Standard Mischief

This is considered a “critical” update.

My inner-machinist has a man-crush. I signed up for metal shop class three times during my time in high-school, sadly each time the class was canceled due to lack of interest. Woodshop is a poor substitute for the urge to make durable goods out of durable goods.

While I’ve scratched the inner-machinist itch with a small welder, a little tool and die making on a brake lathe, and my silver-soldering gunsmith work as “Bubba Mischief”, I still pine for the full size lathe and mill that couldn’t possibly fit in my present home. Along with that, since I’m still dreaming, I’d want someone like tubalcain (a/k/a mrpete222) as my next door neighbor.

Failing that, this former shop teacher’s videos are the next best thing, and if you know anything about metalworking you’ll agree that in the age of outsourcing our manufacturing to China and India, these videos on molding, casting, model making, and machine work are a national treasure.

Well Claire is reporting that the Extra Heavy Duty Palladium cubic zirconia¹ Level lifetime Front Sight membership – which normally retails at $99,000+ – is now selling for as little as $250, (but only if you order now).

While it sounds like a great deal, since you must act now or the price doubles to $500 the next day, the odor that this pitch is giving off just about pegged my BS detector.

Just in case anyone wants to jump on this deal regardless, at least recall that your lifetime membership can’t possibly be good for any longer than the actual lifetime of the offering company. So you should at least do your due diligence to be sure that Front Sight isn’t the house-of-cards scheme that I suspect it is.

Caveat emptor.

Update: I thought I would add the link to the details of Ignatius Piazza’s “but honestly Maj. L. Caudill…” response to his prior mis-attribution and plagiarism.

Update 2 – 29dec2010: The original post at the top of the page is now 404, as it’s been yanked, probably due to a quite active discussion in the comments. Meanwhile, I’ve had some interesting Apache log entries, and I’ve also done quite a bit of research thanks to my obsessive compulsive reading disorder. All kinds of interesting stuff.

I don’t have a dog or pony in this show, having never applied for training from Front Sight.

¹ A better joke, as from my searches on this topic, this offer pales in comparison to the features of the earlier offered “diamond” level membership.

Too cold, incidentally, to hold the my scope steady. The weather ended up clearing out completely. Locally, it’s 26°F. Every place I can find online that is streaming the event has it’s servers swamped.

I’m getting an OK view from an upstairs window. I’m almost regretting not going somewhere with less light pollution, but thanks to the wonders of the web, I know they’re all even colder.

By the way, the scope is unmounted. It’s unsafe and too urban to be brandishing firearms anyway. I’m fresh out of silver bullets too.

That’s obvious from the way he’s toying with Brian Aitken’s freedom. I was just about to call his worthless ass and give him a piece of my mind, but instead I’ll bad mouth his shameful action here and be polite on the phone.

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