tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53829722011-04-21T16:20:05.723-04:00Sado-MikeyismIrregular rants on what is, what was, and what will be, period.Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-1152562100189233222006-07-10T14:50:00.000-04:002006-07-10T16:08:20.243-04:00Nihilistic Neo-Luddite MoonbatteryIn this weeks The Space Review, Michael Huang covers a recent story in The Economist on a group calling itself the VHEM: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This is apparently a group of such extreme nihilist neoluddite econutcakes that they are advocating the extinction of the human race.... by not having children.Now, far be it from me to object to barking Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-1116816696840570262005-05-22T22:47:00.000-04:002005-05-22T22:51:36.846-04:00Splitting LivesAfter trying out other blog services, one of which crapped out, the other remains a bit ghettoized by restrictions on provider non-members commenting, I am back here at blogspot, however, I have two blogs now. This one, which I will continue to comment on miscellaneous things with my life and other stuff, and my political blog, The International Libertarian which currently ranks Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-1084288449965918602004-05-11T11:13:00.000-04:002004-05-11T11:14:09.966-04:00Zblogger has crapped out, so I'm currently on xanga.com under the title "Sadomikeyism", though with the 'new' blogger, maybe I'll come back here. It seems to have pulled its head out of its ass.Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-951396392003-05-31T23:22:00.000-04:002003-05-31T23:22:44.090-04:00Okay, I have officially migrated my blog to zblogger. Link:
http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com
As of this date all new entries will be there.
Why did I do this?
Blogspot's servers are slow, frequently timing out to browsers. They've broken my blog several times, and template updates don't take sometimes for a day or so. And the ads. zBlogger is free, no ads, faster servers, no loading problems, fastMike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-949636262003-05-27T20:12:00.000-04:002003-05-27T20:12:16.823-04:00Okay, everything is functioning, though the servers are serving up template changes EXTREMELY slowly.
In any event, I'd like to see some discussion of Matrix:Reloaded. One of the interesting things about this episode is that we are meeting some of the non-human personalities of the Matrix beyond just Agent Smith. We find out that the Oracle isn't human. Nor is the Architect, who claims to have Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-949609442003-05-27T18:51:00.000-04:002003-05-27T18:51:49.456-04:00I'm experimenting with reader comments, provided by BlogExtra and their backBlog service. Lets see if this template modification goes through...Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-949603872003-05-27T18:36:00.000-04:002003-05-27T18:36:22.506-04:00Well, I think the repairs are all made, but I'm still peeved at Blogger. I am looking at migrating to zBlogger, since the Blogger servers are very bogged down, especially to free customers like myself, and response sucks.Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-949456592003-05-27T12:19:00.000-04:002003-05-27T13:27:43.000-04:00I am rather peeved at blogger at the moment. This blog has been seriously broke for the past day and it's been a royal pain in the ass to fix things, and PyraLabs has been about useless. Lessee if this post updates anything...
Nope, for some reason it is not updating to my new template on the public display, though the new template is all that it displays in the editing area.Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-948848832003-05-26T01:15:00.000-04:002003-05-26T01:15:25.743-04:00I went and saw The Matrix: Reloaded this evening with my sister Chrissy, a IT executive living in Connecticutt who was visiting home for the weekend (and to pick up her Saturn, which I had done some work on). Chrissy has never been exposed to transhumanist or extropic philosophy more than knowing that I'm associated with it and basic concepts about Moore's Law, so she was lacking in a lot of the Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-948167212003-05-24T01:09:00.000-04:002003-05-24T01:09:02.253-04:00Another project I'm involved in is the Transtopia project: a project to develop a new sovereign micronation on the high seas. We're now having the First Annual Transtopian Libertarian Design Contest, for people to submit plans for floating, anchored, or grounded artificial habitats to be based on the high seas. Goal