To: Professional Engineer
I only scored 37.x% on the geek quiz, and now I know why. They didn't ask enough questions about weapons. I scored low in geekiness in the games and reading material sections, but would have cleaned up if they included stuff about weapons.
And here's the latest example in weapons geek. I was thinking of somehow building my own, but was too lazy to get started. Now someone has invented a cosine gauge, which clamps to a Weaver mount. It lets you compute a change in elevation for a target far above or below the horizontal. It ain't cheap (another characteristic of weapons geekiness), but I'll keep you informed how it works, once I get it.
I just need to figure out how to keep both the spirit level (more geekiness), and this gauge in view without the two interfering.
12,759 posted on
01/16/2004 6:42:13 PM PST by
300winmag
(FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
To: 300winmag
The quiz was definitely weighted toward computers, games and fiction. some of the stuff, I had no earthly idea about.
I guess I'll give ole Schrodringer a pat, and go to the next one.
12,762 posted on
01/16/2004 7:03:12 PM PST by
Professional Engineer
(17Dec03~A privately financed, built and owned Spacecraft broke the sound barrier for the first time.)
To: 300winmag
Aw, but see...that's the beauty of being a true "geek"...we can't be bothered to go OUTSIDE and do anything! lol
I'm kidding, of course.
12,764 posted on
01/16/2004 7:05:26 PM PST by
ItsOurTimeNow
("By all that we hold dear on this Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!")
To: 300winmag
I like the sight gizmo. Ought to be vey handy in hilly terrain.
12,765 posted on
01/16/2004 7:05:57 PM PST by
Professional Engineer
(17Dec03~A privately financed, built and owned Spacecraft broke the sound barrier for the first time.)
To: 300winmag
I like it but I doubt it will replace 'Kentucky windage' or 'hold a hair high' :-)
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