Eye-Candy

   Thursday - July 21, 2011

An Apple A Day

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   Sunday - July 17, 2011

Better Than A Dillon Catalog

Anyone who owns one of the Big Blue Machines knows what I’m talking about. Dillon Precision makes the best and the most expensive ammunition reloading presses on the market. Great tools, guaranteed forever for free no matter what, but pricey. And when you buy one you get sent their little catalog every month for the rest of your life. It’s called the Blue Press, and comes taped closed, and always features an amazingly gorgeous and curvy model on the cover fondling some firearm. It almost looks like porn, because it is. Gun porn I mean. Ok, you get a couple more pictures of the cover model inside, but that’s all. The rest is reloading gear and tactical rifle parts. And that’s all the sexy Dillon delivers, other than the 2 large format calendars they sell every year. Really large format. One for the half of the company that makes reloading machines, and another for the half of the company (Dillon Aerospace) that makes the mini-gun for the military. Both calendars feature plenty of jaw dropping good pictures, but no sleaze.

Gosh, what a surprise: guys find themselves attracted to lovely young women looking dangerous while not wearing much clothing. Who’da thunk it? The calendars sell like mad. Actually they sell out, fast, every year.

I saw a post at Vilmar’s. He didn’t mention it, but he had posted one of the pictures (stolen from Theo’s of course) from this year’s Hot Shots Calendar. To the best of my knowledge Hot Shots has no product for sale other than the calendars. They follow the same theme as Dillon Precision, girls with guns, but donate half the money they get to the UK Help For Heroes foundation, which helps out wounded and disabled vets. Good show.

Here’s another shot of Lucy Pinder from that calendar. Nice rifle. Great smile. This is by far the tamest picture in the whole thing.

The 2012 calendars will feature a less military, more girls from video games motif - cosplay with guns!! - and are available for pre-order now. Not cheap, but half the cash goes to a good charity. About $30 delivered to the USA, but only about £13 in the UK.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/17/2011 at 11:06 PM   
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   Wednesday - July 13, 2011

Service For Wednesday

Long before Terry Pratchett dreamed up the Nac Mac Feegle and had Paul Kidby paint them going into battle, the Highland Regiments served faithfully in the trenches of the First World War. Doggerel poet Robert W. Service was there, serving in the Ambulance Corps. Finding himself alive at the end of that conflict, he mixed humor and the horrors of war together to find out what it takes to really, really piss off a Scotsman. The result was The Haggis of Robert McPhee, a bit of verse soaked in the Feegle-ish phraseology of Robert Burns, in which our two heroes are sent out past the wire to gather information on the enemy. Severely wounded by a sapper’s mine, one blinded and one with his legs shot off, they work together to get back to their own lines, driven the whole time by the thought of the care package dinner awaiting them, with the promise of a drink of whisky. When another shell hits that meal just as it’s ready to serve, the whole regiment goes over the top in a mad act of revenge. It was of course January 25th when this happened.

Humor in uniform, ages before Reader’s Digest.



Speaking of things a wee bit Scottish ...

The Haggis of Private McPhee


“Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither’s postit tae me?
It fair maks me hamesick,” says Private McPhee.
“And whit did she send ye?” says Private McPhun,
As he cockit his rifle and bleezed at a Hun.
“A haggis! A HAGGIS!” says Private McPhee;
“The brawest big haggis I ever did see.
And think! it’s the morn when fond memory turns
Tae haggis and whuskey—the Birthday o’ Burns.
We maun find a dram; then we’ll ca’ in the rest
O’ the lads, and we’ll hae a Burns’ Nicht wi’ the best.”

The whole thing is here below the fold:

Posted by Drew458     on 07/13/2011 at 02:42 PM   
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   Wednesday - July 06, 2011

Why I Hate Fashion, Part XXIII

I hate fashion because the designers and make-up people and photographers take someone like this ( Russian model Vlada Roslyakova )

who actually looks like this without the fancy costume

And then they do things to her like this and have the gall to call it art.

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   Tuesday - July 05, 2011

Looks like Holly

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   Friday - July 01, 2011

One For Vilmar

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Blowin Bubbles

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   Thursday - June 30, 2011

Two of a kind

Two of a kind? Yup, and this is only half.

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   Tuesday - June 28, 2011

Nice

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   Tuesday - June 21, 2011

MISS CALIF IS NOW MISS AMERICA AND SHE’S A RED HEAD. HOME RUN!

I’m having some serious back problems again and promised myself I wasn’t gonna boot this machine today.  Not too bad if I stand up, and I can walk pretty much okay albeit with a bit of a limp. It’s worse though if after sitting for only a short while, I then stand. Damn. Stiff and need to hold on to something to get up.
Hobble to the bathroom and hobble back to a good easy chair. 

So anyway, something caught my eye in the morning paper.  What a surprise. The Telegraph sees fit to run a photo and story on Miss America, and happily Miss America also happens to be Miss California. Woo-hoo. AND …. she is a GLORIOUS REDHEAD! Double woo-hoo.  Yes ok. CA. Land of and all the other jokes and missives directed at my home state. And yeah, I’ve been guilty of tossing more then a few brick bats myself.
And look who was elected gov. in the last election.  So Calif. (parts of which can be so nice) brings on itself a lot derisive commentary. And usually funny commentary at that. 

Here’s the article that prompted today’s bit of peiper peak.

