The Occasional Joke


Nurse: Patient's name?

Centurion: Marcus Licinius Crassus

Nurse: And his date of birth?

Centurion: 115 BC.

Nurse: All right. And what is he here for?

Centurion: Cataphract surgery.


Saturday, February 2, 2008

Burgers on parade

Incredibly bad taste. I hope you hate the 9/11 reference as much as I did. Jeez.

Also, A great list of vacation spots. You probably knew most of this, but interesting to see it complied in one place.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Reading List, Lately

On the off chance that anyone cares, I thought I'd list a few of the things I've been working my way through (especially since some of them were Christmas presents that I haven't adequately thanked people for.)
A word about these "essential histories;" they come from Osprey Publishing, and are usually well-written, furnished with a small but adequate set of maps and illustrations, and are pretty well-edited (although the Iran-Iraq book transposes "Iraq" for "Iran" in one caption, confusing me mightily for a while until I figured out it was a mistake.) If you want a quick briefing on a war or a campaign and they have a title for it, you could do a lot worse.