Have heard similar stories from pilots who intercepted/escorted bombers up and down the international airspace line. Favorite was an F-4 pilot who told me about a Bear bubble-gunner who held up a “MiG Pilots Suck Eggs!” sign when they pulled up next to them.

We used to play this chicken game with the Russians back in the ‘80’s. We were careful to turn off radars and to aim weapons down to the deck to preclude any excuse for a “misunderstanding” and I thought both sides, at least the men on the ships if not the men back at headquarters, pretty-well understood the game. I…

Burneko, this is right and good and correct and excellent and for a (one can only assume very) temporary period you are not the absolute worst.

“You’re not ‘old’ enough to get that call Cam. I’d give that call to an ‘old’ quarterback like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady or Andrew Luck or Ryan Tannehill or Nick Foles or Johnny Manziel, or Flacco, or Julian Edelman if they call his number for a passing play, but never to a ‘young’ guy like you or Michael Vick or…

I just read this article about letters he was sending from the inside a couple weeks ago. It’s pretty incredible. And grim.

I suffered Catholic school long enough to at least be able to answer this - Hitler can repent before he dies as long as he is actually and truly sorry (which only God would know). Since he wouldn’t have enough time to confess and perform penance on earth, he’d have to suffer in purgatory for a time before entering…

I’ve always had a fantasy where they bring out the family and kids, and when they say turn around or Let’s welcome home Corporal Marine Todd, the family turns around overjoyed and then they wheel out a casket with the flag draped over it.

The best strategy I have ever seen implemented is trading for a player with the exact same name, but on a different team. Adrian Peterson on the Bears really was great trade bait for one of my friends four years back.

Sounds a lot like my first IT support gig, at my alma mater, and then again for a major research institution. I learned a TON - not just about technology, either, but about how people who are brilliant minds and at the top of their fields can be absolutely horrible people, and horrible to other people - working in IT…

I can totally relate to the “service mentality.” I worked IT support for 5 years primarily at a university where foul mouthed students would yell at me because they locked themselves out of their own accounts. Some of my worst experiences were with entitled professors, some of which were oblivious to how a CD/DVD…

I started a new job at a high-end supermarket chain as a manager in their IT department, 6 figure pay, managing software developers. My first two weeks on the job were spent working in one of their stores, every department. On day one I was stocking frozen food. On day two I worked in the deli. On day three I helped…

I wrote something similar in another article, but as you should already know, the customers that get under your skin are far and few in between, but they can ruin your entire day, even just 1 out of 200 good shoppers. I worked retail in my early days, I did telemarketing (which I hated the most), and I then became an…

If you ever want stories, give me a topic. I’m sure I’ll have something to talk about.

I have part time hours on the weekend at a climbing gym. One guy asked me, after I gave him an orientation and tips on finishing problems, what my “real job” was.