I learned a ton about night vision and training your eye to find stuff thanks to the USCG. For instance it takes about 30 min for your eye to adjust to darkness, but certain wavelengths of light (blue and red) wont ruin your night vision, while the green of NVG's will. So if you want to be able to see unaided at night…

We have a big campaign here in Alaska to educate folks that if their kids are around water (piers and boats) they should wear life jackets. Its called kids don't float. Lots of communities have kids that dont know how to swim because the water is freaking cold. It results in a lot of kids that drift to the bottom…

oh god thats sooo sad.

not much is wrong with kids these days, at least statistically. Pregnancy rates are way down as is drug use, violent crime, murder and general violence. This is just a new chapter in the generational panic history our country is obsessed with. Great series of podcasts about it on cracked. Basically though the 24 hour…

1983-84 Atari 800 which was a bust we quickly followed it up with a new Apple IIC which lasted well into 96. I bought a IIC plus to screw around with after... also I had a Dell. Winces.... I wrote many a paper using Appleworks and hated our dot matrix printer. I'd actually get one again for the simplicity of use as a…

back in the days when I was poor, and worked the night shift I had few TV options available during the day. So I became a devoted follower of the price is right, family fued and Rockford. Matlock was a show too far...

thanks! A great book to read on the subject is the good old days they were terrible.

My 16 years of service (so far) in the US Military begs to differ. But hey I get it... you live to stereotype people... which is totally winning "your in my day we used to respect people and kids are such disrespecting shits" argument by the way.

Pledge and swear are pretty interchangeable. As they are both solemn oaths.

Life is nasty brutish and short. But at least we can complain about it on the internet.

This article neatly sums up why your attitude in this matter is pretty archaic...

No, they haven't changed, especially if you do historical research. The only thing thats really changed is 24 hour news thats searches out stories that people didn't use to report on, or in the absence of any stories blatantly make up stories so that people who love to hate kids will hate them even more. Like that…

That would've been a dig, if you know the Brits hadn't invaded Iraq with us....

Sorry dude, thats rage, mixed with a ton of misplaced hyperbole . The only thing older than the human race is rage at our offspring. We've been raging about how youth has lost all respect since mankind could write and you know what... they always seem to turn into their parents when they hit middle age. Kids have…

AJ you needed to start that post with you grubby kids need to get off my lawn to really sell the octogenarian rage. Nice troll though

No, your clearly overqualified.

So I volunteered to be ASIST Trained at work which is for helping get immediate first aid for people who are suicidal (I know, I know ASIST is a horrible acronym) anyhow the video they show in the beginning has a woman try to give her nephew her cat because she's going to kill herself and I almost lost it in class…

I read it in McBain's voice.

Tea tree oil is toxic to dogs and cats, so use at your own fuzzy friends peril.

I doubt anything since this is cross posted from the EDC blog and happens to be a persons personal kit.