Summer Hair

Fri, 14 May 2004 05:32:37 GMT

stutefish and I got haircuts. You probably already know what the befores looked like; here are the afters:

Lori had hers cut first. Not drastic, but significant. It was the end of a 4 year run for her.

A few days later, I cut mine. Big difference; It had been about 1 year of mostly uncontrolled growth.

Rootin' Shootin'

Wed, 05 May 2004 19:20:17 GMT

Last night I went to the gun range with Lauren. It was my second time shooting, ever. I was excited to try something bigger than the .22's I shot the first time, so I rented a .45 with a laser sight.

Why is the caliber of the gun such a big deal? After I go to the range, I feel the urge to buy a gun, but I picture buying a .22 target pistol and applying a monastic intensity to learning how to shoot; controlling my breathing, timing my shots between heartbeats, i.e., meditative shooting. But when I was actually on the range I couldn't wait to try firing the big .45. BLAM! A few clips through that was about all I could take, and I switched to the 9mm.

In the context of meditative shooting (which I suppose could be done in a different way with big caliber guns, too), the laser sight seems like a bit of a cheat. But not in the way you might think, not because it makes it easier to hit a desired target. I thought the interesting thing about the laser sight was that it amplified the invisible tremors of my hands into a violently jittery bright red dot way off in the distance, on the target. I suppose it compresses the experience of sighting down the barrel, shooting a full clip, recalling the paper target and interpreting the pattern of holes as a map of the shooting technique that occurred a minute earlier into something more immediate and direct. A little like using a digital camera, where you have immediate feedback as to how good a shot is, compared to a film camera where you may have to wait days to see how your pictures turned out. It's probably something that's more helpful to beginners than to experts.

johndog

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:14:12 GMT

“John” as defined by Google's image search (because stutefish and velvetdahlia did it):

lemonodor

Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:06:28 GMT

Some unknown LiveJournal user even made it so my other geeky thing, lemonodor, is available here on LJ.

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:35:17 GMT

There's more there than here, but it's not exactly general interest.

Limeodor

Summer Hair

Rootin' Shootin'

johndog

lemonodor