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An auspicious start to my day. While waiting for my Uber to a steakhouse for lunch a Douglas C-47 in full Second World War livery flew directly over my head (sans paratroopers making static line drops). Probably on its way back from a heritage flight commemorating the centennial of the foundation of the 82nd.

Appreciate the thought, but checklists and fifteen-minute cold starts are more my speed. But hey, there's a time and place for just the thrill of doing 500kts and 9Gs for most folks.

has been linked before by Gromnir and others, but the writer of trump's book, the art of the deal​, has shared his insights into the workings o' trump's mind. is an intriguing read... not the art of the deal, but rather the interview with tony schwartz. “It’s implicit in a lot of what people write, but it’s never explicit—or, at least, I haven’t seen it. And that is that it’s impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . . ” Schwartz trailed off, shaking his head in amazement. keep in mind the interview is from the summer o' 2016, before the election. warnings. warnings not heeded. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all HA! Good Fun! Mark Bowden similarly noted in his own interview of Trump for Playboy that Trump's interview fatigue made it somewhat difficult for him to get much material for the piece. Along with Schwartz's observations it was why I found Trump's nickname "Low Energy Jeb" as much him calling the kettle black as his "Lying Ted".

Still, I'm inclined to believe anyone who's applying for a job at Valve on the software side (and I'm not implying that its hardware division is very successful at all) is doing so out of a love for Half-Life (or perhaps we're getting into a generation where that's more true for Portal) rather than a desire to expand on Steam or work on Dota 2: https://youtu.be/JRa6Bswl6vA?t=4m39s

It'd be something if the TIE Defender and the Missile Gunboat made it into the game.

Watched the latest episode of Preacher, and I'm going to say something that is going to sound real funny out of context: Given my fear that some of the more, shall we say, controversial story arcs from the comic would not make it onto a TV series on basic cable, never have I been more giddy seeing a grown man relieve himself on another. Mr Rogen, as someone for whom the Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic series was a formative experience I doff my hat to you. For all the changes and differences between the original comic and the TV series if there were any doubt that you 100% _got_ Preacher then they have been dispelled.

This is the Strait of Malacca we're talking about. The waterway in which the third largest economy in the world has its energy needs shipped through and how its connected to the world's second biggest economy.

I know your stance on Seinfeld, but I can't help but note that like George Costanza the Donald is probably the type that stares at Denise Richards' cleavage for too long as well. “Looking at the sun is like looking at cleavage! You don’t stare at it, it’s too risky! You get a sense of it then you look away!”

Call it cold, calculating mathematical logic, but I really only see this as a continuation of attacks on civil society conducted by aimless losers that date back for at least two centuries (within living memory in Europe includes the Red Brigade of Italy kidnapping and executing a Prime Minister, the Baader-Meinhof Gang robbing banks, taking airliners hostage, and bombing airbases, and the IRA dropping time bombs into London dustbins).

I think much of the criticism was leveled towards the writing. I've long said that Ubisoft missed a golden opportunity given the subject matter to make something on the level of Spec Ops: The Line which people would be talking about for years later. It did come out in a time of Narcos and after another Tom Clancy novel and film based on the novel with similar themes:

Interestingly enough the run-up to Operation Linebacker I that was launched in response to the PAVN's "Easter Offensive" into South Vietnam called for a grand total of 210 B-52s to be allocated for the campaign to airbases in Thailand and Guam, about half of the B-52s that were under SAC at the time. The large number of bombers that were swamping Andersen AFB's taxiways made one 8th Air Force planner to remark: "We kept waiting for the northern end of the island to sink."

Looking at photos of all these white supremacist rallies, I can't help but mirror Jesse Custer's sentiments:

Pretty much in line with Howard Stern's comments on the matter, who for my money is about the one person who knows Trump best outside of his family circle.

"Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it? Whether she's naked under that toga. She's French, you know that?"

We're not even asking you to like it. Does it offend your sensibilities? Just bring a notepad and a pen and doodle. occasionally raising your head to nod and smile. I find meetings the perfect time for me to knock out some thumbnail drawings at work.

Proportions and mannerisms sort of reminds me of Al Pacino in |)ick Tracy.

It would also include the number of people who live in surrounding suburbs since while the majority of Americans work in cities real estate actually within them is restrictively expensive. Those living in suburbs surrounding the big cities are usually of the white collar professional class (dad works 9-5 cubicle farm job commuting to the city, mom is homeowner who takes kids to soccer games in SUV, or as is increasingly the case working herself, and kids with aspirations for university or a professional job).

Number of Americans living in towns of under 25,000 is about 30 million, equivalent to 10% of the US population and the combined total population of metropolitan New York and Philadelphia. Now should there be more discourse between those segments of the population? Absolutely, but all this nonsense about the "metro-elite bubble" sounds to me like fetishising a way of life that's been atypical since the 1930's.