These are the people I work with.

I stand by the assertion that mike winters is indeed a genius.

Yeah. Woudn't it have sucked if it was a black guy.

Another new guy got hired today. The Asian guy population just went up!

2-3 years!? We could all change a lot by then. You might not be able to recognize any of us! Um... Who am I kidding we'll still be in the same condition you left us in. Maybe a little bit fatter, maybe a little bit balder (hopefully just the guys!) but essentially the same.

Jesse, you are going to folk fest, right? i'm feeling rather abandoned, my ff friends didn't get tickets, because they spaced on the fact that passes tend to sell out early on. now, granted, i'm not going to cling to you the whole time, like some annoying parasite, but it'd be nice to know i'll have someone to hang out with.


and... folks, i'm a little (lot) terrified. i'm starting my project this week, heading into the forest to do solely my work, not just "oh, as an afterthought, since we're here already, i'll do some stuff" but full-on "this is me conducting research" aaaaaaaa! so, if i seem out of sorts, if you see me, don't worry, once i stop freaking out, things will get back to normal. so, um, see you all in 2-3 years!

I never felt so fucking old before. Well I am. Gah!

stupid fuckin comic. Last night I had a dream that I was at the exhibition and there was this all-day uno tournament being held there, and it was down to like 6 finalists (they played one-on-one, round-robin style). Two of them were Beck and Leo, and they had already won $250 each for being finalists, but if either one of them got 1st place they'd win something like $250,000 for having the most points. But I was talking to them during an intermission between the final rounds and Beck is like "aw, fuck it. I'm tired. I've been playing uno all day. I'm happy with the $250." And they just left the tournament and I'm like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!???". But apparently (according to them) I "just didn't get it".

usually I don't find penny arcade funny... but I kinda like this one...

It has something to do with the difference between ISO-8859 encoding and UTF-8 encoding. Regular HTML uses one, and Javascript uses another. If you refresh the whole page, the weird script disappears. I tried to fix it earlier, but apparently it didn't work. Perhaps I'll try again later. I consider myself to be rather lazy on that front. (Though, curiously enough, I'm not so lazy on the kill-vs.-catch-and-release-a-bug front.)