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Geeky rants, raves, and random thoughts from Charlie Kindel...

The Four Rules of Firearm Safety
  1. All guns are always loaded.
  2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
  3. Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are on the target.
  4. Be sure of your target and the backstop beyond.

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In 50 words or less: What the 2nd Amendment Means to you
Gun Digest ran an essay contest in 1964:  In 50 words or less write what the Right to Bear Arms means to you. The winner would get an all expense paid hunting safari to Africa. I had known my father (Charles E. “Ted” Kindel) had won this contest...
More photos from Africa
Air Originally uploaded by ckindel . I'm now about 1/3 of the way through organizing and filtering the over 4000 photos we took in Africa. I still haven't geo tagged any, but I appreicate the pointers I have gotten from people on good tools to use. Click...
Back from Africa
Day 1 - Arusha to Serena 162 Originally uploaded by ckindel . We're finally back from our amazing trip to East Africa. I thought I'd be able to jack in during our lay over at the Amsterdam airport and start to catch up on mail and start organizing photos...
Posted: Feb 25 2007, 11:04 PM by charlie | with no comments
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A great runthrough of Windows Home Server setup
Terry over at We Got Served posted a nice run through of what the setup for Windows Home Server beta 2 is like. He took pictures along the way and if you are curious to see what it looks like before you get your beta kit take a gander. We Got Served Note...
He bit him!
I have not watched the 3rd and 4th hours of 24 that were on last night. Just didn't have the time. But I did watch the first two hours on Sunday nght. All day yesterday the vampire scene kept popping into my head. Each time I burst out laughing. He bit...
Posted: Jan 16 2007, 07:57 PM by charlie | with no comments
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King5 BillG Interview/Story
Dennis Bounds of King5 News (Seattle) interviewed BillG in the CES booth over the week. I posted a still I took during the interview on Monday. I finally got a chance to watch the interview ( it is posted on the King5 website ). We loaded the demo home...
A great quote
Someone just forwarded me the following quote. This really resonates with me. I have been working on trying to get a home server product built at Microsoft for over 8 years... "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then...
Alec Saunders taught me craps
Heh, heh. I just noticed Alec Saunder's post linking back here . I am not a big gambler and I really only get to Las Vegas once a year...for CES, but my gambling history is deeply rooted in an amazing experience I had in 1999 or 2000 (I don't remember...
Tigger has lost his voice
A long time ago I was known exclusively as Tigger . Few call me that anymore, and while it wasn’t my choice to be called Tigger, I always loved the character and felt he was a fair representation of my personality. Most of my family and close friends...
Posted: Jun 28 2005, 12:43 AM by charlie | with no comments
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The Bomb In My Garden
It is a small world and I always get a kick out of discovering connections between seemingly unrelated people and events. A few weeks ago I received a mailing from my high-school alma-mater, The Webb Schools of California , that was the typical “send...
Sigh. Ski season is over.
I had planned on this being an epic ski season. I hurt my back in the fall (burst disk S1–L5, bulge in L4–L5) and thankfully avoided surgery. I vowed to get my core in shape so I’d have a great ski season. I busted my butt at the Pro...
Posted: Mar 29 2005, 06:30 AM by charlie | with 2 comment(s)
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My flickr.com photos
Given all the photos we took in Alaska last week (488 between Kevin & I) I decided to actually try out a few of the latest online photo sites. I tried both smugmug.com and flickr.com . Besides allowing you to store your photos online, these sites...
Back from Heli-Skiing
What a great trip. We went with www.valdezheliskiguides.com . There were some technical difficulties (we were grounded for 3 days due to an “incident” having to do with a rotor blade striking a sign), but in the end I got a ton of amazing...
Posted: Mar 21 2005, 09:29 AM by charlie | with no comments
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Heli-Skiing
I’m currently near Valdez Alaska, heli-skiing in the Chugach mountain range. All I can say is Wow. Two pictures to illustrate. My buddy Kevin took both of these.
Posted: Mar 15 2005, 06:15 AM by charlie | with 2 comment(s)
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I want my 'Road kill'
An MSNBC article says animal lovers are all up in arms over this stuff. I think it’s just about the funniest thing I’ve seen recently and I want some! "It sends the wrong message to children, that it's OK to harm animals. And that's the wrong...
Posted: Feb 25 2005, 06:26 PM by charlie | with 3 comment(s)
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