May 2013 - Argghhh!

Our *cough* illustrious Vice President has just issued a handwritten note on his wishes to develop Choklit Weaponry...

Wonder what this does to the barrel harmonics? Even if the mounting is such that the barrel is unaffected, you're taking your nice tidy battle rifle and making it a tad unwieldy. And where am I going to put the bayonet? And why do I kinda want one?

Crowd-sourcing. Market-based strategerizing! And I mean it. Ever wonder why so many things that seemed to go right, don't, anymore? Welcome to the League of Mad Strategists Bottom line up-front (because it's at the end of the article): "Memo to statesmen and commanders: decentralize your organizations, push authority down to junior people, and watch marvels commence." An argument for a Federalist (vice Federal) approach to problem solving. Of course, the Germans have called this...

...if you don't already, because I'm late to the game, I admit. Broken and Unreadable. Been there, done this, got the t-shirt.

"Simon's gone." I hate emails that start like that, because it means a friend is no longer with us. Dusty has lost his wingcat. Hit by a car on the highway in front of our house. Wife and daughter saw his body on the way to school. I brought him back, wrapped in a t-shirt and we buried him in the fields out behind our home. He was our oldest and the most dignified of cats--never bullied, never shoved anybody out of the way for food. We rescued him from the pound in Newport News, huddled...

BOQ

...up on Gunner's Ridge. H/t, TheoSpark via JMH.