An Orgy of One

Does the 5-second rule apply when you drop food on the ground outside?
What if it happens in a 3rd-world country and you have a 1st-world immune system?
What if the ground is sandy, as is the case in Iraq?
What if the food is soft, moist and porous, like cheesecake?

A few hours ago I decided "YES" is the appropriate answer to all of the above, because the DFAC had closed and today is my weekly designated dessert day. Time will tell whether it was a good idea to eat that possibly diseased, sandy cheesecake.

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When we had Thanksgiving chow in Iraq, I appreciated it. There was prime rib and turkey and ham and stuffing and things of that nature. They even set out sparkling grape juice and cider for us. It was about as awesome as Thanksgiving in Iraq can be.

When Christmas rolled around, I was glad that they got a bunch of turkey and prime rib and ham and stuffing again. Again, the sparkling cider and grape juice was placed strategically throughout the chow hall. And while I would have rather been with my family on Christmas, it was a nice gesture.

I started to get suspicious when the same meal appeared for MLK's birthday with the sparkling juice.

President's day was the same thing.

And so today, Easter, I had prime rib and turkey with stuffing and gravy. With sparkling grape juice. I turned down the ham this time.

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I have made fun of children in the past. I'm not the first to do so. But it's still funny:



"you are fighting them and helping free the slaves, it has to get confusing. You're hopefully winning like my basketball team. (5 wins 1 lose)
from, Robert"

Yes, I feel guilty for laughing at this, but not so guilty that I didn't want to share.

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A friend observed at work that the Obama administration keeps rolling out new federal websites with simple domain names:
change.gov
recovery.gov
financialstability.gov
etc.
which join a bunch of other simple domains that follow the (common word or two).gov format, like
ready.gov
pandemicflu.gov
mypyramid.gov
etc.

My friend further observed that "hey why not, it's not like private interests could take their .gov domains."

Which brings me to the top level domain of .mil. Here are some sites; let's see if you can guess what they're for:

www.dfas.mil
www.usfk.mil
www.dodvclips.mil
www.dma.mil

Why not finance.mil, korea.mil, video.mil, and media.mil? That's because the Army will never use normal words when jargon exists. The best part is that they could easily do both at practically no cost - the marginal cost of each domain name pointing to the same server is probably tiny, since DoD owns the entire ".mil" top-level domain.

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