KBABZ wrote:

, my friend Jeremy usually sticks to a baseball bat! We need to do it with fireworks sometime...
Well, it was sort of a bit of a practical experiment. Having heard plenty of stories of people who got so frustrated with their computers (or with lousy software on them) that they shot their computers, and having two dead monitors to play with, I decided to see what it would take to go completely through a monitor from front to back.
(I tried 9mm, .45ACP, .44 magnum, 7.62mm NATO, and 12-guage rifled slugs. The M14 achieved full front-to-back penetration with two rounds about a half inch apart. Nothing else did, although the 12-guage slugs certainly blew hell out of the inside.)
The new userpic is one I took yesterday after repairing the braid on my West Point jacket. I'm not entirely happy with it, and I'll try to get a better one sometime in the next few days (and I'll post it when I do), but it's at least current.
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