amfisher.bsky.social
Attorney, gamer (computer, RPG, tabletop), GM, husband, father, occasional author. Hatch Act restricted, so don't expect much politics.
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Our bank is the same way; everything but Zelle on the website, Zelle only on the app. I don't get it, I don't like it, but otherwise I do like my bank, so . . . meh.
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"Behind one door is a ladytiger, behind the other a tigerlily. Choose wisely."
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ThingThor, which is either Thor with a skin condition or The Thing with a hammer.
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They're planning on taking bets on geopolitical events, and the house always has to be the best informed. "OK, Bob, odds on an upcoming Brazilian incursion into Venezuela? We're thinking long." "Ah, but you haven't seen the latest reporting from our agents in Caracas, have you?"
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The untold part of every genie story is the hundreds of smart-asses the genie smote into dust before finding the right person. No one ever reads the fine print: "The genie shall, at its sole discretion, discorpulate and/or otherwise render terminal anyone abusing wishes."
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The communicating with the far future stuff from the WIPP program are some of the best uses of taxpayer dollars in US history.
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The Navy enters the building, turns off the lights, and closes the doors.
The Air Force gets a twenty year lease on the building with an option to buy.
This hasn't been updated for Space Force yet, so I'll say Space Forces watches the Air Force and does what they did.
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It's an old DoD joke. The SecDef wants to compare the services, so he asks each to 'secure' a building.
The Army flattens the building with artillery and rolls tanks into the ruins.
The Marines lay down suppressing fire and charge into the building before raising the flag on the roof.
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Your sister visits. But didn’t she fall to the vampire lord?
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Yeah, yeah; the bookcase on the opposite wall is full of Tom Clancy and George R.R. Martin.
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Then the answer is "Putin will try to take all the football fields, but end up with none."
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US or everyone else's football?
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First, nice pictures. Second, I read this a fieldworks initially, and thought those were some damn deep trenches for combat.
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Bill Gibson gave us haptic combat units (and subsequent haptic disorders) in The Peripheral. Reality gives us haptic Arby's.
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At a minimum the fly over may be problematic.
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Rhonda: You all cannot spell for shit.
Bunk: Well, would we be police if we could?
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"Fiddlesticks, Kirk. Feed the tribbles and what have you got? Fat tribbles." - Line from the episode in which Mary Poppins is revealed to be a Q.
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I swear to god every time I see something like that I assume I've been hacked and shut everything down.
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I had to look this one up. Wiki kindly informs me that "Bristol Brabazon" is not to be confused with "Brabazon, Bristol."
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What a group.
Albert Sydney "Why is my boot wet" Johnson.
William J. "I can't get along with anyone" Hardee.
Earl "Your wife" Van Dorn.
Edmund Kirby "Going down to Mexico" Smith.
Robert "Wins only in easy opponent mode" E. Lee.
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It's all those ex-Marines out there. (Ducks and runs from incoming fire.)
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The author does a good job in digging into motivation and personality, and traces a career built for spying. She was the DIA Cuba expert and a Cuban spy, collecting for Cuba while possibly downplaying any threat Cuba played. If you're looking for a good but forgotten spy story, pick this one up.
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The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a metaphor the current generation doesn't understand.
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Mystery moth meat.
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Seconded.
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The original version, before the suits got a hold of it.
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I can't think of a faster way for them to lose financial support from donors.
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I doubt I'd have to walk more than a block from my house to encounter both.
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Stuart should have invited Col. Cooke to Yellow Tavern, let him bury the hatchet.
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I get it; I was looking up Russian mountains ranges but just kept getting bad URLs.
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But a fish that's swimming upside down probably won't be swimming much longer.
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Theoretical law always does look down on the practical, like physics to engineering.
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My dad did 20 in the US Army, left as an LTC. Got to MAJ pretty fast because of Vietnam, and then everything just stalled. They offered him a COL if he would extend beyond 20 and drag us all out to Ft. Riley, but he wisely declined.
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Join the regular army. Get sent to the West as a Lt. Spend the next 20 years getting to Captain. War! Suddenly you're a Major General. Peace! Welcome back, Captain.
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They'll have the M60 armored vehicle launched bridge Moses as well.
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And that novel will be by Tom Clancy.
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So it lost a nice game of chess. How does it do at global thermonuclear war?
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As someone pithier than I said: "My country right or wrong. When right, to be celebrated; when wrong, to be fixed."
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Guess they're worried about someone trying to play Tank Man from Tiananmen Square.
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His name is Melvin, and he enjoys French poetry and macramé. He may be a tussock moth, but he's not only a tussock moth.
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I don't disagree; I had my law school copy of the Bluebook for twenty years, finally bought a new copy. And I use it. But some of the picayune stuff in there is just unnecessary, and goes a distance to explaining why some folks don't like lawyers - because we'll argue over a quote mark.
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What's that line about academia? The drama is so high because the stakes are so low.
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A few wargames; Milton Bradley's Fortress America; XTR's Rising Sun (not sure I have that title right); the absurd Sushi-Jalapeno War, about a joint Mexican-Japanese invasion of the West Coast (as stupid as it sounds).
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The book also remind us that the Chinese got to Rome long before the Europeans got to China, and that the Arabs and Africans knew about central Africa even though it was a blank on European maps.
I mentioned short - apparently Norton Pubs is now doing 'shorts,' books under 200 pages.
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The central theory of the book - that European exploration of the world was also the world's exploration of Europe (and the world) - is timely. We remember the white guys but not the people that kept them alive as guides, or even as near co-equals.
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Gordon should have become Sherman, just as a warning shot.