In the thread about Bletchley Park, Dunc made a comment about the “foreshortening effect of living in a country with less history.” That reminds me of two stories about history, that my dad told me.
In the thread about Bletchley Park, Dunc made a comment about the “foreshortening effect of living in a country with less history.” That reminds me of two stories about history, that my dad told me.
True Leaders
I know it’s all the fashion, in some circles, to belittle the “mainstream media” for being hard on Donald Trump – but I think the media ought to be more direct and less cautious in its wording.
As Dan Geer once said, “We all have limited time; thank you for yours.”
To get to Lavecon, I took the midlands train from London/Euston up toward Birmingham, and got off at Northampton. On the way up, I went past Bletchley, the home of Bletchley Park – where the British code-breakers (including Alan Turing) worked during WWII.
One of the crucial failures of leadership during the Vietnam War was the way the pentagon managed to reduce a complex political/military/logistical situation down to a discussion about head-count. That allowed the military to focus discussion about the war into a question of head-count: how many dead Vietcong heads did you collect today? How many shiny new American heads did you ship over? How many came back?
A friend of mine made me watch this; I had had too much wine, perhaps, and really couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing.
White House press spokesman Sean Spicer made the comments during an off-camera briefing to journalists in Washington. [bbc]
“NASA Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Pit Photographed on Mars” – like a trout to a clickbait fly, I rise and bite at the hook. [huff]
Last year I went to LaveCon, and I’m going again this year. It’s a small conference held in Northampton, devoted to Elite: Dangerous. There, I will probably make an ass of myself, because that is traditional.