By Nick Allen, Los Angeles

Organisers had been criticised for including “polarising and intimidating” questions such as whether evolution should be taught in schools, and whether the American Constitution should protect burning of religious books.
Hopefuls were also asked if internet bullies should be prosecuted, and their opinion on posing naked for photographs.
Alyssa Campanella, 21, who described herself as a “huge history geek,” topped the field of 51 beauty queens at the contest in Las Vegas.
In 2009 Carrie Prejean, who was representing California that year, caused a highly-publicised controversy when she answered categorically that she was opposed to same-sex marriage.
This year’s questions were designed to be “news topical” but on the eve of the contest Keith Lewis, state pageant director for California, New York and New Hampshire, said: “The girls are scared to death. They witnessed with Carrie Prejean how a firestorm can create a road kill.”

My newest Goddess. Miss America.

ALYSSA CAMPANELLA

On a very personal note. I sympathize with these young ladies. Contest questions are so artificial and hypocritical. Does anyone doubt it’s actually all about looks? Why should there be anything wrong with that?  What? They want brain surgeons? Not saying these young women are dumb at all. But this pc world sometimes gets me down.  Which brings me to the personal part of things.

Years and years and years ago I won a major award in the industry I worked in.
If I were in the running these days, I would not stand a chance in hell of getting past the many pc idiot questions that are being asked of nominees. I had to submit an air check of my program which was listened to by people I never knew or met and to this day don’t know who my judges were. That’s it. Period.  I wasn’t asked about how much time I gave to my community or any of the other suck up questions that appeal to the left.  I was judged solely on the merit of what I did on air. Not how much time I gave to local charity or social groups etc.
So I sympathize with the ladies who in their quest for a beauty title, and you know damn well it is, they have to appear to be deep thinkers searching for the meaning of the universe.
Can’t anything be simple and easy anymore?  Why can’t they ask important questions that I might be interested in?

Like, What’s your favorite color?

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   Saturday - June 18, 2011

LIVERPOOL EYE CANDY

Just one photo and then only to show that Liverpool,England has produced more then just The Beatles.

What this country needs is more of this and far less of judges as in the following story.  I’ll drink to that. Cheers.

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   Thursday - June 09, 2011

Better Than Nothing

A hidden chamber deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza revealed a stunning secret last month: strange hieroglyphs written in red paint and sealed within the structure for 4,500 years.

And now one researcher may have unlocked that mystery.

“The markings are hieratic numerical signs. They read from right to left, meaning 100, 20, 1. The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits,” Luca Miatello, an independent researcher who specializes on ancient Egyptian mathematics, told Discovery News.

The markings, red ochre figures painted on the floor of the hidden “Queen’s Chamber” deep within the pyramid, corresponds to the length of the shaft leading to them, Miatello said.

But there’s nothing “simple” about this discovery, said Shaun Whitehead of the Djedi Project, the archaeology group that found the hidden chamber through a special, shaft-spelunking robot.

“If the figures are numbers and they are the precise measurement of the shaft, then it’s amazing,” he said. “It would be a huge, rare clue to what the architect was thinking. For example, why take the trouble to precisely measure and record the length if the shaft was only used for a mundane purpose or simply abandoned?”

The shaft, one of four leading deep within the pyramid, was first discovered in 1872.

Two weeks ago:

A robot explorer designed and built by University of Leeds engineers, in collaboration with Scoutek, UK and Dassault Systèmes, France, has revealed hieroglyphs beyond a narrow tunnel inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. The 4500-year-old markings, seen on video images gathered by the Djedi robot expedition, may give clues to how this part of the pyramid was built.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu is known to contain four narrow tunnels – two leading from the King’s Chamber and two from the Queen’s Chamber. However, scholars are unable to agree on what they were used for. This is partly due to problems researchers face getting into these narrow spaces.

This is the same tunnel - the tunnels were called air shafts when I was younger - that those guys ran those tiny tank tracked robots up a couple years ago. The north shaft (dotted line in the pyramid drawing above) There was a much ballyhooed documentary on it ... I think they found a stick. Seriously, there was a stick in the tunnel. Don’t recall if they retrieved it and got a carbon date, which would then prove how old the pyramid is. As I recall, the robots didn’t work right. Or the explorers - they were Swiss, weren’t they? - visas ran out, or they misbehaved. Can’t recall the details, but that mission ended and sometime later somebody made a different robot that went back up the air shaft. And found a block at the end of the shaft, that had two copper handles on it. End of adventure. About a year or so later another robot mission went up, and this time drilled a hole in the block. And found that there was an air space behind it. End of adventure. And then another robot (this is getting tiring isn’t it?) went up and stuck a flexible endoscopic camera in the hole, and looked around. And took some pictures.

And that brings us up to date. Here is a composite of those pictures. Note the line on the floor. The 3 splotches off to the right are hieroglyphs, and the deciphering of them is today’s bit of news.

Read from the lower right to the upper left, these are the symbols for 100, 20, and 1. So the shaft is 121 cubits long from it’s beginning to this line. Hey, more precision building from those ancient Egyptians. And now we have a physical example that lets’ us know exactly how long an Egyptian cubit is, but whether they used a regular one or an oversized “royal” one, I don’t know.

Yee haa!! Wait, that’s a bit of archaeology isn’t it? And it’s Thursday! That can mean only one thing: this must be an A&R Thursday post! Woo hoo!!

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   Monday - June 06, 2011

EYE CANDY

Real women make real eye candy ... curves and more of the same. Nice.

ROBYN LAWLEY

CANDICE HUFFINE

DONNA DERRICO ( borrowed from Vilmar for obvious reason)

TARA LYNN

NIKI REED

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   Saturday - June 04, 2011

By Request

From the old inbox ...

Gee Drew, how come you never post pictures of



Eden Petty




Thayla Ayala

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