CrashbotUS

On the fourth book of the Expanse series. Apparently there is a show based on it now. 

Archer is a pretty swanking artillery piece. 

I had some political polling folks come to my house today. Despite the "No Trespassing" signs and the "Go Away" door mat, they still rang my bell. I shook my cane at them and threaten to hit them with the hose. If I had hounds to release, I would have. 

So basically Slavs are like the Irish but with worse music and clinical depression?

Yeah, trying being both. I'm surprised I've made this long. 

Yeah, wouldn't want to break with tradition. 

I only care about local elections anymore. 

Surprisingly I was able to find good places open through that whole mess. I flew in on Thursday afternoon and left Monday evening. 

Dinner the other night in DC, right before "snowmageddon". 

I learned that no matter how much whiskey I drink, I cannot jump over a 10 foot tall snow bank. 

Slavs can stop fighting each other any time now. 

When I was there back in August we stopped at a relatives house in Brovary and the way to our destination. It devolved into a shouting match between my various family members about which side was "in the right". I left and walked to a bar. 

Good times. 

Look's like Crashbot finally got his BRDM 

Who invited Rasputin to the party, again? 

My town doesn't have any Russians (that I know of). 

You should move. 

My mother always speaks Russian when she calls me and it takes a while to figure out who the hell is on the other line and what the hell they are saying. 

I speak English. I speak/read Russian/Ukrainian which is my first language, but since I do not need to use it everyday (and I am old) I forget things often. I have a slightly more than basic functional understanding of Irish and I know enough French, Spanish, and German to get by as a non-asshole tourist. 

My best advice for learning Russian is to be around Russians. If you can read Cyrillic, you should start listening to how people speak those letters naturally.  TV and radio are a good place. If you have a large enough Russian community, just go to a restaurant or cafe and listen to people talk.  You can to try to talk to people when you order, believe me, if you are doing it wrong, they will tell you.  

fill you will a quivering fount of uncontrollable fear and hatred where your humanity used to be.

 

 

Just when I thought I couldn't replace any more of my humanity with hate, I saw that image. 

I guess I shouldn't be surprised there is MLP porn. Rule 34 and all...

Animea soundtracks are so terrible. 

Best picture of the war. 

If there was ever a case for reforestation, it's Detroit. Actually, cities all across what used to be the northern industrial heartland are in a similar state of disrepair. Rather than trying to polish a turd, just let nature have it back . 

A friend of mine is at CES now doing live Facebook updates. Apparently VR and 3D are all the rage this year and some of it is not terrible. 

Isn't Rey a bit young to be Obi Wan and Satines daughter? Maybe grand daughter. 

I also said the exact same thing about Clone Wars and Rebels. They Disneyfied the animation and that ruined it. 

The only issues I see are mainly physiological and deal with bone mass and the likelihood of increased stress fractures in females under a combat load. These types of injuries make you combat ineffective and decreases the readiness of your unit.

 For the Army at least,  aside from a few specific jobs (11b, 18x, 19d, and 13f) repeatedly carrying around a bunch of heavy stuff (which is when the bone mass situation arises)  isn't really an issue, so females should be able to hit the ground running in those. 

I'd be willing to do some multiplayer but I have no idea what I am doing.