Monthly Archives: October 2009

Pistol match, Oct 20, 2009: the good and the bad

Last night after work I drove up to Bay City to Duncan’s Outdoors Shop to compete in a pistol league match. It’s the second one I’ve made it to, and shot some of my best…and worst scores. National Match Course … Continue reading

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Bing delivers surprising amount of traffic to rangelistings.com

One of my hobby sites is rangelistings.com, a site with the goal of providing a map of each state with the locations of shooting ranges on it. I keep an eye on the web traffic pretty regularly, and about 90% … Continue reading

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A Walk in Ringwood Forest

We spent about 2 hours in Ringwood Forest yesterday. Lila and Eva carried sticks to fight off the evil fairies and demons that inhabited the woods. You could tell they were attacking when the wind moaned through the treetops and … Continue reading

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How to aim with iron sights

A guy in his 50s a few benches to my right was thumbing .40 cal cartridges into a pistol magazine. He had arrived as I was finishing up my round of practice, and I was just about ready to box … Continue reading

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Many stories in user experience

I just watched this TED talk, “Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story.” Please, take the 18 minutes to watch it, then continue to read. Watching this talk brought to mind two thoughts related to user experience work. First, … Continue reading

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