Standard Mischief

I only needed the yellow belt in searchengine-fu to find this:

https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS07F9227S/GS07F9227S_online.htm

This looks like Cobham’s GSA price list. I guess the SWAG in my previous post wasn’t too far off the mark. Example:

426-4Q ST820-CS-1 820 Orion Tracking Subscription $861.46

That’s just the subscription, which can’t be anything other than a cellphone dataplan with the serial numbers scraped off and rebadged.

426-4Q ST-MAPNA Orion MapPoint North America $1,316.12

I guess this is just a digital map. And here I thought the upgrades for my tomtom’s map were outrageous.

426-4Q BP-103 Standard 8D Battery Pack $526.45

Got that? Over five bills for a eight D cell battery pack. I’m sure that batteries are not included. But it’s black, and all tactacool and those neodymium magnets aren’t free. Neither are those zip-ties.

426-4Q ST820BP 820 Battery Pack $382.87

This looks like the one in the photos. Let’s do the math:

1 Maglite S6D015 6-D Cell Flashlight, Black $20
1 Hour of machine shop time $40
1 Lamp cord cut from an extension cord at Wal-mart $1.09
1 power plug from Radio Shack $2.09
10 zip-ties, black $2
1 tube of superglue $1.49
2 packs Super Magnets .47″x.11″, 6 Pack $5.18
…
Ripping off Uncle Sugar with a 533% markup… Priceless

426-4Q TRAINING-1 Training 1 day $2,057.93

426-4Q TRAINING Training $2,632.24

It doesn’t say “per-person”

426-4Q ST820TK-SW Guardian with Software $5,259.70

This looks like the all inclusive price for the hardware and software. I guess I guessed low. Do you get the battery pack for that or is it extra? And why is it called a “Guardian”? It makes it sound like it’s a security alarm.

orion guardian st820

Why not tag your name someplace where everyone can urinate on it?

Linkage only post.

Seems a lot of LED (not IED) signs have gone up around the Boston area in remembrance of the 2007 Boston bomb scare (Wikipedia.)

Check it out over at the MAKE: Blog. Does anyone have any ideas for Flickr tags that would be useful to find more photos? There are a few photos over at pt’s photostream.

Found via Blogs Now, this looks like an Ocelot house cat. S/he’s doing various cat thingys, like eating a chicken or playing with a squeeze toy that looks like a grenade. (Update: instead, this is likely a Fishing Cat, from Southeast Asia, as a pet)

It looks like the page is in Russian, so I can’t give you much else. One photo is borderline NSFW. Here’s a thumbnail:

Site is here.

We don’t actually stoop as low as to make lolcats here at Standard Mischief blog, but that’s just because we’re not clever enough to add the white impact font letters with the black border in Gimp.

Prediction: < 24 hours.

Update in less than 24 hours: Probably the same cat, but a different photo than the spread I linked to. On Flickr.

Posted solely because it’s been stuck in my head all weekend.

Mojo is the King of Psychobilly.

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper “Elvis Is Everywhere” 3:42 min.

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