Ironic logo of the day

Army/Navy Week. On the Military Channel.

Shoes for the illegals or I'm going to cry

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4445342.stm

Great. In a normal country, you know, the one where the government actually knows who's crossing the border and why, a person helping people get across illegally would have been arrested. But not in this country. Strange stuff, really. To no surprise though -- indeed, with a certain twist of logic, you might agree that since the government doesn't care about millions of people crossing illegally, it would probably not care about a shoe-giving-away-artist helping them...

Blues instrumental track of the day

Artist: Chris Duarte
Track: Shiloh
Album: Texas Sugar Strat Magik

I'll try to get it from somewhere...

Dead reckoning

Нет, ну какая прелесть:

Dead reckoning is the process of estimating a global position of a vehicle by advancing a known position using course, speed, time and distance to be traveled. That is, in other words, figuring out where you momentarily are or where you will be at a certain time if you hold the speed, time and course you plan to travel.

А теперь этимология (я тихо торчу):

Dead reckoning is navigation without stellar observation.

With stellar observation, you are live, working with the stars and the movement of the planet.

With logs, compasses, clocks, but no sky, you are working dead

Средневековые навигаторы были не без чувства прекрасного...

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