is for platforms with 1/2 acre of deck space for less than $500k. Innovative Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-947070012003-05-21T18:25:00.000-04:002003-05-21T18:25:25.403-04:00Well I finally found the other half of my keys. Sunday I took my sisters car to the garage to get some new tires for her and split up my keys for the garage monkey. I thought I had the other set in my pocket when I left, but apparently not. Two days later and I was searching all over for them, completely oblivious to where I'd left them, till I thought of it this afternoon. I had been certain Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-946459062003-05-20T14:56:00.000-04:002003-05-20T14:56:13.833-04:00I have come to a very interesting conclusion about CAD systems: nothing out there does CAD as well as Corel Draw. I have used AutoCAD, VariCAD, TurboCAD, BasiCAD, among others, and they have all lacked significantly in the usability department. Many sport excellent features on the complex end, but tend to lack very simple functions that users need regularly. In trying to develop technical Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-946456892003-05-20T14:50:00.000-04:002003-05-20T14:50:35.453-04:00Well, it appears that CNN has done an about face. Last night, they broadcast a THIRD piece on assault weapons, this time the piece was entirely well balanced. Possibly the first time CNN has done a balanced piece on firearms ever. Apparently the overwhelming reaction to their first piece was so negative, and supportive of Wayne LaPierre's interview the next night, that they were forced into Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-945924532003-05-19T14:36:00.000-04:002003-05-19T14:36:45.910-04:00I have been involved in the Free State Project for a while now. The goal of the FSP is to move 20,000 liberty oriented individuals to one state in order to alter its electoral makeup and changes its laws toward more libertarian concepts. New Hampshire is one of the top candidate states, with its low population and pre-existing pro-freedom prevailing attitudes. Next month, the LPNH and the New Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-945543872003-05-18T20:06:00.000-04:002003-05-18T20:06:19.213-04:00I finally found a transcript of the Wayne LaPierre interview from Friday night. Rather than breaking segments of a large program up into multiple transcripts as they usually do, they bulked the whole program into one transcript, then didn't mention the LaPierre segment in the contents list at the top of the page. It was from the "Wolf Blitzer Presents" show, hosted that evening by Kyra Phillips. Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-945181292003-05-17T21:28:00.000-04:002003-05-17T21:28:37.270-04:00Was just in a gun control discussion with a person on another person's blog. They said "You seem to be putting words in my mouth. The fact that I think that having guns in my house is more likely harmful than helpful != gun control activist."
I replied, among other things:"Its like claiming that just because you don't own a car that you are less likely to be run over by one, AND that airbags or Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-945170322003-05-17T20:47:00.000-04:002003-05-17T20:47:26.970-04:00Last night I saw one of the best moments in television history, when NRA VP Wayne LaPierre read out CNN ON CNN for their fraudulent piece of the previous day on so called 'assault weapons'. The piece in question tried to claim that assault weapons are somehow more dangerous than other legal rifles that shoot the same caliber, and implied that they are somehow 'machine guns'. Wayne ripped them a Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-944840012003-05-16T23:55:00.000-04:002003-05-16T23:55:01.680-04:00Well, I invented a new tool today, a new sort of wrench for checking slack adjuster throw lengths for air brake systems on buses and trucks. I'll have to call my patent attorney on monday to get the paperwork started on it, cause this one is very useful and cheaper to produce than other tools that are not as good at doing the same thing.
For the unaware, I went unemployed from the software Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-944297122003-05-16T00:07:00.000-04:002003-05-16T00:07:27.156-04:00I was reading Amanda Phillips' LiveJournal this eve. Her latest post got me reminiscing about a rather nasty bunch of memories from childhood, about friends who died as a result of oppressive laws against teaching your kids to shoot. Those interested can check it out here. Amanda's post is pretty good too. As you can tell she and I agree about a lot of things.
