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Interesting day today. I went to a tactical weapons training class in Azusa. Learned rapid reload, emergency reload, room clearing, quick draw, multiple assailants, and more. Spent from 930 am to 3pm shooting live 9mm ammo and going through different setups. Quite fun.

My driver an hour out there and back was Sandy Hill, a well-known mountaineer who has famously summitted the tallest peaks on all 7 continents… and infamously brought a french press on the 1996 everest climb where there were multiple fatalities (though none in her expedition).… read more “Tactical Weapons Training and Sandy Hill”

Must be wasted.

I highly recommend this excellent film. See it in the theater and go alone. Trust me.

Took my employees to the Lakers vs Clippers game on Wednesday for their Christmas present. Hiren was very happy the Lakers won. Blake Griffin threw down some monster dunks.

Austin is nice.  Good Barbecue and nice people. Home to University of Texas, a great school with cutting edge buildings.

I just don’t really get the whole Texas pride thing yet. Everywhere I go I see Texas this and Texas that. Even the cars license plates have Texas written on them in a font almost larger than the number itself.… read more “All Texas’d Out”

Public officials should not be allowed to campaign for a new job while still holding their current job, especially since they do so while still being paid by us.

Public officials should also not be allowed to set their own salaries, retirement pensions or benefit packages. As a matter of fact, they should receive no benefits other than a salary pegged at the median Americans salary.… read more “Public Officials Restrictions”

Also check out Wikipedia:

Ray Kurzweil has some very interesting ideas, especially around the exponential increases in technology. He has an idea he calls the singularity- its the point in time in which computers begin to create innovations of their own and our technology advances even faster than it ever has before.  Read a full description of the idea here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

 

I just watched a great movie on the Christmas Truce of 1914 when young men from both sides sent to fight and die in World War 1 spontaneously rebelled against their commanders in order to celebrate the holidays together. Bitter old men in powerful positions unfortunately cause far too much conflict in the world. Read more here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce