I'm SO left eyed. In my case, I just could never see through any weapon's sight if I were using the typical right hand grip, even though I am right handed. I just could not hit anything as I was first learning. My instructor told me to switch hands. When I switched hands to zero out, I quickly put 2 bullets through the same hole. That's why I have to use a left handed grip.

So I found this interesting....

"In other words, in the left half-field of vision, glance fixation is characterized by higher “information capacity”. This is directly connected with the speed of reading: the more symbols the glance perceives during one fixation, the quicker a person reads. There is one more sign of successfulness of reading: in the course of reading, the glance periodically returns back to the already read word (apparently due to difficulty of perception). Thus, in the left-sided text, the “left-eyed” probationers made less returns than they did in the right-sided text, which means higher successfulness of the “left” text recognition. Besides, the majority of the “left-eyed” persons performed faster quick eye movements – saccades – to the left than to the right."

Are you Left Eyed or Right Eyed?

That's a good description of Billy. lol
Cool. :)

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If you like to learn - ANYTHING - on your own, you'll want to bookmark this site.

Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts

"Welcome to fsi-language-courses.com, the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. "

Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Spanish, ect.

They have workbooks, student and instructor's texts, and Mp3s available - all free for download. Entire language programs.

Nothing ancient though. No Farsi, just Arabic. Shame.

Modern Foreign Language Instruction - Foreign Language Institute

This is a free site for people interested in Latin and Ancient Greek.

On this site, you can download books in the public domain including texts, primers, plays, and historical documents.

There's email lists that send you words to increase your vocabulary every day, and forums where you can communicate with others, ask questions, and find out about other web resources.

Where else could one find the lyrics to Baby Got Back in Latin and Ancient Greek?

Great site. A new homepage. :)

Like Latin? Ancient Greek?

It is almost funny - the guy took a taser from the cop and used it against him? Who's house WAS this - some super hero spy? Tough dude.

Homeowner had 'a right to resist'

Perhaps we need a watch aninmals topic. lol

I have this page open all morning waiting to move the cam to find the storks instead of the gators. Birdwatching with a broken ankle...where there's a web, there's a way. :)

It is fun, try it!

Move the Gator Cam

It is the policy of The Washington Post not to publish anonymous pieces. In this case, an exception has been made because the author -- who would have preferred to be named -- is legally prohibited from disclosing his or her identity in connection with receipt of a national security letter.
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Without the gag orders issued on recipients of the letters, it is doubtful that the FBI would have been able to abuse the NSL power the way that it did. Some recipients would have spoken out about perceived abuses, and the FBI's actions would have been subject to some degree of public scrutiny.

I found it particularly difficult to be silent about my concerns while Congress was debating the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2005 and early 2006. If I hadn't been under a gag order, I would have contacted members of Congress to discuss my experiences and to advocate changes in the law.

I recognize that there may sometimes be a need for secrecy in certain national security investigations. But I've now been under a broad gag order for three years, and other NSL recipients have been silenced for even longer. At some point -- a point we passed long ago -- the secrecy itself becomes a threat to our democracy. In the wake of the recent revelations, I believe more strongly than ever that the secrecy surrounding the government's use of the national security letters power is unwarranted and dangerous. I hope that Congress will at last recognize the same thing.

My National Security Letter Gag Order - washingtonpost.com

I really enjoyed this article.
Tesla fascinates me.

"Tesla always recognised the problem. His natural flair, his love of spectacle and the big idea led the world to see him as a romantic visionary, a poet of science rather than a practical inventor. Whether or not they were all workable, his dreams were grander than the world’s capacity to realise them. Our world today is not that far removed from the one envisaged by Tesla almost a century ago, and perhaps, had the course of history been different, we would now be enjoying further fruits of his genius – and we might still. But for now, Nikola Tesla remains a martyr to weird science and, if such a thing were ever to exist, our patron saint of electricity."

VERY good article on Tesla

This doesn't even start to SMELL right.

However, considering all the crap that went on with Indian Affairs maybe they really are just THAT shoddy.

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