Well some of you might be wondering where are the mechs Al usually post once a month? For the last month I've foolishly figured I would design weapons for God Slave Ku so enjoy the fruits of my labour!





See the rest of them here.

Good one Beck!

My favorite part of the money poster is when you get to the Trillions bit and the size of the derivatives and credit default swap markets. I'm almost through the Big Short by Michael Lewis and it's impossible to describe just how stupid, crazy and mindboggling the whole mess was. Every so often I stop reading and tell Nadeesha about some crazy thing going on, only to stop 10 pages later and describe something that's even more crazy than that.

And that part of the chart still absolutely dwarfs all the other money in the world. Incredible.

Thank you internets:

It's just the Alison portion of the program.

I didn't kill the board, did I?

Have you all checked out the latest xkcd infographic? It's mind-blowing. Half of it makes me too angry to read on and ready to go join the Occupy protesters, and the rest of it boggles me.

Sometimes I makes me grateful for long-term planning (hurricane forecasting vs hurricane damage-savings thanks to advanced warning technologies)

Sometimes it pisses me off

And then sometimes it is completely crazy: the annual agricultural value of bees (estimated) is $220, 000, 000, 000 INSANE! and bees are dying. Are we going to pay people to pollinate things with paintbrushes?

Or the fact that the US EPA has a price on human life ($8.4 million for one person's life).

Mind-boggling.

Guys!
I just stumbled across this and thought you'd get a (cynical) laugh out of it:
The Ultimate Bigot's Calendar of the World and other stereotype mapping products...
like this:

I thought it was pretty funny.

apropos of nothing, I thought this t-shirt was great.

via Think Geek .

I fucking hate my job. There, I said it. Today it's absolutely true, too. ... particularly after being out all day with a massive headache. I want to be done with this guilt-complex of never having enough time to do the work I need to do because I'm constantly shuffling around between projects and answering unnecessary phone calls.

Also, who the hell sends e-mails at 11pm expecting me to respond for a meeting the next day?

The one week I could be spending catching up on shit, I am unmoored and confused (and out with a headache) because there's just too much going on. This is bogus.

I want all my extra-hours-worked back in days off.

/rant