Yikes. Hopefully it isn't cancelled. My sales rep and I were booked on a connecting flight that was the last flight out and it was cancelled due to weather, so we spent the night in the airport.
BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans
Oof. The worst I have had were 11 hours overnight in SEATAC and 8 hours overnight in Charlotte.
That doesn't count the 7 hour layover in Heathrow when I went to the quiet room for a nap and somebody stole the watch off my wrist.
I've been reading Alan Judd, Legacy. It is a good spy novel set in mid 1970s Britain. Lots of good tradecraft which helps the reader suspend disbelief. Sort of like what people say about John Le Carré: "Fiction but true."
My daughter's sorority sister came to visit yesterday, so I made taco Tuesday on a Monday. I made pollo asado and or carne asada, guacamole, shredded cabbage, sliced radishes, homemade restaurant style salsa, and Mexican crema.
This article advocates a responsible approach to AI education. We have struggled with the problem of the average person being mastered by the technology instead of mastering it since the iPhone. Until you understand how it works (and how it manipulates you) users are its slave.
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Too bad nobody has piston driven aircraft with long dwell times and low altitude performance anymore. The US Navy retired its A-1D Skyraiders in 1973.
A lot of US mine countermeasures is done via MH-60 helicopter.
Here's a link to the US Navy's deets on the LCS program:
www.navy.mil/Resources/Fa...
Add a letter, ruin a song
Magic Bust
I was born in Los Angeles. Orange is a one syllable word: ornj.
I came across an ad for a middle management position with no direct reports, just supervising AI agents and checking their work.
AI is doing to Silicon Valley tech work what Japanese steel did to the mills of Pennsylvania. 10% job loss in one year. You should see my neighborhood. The Teslas are going off lease and being replaced by used Honda Civics. Many homes are going on the market to cash out equity.
If it were 70s and 40s it would describe my taste in movies. Both were eras of gritty dramas.
Pear clafoutis for dessert.
You do have the extra wrinkle of registering as a foreign agent.
Premium was above that in 2022 in the SF Bay Area. I filled up my car (22 gal tank) for $186 in Oakland one time.
At least right now, the only part of the gov’t hiring is DHS. Austerity everywhere else.
AI ate my tech job right after I completed a PhD in Politics (my area is military operations other than war). Add me to the list. So much austerity in gov’t and gov’t adjacent that I despair of ever making the career change.
Put on Deee Lite’s album World Clique and I am getting nostalgic for the carefree 90s.
Pentagon's failure of imagination. Nobody thought, "Gee back in the age of piston driven planes we used to use anti-aircraft artillery. Navy ships are equipped with CIWS for last ditch defense, why not something equivalent ashore?" The Army retired VADS decades ago. Maybe rethink that.
I did the back of the envelope calculations per the classic paper "Force Requirements for Stabilization Operations" by Quinlivan, and for a low threat peacekeeping deployment you'd need ~185k troops, ~610k for a counterinsurgency, and up to ~2m for a surge to quell a civil war.
It has been years since I saw The Third Man. I got the itch after a bit of dialogue from an episode of The Recruit: “Vienna is the espionage Olympics.” The Third Man is a great movie. The lighting and cinematography especially.
I danced in an Argentine tango show from 2003 to 2008.
I have read it three times and I am still trying to parse that sentence.🤷♂️
After having my bare foot shredded by Tangerine for the second time in three days, I have clipped her claws. Please 👏
How to maximize corporate productivity from a spy novel: "Have a clear aim, a reason for a meeting, know what it is you want to come away with; if you can't state your aim in a sentence, don't put the agent to the risk of a meeting." If all meetings met this standard...
Alan Judd, Legacy, p. 160.
Yeah. I bought the Traveler. It’s my second Akubra.
I needed a hat for a trip to Africa. Akubra makes really nice hats. Expensive but you get what you pay for.
Hopefully you got to visit the Field Museum of Natural History. It is a really fine natural history museum.
