Another week, another Sunday

Was reasonably bored today so I went to the bookstore and got to store up my weekly allotment of guilt by sitting there and reading Half Blood Prince without bothering to buy it. I thought it was rather short, the story felt rushed and I was at the climax before I was ready for it. Still, it must have been somewhat lengthy because it took me over two and a half hours to read it. Fortunately, I have nothing else to do today.

Been reading my HunterXHunter collection too, realizing in the process that a lot of potential of that series has since been wasted. That's too bad, but I can still hope for it to finish with a bang. If it doesn't just give up and die.

Also re-read some of Neil Sheehan's excellent A Bright Shining Lie. I can now point out, again, that if nothing else, the US Army has learned a lot since Vietnam, and some of it actually shows. Not that this makes the news from Iraq any better, but it does show that at least some positive reform will probably come out of it in the future. I've got to come up with a better tactical analysis of the Iraq situation at some point, but I'm extremely hampered by the fact that nobody knows what's going on. People from all over the world chime in with commentary, but even the Iraqis seem quite confused. This is expected, since being in the middle of a war zone makes things complicated, but it makes reasonable analysis tricky at best.

But I don't have a good analysis, so you'll have to settle for more Particle Physics:

( Particle Physics IV: Things That Go Boom )