Posted in Games and Quizzes, History on Aug 19th, 2008
If you know me, you know I’m not a huge sports fan. And you know that I don’t care for math. But, strangely enough, I do appreciate something that is prevalent in both of these fields — statistics. The interwebz have made gathering, processing, and displaying large amounts of statistical data. Here are a couple [...]
Posted in Birds, History, Vexillology on Aug 7th, 2008
You know what I like? Flags. They’re just symbols, of course, and like frackin’ crackers, they aren’t particularly special by themselves, and their maltreatment can breach dams of pent-up emotions and irrationality and make life unpleasant for all involved. But I still like the craft involved in encapsulating a bit of the culture [...]
Posted in History on Jul 17th, 2008
So I found this in William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, from 1960, which I’ve been reading through since I found a first edition while I was out antiquing with David. Shirer is fleshing out the organizational structure and leading figures of the S.A. (the Sturmabteilung, or stormtroopers: paunchy, stupid, [...]
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