From the NY Post:

Suspect in NYC stabbings eerily smiled at first victim after random attack: ‘Turned to look at me’

A maniac accused of randomly stabbing multiple people with a hunting knife in Queens flashed a menacing grin at his first victim after slashing him in the back earlier this month, the man told The Post on Wednesday.

The 61-year-old grandfather said he was on his way to the laundromat on Jan. 8 when he was allegedly attacked by 27-year-old Jermain Rigueur.

The man was the first of at least five victims in Queens terrorized during the stabbing spree over the past two weeks, police said.

A suspect in the case was taken into custody Wednesday after a manhunt by the NYPD.

The original story brings to mind the Maksim Gelman stabbing spree.

Rigueur, who lives in Queens, works as a greeter at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, sources said.

No charges had been filed against him as of early Thursday.

The five victims were all left wounded and bleeding when Rigueur allegedly plunged a hunting knife into them, police said.

Then this week, 34-year-old Shaneka Anderson was stabbed as she walked home just after midnight Tuesday from her job with the TSA at LaGuardia Airport.

The next three victims were knifed Wednesday morning, leading cops to alert the media as they began their search for the serial stabber.

The NYPD sounded the alarm at a press conference the same day and blasted out images of the suspect before it took Rigueur into custody that night.

There was a madman on a stabbing spree.

The people were told nothing and it took the police several days to hunt him down.

This is another case where the people of NYC were left defenseless in the face of a madman with a knife while the Waffen NYPD bumble-fucked around uselessly for a while.

The good people of NYC need to be able to defend themselves.

The Bruen decision needs to be enforced in NYC, and the people be allowed to carry concealed to defend themselves.

I attended a get-together on Saturday. One of the other people there started a discussion about firearms and the Second Amendment. Since we were in an area where there were not a bunch of people, and because he was acting in good faith and with an open mind, we engaged in a discussion.

As most such discussions go, it is difficult to pin somebody down. There is a heartfelt need to “do something”.

Some of the issues that I had were his inability to accept that we already know that bad things happen when we give an inch.

A big issue for him was training. The standard, “You are ok, and he is ok, but there are idiots out there that do dumb things, they should have training.”

My response was that a training requirement leads to de facto bans. He claimed that we don’t know that they will. When I listed the states that had done this recently, that was not accepted as proof.

He drove forward with the idea that we could write a law that would be safe from that type of meddling. He invited me to propose language for that.

I went home unhappy with my performance.

Having thought about it a bit, I think my argument should be more along the lines of:

Why do you want to break the law?

Every one of the people that I have discussions with has some sort of acceptable way of working around the Second Amendment. They argue that I should “follow the law” if they pass an unconstitutional law. At the same time, they are unwilling to obey the law, themselves.

Often they want to engage in hypotheticals where they can make such a law.

One of my standard responses is, “If you would like to do that, then you need to pass an amendment. That amendment will then allow you to pass such laws.” I did use it. He’s response was, “You would oppose that?” “Absolutely, totally.”

I then explained that they are pre-existing rights. That the Second Amendment is there to protect those rights. The Second Amendment does not grant those rights.

Regardless, I’m left feeling unsatisfied with my performance. I need more practice.

For my wife’s birthday, a few years ago, I got us tickets to see Scott Bradly’s Postmodern Jukebox. It is the only concert that I have ever paid to see.

He started on YouTube making covers of songs in different styles. In this cover of the Friends theme, they provide it in styles from the 1920s through the actual Rembrandt’s sing their version.

But this is the song I wanted to bring to you. It is one of my wife’s favorite songs. We did see Joey in concert.

I once played a Postmodern Jukebox song at the office, my office mates went down the rabbit hole, and we listened to them for a good solid week.

…and acting stupid. Come fetch it.

Piece of advice: don’t.

GTFO is the right strategy.

This picture is from the Miami vs Kansas City game over the weekend.

Modern football helmets are made from polycarbonate.

Polycarbonate, like all polymers, has a ductile to brittle transition temperature (DBTT).  A temperature at which the material turns brittle like glass.

For polycarbonate, that occurs at roughly 0°F.

There is a test of fracture toughness, called an Izod impact test, in which a sample is struck with a hammer on a pivot, accelerated by gravity.

Izod data for polycarbonate is available.

You can see how much less force it takes to shatter polycarbonate at low temperature.

The temperature at kickoff was -4°F, one of the lowest in NFL history.

A tackle is a high impact event.

A high impact at low temperature causes brittle fracture.

Now consider this in cold weather when you use polymer magazines.

The Marines chose not to adopt PMags because of cold weather testing.

There are many documented examples of other polymer mags failing in the cold, cracking when dropped.

You may love your PMags, but if it gets cold where you live, consider having a selection of metal magazines for cold weather.  Aluminum doesn’t ungerdo brittle transition at low temperatures.

I haven’t ventured out since probably 2 pm yesterday.

House temp is the bottom one. Yes, a tad low but by orders of the missus that is the way it should be. Except the bathroom is to be kept at 90 degrees.

Traffic has been composed of a few vehicles with off-road capabilities and one snowplow that drove by around midafternoon. Nobody is out driving-biking-walking, even the Walking Meths have not come out of their lair.

When is daylight, I may venture out to check final snow accumulation. We are supposed to have a couple of snow-free but cold as hell days, then some more of the white crap on Thursday, clear for the weekend and a possible low of zero-fucking-degrees.