We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:14:14 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification John seems to be obsessing with quizzes lately, so I figured I'd recycle this from one of my first appearances. As always, you get context -- during the last couple of days of our Boz rotation, we watched our replacements finish making a hash out of everything assuming their responsibilities for everything and everyone in the MND-North AO, thereby leaving us with nothing to do except scratch our nu precious little in the way of meaningful work. Devil, meet idle hands. Idle hands, meet keyboard. Took darn near an hour, but I ratcheted up a quiz, slapped it in e-mail,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:37:58 -0600 But is it poikilitically exothermic? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64759 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64759 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:18:04 -0600 exothermic. ... this one was first on the list. Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64732 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64732 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:28:09 -0600 the furnace is on the fritz.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64708 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64708 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:59 -0600 You forgot the bonus question: Is Hell exothermic? Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64704 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64704 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:56:06 -0600 Jonah hasn't posted his answers yet, John. Which means you're ahead... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64702 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64702 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:49:24 -0600 Or you could take out your spleen on somebody else. Or on Lima beans. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64701 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64701 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:46:12 -0600 emergency backup appendix too. How about I take out my own spleen instead? Or somebody else's spleen?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64692 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64692 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:34:37 -0600 ...can i substitute Heinlein for Lovecraft? Yeah, if you can get him to autograph my copy of Revolt in 2100. Of course, you're gonna have to cozy up with Lovecraft to do that...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64684 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64684 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:13:33 -0600 Design the systems interface and prepare all software necessary to program this algorithm onto an Apple MacIntosh. Use only those applications found in DOS 3.0. I think that requirement pretty much restricts you to Lovecraft (the horror!) and Tolkien (it's gonna take some serious magic).]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64682 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64682 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:07:59 -0600 for the Management Science question, can i substitute Heinlein for Lovecraft? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64680 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64680 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:50:34 -0600 Gee... I sure hope Bosnia is a nice place to live. Don't think I'd be getting out of there based upon this, LOL. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64673 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64673 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:54:39 -0600 ...ya managed to snark me twice in the opening paragraph... Two sentences, two snarks -- recycling jokes *and* electrons to stop global warming on Neptune dead in its steamy little tracks...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64669 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64669 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:19:09 -0600 The concept is ancient (ca. 1988), but the new, improved SFOR Test is only *five* years old! Ummm -- okay, around here, five is also kinda ancient... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64666 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64666 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:08:51 -0600 Military History, Plato to NATO, in 500 words or less, with examples.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64665 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64665 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:03:51 -0600 Ha! this joke is ancient, I still have a copy of the original under the bed somewhere. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64656 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/everything_old.html#comment-64656 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:19:34 -0600