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IPSC bedroom!

Kaleris — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:36:39 +0000

While I was out traveling for work Taryn did a surprise redesign of my room for an early birthday present.

Ouch!

Kaleris — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:29:21 +0000

Linked for grossness. Part of the injuries sustained from jumping onto a wet board with cleats. Lesson learned!

Battle wound!

Range Diary: Winchester Super X3

Kaleris — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:58:38 +0000

Headed down to Northwest Shooting Sports today to try out my new Shotgun: The Winchester Super X 3. I Purchased it for impending 3 gun and multigun matches down the road. I'll be adding an extended tube to it as well as a high visibility sight and extended choke.

Unfortunately all I had with me was 3" 00 magnum buckshot. The gun ran great, which is all I could ask for the limited testing I did. All testing was done at 7 yards.

My poor shoulder!

One shot:

Three shots:

Seven shots!:

Vegetarian Sloppy Joe

Kaleris — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:57:43 +0000

Siri Issues and complaints

Kaleris — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:55:12 +0000

Don't get me wrong, when Siri is functioning correctly, it's great. But when it only works about 30% of the time, it doesn't instill much confidence in the user.

Most of Siri's issues seem to stem from the fact that it runs off of a server and needs a connection to run commands. This means that I can't set my alarm clock if I'm camping outside cell phone range. It's also subject to all the issues that can affect a server to phone connection, which manifests itself regularly in the time I've had the phone.

Also maybe my phone is defective, but it rarely ever seems to activate when I put it next to my ear. While this should work every time, it rarely does.

Some android devs have already gotten a rough Siri copy working, so it will be interesting if their version will also be server driven. It seems like there should be offline Siri logic, and online Siri logic (only connect when querying the web).

Here's a video demonstration of me showing my complaints with the program:

Rainbows!

Kaleris — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:11:21 +0000

Double rainbow action from my window.

Sigs and eggs?

Kaleris — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:01:21 +0000

Tow company damage?

Kaleris — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:09:07 +0000

My car got towed yesterday. When I picked it up late at night I used my phone flashlight to inspect the car and found multiple scratches. The front bumper near the fog light was also smacked pretty bad.

Time to file a claim!

Renton Match 10-23-2011

Kaleris — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:31:53 +0000

Had a fun but very frustrating match today.

This is my third match with the XDm 5.25. The first two matches I had some difficulty getting used the new magwell profile and trigger, of which the former I have down well now. Mag changes are better but still not optimum.

Some kind of dirt/rocks/plastic got jammed in my magazine release and made the release extremely had to activate today. Not only did I jack up my thumb but I probably added near 20 seconds of stage time fighting with it. I've since blasted the whole thing out and fixed it (for now). This along with 3 stovepipes is making me not confident at all in this gun. I've decided I'm going to give it another match week to see how it runs and if that goes badly I'll sell it.

I still managed to come in 7th out of 24 production shooters.

Meal time: garlic roasted tofu pasta

Kaleris — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:33:30 +0000