On a completely unrelated note, did anyone catch the audio file that the US Navy just released about that encounter between an American task force and some Iranian speedboats in the Hormuz a couple days ago? Very surreal. The poor teenager running the communications systems on the American destroyer is squeaking out stuff like "Unknown small craft, your intentions are unclear, alter your course immediately!"
And then you hear someone on the Iranian side say over the frequency in a deep, overdramatized, Doctor Evil voice, "I am coming to you...!" and then later, "You will explode after a few minutes!!!" Heh, great stuff.
And on an even less related note, I saw a car with a bumper sticker today that read,"My other car is a Pynchon book." Then tonight when I got home my Amazon order for Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" just came in the mail. I love sychronicity.
Posted by case at January 8, 2008 09:42 PM