Archive for January, 2008
Friday, January 25th, 2008
I’m sending a prayer to the family of Lorraine Allard, the UK woman who delayed cancer treatment in order to ensure her baby would have a chance to live.
Stories like this will lift your spirit at the same time they crush your heart; it’s beautiful and tragic.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
I know the market is going down. I’m just happy it’s finally stopped going sideways. I personally don’t sell short or deal with put options (or options in general). I had quit looking at my accounts for the past six months (I’m exagerating) because it was always the same number.
Now, where [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I did a Google search for death penalty sentences on 23 Jan 2008 and there didn’t appear to be any judicial activity from most of the usual suspects (China, Iran, Texas). Nor had anybody in the world appeared to have been found guilty of heresy or blasphamy against Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Confucians, or most of [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Today Huck, Boat, Gilligan, and I went all-out to try to make life miserable for Kane, Topper, Bosco, and Rost. We threw ‘em the kitchen sink and they handled us pretty well.
The interesting thing was we were fighting near the leading edge of a blizzard that was approaching the airspace and [...]
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Bill Whittle over at Eject!Eject!Eject! has a great essay about John Boyd and the OODA loop and how it applies to competitive decision-making in almost any sphere (mostly war).
Iowahawk (caution-language) had an interesting satire on a New York Times piece. Actually, any satire by Iowahawk is practically by-definition "interesting." I’m [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The first shot in the arm was a really fun SEAD mission. Gilligan, Lt Col Z, Scooter, and I flew out to the training area with my old friend Cash and his wingman Motor playing Red Air. We shot our way in, shot our way out, took a couple extra shots at some theoretical SAMs for good [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Yesterday my family and a friend of my wife’s all caravan’d out to Hachimantai to try some skiing there. We hit the Panorama side, which had six or seven easy and well-groomed runs (two or so had decent powder in the morning that was gone by midday, since it wasn’t snowing). The other families [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Family & Friends, Fitness & Health | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Here’s a computer-generated video of the F-15 that broke up in mid-flight back in November via Air Force AimPoints and CNN.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Stalker, Stiffler, Gilligan, and I all went out today to knock out some ACM. Stalker and I kept the Blue role all day. We knocked out two defensive perch sets, two intercepts, and a handful of "Tap the CAP" sets in before we all ran out of gas. We pulled a lot of G’s [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Rest in peace, Andrew. And great job thinking of this!
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