Max Boot wrote in his Washington Post Opinion piece that going to war with Syria wouldn't be such a terrible crisis. He then picks some points that have been bantered about concerning the risks of engaging the Syrian military. He picks apart the Syrian Air Force and Army, as well as Russian relations to show that there's really no problem in going toe-to-toe with Syria; his point is that, in fact, there is no good reason to stay out of Syria now.

     So what gives, right? What is the real source of reluctance coming from the Pentagon concerning Syrian intervention? Boot doesn't address this issue head-on, but rather grazes it with a stray comment lauding prudence in leadership. Then he goes on to assault that prudence head-on.

Mario Easevoli is a man I once knew, and I thought I knew him well, or well enough anyway. I knew he wasn't exactly the clean-cut guy he carried himself as, and I knew he had a past (and what that past was). But I had no idea the depths to which he would sink, dragging his friend and wife down with him.

Google Plus is a fun way to find new sources of content you'd otherwise only find by randomly mashing keys appended with ".com". One particular nugget was this article about some do's and don'ts on your resume. Aside from the fact that I think the author went a bit overboard on his example "Mary", and that listing actual personal interests is an opportunity to present a three-dimensional human being instead of an automaton, he did us all a favor by creating fertile ground for stupid after-blog-comments. Let the games begin.

He's not the only recruiter who seems to miss the boat in the comments section, but certainly the most entertaining and ridiculous. The author, whom Ian-the-bearded-statue is apparently on a first-name basis with, is also the alpha/omega on the realities of successful employment procurement. And he is not to be questioned, especially when jumping out of a plane or simply not sitting in a lawn chair. The rules concerning the questioning of the employment guru are pretty strict. Tim, Mitch told you.  

Recently an NPR science report concering the debate over neutrino speed explained that the testing scientists went public with the admission of a mistake. Aside from the intellectual honesty that everyone can take a lesson from, it also comes with a funny little audio clip, which I've cropped and attached here. Ashley says it would make a funny ringtone :)

I'm a longtime user of OpenBSD and it was easy to see how much simpler it was than your average Linux distro. I always had a hunch that FreeBSD could have a similar comparison made, but WHOA I had no idea until the last 48 hours. Installing Virtualbox on FreeBSD has been, well, a lesson. A lesson in pain and suffering. And as I watch ports compiling and playing their dependency games, I realize that there's a very good reason the BSD community itself sees a striking difference between the different BSD's.

Don't get me wrong, I've used OpenBSD ports heavily, but I can't remember the last time I ran into problem after problem after problem like I have with VBox/FBSD. Le sigh.