You Know What Part

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  • A Breakdown of Guns and Ammo's Response to a Reasonable Editorial

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    Recently, a [former] editor at Guns and Ammo published what most rational citizens would consider a measured and logical approach to gun control. For that, he was fired, disowned, and earned an official response from the remaining editorial staff. Below is that response, editorialized by me, a current non-crazy gun person (which apparently is now…

  • Nevermind, we'll stay here

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    Moving the blog to Blogger was breaking too much, especially photos and other media. So, for now, the blog will stay here.

  • Disabling a Stubborn Field Test Mode

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    Some time ago, I turned on Field Test Mode on my iPhone 4. I then dutifully backed up that phone for ages, restoring that backup to my new iPhone 5 when I got it last year. Then I tried turning off Field Test Mode, which came over in the backup. And it wouldn’t stay turned…

  • Breaking Bad

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    Perfect. So much digital ink will be spilled on Monday about this show, I’ll hold my insufficient words. But I think one thing felt so right about the show, and it only works in the context of that Universe. Walt. Wins. And that’s the only way the show could have ended. Breaking Bad, for all…

  • Site moving, new URL

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    After years of neglect, this site and blog will be moving to Blogger. The youknowwhatpart.com URL will expire or be sold and all posts have been migrated to http://youknowwhatpart.blogspot.com/. Please update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, carrier pigeons and indentured servants^H^H^H unpaid interns.   Update: Nevermind

  • Goodbye, Froggie

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    Goodbye, my friend. We miss you so much already.

  • The Storm – Part 2

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    So, it’s still cancer. It’s also very, very advanced. An ultrasound and additional X-rays show an advanced lesion on the liver, several lesions on the spleen, and aggressive metastasis in the lungs. Effectively, any treatment at this point is palliative; there’s no cure beyond miraculous responses to off-label drugs. The oncologist couched Froggie’s remaining time…

  • The Storm

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    So, it’s cancer. In typically-clinical language, the radiologist’s report stated “CONCLUSIONS: severe generalized reticulo-nodular miliary lung pattern is concerning for diffuse pulmonary metastatic disease from unknown primary tumor.” Basically, cancer has spread to the entirety of both lungs from an unknown source. There’s a mass in one lung that may be the source, but is likely…

  • The Best Photo I Ever Took (Biased Edition)

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  • The Calm Before the Storm

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    About four feet behind me, a dog named Froggie lies in his crate, door ajar, struggling to breathe. He’s on a hundred milligrams of one drug and more of another. The X-ray of his rib cage looked like, quoting our veterinarian here, “popcorn”. Basically, it’s cancer. Tomorrow we’ll get a call from her, while she’s…