Category Archives: Random

Gun Porn

Some­thing at least 2 of my 4 read­ers can agree on. This is one bad-ass look­ing gun.

February 9, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (6)

Does Our Whininess Have No End?

Whole Foods is imple­ment­ing a plan to give a big­ger employee dis­count to employ­ees that don’t smoke, have lower blood pres­sure and have a BMI under 30. Nat­u­rally, peo­ple are whin­ing about dis­crim­i­na­tion. This includes one quote that I can’t pos­si­bly do jus­tice to other than to repro­duce it in full: “Why are you reward­ing peo­ple …

February 7, 2010 – 3:21 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Something Else To Do

Some­times you do strange things on Sun­days with spare time on your hands. I took a defunct blog my wife and I never both­ered with and turned it into a pho­to­blog. My cur­rent plan is to post a pic­ture every Sun­day at least with other ran­dom posts show­ing up as I run into things worth …

January 10, 2010 – 9:25 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Disappearing

Appar­ently, my quit­ting Twit­ter didn’t cure what­ever it is that has been keep­ing me from writ­ing. It’s been quiet around here, quiet around my tech blog and quiet on the writ­ing front in gen­eral. In fact, I went back and looked and I haven’t really been doing any writ­ing since July. It’s not for lack …

January 9, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

On Debt

When his­to­ri­ans look back on the cur­rent time period, they will notice many things but I think the main thing they will find inter­est­ing and wor­thy of study is our pen­chant for debt. We, specif­i­cally Amer­i­cans but gen­er­ally all civ­i­lized peo­ple in this time period, thrive on debt of all kinds. It will be our …

October 13, 2009 – 5:50 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (4)

The Best Sentence You’ll Read For At Least Six Days

Impe­r­ial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Bro­ker with the atti­tude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in an aban­doned grain silo by a band of feral rac­coons, and if Mike Davis were the com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor of a heav­ily armed lib­er­tar­ian sur­vival­ist cult, and if the two of them …

July 31, 2009 – 8:01 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

Inflation and the Fed

Dur­ing the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis, the Fed­eral Reserve has increased its bal­ance sheet sig­nif­i­cantly in order to increase the mon­e­tary liq­uid­ity in the econ­omy. Many peo­ple assume they have done this by “print­ing money” which in the­ory increases the money sup­ply held by the pub­lic and over the long term is infla­tion­ary. How­ever, because the …

July 22, 2009 – 10:00 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Priorities

Required back­ground here. Then com­pare this to this and you start to see why some days I wake up and have trou­ble find­ing any hope for our coun­try. Maybe that’s hyper­bole but we seem to have lost our way with regards to our heroes. God, I must be get­ting old. Hey you kids, get the hell …

July 16, 2009 – 12:09 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (3)

Further Proof The Nobel Peace Prize Is A Joke

The cre­ators of Twit­ter have been sug­gested as its next recip­i­ent. I am and will remain speech­less on this event.

July 13, 2009 – 7:52 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

A Good Day’s Harvest

14 ears of corn, 3–4 toma­toes, 2 cucum­bers, a hand­ful of ser­ra­nos and jalapenos, 6 ounces of yel­low toma­toes and a ran­dom egg­plant. Also: Scooter has been hell on the wildlife this spring, more than any other year so when I found this lit­tle guy hid­den in our Cop­per Canyon daisy, I knew he was …

June 30, 2009 – 8:50 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Gardening, Random | Comments (2)