I was using a old bench power supply to power some led lights, 12 volts ~<6 amps "Bang" a gunshot rings out, the lights go out.
Acrid grey smoke billows from the power supply.
The power supply post mortem shows a capacitor, the size of a old film 35mm film canister, with its guts blown out.
The date on the power supply shows 1959. The capacitor now costs $35.
Undoubtedly patterned after the British Green Jackets of Napoleonic War fame, the Sharpshooters were the brainchild of Colonel Hiram Berdan, and they had performed superbly throughout the war.
So be careful, Sharp's rifles could mean Richard Sharpe's squad of sharpshooters fighting Napoleon using Baker flintlock rifles, or it could mean rifles designed by Christian Sharps 40 years later. Note that in both cases we are talking about rifles as opposed to smooth bore muskets. The Baker was a flintlock, the Sharps used percussion caps.
The Grandmaster Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang Movie HD
The Grandmaster is about 50% Kung Fu fighting, 10% cryptic pronouncements and maybe 2% history of mid 20th century China. The rest of it is ominous scenes. So, not the greatest movie in the world, but very impressive photography. It's kind of weird, the movie is flowing through dark rooms full of shady characters making profound / confusing statements and occasionally attacking, and you're going along with it, wholly immersed in this gangster milieu and then, out of the blue, they dump some real world stuff on you, like "and then the Japanese invaded China". A little disconcerting.
I've never seen such attention paid to lighting a cigarette. There is a bit of a story, but you kind of have to drag it out of the cryptic sayings and beat into it some semblance of coherency, and it's not much of a story anyway, or maybe I'm not willing to work that hard to extract it all. But maybe that wasn't the point. The one thing to take away is that there was a man in China by the name of Ip Man who was Bruce Lee's teacher.
P.S. Foshan, a focal point for much of the story, is just about 50 miles inland from Hong Kong, still on the same bay.
When I read the lines from 1 Corinthians that are so beloved of marriage celebrants, I do not form the impression that humans are lovely creatures. Instead, I ask myself why patience, kindness and perseverance are necessary. And the only answers that occur to me are that love is patient because men and women are exasperating, that love is kind because men and women are repellent, and love perseveres because love is very often a dull and unrewarding grind. When Paul tells me that love “is not easily angered,” I take him to mean that the man who loves puts up with a lot because life hands him lots to put up with. - JMSmith
