is building a full sized bowling ball throwing trebuchet next year.
And of course by "some nutter" I mean me. I'll post photos as we go. What could possibly go wrong????
Someone start a fund for bail money just in case.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Some nutter in New Zealand....
News........
Odd, that ...
To All Veterans Past And Present, Thank You
Veteran's Day
Ministry of Defence civil servants paid £47 million in bonuses
US conservative activists form Tea Party
Bra that can be used as a golf putting mat
Is Yemen the most dangerous new front in the war on terror?
Zimbabwe: Roy Bennett lawyers can raise torture claims
Taleban spin doctors winning fresh ground in propaganda war with Nato
Iran issues tacit warning to Saudi Arabia over attacks on rebels
Sabi the army dog returns home after 14 months lost in Afghanistan
and finally.......
Equal Justice for All: Socialize Legal Care Now to Solve the Crisis!
Preparedness..........from Rico
I think it's the Boy Scout motto to "be prepared"
...but we all know the progressives and Obamunistas do NOT like the Scouts because they actually pray, can take care of themselves, look after others and try to be helpful, etc.
Obviously potential terrorists!
They sure terrorize the Commucrat bastards who want to see everyone helpless, dependent upon the government, and subservient to the State. Slaves.
Obama - Chains we can believe in!!!
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We Will Remember Them
London, UK
Today, November 11th, 2009, was the first Remembrance Day without any World War One survivors.
Last year I posted this at www.jeremyjacobs.com
World War One – 90 Years On
He was just 18 years of age. My uncle Lionel, who died earlier this year, was named after him.
A Hillbuzz Shocker
A Hillbuzz Shocker:
We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura.
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
If anyone is feeling particularly generous this year…
As both my regular readers at Hitting Metal With A Hammer know I'm a poor student living on noodles and mouldy bread and I have to walk 8 miles through the snow to get to school (which is damned hard in mid summer I can assure you!) My catapulting is entirely funded by what I can find down the back of the cushions and several very generous donations from military types who shamelessly encourage my violent tendencies which I then pass on to the local youth disguised as "history". So once again I’m holding my hand out as I have a pressing need for two particular books:
Greek And Roman Artillery, Technical Treaties
E. W. Marsden
And
Greek and Roman Artillery. Historical Development
E. W. Marsden
For those in the business Marsden is the bible for ancient catapults and you're either a disciple or a heretic, but Marsdens is The Word you're fighting over.
These books are of course quite expensive so if you feel inclined to help out with the cause but don't have the loose change to go about buying books for strangers you can donate through paypal to the 22AD Research Fund. The research fund goes towards building new machines and research material which can include research into the effects of alcohol at post event bbq's.
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Albert Einstein
I believe beer helps this research process at the "what the hell am I doing" end of the scale. While I don't believe in the something for nothing principle I'm happy to give anyone who donates anything a copy of my tennis ball ballista plan. which you can view here and here.
Just out of interest if everyone who had downloaded my trebuchet plan had donated $1 I could have bought both these books, all the text books (23) for my next year at university... and a car.
In catapult related news I'm working on two books at the moment based on my research and this may well be related to the two books mentioned above. I'm writing a boring academic one and I'm editing a kids version of it written by a friend of mine who is much better at getting to the point and not waffling a load of verbose bollocks. they should be available mid next year. Email me if you're interested in a copy and I’ll put you on a notification list. 22adartillery AT gmail DOT com
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