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  1. carebear

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Looking back I'm not sure that was much of a gain. Where I come from they saw how much faster we could move bipedaly and just deepened the snow and moved the school further away the next year. :eusa_doh:
  2. carebear

    this is going to sound stuuuuuupid...

    From my half-abled study... It is even more involved than anyone cares to go into. Scotland was inhabited by Picts until Celts from Ireland immigrated East. Later, the English imported Presbyterian Scots Celts back into Northern Ireland to displace the indigenous Catholic Irish Celts...
  3. carebear

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    We had to walk through glaciers miles deep, avoiding sabertooths and cave-bears... :D
  4. carebear

    The Abyssinian Campaigns

    This is why I love this forum and its members. When the zombies rise, you can join my compound. :)
  5. carebear

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    If I could get to Denmark, the safe would be an afterthought. Mad skills, I have them. I will content myself with admiring from afar. :D
  7. carebear

    What Are You Reading

    Steinbeck does so well with so many tonalities. I love the story in 'The Pearl', and yet also love the biology in the Sea of Cortez non-fiction. There's nothing Steinbeck couldn't do. Hell, Monterray would no more than a Motel Six without his legacy. If any euro superioralist wanted to...
  8. carebear

    Loungers' Pets

    My puritanical streak says they are too conceited and arrogant in their beauty. I'd probably be forced to hang a wind chime nearby made of domestic "hot wing" bones, simply to keep them humble and honest. :D
  9. carebear

    The Abyssinian Campaigns

    The Abyssinian Campaign(s) Got a new military history monkey on my back. What are some good books on this pre-WWII Italian adventure, including if possible the first efforts in the 1890's. I'm trying to build a context for understanding Mussolini and the Italian Army's later efforts in...
  10. carebear

    WWII: What was the big deal?

    That's equipment. Were they able to use it to more efficiently utilize their air assets than the British did? That would be doctrine. Sound doctrine can usually compensate for equipment, the reverse is seldom as true.
  11. carebear

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Cool? Let me and J. Powers tell you about the Pleistocene sometime... :D
  13. carebear

    MEN of the LOUNGE

    I'm sure there's more than enough "shoo" for everyone. :D
  14. carebear

    WWII: What was the big deal?

    Glad I got part of my summary right anyway. :D If I know little enough about the BoB, I know even less about German radar systems. The "not useful" was my rough (and ig-nint ;) ) summary of what I read in your guys' posts. Good stuff. :eusa_clap I've been rereading SLAM's Commentary in...
  15. carebear

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Half-inch?! Why in my day... :D
  16. carebear

    WWII: What was the big deal?

    Not sure there's enough bandwidth... ;)
  17. carebear

    Loss of an adventurer...

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/02/09/db0901.xml Quite a character and quite a life.
  19. carebear

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Tell him to pull up his pants (into his armpits like us geezers) and get a haircut. :D
  20. carebear

    WWII: What was the big deal?

    I think you're completely on the same page. Whether the Germans thought they were for HF/DF or were designed to track shipping, they apparently didn't think they were anti-aircraft radars worthy of sustained attack. Given the infancy of radar on both sides and Britain's extreme lack of...
  21. carebear

    New Star Trek

    Heh. I'd like to be the creamy white filling in an Orion slave girl sandwich. :D
  22. carebear

    What do you look like?

    Goes to show what reading a profile can do. You're Steven Metz? :eusa_doh: I look forward to your new book.
  23. carebear

    What do you look like?

    The overall look is almost Shakespearean, or something out of Dumas. With the leather vest over the turtleneck and the great 'stache.

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