Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?
Patrick Crouch, 35, bought his [scythe] to tend a community garden on central Detroit’s “urban prairie.” He likes it because it’s “totally brutal.” As he blogged: “What could be more badass than walking the streets of the Motor City with a scythe slung over one’s shoulder?”
The Mongol Imperial Guard and the Roman Praetorian Guard
Whereas the Mongol Imperial Guard were created with honest intent and found to be exclusively loyal to their political patron, the khan, the Roman Praetorian Guard were often bribed to sacrifice their own values for the political agendas of the Senate and swayed by their own agendas to oust one emperor for another better suited.
From RogueClassicism.
What was the point of making a fuss over a “than” for a “then” in a piece so full of profanity? There should be a detox facility for proofreaders who have undergone this kind of extreme experience.
From Jennifer Ouellette.
With an important qualification:
Grace Hopper, the brains behind Cobol, a seminal language that arrived in 1959 and is still used today. Apparently, if you’re biologically incapable of growing a beard, the programming gods cut you some slack.
UFO widely seen in Middle East skies, linked to Russian missile test has an update from James Oberg, explaining that the spiral does not indicate a failed launch, but is a deliberate feature needed for the trajectory the Russians wanted.
I first visited the complex plane 45 years ago, in High School. It was love at first sight, and I have been smitten ever since. Thank you, Margaret Matchett, my math teacher that year.
EDIT: I just looked her up on the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Go back three “generations” and you get to Ludwig Boltzmann, whose work has fascinated me since I first heard about it, not long after Mrs. Matchett’s math class.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 