Here is an interesting comparison of the US M1 Abrams (left of picture) and the South Korean K1 (right):


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I've grown old. Whatever youthful font of inspiration I drew upon earlier has shriveled. The sun has passed its zenith, nightfall cannot be too far off now.

Well, not exactly. I am terrified of aging. Aging is bullshit.

When some bacteria divide, all the worn-out, damaged pieces of molecular machinery, along with the waste products that the ( Read more... )

March 24th appears to be an unremarkable day, from a historical perspective. James I was an OK king, I suppose, and Timur Lenk sacked Damascus. But Timur sacked lots of places; that was sort of his thing. Well, that and stacking the skulls of the former property owners of said places into pyramids.Sadly, the body of critical scholarship ( Read more... )

I am mostly un-sick. The process has been long, but this did not stop me from going to a concert a week ago. Was I still infected? Perhaps. I could have gone up to another attendee and coughed in their face. Infected the whole human race.

I am exhausted and uninspired, but moving forward. There is no other option.

I am in the process of recovering from a profound tonsil infection. By "in the process of recovering" I mean "am carpet-bombing my microbiome with antibiotics like it's Dresden ( Read more... )

This summer it will be the 100th anniversary of the suicide of Western Civilization. I have yet to absorb a comprehensive history of this remarkable calamity. The conventional explanation for it is that everyone in positions of power was, well, rather dim. This would appear on the face of it a monstrous coincidence, but I have yet to read ( Read more... )

I have done something to deeply offend my muse, but we are in counseling now and hopefully everything will be back to normal ( Read more... )

Naturally, the news coverage is atrocious and only conveys the fact that the man has died and that journalists do not know what they are talking about ( Read more... )

Work is a gas, which expands to fill the available free time ( Read more... )

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