speaking of dumb and dangerous...

This guy is all about supporting the troops (not), villains in St. Vincent & The Grenadines, and a bit of dumb and dangerous project news...

Well, since I mentioned a "dumb and dangerous" laser that is powerful enough to blind someone and set things on fire (including human skin), and be cobbled from off the shelf bits and pieces, I should, perhaps, issue some sort of warning... 

Dumb and dangerous projects by their very nature are, in point of fact, dumb and dangerous and should not be done while drinking, otherwise impaired, or by those whose IQ tops out at less than the temperature on a brisk winters eve in Wisconsin.

That said, having an Iron Man laser on board is more than likely a whole lot safer and more legal than having a gun or guns aboard...

Just saying...

Now, if I were one to consider something akin to a weapon for defending a boat... I'd still give serious consideration to the medieval poleaxe (hey even Amazon has them). The poleaxe has both reach and pointy bits and was the medieval equivalent to the bazooka (the knight in armor being the tank). The downside is that pointy and sharp things needs some serious training...



... Of course, I should point out that the winners of altercations that involve pointy bits and sharp edges often wind up in the same emergency room as the losers, which you might want to keep in mind!

So, for the moment, my plan of action is still to stay as far away as possible from places where villains ply their trade on a regular basis, and hopefully getting around to building a "Bedazzler" because, maybe it's just me, but a little puke on the floor trumps blood any day...

Listening to Mr Buffett

So it goes...

We all need a little more history...

Over at the Latts and Atts and Margaritaville forums, folks are upset with Jimmy Buffet because he said something or other about an ex-president. You can almost smell the burning Parrothead hats on the breeze...

That really depresses me and it just reinforces the feeling that "we are most certainly not in Kansas anymore" mindset that makes me wonder if I have somehow sailed to some alternate universe where everything is way off kilter and Barry Manilow just won the Nobel Peace Prize for his good works as the new Pope.

Yeah, seriously unreal kind of vibe as we all know that the Pope is not Barry Manilow but is, in fact, an ex-Hitler youth and what exactly does that say about our "real" reality?

History is an interesting thing and a tool of great power. A fact that those who do not take note of history and what has gone before should. History has a nasty knack of coming around and biting those on the ass who do not pay attention to it...

Offhand I'd say that Mr Buffet pays attention to history as it unfolds and for Jimmy to get where he is against all the odds it is a sure thing he is nobody's fool. If he said something I'd most likely listen. If for some reason it went against my world view, I'd pause for a moment and give it some thought and check it out because there is a better than even chance he'd be right.

But, that's just me...

Hey, hey Gardner McKay...

One of the first things you have to realize when going off into the sunset is that what lies there has been grossly misrepresented over the years... Most cruisers these days are more interested in finding a K-Mart or a place to stock up on Hellmans mayo rather than stealing the jewel eyes of Tiki gods or searching for the lost location of the isle of love hungry Vahines and, of course, the saving of island virgins from being fed to a volcano...

Damn!

That said, I think all of us of a certain age were warped and molded by "Adventures in Paradise" with Gardner McKay. It's a stone cold fact that without "AIP" more than likely I'd be a fat middle-aged investment manager whose biggest excitement would be to maybe hit par on some golf course (golf being in my purview a bit less exciting than watching paint dry so I owe Gardner McKay a lot) without a falling spar in sight!

Jimmy Buffett, of course, heard the "AIP" siren call and followed it, or maybe more to the point, he recreated it and made it his own when he found that the call had grown so quiet it needed to be amped up and rebroadcast...

Hey, hey, Gardner McKay...