Can a Kukri cut through a rifle scope?

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After my tour to Afghanistan in 2003, I came home with a Nepali Kukri that I was given from one of our Nepali Kitchen workers.  He was a former Gurkha, and came back from vacation to Nepal with some for us.  It’s been sitting on my shelf in it’s place of honour ever since.  While watching some cartoons earlier this week, I saw a character cut through someone’s rifle scope with a Kukri, and decided to try it for myself, and share it with you all.

Enjoy.

Of course, I have to add the standard disclaimer that I should have been wearing safety glasses, and so should you should you choose to ignore my safety warning, and try it at home for yourselves.

Dont try this at home, kids.

In conclusion, there’s a reason the kukri is a feared and respected weapon in the hands of a Gurkha.  The reputation is well earned, even if it didn’t succeed in this challenge.

Custom NERF Creation: Charity Gun

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Fredericton New Brunswick will be having its annual zombie walk downtown this labour day weekend to benefit the local food bank.  I’d been planning to participate anyways, but then heard they were looking for donations for prizes to hand out to the participants.  I went to our local toy store, bought a NERF Raider, dusted off my tools in the basement, and came up with this!

Please click through the gallery for further details.  Thanks again to Nuchtchas for painting that incredible looking Biohazard symbol on the ammo drum!

So after an evening’s work, this weapon is now ready to be carried through the streets and hunt down the Horde!  I hope its new owner is as happy with it as I am.  It’s almost sad to give it away, but it’s all for a good cause.  If anyone reading this can make it Fredericton for the Zombie Walk, bring your best zombie gear, shamble over and say hi.  Look for the beak.  I plan to be in full Plague Doctor gear, taking my pets for walk.

11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee…. and of course, spare parts

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I know I normally strive to only put created content on this blog and to not fall into the trap that so many other blogs have done, and that’s reblog everything they see that’s cool on the internet, but… The Clockwork Doctor showed me this today and I couldn’t help myself.

If you ever marveled at the mechanical nature of steampunk I tell you to look here, look in reality, that mechanical genius is all around us.

Nutty Bites 30: Review of Moon

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Moon starring Sam RockwellThis is a bit of a bonus episode.  A few weeks back Tek (AKA The Clockwork Doctor), Encaf1 (Host of The Weird Show) and I watched the movie Moon starring Sam Rockwell and then got together at #opChickenWing to discuss it.

You all know my pet peeve about eating while podcasting, but I think the biggest problem here is the music of the pub and the people laughing in the background.  Still, I did what I could to clean up the audio.  If you don’t like it, don’t worry, the next episode of Nutty Bites will have clean audio.  If you do like it, then you will get to feel what it is like to experience #OpChickenWing \o/

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The Man of Steel picks a new Arch-Enemy: Sir Isaac Newton!

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“Stronger than a locomotive, Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…. Look, in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!  IT’S SUPERMAN!!!!”

We should all remember those immortal words announcing the arrival of one of the world’s most beloved superheroes.  Like him or not, his books have been selling well for D.C, for over the last 80 years.  Following the trend of other super hero franchises of the past few years, Superman is getting another reboot movie coming out next year.  Titled The Man of Steel and directed by Zack Snyder it promises to be a good time at the movies.  The teaser trailer was recently released, and although I’m very much looking to this movie, there was one error of physics that just confused me, and let me down.

Let’s all take a break and watch the clip, and then come back and discuss it.  Let’s pay careful attention to about the 1:12 mark, where we see him flying through the clouds.

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