Touring the place
Aug13
To be fair, I originally drew her place exactly as Mick describes.
God, I’m tired. Long weekend. But hey, new front tire means the vibration in my steering went away! YAY!
I’ve watched this twice now, and it’s just awesome every time.
Skulls for the skull throne etc.
Eh… she could pull it off, but she strikes me as more of a Slaaneshi cultist type than a Khorne. She’s definitely not a Nurgle (too hostile) or a Tzeentch (too spontaneous) though. Maybe Malal? Eh. I’m probably overthinking it.
Heh. “Skull”. 🙂
Wonder what kind of bullet proof glass they used? Cause the stuff we had in Iraq stopped the 12.7mm the savages fired at us.
To be fair, the “glass” varies and gets upgraded as technology progresses. When I worked at a gun shop in the 80’s, we had a square of laminate about 1-1.5 inches thick that stopped handgun and shotgun slugs (specifically a sabot, which shocked us), but rifle rounds tended to burn right through. A few years later I was told that improvements had been made that the same strength was available at half the thickness, and the new laminate was in use in Bradley fighting vehicles. So by today, there probably is some military grade stuff available that will stop bigger stuff.
Also to be fair to Alex, it is her Dad’s place after all. I mean otherwise, the place might look like Mike Tristano’s house 😉
To be even fairer, “proof” in “bulletproof” means “tested.” “Bulletproof” indicates that something has been tested against a *specific* class of bullets and will resist them if used properly. By this reasoning, the hardback book *was* bulletproof as a class I or maybe even class IIA ballistic shield. (Class I is obsolete, because it’s only rated against 22LR revolvers and .38 ACP. Class IIA will stop 9mm and .45 ACP, which wasn’t tested, but the 22 LR rifle only went halfway through.)
Nothing’s going to proof against a sufficiently large bullet, so if you just get bigger and bigger bullets, you’ll bust the myth that anything is “bulletproof.” Even planet Earth, if your bullet’s big and fast enough.
This. (Half-inch Inconel out at the line, seventy-five yards, the Mosin punched a nice neat hole through it. No tags of metal hanging out, no ragged exit point, just a slightly conical round hole. Is best rifle!)
In defense of the playing cards, Bibles and Zippos in the “bulletproof?” video, it should be noted that the objects were all subject to bullet strikes head-on at short range, with no intervening clothing to deaden the blow. Were the objects to be placed inside a heavy wool coat (for example) and the bullets fired at longer distances and at oblique angles, the objects might have more of a tendency to deflect or stop a bullet. It should be noted, also, that many tales of “miracle saves” from Bibles and other objects are from the US Civil War era, in which big, slow-moving bullets were in use.
Big, slow moving soft lead bullets, inconsistent powder…. it’s probably best to get the myths out of the way. To be fair, the book DID stop the slower moving soft lead bullet
If there’s vibration in your steering, you clearly needed new alignment done….
Not at all. Alignment can cause pulling and odd handling characteristics, but not vibration. (Well, maybe if you had like 20° of toe and the tire was skidding sideways along the ground as you drove.) Vibration is most likely to be an out-of-balance or out-of-round tire or wheel, a warped brake rotor, or a badly worn suspension or steering component (strut, bushing, ball joint, etc).
Apparently in the early days “bulletproof glass” just meant “we used so much goddamn glass the bullet will have shed most of its kinetic energy by the time it gets through”. But those were the days before .50 caliber rifles were relatively commonplace.
If you had vibration from a tire with a broken belt, that would be correct. A tire shaking the wheel from uneven wear, or imbalance is a weak shock or strut with a possible worn tie rod end or ball joint. Don’t be surprised if it is shaking again in 5000 miles. A trial alignment is the best test. An electronic alignment system won’t align with worn suspension parts.
… unless you have cheap tires or it is a Jeep with the weak frame member and shake of death.
One notable and relevant cause you didn’t mention: a bent wheel. Where I live, in pothole country, that is VERY common. In this case, jlgrant noted that his rims were destroyed; if a bent wheel was causing the vibration, it makes sense that it would be solved when the wheel was replaced (or straightened). Of course, constant vibration caused by the wheel or tire can wear out other components long before their usual lifetimes, so checking out the rest of the suspension is still a sound suggestion.
Incidentally, I remember hearing once that the most common cause of steering wheel vibration is warped rotors caused by over-tightening lug nuts. Not sure if that’s true, but I figured it was worth pointing out here, even though it probably isn’t relevant to jlgrant’s situation.
Hollywood people that use proper trigger discipline. That is so awesome!
Yep. The Mythbusters are usually pretty good with trigger discipline and the four rules when they do firearm related myths. That segment is from waaay back in season 2, FYI. (they also generally have what I refer to as ‘adult supervision’, i.e., the local PD or other experts.
I must confess that if I had a Keurig floating around I’d blame it on someone else too.
Kitchen: Silvia MkI with PID, Mazzer Mini, beans < 1 week post-roast from the local roaster. Nice FC roast, not too dark (ewww).
Aeropress, Hario Skerton. Best sub-$70 coffee setup EVER.
Basement: Qty (3) Faema C87, Faema MPN, water softeners <– want to sell, may have to rebuild first
Qty (1) La Cimbali superauto, supposedly works – we'll see after I get 240 to the workbench
Qty (1) HX Grimac (should play with this)
Qty (1) Silvia MkIII (needs new boiler gasket, new group head gasket, and 120 minutes of TLC)
And then there's the gun safe…