For one thing, I usually have two or three books on the go at any one time, and thus need to keep track of where I am with them. My 'Collins Concise Dictionary' normally has a bookmark noting the last word I was looking to define formally, as does my 'Brewer's'. I have a large ex-calendar marker denoting 'September In Persia' which is the chapter covering Operation Countenance, the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941. Art!
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More pertinently, I also use Google's Bookmark function, to keep handy links that I refer back to often, or more transient ones that I delete once they've been used to create blog content. Art!
Very handy for those of us with defective memories (gin and old age take their toll).
Then there's Twitter. Ha! take that Elong Tusk. He cries on the inside whenever it gets called that, and when Tesla share prices come out. Yesteryon I made a list of items I had bookmarked and Surprise! most were about gilt and security trading strategies.
No, that was a lie. Most were about the conflict in Ukraine. So, I'm going to annotate a few of them and shorten the Bookmark list a tad. Art!
Don't know if any of you guys are into military kits ... but I just picked this up today and I'm super excited.
Ho ho ho. You were expecting a B2 or a B52, weren't you? Operation Spiderweb casts a long shadow, it seems. What's more, wargame rules that do modern warfare are going to have to accommodate this meme, or pretend that they're set pre 2020.
From the humourous to the horrid. Here's one I've had in the wings for months, without actually either using or deleting it. Bookmark hoarder, anyone?
This graph is insane! This shows the average daily causality rate for the Russian military per month year over year.
The war increasingly is becoming more deadly for Russia as they send their troops on failed assaults with worse equipment and Ukraine continues to develop better defenses.
There are still enough greedy or stupid or greedy and stupid orcs willing to sign up, but the quality of same has decreased considerably. Remember the days of February 2022, when the orcs came on in vehicle columns 40 miles long? These statistics are why Putinpot looks 172 nowadays. Plus, they will have spiked with the recent 'Summer Offensive' that Mordorvia has been careful not to declare, in case it goes pear-shaped. Art!
Notable that many of the F-15s and F-16s in #IAF footage - supposedly from last night - are carrying 2000lb GBU-31(V)1 JDAMs. Suggests Israel has established sufficient control of the air to operate directly over Tehran and Natanz without relying on standoff weapons like Rampage
If The Bronk holds forth on anything to do with airpower, pay attention, for he knows what he's talking about. This is another reason for Charlie Chipmunk Cheeks to be miserable, because it shows how utterly ineffectual the Ruffian SAM and radar systems as used by the Iranians were: the IAF didn't lose a single plane. Who's going to buy Ruffian SAM systems now that they've been proved useless? Another export market gone toes up.
Gotta love whomever named a stand-off missile 'Rampage'. No silly nonsense about PC in this case. Art!
There's a couple of very long Tweets from 'Natalka' and 'Anna Komsa' that I can't put here or the Word Count will hit 5,000, and I think I'm going to use Natalka's in conjunction with a different source. Here's a snip from Anna's -
Putin is already dipping into his reserves because of falling oil and natural gas revenues: "Russia to use reserves to cover growing budget deficit: Report."
Forecasts suggest that Russia's budget deficit in 2025 could rise from 0.5% to 1.7% of GDP
That was from May. Things will have gotten worse by now!
Enough of Bookmarks. For today.
What Next?
Yes, Number Nine in the 'Metro's list of 10 zombie films to watch, inspired by '28 Years Later'. Their list is pretty much all contemporary stuff, but it has thrown up a few I've not seen before which may be worth checking out. Art!
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Conrad, sweltering in the unaccustomed heat of an English Summer, looked up a recipe for Mango Kulfi, which only required mango pulp, yoghurt, milk, ice cubes and honey or sugar. NO SUGAR FOR THE DIABETIC. Art!
This is my version. Not as nice as the ones at Mowglis, but I made twice as much for half the price, which is good enough for me. It goes down very nicely in these searing temperatures of as much as 21ΒΊ or even 22ΒΊ.
Time Spartacus!
Your Humble Scribe watched the final part of this film yesteryon, and has been viewing the extras, which includes several behind-the-scenes shots of the gladiatorial school and the actors and extras fighting together. It looks rather incongruous as they are all clad in jeans and jackets all emblazoned with 'SPARTACUS' on them. Sorry, no photos. Maybe tomorrow.
In the meantime, I see an advert for a previous Douglas-Kubrick film collaboration has sprung up on my news feed. Art!
They don't tell you which film, intending that you click on their link WHICH TACTIC I DOG BUNS HATE to discover.
No need: it's 'Paths Of Glory', which features no glory and precious few paths, too. It concerns a disastrous regimental-level attack on the Teuton lines by a French force, whom the General Staff intend to make examples of, by executing a trio of them. The French government hated it with a passion and it was widely banned in France, thanks to them leaning casually but very heavily on distributors, who nodded wisely and didn't distribute it. The unofficial ban didn't lapse until 1978.
On Theme
I spotted an item on the news feed that seemed interesting, and had a bit of a dig. Art!
There's considerably more to it than that, as you might expect, and none of it is good for Mordorvia, who has lost another potential ally. When your only friends are North Korea and Venezuela, you know things are bad.
However - first use today - there's far too much to use in a single item, so an Intro would do it more justice. Therefore -
I have Bookmarked it.
Thank you and goodnight!
