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Work@Home

by Bryan Strawser · Apr 28, 2005

On the left, the Apple Powerbook G4 (2003 version), an iPod 20GB, some business cards, a glass of water.

On the right, a Motion 1400VA TabletPC (Sitting on the portable keyboard as my stand is in Minneapolis), connected to the fullsize USB keyboard.

In the middle, an empty coffee mug, an old presentation, a Nextel i730 cell phone.

Somewhere.. a Motorola 5.8ghz phone connected to Vonage’s VOIP service.. with a Minneapolis number even (I live near Boston presently, but work in Minneapolis)..

Strewn about – alot of chicken scratch that I’m trying hard to turn into something meaningful on the Tablet using Microsoft Visio. It eventually turned out well!

Assault Weapons Ban a Crock

by Bryan Strawser · Apr 24, 2005

Over at Instapundit is this little ditty about the Assault Weapons ban:

PERHAPS THIS IS BECAUSE IT WAS ALWAYS A CROCK, but The New York Times notices that ending the assault weapons ban didn’t matter: Despite dire predictions that the streets would be awash in military-style guns, the expiration of the decade-long assault weapons ban last September has not set off a…

It’s always been a crock. As a criminal justice major in college, I knew it to be a crock then. It’s a crock now.

Ever read the Second Amendment? Gun control is not the way to go. NYC had major drops in crime without needing additional gun control.

It can be done.

Patriots Day 2005

by Bryan Strawser · Apr 24, 2005

Massachusetts, among other odd provisions, celebrates April 19th each year as Patriot’s Day.

Many recognize this as the day that the Boston Marathon is run from Hopkinton down to downtown Boston – others recognize it as the day that the Red Sox play a morning game at storied Fenway Park… but the reality is far different.

April 19th, 1775 is the day that the British marched on Concord and Lexington, two small towns west of Boston, in an effort to seize the powder and ammunition stored there.

They failed, of course, because the minutemen stood their ground. And from there on, the War was on. The War that made us free.

A bit belated, but Happy Patriot’s Day!

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say,

‘What should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our

posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough,

and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let

loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from

the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the

tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom,

go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch

down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit

lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our

countrymen!”