Knights of Bedlam

Inspiried by the Knights of Mayhem (Full Contact Jousting), I created some medieval fun with my boys the other day.

Joust on!

 

Hard hit!

 So hard the Princess feints!

Silly Slang Song

Lyrics here:
http://ericbogle.net/lyrics/lyricspdf/sillyslangsong.pdf

Marines Outshoot the US Army

The Department of Defense recently conducted a capabilities-based assessment (CBA) to establish the combat effectiveness requirements for rifle marksmanship. The standards for target engagement were defined in terms of “probability of incapacitation given a shot,” “range,” and “time.”

Given that the specified target surface areas on the Marine Corps course are considerably smaller, hits recorded by Marine recruits should represent incapacitating hits. For the task “Engage Threat Personnel With Small Arms Fire, From 201 to 500m [Meters],” the requirement established was greater than or equal to 50 percent probability of incapacitation per shot. Marine recruits achieved 62.86 percent incapacitating hits from 200 to 500 yards, all unsupported and with iron sights.

The CBA further determined that “[U.S. Army soldiers] lack the ability to achieve desired accuracy and incapacitating effects against personnel targets at ranges from 0 to 500m.” Based on postcombat surveys, 10 percent of the cumulative distribution of personnel targets engaged across all types of terrain are at ranges of 400m or greater. In Afghanistan there have been units that have completed very kinetic deployments whose direct fire engagements were all at distances of 500m or greater.

The Marine Corps is the only Service that conducts marksmanship training beyond 300m for all personnel.

http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/article/challenges-imperiling-our-marksmanship-standards

Christmas Cards

A couple of options I was thinking of for this year...

whadda ya think?

Resume

At a recent career fair I was handed many resumes by prospective Atlanta area students.  The one that most stood out to me had the following paragraph (word for word) under the top section - titles "Qualities"...

"I am a loyal and dedicated individual who has a great deal of ambition.  Although I have an extensive experience in the fast food industry, however I love o learn new things and is always up for a new challenge.  I am a freiendly individual who gets along well with others, however I can still work well on my own.  I am seeking a position that I can develop and excel at my job."

Holy American public school system Batman!  You might ask, how does a person with such a horrific understanding of the English language come to be a student at a major Georgia University?  In fact, how can an individual who fails to proofread their work, even something as vital as their resume, come to have a 3.5 GPA at said school?

Then I saw it, on the second page of the resume...under achievement - "Captain of Basketball Team."

How sad.

A hard truth...

Fedor Demolished?

 

 "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"

Fedor v. the Reem should prove to be pretty good, if StrikeForce can make it happen.

HUGE spoilers for LOST.

Only read this if you want to know what is about to happen in the LOST universe.  I have read a full recap of the next episode: "What they died for" and here we go.

Remember - don't read any further unless you want to know some major spoilers...

The recap is found here:
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2010/05/major-spoilers-episode-616-what-they.html#axzz0nuUyTYqZ

After reading it some things appear clear...


- Richard appears to die at the hands of Smokie- mayeb he is still alive though?

- Widmore works for Jacob.  Jacob told him to bring Desmond back.

- Zoe dies at Flocke's hand

- Widmore dies at Ben's hand

- Ben is back in the Flocke camp

- Smokie IS Jacob's brother

- "They" all died to protect the island

- Kate is still a candidate.  Her name was crossed out when she became a mom to Aaron, but now she is back in the running. 

-  When Jacob asks for a volunteer to take his place, Jacks steps up and drinks the candidate kool-aid

-  ALT Locke come to Jack and says its fate - he should have the surgery

-  Flocke and Ben reach the well, Desmond is missing.  Ben asks about Desmond.  Flocke says that Widmore told him that Desmond is Jacob's "failsafe" - if the candidates refused to be the new guardian, Desmond could destroy the island.  Locke decides to use Desmond to do just that.


This all seems to jive with those finale script pages that got leaked and the call sheet that was left lying around.

How a title fight should be...

Anderson Silva should learn a lesson from Machida/ Shogun 2.  Those guys delivered a great fight even if it only lasted one round.

Both men had obviously learned from their mistakes in their original confrontation.  I loved watching Shogun use his MMA Muay Thai aganist Machida - hopping front leg and all.  I also loved watching Machida check a low kick and follow-up with a karate kick of his own.

The knee that Lyoto delivered to Shogun's torso just before Shogun clipped him was brutal.

Warriors doing it how it should be done.

Major LOST Spoilers!

If you like to know whats gonna happen, read on. 

If you want to be surprised - stop here.

WARNING - Spoilers ahead!

ARE YOU SURE?

THESE ARE CONFIRMED by DARKUFO...

6x14 - "The Candidate"
- A shocking episode with deaths

- MIB tricks Jack to take a backpack with explosive devices; the sub explodes

- Sun and Jin die

- Sayid redeems himself and is killed

- Widmore dies

- It is made to look as if Sawyer dies, but is saved by Jack

- Kate is shot by Zoe in shoulder



6x15 - "Across the Sea"
- Jacob and the boy in black arrive to the island 23 A.D.

