Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Memsahib: Honey, will you go to the bedroom and fetch my teal hoodie?
Me (not paying attention: Yes honey.

<Arrives in bedroom and thinks: Teal? what the hell is teal?

Me: Honey is it the green one?

Very commendable. One musn't know too many colors because..well...you know...people will talk.

[Cap Mandrake]

FAM: <reading my own patient note dictated using Dragon> ...the patient denies any contact with katal on his grandfather's farm..."

What the Hell? I had meant "cattle" of course because I was worried about Brucellosis, but what the Hell is a "katal".

It turns it is a new international unit for rate of catalysis, the amount of enzyme that will catalyze one mole of substrate per second. Who knew?

Dragon has a way to go. [:-]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Memsahib: Honey, will you go to the bedroom and fetch my teal hoodie?
Me (not paying attention: Yes honey.

<Arrives in bedroom and thinks: Teal? what the hell is teal?

Me: Honey is it the green one?

Very commendable. One musn't know too many colors because..well...you know...people will talk.

But in this case, knowing what teal looks like is OK. A Teal is a duck, and the colour is named for its wing markings. Duck hunting is usually not cause for gossip or passive/agressive mocking. At least, I would hesitate to make fun of anyone who may have a shotgun in the truck!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

FAM: <reading my own patient note dictated using Dragon> ...the patient denies any contact with katal on his grandfather's farm..."

What the Hell? I had meant "cattle" of course because I was worried about Brucellosis, but what the Hell is a "katal".

It turns it is a new international unit for rate of catalysis, the amount of enzyme that will catalyze one mole of substrate per second. Who knew?

Dragon has a way to go. [:-]

Wow, thanks! I have a couple of friends who are biochemists. I'm going to practice using that in a sentence for their next visit.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs
Wow, thanks! I have a couple of friends who are biochemists. I'm going to practice using that in a sentence for their next visit.

Try this at dinner to impress:

"Please pass me a couple of Katal of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer."

[Cap Mandrake]

SG's computer has mad cow disease or something. I am waiting for Matirx to approve a re-download of AE. Turns out I did register my copy...twice. The Matrix guys are probably buried under 3 feet of snow but maybe somebody has a generator or a home fusion reactor.

I should have done this before.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: witpqs
Wow, thanks! I have a couple of friends who are biochemists. I'm going to practice using that in a sentence for their next visit.

Try this at dinner to impress:

"Please pass me a couple of Katal of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer."

[:D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

SG's computer has mad cow disease or something. I am waiting for Matirx to approve a re-download of AE. Turns out I did register my copy...twice. The Matrix guys are probably buried under 3 feet of snow but maybe somebody has a generator or a home fusion reactor.

I should have done this before.

- Go to Costco.
- Buy the package of USB-key flash drives.
- Put a copy of AE on each one.
- Create a text file on each one with your AE serial number in it.
- Separately wrap each of them in 3 watertight bags (refer to Lucifer's Hammer).
- Store them in different locations (one buried in yard, one in nearest septic tank, one at Big B's house, etc.).
- Learn how to prepare insulin from live pigs (refer to Lucifer's Hammer).
- Remember where you put them.

[Cap Mandrake]

Wow! One of the Matrix guys already authorized the re-download. That was fast.

[sprior]

Remember where you put them.

So:

Go to Costco.
- Buy the package of USB-key flash drives.
- Create a text file on each one with the location of the other USB flash drives
- Separately wrap each of them in 3 watertight bags (refer to Lucifer's Hammer).
- Store them in different locations (one buried in yard, one in nearest septic tank, one at Big B's house, etc.).
- Learn how to prepare insulin from live pigs (refer to Lucifer's Hammer).
- Remember where you put them.

[Cap Mandrake]

My sister-in-law, recognizing a certain pattern of misplacing things, bought me a thoughtful remote beeper thing. You put one half on your key chain and when you pressed the remote button your key chain beeped.

The thing worked fantastic!


Then I lost the button part.

[Cap Mandrake]

JJ are really getting annoying with their small surface raiders. On this fine day there is one inbound East of Busuanga. This group can almost certainly reach San Jose tonight and possibly even Cagayan. I judge San Jose the likely target. I am sending out Oakland and 5 DD from Cagayan. If this turns out to be Haruna it might go badly. Juneau and 4 DD will backcover from Jolo. Transports headed Cagayan will loiter near Cotobato and the transports at Cagayn are all now disbanded. PT boats and small surface groups will cover the approaches. Minelayers are still South of Ternate. JJ also has some transports inbound East of Luzon.

[Cap Mandrake]

I forgot to mention that I ran this plan through the Siri Tzu app on my I-phone 5.


Here is what Siri said:

"This plan is impossibly complicated. You have inadequate recon. You are dividing your forces in the face of a possibly superior enemy and you spelled "Cotabato" wrong again, idiot."

Ouch. That is harsh

[Cap Mandrake]

42,000 troops, 261 guns, 46 tanks, 46 fighters and 20 bombers at Lunga. 12,000 LYB's at Tulagi. [;)]

Recon over Munda today. Maybe they will reinforce it.

[Cap Mandrake]

*********************The Saga (short) of USS Pennsylvania************************


Pennslyvania was damaged in the 23rd Naval Battle of Port Hedrand. She made it safely past the subs to Caranrvon and then Geraldton where she was partly repaired with 412 tons of Bondo. She was then moved to Perth for shoring up and welding, new bathroom curtains and that kind of thing. Eventually, she was deemded seaworthy and sent on the South Africa for yard work. Unfortunately, some staff hack did not understand what the fuel numbers meant and she ran out of fuel and began her long tow to South Africa thanks to kindly Nazi-hating sea turtles.This was estimated to take 2 months. Admiral King was pissed and ordered her back to Diego Garcia for fuel, at which point the fuel numbers rose to SIX digits (but still red). Two weeks later she popped back onto the map near Socotra (or whatever you call that island near the Horn of Africa) with green fuel numbers! Halleluya!!

She has now been ordered to Colombo before anything else happens.

[BBfanboy]

Join the Navy and see the world - ssssllllooowwwwwlllllyyyy, but eventually![;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Air losses from the 15th. Maybe that will take the wind out of their sails for a bit.

[Cap Mandrake]

If you are an Allied sailor you want to be on a ship that begins with "Z". Only 2 sunk in all Allied navies for the entire WWII(c)

If you an Austrailian sailor you NEVER EVER want to go anywhere near anything called Yarra.

First she gets sunk near Port Hedrand 2 weeks into the war so they build another and SHE gets sunk 2 1/2 weeks later.

[Cap Mandrake]

For Japan, "Z" is inauspicious and "Y" just sucks divine wind.

[Cap Mandrake]

If you are in the USN and get assigned to ship named after "John Somebody" then be sure to write your mom before they cast off the bow line.