We head to Civil War! Not the Triathalon-killing kind, naw, we’re talking the original item here… if you ignore Caesar’s civil war… and the English Civil War … and the Vendee … and the natural state of Italy pretty much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Triathlon got killed during Civil War? Not according to Dr. Alphonse P. Wikipedia he didn’t. –Geoff
3-D Man? Dan Slott, you are too good for this world. Man, that’s weird though. I thought I remembered picking up a copy of like the 2008 Avengers Sourcebook or some such thing and being shocked to see Triathalon listed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We seem to have discovered a new room in Voltaire’s house. One of these days, we should draw up a little cut-away schematic of the house. Of course, now I’m just inventing work in my head for The Count. –Geoff
Who was Greater anyway? I’ve talked about the similarities in Peter’s and Frederick’s biographies before, but let’s run it down list-like. Both: – Had early childhood trauma of an extreme sort. – More or less blew off everything having to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, Bellevue isn’t Bellevue, but given that Napoleon was abandoned in Seattle, I couldn’t resist. –Geoff
As we said before, Abe Lincoln could pretty much pull off whatever he wanted by means of a Charming Folksy Anecdote. My favorite Lincoln anecdote is from the first volume of Sandburg’s biography which is like ten whole feet away […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, bickering robots. During one of my summer internships back when I was in college, I had a manager who was into these weird management koans. He had a book called “The Blue Frog Book of Sad Mondays” (which couldn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a good four months since we’ve seen our old friend Archimedes. Welcome back chum! It appears that today we have learned that our mysterious First Evil is, in fact, very adept at human resource management. That’s important to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After writing about a miter saw last week, I had the opportunity to use one this past weekend. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to do any fancy angle cuts. I just got to chop a bunch of 2x4s up. –Geoff