Bachelor Pad

Best finale of Bachelor Pad imaginable. What a great, shocking moment! All hail reality TV, and all Hail King Jeff!

A Walk Home

Walking the kids home from school, 9-10-12

Thank You David Akers

Whooohoo David Akers aka my 14 fantasy point  - at halftime! -  kicker, who just made history by hitting a 63 yrd field goal, tying an NFL record. I want a Packers win, but another 14 points for Aker in the second half would be swell . . . .

I'm confused

In a military history book I'm reading is the following quote, one I don't fully understand. It rationalizes the failure to secure an area on the flank of the advance, saying.  ". . . there are security advantages to be gained from having a dangling flank curve behind an advancing front line; it prevent[s] the enemy from rolling up behind the advancing front line." How is that the case? By leaving the flank occupied by the enemy and pushing forward, isn't the enemy (by definition) already behind your line of advancement?  If you know, please explain.

If you're tactics are highly stressful, then your enemy will be driven before your line of advance, or destroyed by it.  Enemies behind your line of advance result from imperfections in, or the failure of your tactics.  - Fred

Sure, but the author was arguing that leaving the enemy on the flank - in this case - helped secure the rear of the advance. I do not see the logic involved. - Me

With forces on the flank, the enemy is prevented from sending troops in a circular maneuver to come at the rear from an oblique angle. - Fred

update: I wrote the author of that military quote (Eric Hammel) and asked him to explain. Here's what he wrote back: 

It's difficult in 2012 to know exaclty what I was thinking in 1991, but it seems to me now that I had had a line described to me that looked like this (taking into account the limitations of keyboard symbols:

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It would prevent--or at least constrain--an enemy force from rolling up the (in this case) left flank in detail from left to right.

If I'm not mistaken, Patton's right flank was open during the September 1944 part of the advance across France, but XIX Tactical Air Command "dangled" on that side of Third Army and thus provided that sort of flank protection.

I'm Disgusted

I am thoroughly disgusted with having to work as much as I do. I know there are folks here on FB who work more hours and others that seem to get all happy-wappy by working two jobs, but honey, that ain't me. Last weekend I worked 29 out of 48 hours and have pulled several 12 or 13 hour days since then for no appreciable financial gain. Something has to change.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Last night Lisa and I found ourselves at the Value Cinema, watching "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". 

The book was ok, but stretched a gimmick too far. The movie just plain SUCKED. Hokey dialogue, a 4th grader's grasp of history, anachronisms galore, and the mandatory African-American best friend who is treated as Abe's social equal by everyone despite, ya know, it being *1840*. 

Some of the action scenes were wicked good tho', and Mary Todd was hot - possibly the only time that's been said in the last 150 years. 

Lisa slept through most of it, including one embarrassing snoring incident, making her like *the worst date ever*, but the movie wasn't *that* bad. Grade: C-

Never use the verb "sucked" when critiquing a vampire movie. -Fred

it was a 9:55 movie and it was a loooong day!!! - Lisa

excuses, excuses - Me

Quote

It is often better to do the right thing for the wrong reason that the wrong thing for the right reason

Michael Clarke Duncan

R.I.P Michael Clarke Duncan

Two Quotes

"You're worrying about how other people feel at a time when you should only be worrying about yourself."

"There is no such time," she said. -Mr Monk and the Two Assistants, pg 29

Cast down your bucket where you are - Booker T Washington

The Yanks are Back

Thank you Lord! Arod is back in the Yankee lineup for the first time since July 24th. They cut his rehab stint short and recalled him because they needed him, the presence of "The Captain" be damned. Since he went on the DL the Yanks are 18-18 and saw their lead in the division trimmed from seven games to two. I know they sometimes need to give the appearance of fallibility so that fans in other cities mistakenly think they have a shot at a ring, but enough is enough. Time to start doing what Yankees do best: Just Win Baby.