Bristol, NASCAR and America

Went to the races at Bristol Motor Speedway this past weekend. It was my first time at Bristol and the night racing was an excellent change from the mid-day scorching heat that typically accompanies races at Texas Motor Speedway and Talladega in the spring and summer.
A few things struck me at the races on [...]

2,996

D.C. Roe is getting extremely close to having 2,996 bloggers sign up to each honor one victim of 9/11. I think this is quite a noble effort to honor each and every person’s life lost that day rather than continue to focus on the terrorists, as has been done ad-nauseam for 5 years now.
I [...]

Wallace and Ahmadinejad….Sittin In a Tree….

What a thoroughly disappointing fact to have to face: even when a worthless decrepit POS like Mike Wallace “retires” you still can’t get rid of him.
Please do not drink anything hot while reading the article. You may find yourself wanting to throw up in your own mouth as your eyes feast on a few [...]

Just War and Victory

For the past few weeks or so I’ve been grappling in my mind with the implications of Just War theory and the current Middle East fighting. Not only with respect to Israel’s current battle with Hambollah, but within the greater context of what appears to be a showdown coming between the West as a whole [...]

Custom FindControl Implementation (C#) — Part II

Part I of this topic dealt with overriding the basic FindControl method found native to objects inheriting from the System.Web.UI.Control object, which most people find severely lacking for uses other than simple pages/applications.
In this part, I will look at a simple extension from the recursive nature of the custom FindControl implementation that will allow us [...]

Custom FindControl Implementation (C#)

Anyone who has ever used the native FindControl method built into the System.Web.UI.Page or System.Web.UI.Control classes knows that it pretty much stinks. From my experience using it, the only controls that it can find by name are those that are direct children of the container being searched. This isn’t helpful for most real [...]

Poverty Remembered

This week marks two years since I last travelled to Piura, Peru. Having been there several time, and made close friends with many of the staff at Santisimo Sacramento parish, it makes me sad to remember the intense poverty that is rampant in that part of the world.
I am reminded once again when I see [...]

Joe’s Wedding

My good friend and colleague Joe A. got married a few weeks ago. My wife Aron and I attended and really had an amazing time.
Josh and Diana (who came down from Minnesota to attend — we miss you guys so much!!), Edwin, Mark & Rebecca and several others were there. It was a great time [...]

1891 Argentinian Mauser

I picked this gun up from a co-worker who was trying to dispose of some older things that he never really used. It’s not like I actually needed a old bolt action gun like this for any useful purpose (hunting persay), but now that I have it I have found that I wouldn’t actually [...]

Coach Gun — Baikal SxS

I picked this gun up at the world famous Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show last fall. AFAIK, this bi-annual show (April and October typically) is the largest gun show in North America. The Expo center building used in Tulsa is just over 11 acres inside, accomodating nearly 4,000 tables of almost anything you can [...]