Thursday miscellanea #73

• This is a great article on the physics of space battles.  If you love human space exploration, science fiction, or both, it’s a marvelous read.
• Go read Jay Nordlinger on our esteemed president getting a little comeuppance (though I’m certain he’s too deluded to realize it, and it’s not like the mainstream media would point such a thing out).  On the Middle East, Barack Obama was heard to utter “I’ll be honest with you.  This is just really hard.”  Brilliant, Mr. President!  I mean, what biting analysis!  Shall we thumb back through all of the uninformed bile you spat at George W. Bush over the Middle East?  Wouldn’t that be fun?  I think I’ll make that a future post.
• I’m spending a cheat tonight.  The first red meat I will eat in 2010 will come in the form of some Papa Murphy’s five-meat stuffed pizza, and hell yes, I’m looking forward to it.  A big nasty grease bomb pizza was really the only red meat item I badly craved last month.
• Speaking of my waistline, my two miles daily is going to have to come gradually, because it’s hitting me much harder than I anticipated.  I’m taking baseline measurements this week, and scaling up 10% weekly until I get there.  Probably this will mean about 1.4 miles daily next week, then 1.54 the week after that, then 1.7…  It’s all about making it stick, and I think pounding it out this week would have had a lot of resentment/rebellion potential.
• My poor, beloved Crimson Tide had to settle for the #3 or #5 class signed this year, depending on which bunch of nitwits you ask.  As BamaDan pointed out, when you’re loaded everywhere, you slip a couple of notches because a bunch of incoming redshirts are guaranteed.  These are fine, fine problems to have.
• Someone left a wooden cross leaning on one of the rocks at a pagan worship circle, recently constructed and opened by the Air Force.  This is a hate crime.  Yawn.
• Google and the National Security Agency are partnering.  Don’t worry, though—it’s just to help analyze a specific attack from China.  The NSA isn’t going to read your email, or monitor you online, or anything.  Keep not worrying about Google.

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