Despite my chippy stance, I quite liked twee middle-class comedies, and if you played it right and twisted the characters just so, you ended up with "Butterflies", which was a work of geniu… (View Post)

They've produced a drone version of the Blackhawk. It's called the "U-Hawk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIa3w94tV7M (29mins) (View Post)

...plus the Wehrmacht in 1940. Basically, get lots of light tanks, go thru woods, then go "whee" when you get to the countryside. By the time the French got set up for their set pieces, ze … (View Post)

Yes, but they are also objects of memory: they tether a memory to a place and time. You throw them away, you lose part of your brain. (View Post)

Last week, after some consideration, I took two books to the charity shop (Band of Brothers, and a book by Robert Harris). Now I find out that Marie LeConte eliminated 36 in the same fashion, leaving… (View Post)