I have a new icon now (thank you cumaeansibyl), and I'm told that I have to post so that the icon may be exhibited ( Read more... )

*Mackensen dons his Master of the Obvious Hat*

Terrorism exists because organized society can't stop it. If we could eliminate crime we would have done it already.

(The above in response to yet another conspiracy theorist)

Announcement:

Liz and I will be celebrating New Year's in Kalamazoo tomorrow evening and invite all in the area to come round and whatnot. Minor snacks will be provided, and I hereby call dibs on the TV from eight o'clock onwards.

That is all.

Come on and fight, Central, down the field ( Read more... )

And through some mooned Valhalla there will pass
Battalions and battalions, scarred from Hell.
The unreturning army that was youth;
The legions that have suffered, and are dust.
-Siegfried SassoonToday is November 11, 2005. We remember today because 87 years ago, at 11 am somewhere in France, the Western Front fell silent. The war had lasted four ( Read more... )

"I don't actually care about these people, I'm just using them for the vacuum."

Someday I'm going to write a book on the history of the Schlieffen Plan and it's going to be called The Dishonest Book of Lies.

I've talked to some people about this, but now I'm making it official. This Saturday, at 8:00pm, in the suite, I will be screening A Foreign Field. I'm doing this in honor of D-Day, whose 61st anniversary is this Monday. This is perhaps the most touching film I have ever seen, and it features the final performance of Sir Alec Guinness. I can ( Read more... )

Well, the main machine lives again. I suppose it took about 8-10 man-hours, which is probably the fastest I've ever built a linux box from scratch ( Read more... )

Because the library hasn't sent death threats in a while, I've made more shot-in-the-dark ILL requests. I know this material exists somewhere, after all.

Sigismund von Schlichting, "Über das Infanteriegefecht," Beiheft zum Militär-Wochenblatt, 1879, 37-67.
----. "Taktische und strategische Grundsätze der Gegenwart," Beiheft zum Militär-Wochenblatt ( Read more... )