On Wikipedia Tonight
So I was doing some of my standard browsing on Wikipedia tonight. I decided to avoid my customary subjects of booze and killing machines for a broader subject. I picked Peru. I should know more about Peru. You should too, probably.

Unsurprisingly, my attention was drawn to politics and history, and from there inevitably back into war. The War of the Pacific to be specific.

I learned of the exploits of "El Caballero de los Mares," a fella named Miguel Grau who held off the whole of the modern and well-equipped Chilean Navy with a single ship. Apparently accomplished with wily bravado and stealth, as sort of a 19th century Solid Snake, except in a big frickin' steam boat. Poor guy finally got it when an armor-piercing shell landed on him. Not exactly getting shot ten times and being decapitated by a claymore, but for me it will be an equally-memorable bit of naval carnage.

I also found a questionable article dealing with Chilean infantry conduct, involving going berserk on liquor laced with gunpowder and knifing up folks 14th level barbarian-style. The article described the state of the hulked-out young gentlemen as "endiablado," a word I have decided to work into my vocabulary somehow.

It was all-in-all a much more focused session than usual, but I again failed to avoid indulging my appetite for military details.

I don't know if it's still up, but the Wikipedia page for Chile had been edited to include only the word (?) "lol" when I checked into it.