- They are *not* one and the same person

- They are basically brothers who have the same mother, but there is a twist

- They become adversaries in their late 20s

- We see how the Smoke Monster was created



Adam and Eve...

- Adam and Eve are MIB and his mother

- Jacob put them in the cave



Finale Call Sheet and Script pages...
http://lostrumours.blogspot.com/2010/05/rumour-script-pages-for-series-finale.html

Efficiency

I work for the federal government.

Today, we had a call from one of our satellite employees.  It seems that when we shipped her a laptop last week we forgot to include the power cord (stuff happens right?)

My boss asked me to grab her power cord and ship it down to her via UPS Next Day Air so that she could keep her project moving.  I arranged the shipment as directed.

Shipping a Dell laptop power cord overnight to FL via UPS costs the taxpayer $46.22.

According to my 30 seconds of web research - buying a new one at a local Best Buy or on-line would have cost as low as $25.88.

?-?-?

Oh - did I mention that we had a big meeting this morning about the new theme for our agency for the remainder of FY 2010...

...cost efficiency

Can't wait for healthcare reforms to kick in!

Sport Fight X McDonough

I just tix to go with 2 buddies from church and see the first local MMA show here in McDonough...

http://sportfightx.com

SWEET!

Dear Abu Dhabi - I am sorry...

Wow. The 3 main fights at UFC 112 were less than stellar and the aftermath was even worse.

Anderson Silva showed us once again that he is either HOT or COLD. I guess he took the words of Jesus in Revelation pretty serious. He is never lukewarm.

The Spider seemed to check out after 3 rounds on Saturday night. I don't know where his fighting spirit goes sometimes.

If you get a chance take a look at the very end of the fight again. The ref holds up Anderson's hand for .5 seconds and then walks away in disgust. meanwhile, Dana is nowhere to be seen for the belt presentation.

Legions of fans around the world were excited to see AS lay a beatdown on Maia and all we got was Silva landing a victory blow aganist himself.

Dana went crazy after the fight, talking trash about how Silva will be the first champ to fight on a prelim cards, etc...Not DW's best moment, but the man really doesn't have any sense of restraint anyway.

As for BJ and Frankie Edgar. I agree with the upset fans that BJ should have won the fight. Frankie was fast, but thats about it.

Lesson for BJ - don't let it go to the judges.

And then there was the Seniors Division match-up. Matt Hughes and Renzo Gracie.

In MMA today, strong wrestlers with decent submission skills and ground and pound beat up old school BJJ masters. This is not the early 1990s.

I wish that the Gracies would drop the hype they are always trying to create for themselves. They are legends in the sport because the brought awareness to the ground-game and they pioneered the UFC in America. Thats enough to be proud of.

Boasting about your unbeaten family and how you are the toughest MFers in the world is looking silly these days as you lose fight after fight. Hughes/ Gracie never should have happened.

Lets all hope that UFC in the next few months looks better than last night.

Withstand the Storm...

Slow and Steady wins the Muay Thai fight.

More awesome posters...

(some fan made)

Awesome UFC Poster

Afro MMA

http://www.ultimatefighter.com/fight-videosCheck out this fight from TUF season premiere...then check out all the prelim fights HERE

TUF 11: Jamie Yager vs. Ben Stark

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UFC visits MACE

Several UFC warriors head out to the US Marines hand-to-hand combat school.

Watch them get owned...

UFC 111 Results

So I called Carwin v. Mir exact.  I can see Carwin and Lesnar being the cause of a tsunami soon.  I think Shane will emerge victorious!

GSP v Hardy was disappointing.  GSP used his superior wrestling to keep Hardy on the ground - a tactic that was necessary to maintain the belt and very expected...Unfortuantely, GSP wasn't able to demonstrate any real BJJ skill.

Both the armbar and the kimura that GSP attempted seemed to be lacking in technical skill.  It looked like GSPS was trying to muscle Hardy into submission.  I am sure that GSP knows the correct technique for both of those moves - I think that he sucumbed to emotion as he tried to finish Dan off.

I feel that GSP was so scared of a Serra repeat and of losing his belt that he tried to play it safe with a lay and pray groundgame that culminated in two sub-par submission attempts done within a frenzied mindset of fear that he might lose to a kid with a mowhawk.

GSP kept his belt at the end of the night but he may have lost some fans.  To me, a real victory for GSP, one where he could have come out with his head held high, would have happened IF he had decided to stand and bang - regardless of who left with the belt.

Some champs get "keep the belt" syndrome...Anderson did for awhile.  Some guys see the belt as secondary to an intangible glory - testing oneself aganist the best that another man has to offer.  BJ Penn and Fedor come to mind. 

I hope that the next time we see GSP he will have learned a strong lesson from this lackluster performance about what make a champion a champion - and it isn't a title belt.

GSP, the Gatorade Gangsta