Some of you may have noticed recent articles about athletic clothing which includes circuits woven into the fabric which, when connected to the appropriate device, provides vital statistics such as pulse rate, respiration rate, etc.

Reality? Sometimes I post things that are meant to be ridiculous they’re so extreme. I’ve never worn the “intelligent” athletic clothing, just saw a news article.

Regarding the targeting drones, I suspect there is no longer any “black box” to be retrieved. Consider that the sturdiest hulls are now made of epoxy & woven / spun / wrapped fiber of various materials. Consider also that there are pilotless drones smaller than a couple of handspans, and autopiloting devices weighing less than 20 grams, and gimble controls for video cameras smaller than a ping pong ball, allowing the camera to keep a man-sized designated target in view for as long as the uav can keep flying. The uavs known to be available are small enough to provoke territorial attacks from ravens.

At some level, I hate mentioning these things in these precincts, but on the other hand, the terrorists are of a culture that has so thoroughly trashed its vaunted brilliance that they can not even forge the knives they use to saw the necks of their beheading victims.

On still another hand, they have so many friends – both co-religionists and leftward-hurtling moral lepers in the West – that no technology can be assumed beyond their grasp.

One has much sympathy for the brave French soldiers, but one wonders why they were wandering around in the broad mid-afternoon light, apparently eschewing remote viewing drones, insufficiently armed and supplied, with only a single radio. Is this standard for Western forces?

Well, you can’t believe everything you read in the newspapers.