You can also turn on the captions if watching the movie on disc. There they helpfully label the henchman “Brax” the first time he is in a conversation with another person. Got that twist out of the way a bit earlier than originally intended, I think.

I love sports broadcasts in foreign countries, but my favorite story of all time involves a friend of mine.

My wife’s water broke at about two in the morning. We got to the hospital, and it turned out my son wasn’t quite ready to be born yet, so my wife entered into a grueling 15 hour “passive” labor.

With regards to the Clintons boning, it is worth pointing out that Frederick’s of Hollywood gave matching his and her American Flag g-strings to the couple as an inauguration gift for Bill in ‘92.

“Paths of Glory” is on my list of all-time great movies. Just the idea that you can go over the top in trench warfare and still be tried for lacking the fighting spirit when you fail to capture the enemy’s trench or die while running directly into a constant barrage of gun fire is brutal. WWI was all kinds of screwed…

We use AIS to track vessels in close to real tone, both our fleet and others. Once you match up scheduling to tracking data, it is really easy to figure out the vessel in question.

Is it wrong that I’m looking forward to this more than Episode 8? The Dirty Dozen set in this cinematic universe? Hell yes.

Amazing how the weirdest coincidences can sink someone. A while back I worked for a marine freighting company in their corporate office. One morning, while listening to the local sports radio station, one of the co-hosts mentioned kayaking next to a large freighter while it was navigating in port when a deckhand…