from a conversation earlier today:

(2:38:05 PM) monred1: Rotsa Ruck ( Read more... )

somebody had way too much free time on their hands

(If the link doesn't work for you, click start->run, and type in "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" into the command line.)

riteturn reflects on the sad state of government affairs and lip service paid by all too many public servants to the documents that make their offices possible.

http://riteturn.livejournal.com/10391.html

Tom Kratman surprised me.

Let me rephrase that. Tom Kratman surprised me, close to a month after the fact.

Close to a month ago, I was at RavenCon, and picked up a free copy of Tom's latest novel Caliphate from the Baen Schwag Bureau (there's benefits to being a Barfly). I read it that week, and was pleasantly entertained by the surface story ( Read more... )

The Music Thing will not be seen this week, since I'm posting this from the port terminal at Québec City.

There will be a music thing (and perhaps a few essays I'm beginning to draft in my head) when I return to the States next week.

In the meantime, I offer this LJ icon courtesy brownkitty as a tribute to all the lady 'Flies.

While reading the Bar yesterday, I found This Quiz, testing your leadership style, and matching it to various military commanders.

Who knew that I was Teddy Roosevelt returned?

(several of the 'Flies wound up with Sherman...surprise, surprise...)

Veteran (vet · er · en)
Someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount "of up to and including my life".

(Author Unknown)

...as if scores of Barflies prepared to hide the bodies....

Happy 18th, pistolthewombat

"When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away. I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy."

(Said by Moscow, ID resident David Klingenberg at a recent town meeting).

Ahh, the things you find, reading Baen's Bar.

Given:

• The number of doctors in the US: 700,000
• Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000

and therefore


• Accidental deaths per physician: 17.14%

(Statistics courtesy of the US Department of Health & Human
Services)

And Furthermore, given:

• The number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000
• The number of accidental gun deaths per year ( Read more... )