Jay See Den-ton, in the fresh!)

{Scene – A large server room. Sirens and klaxons are going off while red lights flash and illuminate the terrified faces of the sys-admins}

For extra comedic effect, read “Johnson” as having Scotty’s voice… and imagine all the explosions from the final battle in Star Trek 6 thrown in for good measure.

Now that I’ve shown my geek cred, I have to highlight Robb’s.  His (first) AR is engraved with the slogan from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  Oh, and he wants this selector switch.  (Though I think a better option would be “Boring” – “Intriguing” – “Interesting,” myself.)

One good reason to keep old equipment around- PC games.  Because you’ll never know when you want to pop a 1999 compilation CD of the Best Games of the 1990s in a computer… until XP decides that you can’t do that.  Now I have to figure out how to get an 8 MB file onto a 1994 IBM 486 with no network card or CD drive.

Crap, I’m gonna have to learn Windows 3.11 again… if it’ll even boot.  All this for a little XCOM.