(Leaving Texas in 2 days... I will miss you guys) Guardrail Day Collsup : What’s he that wishes so? My Battalion Commander? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark’d for detail, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour...
(Leaving Texas in 2 days... I will miss you guys) Guardrail Day Collsup : What’s he that wishes so? My Battalion Commander? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark’d for detail, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour...
Not only have I been negelecting to blog for the weeks since returningto the states but I was also negelcting to even keep up with all the Blogs on my blogroll. That sorry state of affairs has now been corrected thankfully. Some were easy like Talisein who simply can't be bothered to update now that he is a high and mighty civilian. (ah sanctimony is even better when seasoned liberally with essence of hypocrisy) O...
Hello all, Sorry to be away for so long but it has been odd being back and i never seemed to have much luck actually loading JU over the course of the last couple of weeks. I promise a real update later today but for right now I will simply highlight this article on the recent shocking nudity in video games... Until then just remember : Happiness is a dead and mangled terrorist
At long last all of our vehicles have been washed, flenshed, purged, poked, prodded, inspected, and put on the damn boat! I may not be back in the States yet, but I will be within days. For the record : Fuck Kuwait and every grain of sand in it. The people who settled here were either quitters or pessimists. Honestly who the fuck were the people who decided to live in this shithole? Fahad the Goat-herder circa 200 B.C. : &n...
Credit : Slashdot Update : I ama retard. Link to the article about Yahoo is here and also fixed in the article's main body. Way back in Jun 04 I wrote a bit about AOL's sketchy practice of marketing their Kid's Only Rooms as "a safe environment on the Net" all the while knowing that it was like putting up a giant sign saying "All the little kiddies are right here!" for the net pedophiles. AOL still reaps huge profit from unsavvy paren...
(Update Version 2.0 : Wanderer's take on this can be found here and I think I finally got that last pesky misspelled instance of "toture" out of this article) (Update : Torture is insanely difficult to type correctly. I think I got them all now but if not, tough.) There is going to be a lot of political hay made about the torture occuring at Getmo for months to come and rightly so as the nation has a need to decide on what our t...
Hello folks Yes I am still alive. The vaunted Iraqi insurgency didn't manage to get that lucky mortar round in after all (pause to moon the Jaysh Al-Mahdi et al...) I am not back in the states yet but I am getting a bit closer. Right now we are at an unnamed staging area trying to get our trucks clean enough to pass the customs inspection to alllow them back into the U.S. The thng is that every time we go to the washrack (picture an industri...
You can buy a college degree online, but prostitution is illegal. Think of that and then tell me who fucks more people? If you think the latter, try working for the former… Pot is illegal, liquor isn’t… What’s the fucking difference, really? If you don’t think alcohol is a “gateway drug”, talk to your kids after prom night… If Christianity is the religion of Jesus, and he cared more about lepers, whores, and outcasts than the rich, “religious”, and well-fed… how come there are st...
Just came in from setting up the reception for the change of command we have here today. It is 106 degrees under the shade of the gazebo and somewhat hotter than that outside of the gazebo. Me and another guy who has been in the Army almost as long as I have laid out the buns, salad, near beer, and other sundry items so that everyone can pretend that the ceremony is for the soldiers (who hate these things) after the officers get done stroking each other of...
Hi, my name is Greywar and I'm a caffaholic. I thought that powering down Sobe No Fears mixed with cheap Vodka while simultaneously chewing guarana laced gum and freebasing instant coffee mix was rock bottom and when I was snorting lines of crushed caffinated mints off our medic's ass *sob* *sniff* I was sure I could sink no farther! The group sessions have helped a little and I am really grateful for the methadone mocha lat...
Just got a new scam that made it through the spam filter. This one looks like a delivery failure notification but it is from an email that you never sent. Wose still is that it has a semi legit link at the bottom to an article at Der Speigel. All the Kenyan email addresses on it suggest something nefarious though... A Sample... waxe@amirankenya.com annemurungi@amirankenya.com alari@amirankenya.com ...
Ol' Bill opined recently that the iPod will likely lose a large chunk of it's market share to cell phones in the near future and I have to agree with him. I love mp3 players but I won't carry one around with me just to hear music. That's just the way I am. I won't pay several hundred bucks for a largely one-trick pony. My wife has a Blackberry (she needed a new phone) and while I have never actually laid hands on hers (I bought it for...
I do not own and iPod but they are something of craze in the rest of my unit. Most of the folks that own them are not techies just average soldier types and they love them. In the course of performing a music related task for one of these guys I found this : JHymn and it's wealth of features (namely the stripping of DRM encryption from iTunes music). I have used professional commercially sold software that is less robust, less fu...
The LTC isn't feeling very loved lately so he has taken to coming into the the TOC and demanding that we watch whatever he likes on TV. The man has his own room with his own TV in it. You want to watch a Hajji copy of "The Pacifier"? Fine, watch that shit in YOUR OWN GODDAMN ROOM! It isn't our fault you have no friends. Arrgh... the man is pathetic...