Yay vacation!

So, it's been light blogging lately because I'm in the middle of a weeklong vacation in Boston/Cambridge/Amherst. But today is work day--we're hunkered down over laptops at a coffee shop in Amherst tackling some of the great problems of the world. So, it's a perfect time for a little cyberslacking.

Stanford is 0-6. Sad, so sad.

"Hey, do you feel like it's been too long without a hot war in Caucasus? Something may be coming soon." On a related note, Khakjaan Wessington is convinced that Russia is a military powerhouse on the rise, given its population's higher tolerance for combat casualties, the military's purchasing power disproportionate to its published budget, and the steady growth of the Russian economy. I wonder.