City and state

Are these chips widely available across the country? During the last contest I had trouble finding any place that carried them locally, and I live smack dab between Washington and Baltimore— not in the middle of nowhere.

Well, it's not as if replacements didn't step up in the comics, right? Bucky became Captain America for a while and Rhodey became Iron Man, so it could happen. Chris Evans has already come out as saying he wants to leave the role of Cap to become a director. RDJ is only under contract for Avengers 2 now, so it can…

I'm thinking that, perhaps, Stark would have been under extreme scrutiny by SHIELD and, through them, Hydra. Approaching him might have been too risky, even if he was closer to Camp Lehigh, NJ than they were to Wilson, in D.C.

After the events of Iron Man 3, with Stark exploding all his suits and finally doing away with the shrapnel in his chest, removing the need for his arc reactor, it would seem that he's really taken himself out of the game. Now with the revelation that Hydra was involved in the death of his parents, might that be what…

Very true, though the Hawaiian Islands were on full alert for a long time after the aerial assault. The danger was very real to those living there at the time. Since we're already in a speculative mode, why not also consider how the war in the Pacific would have changed had the Japanese actually invaded Oahu, or…

Gotta love the old AT4 anti-tank rocket. I trained on those during Army basic training on Fort Knox. Of course, shooting live rockets as complete noobs is expensive (and dangerous) so the training launchers were fitted with breech loading 9mm firing chambers at the back of the practice tube. The trainee would raise…

I'm a P-38 guy myself, though the 'Stang is a beauty all her own. The -38 was perfect for the Pacific Theater.

I highly recommend "How the Allies Won", by Richard Overy. He really explains how, in some circumstances, it was won before it started.

Much has been said about German engineering, most of it true. I would not deny that, on a technical level, most German weapons of war during WWII were world class. Their tanks, their aircraft, their warships and submarines, even their small arms. Let's not forget their 88-millimeter artillery, probably one of the…

The Me-262 was held back primarily by its two delicate and very temperamental Juno jet engines. They were subject to mechanical failure at the worst possible time and, worst of all, took a very long time to accelerate the aircraft (by jet standards)— a limitation Allied pilots took advantage of. Me-262's were very…

Until last night, it was Big Trouble in Little China.

I have Verizon FIOS as my cable TV provider and my (Quantum) internet access. The thing I dislike the most is that, because I have that Double Play bundle of theirs, I cannot drop just the TV service because subscription rate for the internet package alone would skyrocket.

A couple of my buddies are co-founders of Darkon (Google it, a documentary was filmed about them) and we attended a special screening for this in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago, along with many Darkon and other LARPers. The movie was a hit with this group. Although it was not 100% accurate, according to them, it…

I agree. Make it fun and approachable and I think people will be okay with Rocket Raccoon and Groot. It's easy to forget almost 40 years later that, in Star Wars, the idea of robots (droids, in this case) can be major characters and big, walking carpets who only growled would ever be accepted by movie goers, but…

You're absolutely correct in what the acronym stood for, but it was pronounced as the word. Kind of like "snafu".

By the early 90's the F-111's main role had been assumed by the F-15E Strike Eagle, though some did participate. They played a big role in a strike against Libya in 1986.

"Aardvark" was just the colloquial name aircrews gave it, much like "Warthog" was given to the A-10 and "Buff" was given to the B-52. Strangely enough, the F-111 did not receive its official nickname until its retirement ceremony.

Take it from me, "Schindler's List" is not a very good first date movie choice.