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Tab Clearing...

• David Yamane: Sometimes "I Don't Know" is the Right Answer


• Matt G: Pull Up.


• Secretary of Defense Rock: In Defense of Operation Market Garden

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A Basket of Memes!

Automotif DCXVII...

Driving home from TacCon I made a point of pulling over and photographing this Snow White 1958 Edsel Ranger 4-door sedan in Pryor, Oklahoma. (It was parked outside the same shop where I snapped that '57 Dodge wagon back in 2022.)

This is only the third Edsel I can recollect seeing in the wild, with the others being a '58 Citation and a '59 Ranger.

If you want to read the definitive story on Ford's Edsel debacle, it's Bonsall's Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel.

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Meme Dump!

Strange Attractors

I was today years old when I found out that Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, tutored Arlo Guthrie for his bar mitzvah, which is one of those weird pop culture trivia facts on the order of "Samuel Beckett drove Andre the Giant to school."

Coincidences like this feel like the universe is desperately trying to communicate something, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is.

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To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

There are currently ten toilets in space:

• International Space Station: 4
• Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
• Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
• Tiangong Space Station: 2
• Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
• Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit, and the toilet on Artemis II will venture further from earth than any crapper in history. It had a spot of trouble, but the crew and Mission Control successfully fixed it.

They also had trouble with the capsule's computers running two instances of Microsoft Outlook. A lot of talk is made of NASA's SLS rocket using Shuttle-era solid rocket boosters, but it's also worth noting that Microsoft Outlook was first released 25 years after the final Apollo moon mission… …and 29 years before Artemis II.

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War Plans...

I've been collecting proposals to get shipping through the Strait of Hormuz...

TGI Meme-day!

Meme Dump!

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig!

I bailed out of Dallas on Monday morning and overnighted an extra night in Springfield, MO because it was a long and tiring weekend.

Alas, between weather in Missouri and atrocious and unexpected traffic snarls in Illinois, Wednesday’s journey turned into a nightmare. I sat there chewing the steering wheel and watching the ETA on my maps app increment upward until it was predicting well after eight o’clock.

Even before I reached the Wabash river I was starting to nod off behind the wheel, which is never a good sign.

Rather than risk getting kilt inna streets by “Get There-itis”, I made a command decision and grabbed a room last night at the Holiday Inn Express in Terre Haute and finished my journey home this morning.

Glad I went, but even more glad to be home.

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Memes in the Middle of the Week!

Faithful Steed...

The annual Rangemaster Tactical Conference at the Dallas Pistol Club happened over the weekend of March 27th-29th this year. It's been in Dallas since 2021 and will be for the foreseeable future, since it's such a great facility and so centrally located in the US.

This was the second time I drove myself there. The first time I did was back in 2022 when I took the Zed Drei, and on that occasion I stopped in Springfield, Missouri on the way home and fell in love with the twee little Holiday Inn right off I-44. It's like a 5/8ths scale big city hotel, with an atrium and birdcage elevators and the works and if Springfield has an annual sci-fi con then this is where it happens and I'll bet it's adorable.

The Mustang's odometer crapped out a couple years ago while trying to spin the digits past 238,000 miles, but it must have a quarter million miles on the clock now.

I remember my dad fussing with his low-mileage 1955 Ford Thunderbird every summer, trying to get it running and it was barely more than twenty years old at the time with less than 50k on the odo, and here I am hopping in a 32 year old Ford with five times the miles, going "Time to drive to Dallas and back. YOLO!"

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