Borepatch

Dad loved this music.  The "Three Tenors" were the top operatic tenors of their day: Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, and Luciano P...

Last month I put up a book review of Sergeant Rex , a bomb sniffing Marine Corps dog in the battle of Fallujah.  When I put up that post I h...

Well, mystified.  It must be really hard for them to understand us. And as to the testicles bit, Wolfgang can confirm this truth: I...

I don't know who's a tougher SOB, the pilot who took this P-38 down to an altitude of 7 feet or the photographer who took the pictur...

I had a fabulous German dinner at Alpharetta's Breadtime Bistro and Provisions , which I think is the best German food I've had on t...

The Call of Duty videogame franchise is coming out with (yet another) new edition, Ghosts .  One of the new "weapons" is a Militar...

I guess I should start off with a warning here: it's not at all probable that you really can.  However, people have been pinging me, and...

Not particularly surprising : Whistleblower Edward Snowden apparently used a USB thumb-drive to smuggle out hundreds of top-secret docume...

OK, so the EEOC has just issued a rule that it's illegal for an employer to refuse to hire someone simply because they are convicted fel...

A big storm rolled through and the power is out all over. Lots of trees down - Georgia 400 into Atlanta is blocked by a downed tree. Georgia...

Wolfgang rescues a stick from the raging flood. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Vickery Creek, Roswell GA

I'm surprised that there's this much stuff out there .  And I can neither confirm nor deny this: A little before my time, but n...

While this sort of thing would certainly be good business for me personally, color me skeptical : Hacking attacks present a bigger risk to...

Awesome. Yo, NSA Dawg!  Heh.

Good.

I mean, who doesn't?

2cents emails to point out that Faith is being questioned even in the halls of the New York Times : The rise in the surface temperature of...

June's Patch Tuesday includes a critical fix for IE that covers all versions of IE on all versions of Windows.  That's just the sort...

David Brooks is caught admiring the perfectly creased trousers of the NSA : Edward Snowden isn't the betrayer.  The betrayers are the ...

Someone has to listen in on all those Verizon calls [language warning]: No wonder they want computers to do this.  It's inhumane.