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xkcd hits home, again.

Ring-riiiiing!

I put up a gallery of the pictures that my brother sent me of his unit training with the new MRAP vehicles. As the unit was supposed to be packing up for their deployment to Afghanistan, a few soldiers were selected to learn how to operate the military’s new trucks.

Here are some quick facts from Wikipedia’s page for the MRAP:

• MRAP stands for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected.
• MRAPs are a family of vehicles rather than just one design like the Hummer or M1A1 Abrams.
• There are no common designs since a number of vendors supply their own versions.
• The MRAP program is being funded through an “emergency war budget”.
• Since making the vehicles available to soldiers in the field was a priority, the military granted contracts to a number of vendors to speed up manufacturing.
• The hulls are V-shaped to deflect energy away from the vehicles.
• Because of the weight combined with the design, a high center of gravity makes the MRAPs susceptible to rollovers from poor road conditions.
• An MRAP II program has been initiated to develop a new vehicle in order to better protect against explosively formed penetrators (EFP) which use shaped charges to form a jet of metal to cut through armor.

From the pictures that my brother sent me, it looks like they were being trained to use FPI’s Cougar. They come in both a 4×4 and a 6×6 version. Over 3500 vehicles are expected to be delivered by the end of 2008. There’s been a number of Cougar’s that were subjected to IEDs and mines in Iraq and Afghanistan where crew members survived the blasts with some of the trucks still operational enough to get to safety.

Photo: A Cougar MRAP after driving over a mine. All crew survived with minor injuries and the Cougar was driven two miles to safety on three wheels after the explosion.

My brother was finally able to send me the pictures he’s been taking from his pre-deployment training and his unit’s housing at Bagram, Afghanistan. I’ve got the housing pictures in my Gallery section. There’s a good group of pictures of when a select group of soldiers from his unit were being trained to operate the military’s new MRAP vehicle that I’ll get up in the next day or so. There were some videos with those as well that I may or may not toss up on to the YouTube. I haven’t decided, yet.

Who the hell is looking for boners? I check the search terms that are used to find different posts on the site and the one that is used the most is boner. Granted, the word “boner” shows up a lot on my spam recount postings, but really.

Let’s guarantee that this post as well shows up for everyone…

• boner
• limpdick.com
• huge boner
• long boner
• bed boner
• tiny boner
• how to get a boner
• public boner pics
• how to achieve a boner.

And those are just from the last seven days with some appearing on more than one. Let’s add some new ones so I can catch even more boner obsessed individuals.

• schlong
• biggus dickus
• one-eyed trouser snake
• cock
• penis
• penis head
• purple headed warrior
• wood
• pecker
• pecker head
• fuck stick
• wang
• ramrod
• johnson
• prick
• love muscle
• Mr. Happy
• magic wand

That’s all I can think of without searching. Are there anymore we can add? Comments are moderated, but anyone can post a suggestion(s). I missed the good old days when we were more interested in seeing some tit. Janet Jackson must have killed that off with the “wardrobe malfunction” a few years back.

To the person(s) asking about “how to achieve a boner” or “how to get a boner”: if you’re a man you look for boobs, if you’re a woman you flash your boobs. Either or, and I guarantee a boner will find you, not the other way around.

Ta-ta… hmmm…. ta-tas….. boy-oy-oy-iiiinnnnggggg!!!!

Man I miss Beavis and Butthead….

Every year between June 1 and November 30, every island nation in the Caribbean, every country along the Gulf Of Mexico coast, and every state in the US along the Atlantic Ocean braces for the onslaught of hurricane season. Names like Andrew, Hugo, or Katrina bring horrible memories of the death and destruction that’s caused by these huge reminders that mother nature, and not mankind, still controls the weather and the seas.

And while mankind can not control the awesome force of a hurricane, we can still develop better ways to track and predict where a hurricane may strike populated areas in order to issue fair warnings so that people can seek safety or shelter in time. When Gustav was still a major threat, Google put together a meta-page in order to track it and help with any recover efforts. One of the most interesting links from that page was the Hurricane Tracking Map that StormAdvisory.org maintains.

Powered by Google Maps, you can select any or all of the hurricanes from this season and see their path from life to death. Different stages, or way-points, are detailed to show date, time, and wind-speed and are color-coded according to each storm’s severity. Current storms also give projected paths. Whats even more intriguing is that StormAdvisory even has a drop-down menu where you can see the paths of every hurricane known to exist as far back as 1851. Of course, accuracy begins to decline the further back in time you look, but it’s still cool to see.