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Random thoughts – keeping you on your toes

Guns, Guns, Guns

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I had a couple of interesting conversations today, both about guns. This was a bit unusual as this is not a regular topic for me and in fact it was one discussion just after the other.

Sharpshooting

It started with a colleague and I just chatting ideally after a meeting.  Turns out he is an International Practical Shooting Confederation black badge instructor.

He shared a video of him shooting through a course that looked just like a first person shooter video game only it was real.  Wow, impressive.

Bullets

Shortly after I was part of another conversation with a colleague who shared an interesting experience they had this weekend.

On Saturday at around 3:00 am they were awoken by a noise.  On investigation all seemed fine and it was back to sleep.

In the morning glass crunched undefoot as they entered the kitchen. The cause was a bullet hole in the window.  The bullet crossed the kitchen and lodged itself in the door opposite the window.

The police were summoned and a full CSI was conducted, over several hours.  The police officer noted this type of incident was rarer than a lightening strike.  Comforting.

It is not clear of the cause but unempeeded bullets can travel great distances.  If shot upward and sideways they can travel in a parabolic curved path, while ultimately assisted by gravity it will come down.

Again wow.  Today I recieved some very interesting information shares,  I guess the unexpected occurs more often than you might expect.

Random thoughts – keeping you on your toes

Writing formats

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My daily posts are structured in a realtively free format, adhering to grammar and punctuation,  but following my own preference as to style.

Generally I do three lines and a break.  I use headings to break up the text, highlighted in a special font.  Occassionally I use indents and bullets.

Various publications have a variety of style guides, often specific to the publisher.   ( i.e, newspapers, magazines, novels, technical guides)There are however some written communication forms with more restrictive rules.

Today’s post explore three of these.  The examples I use are all kerrzone originals.

Haiku

A haiku is a poem made up of three lines which are formatted 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.  This is no rhyme scheme.  Here is an example.

Truth exists today, Seeking right does mitigate, Adopt and accept

“Haiku” is a traditional form of Japanese poetry and is usually written about things that are recognizable to the reader.  Many focus on nature but this is not an exclusive topic.

Haiku is a mood poem and it doesn’t use any metaphors or similes. In it’s simplest form, creating a Haiku simply requires adherence to the structural rules.

Syllogism

These are a three line logic puzzle, and a lot of fun. The first two lines  share a common term and the third is a conclusion.  The conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two lines given or assumed propositions.  For example:

Bloggers write about a unique topic regularly, Writing about a unique topic requires intelligence,  Bloggers are intelligent.

Limerick

These are 5 line poems with a strict rhyme scheme, AABBA. Typically they are humerous and sometimes obscene.  Here is an example:

There was a young man who wrote, With intent to get people’s goat, Which made them sad, And sometimes mad, He rarely got a positive vote.