Since we are on the subject of gunMike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942978502003-05-13T20:44:00.000-04:002003-05-13T20:44:54.470-04:00I'm back from visiting my mother in the hospital, where she has been since late January due to a screwed up stomach stapling operation (I highly recommend AGAINST these operations, especially in light of recent developments in non-drug appetite reducing devices). She had her trach removed yesterday, and is now off oxygen, and is scheduled to be moved to a physical rehab facility across the state Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942874882003-05-13T17:05:00.000-04:002003-05-13T17:08:05.000-04:00Some alleged libertarians have accused me of being a "confused republican", closet statist, etc. To help dissuade such accusations, I took a little political quiz, and here is the result:
Libertarian - You believe that the main use forgovernment is for some people to lord it overothers at their expense. You maintain that thegovernment should be as small as possible, andthat civil liberties, "Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942814372003-05-13T15:10:00.000-04:002003-05-13T15:10:08.813-04:00For those who like to keep track of the gun industry goings on:
Some of you know that my father works for Sturm, Ruger, & Co as an engineer. Chuck Kueker even got a tour of the plant when he swung through town last year to visit. Well, it appears they just canned their President, who has been on the job for less than two years, due to dropping stock price and a lack of new products. "Earl the Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942717802003-05-13T12:03:00.000-04:002003-05-13T12:03:16.146-04:00Since this is one of my days off, I am sitting at the computer blogging away while listening to the news on tv. The big story is the bombing in Saudi Arabia. The count is now up to 90 dead Americans, and these are employees of Saudi business interests, not US military personnel. Classic terrorist cowardice, of course, but the Saudis have been completely negligent in doing their part against Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942682492003-05-13T11:06:00.000-04:002003-05-13T11:06:00.423-04:00Back from court, no news, I just had to enter a plea.
Okay, explainations: during the early 1990's I was a partner in a business in Seattle, but maintained my New Hampshire residency. While in Seattle on business once in 1992, I was pulled over on Mercer Island by a real jack-boot of a cop for going 5 mph over the limit. He decided that since I had once had a ticket in Puyallup several years Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942440972003-05-12T23:55:00.000-04:002003-05-12T23:55:41.780-04:00I really should go to bed at this point, but I seem addicted to this blog. I've got court early in the morning and need to get up early for it. I'll give you all the gory details when I get back, but simple summary: illegal citation by the cops following the orders of the DMV which can't seem to follow its own laws. I'm gonna get it all dismissed, with legal cites and everything, it's as if I Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942331962003-05-12T19:50:00.000-04:002003-05-12T19:50:38.383-04:00Just took an enneagram test at similarminds.com, the results are:
Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Test
Does it make me a bad person?
Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942305672003-05-12T18:55:00.000-04:002003-05-12T18:55:14.283-04:00As many are aware, I write letters to the editor on a regular basis. Recently, I wrote a letter to my local newspaper, the Valley News, aka the Valley Snooze, the Valley Pravda, the Valley Worker, depending on your level of annoyance. It purports to be a slightly left of center paper, which means, according to the Goldberg fudge factor, that they are actually just a hair shy of a yellow bellied Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-942051112003-05-12T10:48:00.000-04:002003-05-12T10:53:01.000-04:00[schlock cheeze factor = 10]
In searching for more info about our favorite Marine, Geraldine, I have come across a recipe published by the Theatre Guild of Ancon called "Chicken Geraldine":
"Chicken Geraldine
Cut 3 cloves of garlic and muddle them, using mortar
and pestle, with about 2 teaspoons salt. Add:
juice of 2 lemons
about 1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. olive oil
Pour mixture over chickenMike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-941809182003-05-11T23:20:00.000-04:002003-05-11T23:20:52.000-04:00Just when you got over my chicken jokes of the last month, I have
noticed a true story on the FOX News channels show "War Stories from Iraq with Ollie North" that the US Marines Expeditionary Forces in Iraq have a
rather sophisticated NBC detection and countermeasures system. The
heart of this is a sealed NBC detection vehicle that costs $2 million
apiece. It contains sophisticated NBC weapons Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-941702332003-05-11T19:31:00.000-04:002003-05-11T19:31:05.420-04:00It seems that my fiddling with the flight simulator X-Plane has born fruit. At X-Plane.org you can find, download, and fly my two versions of the V-1 Buzzbomb, as well as my Lorrey Ballistijet, a suborbital ballistic business jet.
You can also find my rendition of the EZ-Rocket, which is an experimental aircraft operated by XCOR. For the unaware, XCOR is in the business of developing rocket Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382972.post-941689412003-05-11T18:58:00.000-04:002003-05-11T18:58:33.460-04:00Since it seems a lot of folks I admire and respect have suggested that I take out my rants here rather than on assorted and beloved email lists, here goes. For those who think subjecting themselves to the militant screeds of a slightly right of center libertarian, hunter, programmer, writer, mechanic, artist, inventor, etc. is the height of online entertainment, I hope you get what you deserve. ;Mike Lorreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094443839137951482noreply@blogger.com