No one else I know (as far as I know) has been watching the HBO series The Pacific. But for myself, this has been more exciting than any major movie franchise over the past decade. I know a lot about ww2 history, and yet there's so much I don't know or things I don't know in great depth. By now I have a well rounded picture of warfare over the 20th ( Read more... )

Not one, but TWO A/B-26 aircraft flew about 1,000' (I *want* to say less) over my house (only slightly to the north) tonight! They sound AWESOME! I'm patiently hoping another will fly over so I can snatch a video of it.

wikipedia article about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Last year I bought all of my gifts at the last minute at one large book store, and I was able to find something good for everyone on my list. Sadly, I was unable to get some particular books because they didn't have any stocked, but I'll be sure to get some of the Sardine in Outer Space books for gifts this year ( Read more... )

I've been putting a lot of thought into starting a comic (a web comic, that is) that indulges my fascination with the 1940's, largely ww2 related. I've been an Einstein fan as long as I can remember, and throughout my whole life I've come to learn quite a lot about that part of history. Life today is so heavily based in what happened during the ( Read more... )