Funny, I have a two-monitor setup and my un-calibrated monitor shows a slight magenta flare, my calibrated monitor (admittedly, calibrated for my studio's cameras and printers) shows a distinct purple one.

Me neither.

The irony of this is that the car may not have been the source of ignition. That's a HUUGE carrier. My bet is that they had some useless junk in the front of the trailer (people keep all kinds of stupid stuff up there—like flammable chemicals, battery-powered tools and/or lead-acid-powered voltage inverters) that…

Puckering is socialized. Beings with fewer inhibitions will void their bladders and bowels. Scared shitless, as it were.

Nope. heaviest load goes up top to prevent pendulation. Which is baaad. That handler looks to be a pretty big dude, so the Man and his Dog are top of the stack...

Being below the dog on air ops is probably one of those "not so cool" things about being one of the Coolest Dudes on the Planet.

My bad, MH-60. Wasn't really cueing on other features, given that it was wreckage from one vantage point at web resolutions; the distinctive, mostly-intact rotor was what I fixated on...

Nope, the Abottabad wreckage was a UH-60 Blackhawk. Which they tried to burn to protect the secrecy of the electronics, and fact that it was a UH-60 Blackhawk that sort of didn't exist. They were able to incinerate everything but the tail boom. Everyone who's spent time in and around UH-60s recognized that tail boom…

Yup, definitely a sketchy extraction. They guy on the ramp with the camera is laid out to deliver suppressive fire with his trusty 'scoped M16A4.

The technical term is "aborted sling load."

Nobody—NOBODY with the chops to stay alive in Afghanistan is using Bushmaster firearms, which are seen as the gun equivalent of the Porsche 914 or 924. No strike that. Remember those American muscle cars that weren't actually fast enough to be Indy pace cars? Bushmasters are kinda like those.

+1. The one time I couldn't do this was when I was brought in by my 2nd level supervisor to unscrew a department full of contract hires that had lost the capacity to be relevant.

This DOESN'T make sense from the perspective that I seek out late flights on saturated corridors through cosmopolitain cities and get to volunteer frequently for a night on the town in a fun city and sleep it off in a Southwest-funded hotel.

I fly Southwest pretty frequently (sometimes weekly) and I'm of the opinion that they put their front-line people under more than a little pressure. Most of the time, those people respond well to it. When they don't, they do some epic stupid shit. Over the past decade, on the number of times I can count on the fingers…

Deputy Westbrook will not be around much longer.

Indeed, deserved based on the 50% of the performance for 75% of the price of a 370.

That was epic. The weirdly re-purposed spaces before the barber shop and harsh fluorescent lighting lent an Eli Roth vibe to that caper.

Cut Crack + Carload of BaybayKids - Crash + Ice Cream - Nudity (three kids and a steady diet of junk food—just keeping it real) = WINNING.

Two words: Director's Cut.

Last Thursday in the SF Bay Area we had a minor morning rush hour disaster when a fire disabled our backbone transit system. Like everyone else who couldn't blow off work that day, I was in my car crossing the Bay Bridge. Because of fairly skillful traffic metering (and low demand—sort of like a Snow Day in June),…