It’s the usual drill of a car and TSA gropage and a jet and a car and a new location for a few days. Blogging should not be interrupted, but comment handling may be slow.
Be that as it may, first few Monday posts are already queued up and the first one is both technical and historical, answering “how accurate was a .50 Back In The Day™” and “why do they tell you to fire short bursts… what happens if you don’t?”
In which all the snakes are driven out of Ireland, and rather too much dhrinking takes place.
We have had a lot of good commenters, and sometimes one turns out to have his own blog, which is usually a little treasure of clever baubles.
Yesterday, “Aesop” launched a rant of remarkable clarity and vision into our (actually briefer and less well documented) latest rant on the Pentagon suit-and-brass-club’s brain-damaged push for women in infantry. This is a development that will work no good to women nor to the infantry. Despite that, it’s eagerly awaited by the mercifully small but large and loud bull-dyke subset of the set of extreme careerist Academy graduates (as if a small number of weaselly Academy men didn’t have any such requirement for rank-ascending weasels 100% covered, to the irritation of the actual mission-focused Academy folkss).
It was not the first such comment that he left us. We commented that he ought to blog himself, although we didn’t say what we were thinking, which was along the lines of “Dang. That’s a better post than the one we wrote.”
To which Aesop replied that he already is a blogger, over here at Raconteur Report. And so we went and looked. He did indeed extend his comment into a blog post so that many more people, we hope, will read his wise words. He also, though he doesn’t post on a schedule, has some very entertaining and characteristically well-written tales; he doesn’t abuse the term “raconteur” in the least. We particularly liked the previous post, a story of… well, let’s just say entrepreneurship in the shadow of mighty Hollywood. It brought a tear to our eye.
And then there were a couple of stories of wildlife encounters whilst serving in the Marines. Damn, the guy can tell a peacetime war story. We’re still grinnin’ — and still readin’. Raconteur Report. Highly recommended. Not too heavy on guns, but there’s attitude enough to cover ya.
The weekly wrap and Saturday Matinee will probably be back-posts put up on Sunday. We hope we’re wrong about that, but…
Daylight come an’ me wan’ go home.
Come, Mister Talleyman, tally me banana clips….
Yeah, we were just a bit punchy when we wrote this one. A bit.
For the third week running, the Saturday Matinee isn’t even posted yet — although its listing on this page tells you what it will be. (it’s posted now, and linked here). At least we did get this one up on time, and we’re rather pleased with our week as a whole.
As often happens, this may initially be posted without the links to the stories being live, but if that happens, they’ll be retrofitted as soon as possible. (They’re all live now).
This week’s output was the year’s record for word count, driven by long posts. There was a middling number of posts, 23, slightly up from last week’s 22. We pretty much stick to three posts a day if we can. We continue to get many comments, edging out last week’s count of 41 with 43 this week, by press time for this post. Best of all, the comments are high quality, and we learn a great deal from all y’all. Our word count was over 16,000 (which is like getting a third more WeaponsMan than last week). The average post was about 700 words, up from about 540 last week.
Pending
Here’s the recap of our posts for this week:
How we did on last week’s promises (hint: not good)
We promised (and we’ll line out the promises kept)
Eh. Not so good. Despite that, we did get you some good stuff, didn’t we? Enjoy and see you next week.
Geez, with that headline we should be announcing a full card of unlimited fuel drag racing or something. Instead, it’s just that Sunday is our day of rest (although we will post the Saturday Matinee and TW3 posts that we didn’t get to yesterday).
Meanwhile, maybe we’ll find some motor racing somewhere to watch.
We’re running just a wee bit late this week, so this post is posted late and backdated, and the Saturday Matinee isn’t even posted yet — although its listing on this page tells you what it will be. Sorry ’bout that.
As often happens, this may initially be posted without the links to the stories being live, and they’ll be retrofitted.
This week’s output was close to the median. There was a fairly normal number of posts, 22, slightly down from last week’s 24. A bright spot is the comments, with 41 comments, nearly doubling last week’s count, by press time for this post. Our word count was a near-median 12,000 (approximately). The average post was about 540 words, up from about 460 last week.
Pending
Here’s the recap of our posts for this week:
We promised (and we’ll line out the promises kept)
Going Forward
Yikes. With that dismal performance, we’re not even going to make a prediction for next week.
Who are we kidding? It will probably be leftover Pizza. But whatever you’re snacking on this Sunday morning, we wish you well and look forward to serving you with more gun news and opinion this week!
We feel good to be on a steady TW3 schedule. Here’s hoping we can continue to stick to it as work, etc. ramps up next week. Life is still a little constrained by the orders of doctors (no sense of adventure, that lot) and weather.
As often happens, this may initially be posted without the links to the stories being live, and they’ll be retrofitted.
This week’s output was a bit unusual. There were plenty of posts — 24, half again last week’s 16 — and received 23 comments, far more than last week, by press time for this post. In addition, we had a number of posts we worked on or even finished but didn’t squeeze in, for whatever reason. Our word count, though, was only slightly higher at about 12,500 words, up from 11,500 last week. That means our average was down to about 460 words from 718 last week.
Pending
The Week in Posts
Here’s the recap of our posts for this week:
We promised (and we’ll line out the promises kept)
Going Forward
