Well, a big part of it was being able to test new equipment and technology in an actual battlefield for the first time. We hadn’t had any major conflicts, so while we may have crushed Saddam’s forces like the proverbial millstone dashed against an egg, we learned a lot about what our new toys could and could not do.

Since a lot of people are wholly unprepared for disasters, I offer the following advice:

Seconded. I work in a small hotel that has waffles as part of its breakfast offerings. Nonstick sprays are fine on pots and pans, but tend to build up nastily on wafflemakers. We found this out the hard way.

Startlingly, this didn’t happen in Florida.

Have one of these. It’s simple, but quite effective.

Have one of these. It’s simple, but quite effective.

Hotel front desk agent, here. You would be amazed at the number of people who cannot understand simple concepts as ‘there is no smoking in this hotel’ and ‘we have no more rooms’. At least we are a pet-friendly hotel now, so I don’t have to listen to people trying to excuse their shivering purse rat as a ‘comfort…

Fun fact: dogs are more likely to eat a dead owner, and will often start in before the corpse has cooled. Cats on the other hand may well starve rather than eat their owners.

Okay, that second-to-last one had me falling out of my chair.

Dear Nintendo: I will totally play the hell out of a sci-fi Zelda game.

Well, there was also the way ‘Anakin’s Theme’ includes a few notes of the Imperial March.

Nospoilersnospoilersnospoilers....

I honestly believe I could make a more effective war machine out of a golf cart and some plywood.

Fucking idiot racist goobers who couldn’t get racist water out of a racist boot if you put racist instructions on the racist heel.

Sometimes you will hear raiders discussing some guy who ‘shot up the place’ using nothing but sound effects, before ‘riding away’ on his ‘motorcycle’.

While this vehicle represents pretty much everything I want in a car, I am not going to hold my breath. I will wait until I see one on the road.

CANNOT UN-SEE.

Mine does that too. I think it is the game loading (and rendering) a new chunk of scenery.

Ooh.. yeah.. found one o’ them out by the beach. Tough critters.

I only have two words ro say to this:

Granted $355K is pretty much the sort of loose change a large multinational corporation like McD’s finds in its couch cushions. I suspect the real hassle will be the mandatory sensitivity training.