Vakkotaur

1. It would happen in Wausau. I guess he thought it was wabbit season.

2. Several nights ago RichardFox pointed out a web site of military, or perhaps ex-military, humor. One bit was about attitude to service members and such. This included a correction about the idea that some apparently have that the Coast Guard somehow isn't one of the "real" forces.

Maybe they don't go far overseas like the others, but they still have problems. Trying to stop smugglers and such means they do come under fire, and it doesn't matter if there is a defined war or not. One thing, though, really sets the Coast Guard apart, and perhaps above, the other services.

When the weather is rotten beyond belief (remember how the weather folks like to say how much energy is in a storm, equivalent to so many nukes, which is huge even if spread out), well in that miserable mess, what do the various services do? The Army can halt and dig in. The Navy can steer around a storm. The Air Force can delay flights, or maybe fly over the weather. The Marines can delay a landing or halt an advance. And what does the Coast Guard do? The Coast Guard goes out in those hellish storms and rescues people from them.

3. Some things have given names but end up being called other, less flattering, names by those who use them. A common example is Internet Explorer which has been dubbed, amongst other things, Internet Exploiter and Internet Exploder.

A few programming and debugging tools have similar fates. There was the Cosmic Compiler which was dubbed the Comic Compiler. The Nohau emulator got called the NoWay emulator. And now Code Composer seems to have been renamed Code Disposer.

4. The LJ web application's spell checker does not point out wabbit as an unknown or misspelled word.