rivercityvibe   “Puerile, smutty, schoolboy nonsense” – My Mom

One of the questions I get asked the most is “Why is your personal  security detail recruited almost entirely from the Slavic peoples? Russians, Ukrainians and whatnot?” Well, there are two reasons – the first is that Chechens abhor my opulent (some would say sybaritic) lifestyle…., so I have  yet to successfully recruit one of them (which I’d prefer), and second, this:

Worth watching. A slack handful of these guys, with a sprinkling of USMC Recon, British Paras and a single Canadian sniper and I could die of old age defending this hill.

At last, a worthwhile application for the ipod touch. As my buddies will tell you, I have been in the vanguard of the ipod revolution, owning every mark that has been produced, apart from the iphone and the ipod touch. I am some way away from the iphone (I generally use the power of thought to accomplish many of its functions), but I may well order a job-lot of iphone touches for the security guards at Bones HQ, now that this, is available:

I miss the ol' matte black days.......

There is WAY TOO MUCH information on this on something call The Firearms Blog, which says:

KAC contracted Runaway technologies to build an external ballistics calculator for the iPod Touch / iPhone named Bullet Flight. It is your standard ballistics application. You can set firearm / ammunition profiles, then call up the saved profile and enter your environment information, for example, distance, wind direction, elevation and temperature.

Handy. Here is another picture. Because who doesn’t like pictures of rifles?

Now with space-age writing......

When the eggheads work out how to strap a PS3 to oneof these bad boys, I am SO IN.

Is it possible that we have the opportunity to elect the perfect woman to within a heartbeat of leader of the free world?

"I presume this is loaded with one-in-three tracer?"

She can handle a weapon, for sure. (This is the line you were waiting for. Joe knows. Joe is happy to oblige….)