What are you...

[Entilzha]

Weir being a bad ass replicator in the end was indeed a surprise .

[TPoptarts]

eating: a whole pint of Haagen Dazs strawberry ice cream (well at least I hope I can finish the whole pint... I just started )



Watching: last night's SGA

[JadziaKathryn]

Watching: the fourth season of "Monk." At first I thought the show was about a monk and that sounded awfully dull. (No offense to actual monks, but a cloistered life doesn't really make for riveting television.) But in fact it's a fantastic show - good mysteries without too much gore, wonderful characters, great acting. Adrian Monk, if you don't know this show, was a homicide detective but after his wife's murder his OCD got in the way. After a few years he began consulting as a private detective, and that's where the fun starts. He's trying to solve crimes but encounters all manner of things he's afraid of, such as germs, heights, and asymmetry.

[Navigator]

I just can't believe my eyes when I watch old movies (early 90's and prior) where cops have revolvers. Just blows my mind. I'd never carry a revolver for ANY kind of service weapon... I don't care if I was a post office security guard. The only way I'd carry a revolver is if it were a .38 in my sock, and was a second weapon.

Check this out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uisHfKj2JiI

[justTripn]

Watched "I am Legend" (I LOVE Will Smith!), then came home and flipped between the New Hampshire debates and the Steelers playoff game.


"I am Legend" very enjoyable; highly recommended. Very much like "28 Days Later."

[TPoptarts]

I ate the whole pint.

[TPoptarts]

Reading: Mad magazine

[Distracted]

Watching: the fourth season of "Monk." At first I thought the show was about a monk and that sounded awfully dull. (No offense to actual monks, but a cloistered life doesn't really make for riveting television.) But in fact it's a fantastic show - good mysteries without too much gore, wonderful characters, great acting. Adrian Monk, if you don't know this show, was a homicide detective but after his wife's murder his OCD got in the way. After a few years he began consulting as a private detective, and that's where the fun starts. He's trying to solve crimes but encounters all manner of things he's afraid of, such as germs, heights, and asymmetry.

I absolutely LOVE Monk. Tony Shaloob is a truly gifted actor. He plays OCD with such realism that sometimes when I see him in other roles it surprises me that he doesn't really have the disorder. The series makes you see that everyone has their own individual strengths if you'll just let them be themselves, and even someone who's not necessarily "normal" by usual criteria can be a useful member of society if given the opportunity to find their niche.

[CX]

I just can't believe my eyes when I watch old movies (early 90's and prior) where cops have revolvers. Just blows my mind. I'd never carry a revolver for ANY kind of service weapon... I don't care if I was a post office security guard. The only way I'd carry a revolver is if it were a .38 in my sock, and was a second weapon.

Check this out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uisHfKj2JiI

The M9 Bereta holds 15 rounds in the magazine, and most people put one in the chamber too. Makes 8 seem a little insignificant to me, especially when you figure in time to reload.

[TPoptarts]

Monk sounds interesting I think I'm gonna check it out

[Distracted]

I really think you'll like it.

[TPoptarts]

The library only has the first 3 seasons though

[Distracted]

Better than nothing.

[TPoptarts]

Hope the downloads are still alive.

[Elessar]

I just can't believe my eyes when I watch old movies (early 90's and prior) where cops have revolvers. Just blows my mind. I'd never carry a revolver for ANY kind of service weapon... I don't care if I was a post office security guard. The only way I'd carry a revolver is if it were a .38 in my sock, and was a second weapon.

Check this out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uisHfKj2JiI

The M9 Bereta holds 15 rounds in the magazine, and most people put one in the chamber too. Makes 8 seem a little insignificant to me, especially when you figure in time to reload.

Two words: shot placement

No, but in seriousness, given that the average distance a personal defense encounter involving a firearm takes place over is 7 feet and the average number of rounds expelled between TWO PEOPLE with firearms is 1.5, I am 100% more comfortable with a .45 with 8 rounds than a 9mm with 15, because even though you might say to yourself that "oh I can keep firing" with the M9 and do enough damage, the statistics don't paint a picture where a person is "able" to get off more rounds, for whatever reason.

Actually, I'd even be more comfortable with a .357 mag revolver with 5 or 6 rounds than an M9 with 15, honestly. And I'm just referring to your average situation of a "guy grabs you as you get into your car and you jab your gun into his gut" or, "you're walking out of the hotel late at night and 2-3 guys are following you". Even with multiple targets and facing the fact that with an M9 you can get like 3, 4, 5 rounds per target whereas with others only 1 or 2, I don't think a person needs to force themselves to depend on having to lay at least one round on multiple targets, because statistics show that in the .001% of cases where you DO have to use your firearm which are .000001% of our daily lives and there are multiple targets, they're likely to run off when shots go off...

Unless they're all carrying Mac10's, in which case, you're really screwed anyway