I have stuff I could do, but it's nothing that can't wait.

This is basically where I am. It's not like there's NOTHING I could be doing. Lazy.

Oh, and I'm cold, too. I've got my fleece jacket on, and have had to put it over my head to keep the cold air that's blowing down from the vent directly over my head off of me.

My nose is getting chilled.

But there is a bunch of work I should be doing. Bored + LAZY!

This is totally me.

I was assigned something right before I went on vacation and I have completely forgot what I am supposed to be doing.

This is fun if you like watching really big airplanes doing weird stuff:

Video: Extreme Flying, 747-8 Style

Boeing, eager to shine some positive light on one of its test programs, released a video highlighting some of the 747-8’s more interesting flights. For anyone who enjoys watching something more than the usual straight and level flying, it’s a great video that includes stall testing (which in a 747 equals a lot of nose drop), flutter testing with some dramatic wing flex and the always-interesting VMU testing where the pilots drag the tail along the runway.

Jesse, did you get the baby elephant link I sent to the Tumblr?

Recently? I did not! I would like that, though.

I have to do my self evaluation. Bleh. On the plus side, we had to do job descriptions this year and I can cut and paste a lot from that. But am too lazy! (Am not putting that in my self eval)

I can't get to tumblr from work, but this is it: [link]

Ha! Thanks.

You know who's a good time? Mimi Smartypants:

Have you heard of this “alignment” schema? Chaotic good, neutral evil, etc? I hear this referenced sometimes, most recently in this great graphic about The Wire. (Oh! Just looking at that makes me so nostalgic for the show. I know I can watch it again but nothing will compare to the first time.)

Anyway, every time this formula comes up I idly wonder about its origins, but I never remember to Google it or anything. In the back of my head I had assumed it was invented by some philosopher, and my brain usually went to either Nietzsche or Spinoza because (a) it made a certain amount of intellectual sense, and (b) I have not studied or read either of those guys in depth.

You know where this is going, of course, but you cannot imagine my outrage when I finally get around to Wikipedia and find out that it comes from GODDAMN DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, and I cannot believe I devoted brainpower to feeling inferior about not being aware of a philosophical algorithm that seemed so widespread. If I had been thinking clearly, the very fact of its being widespread and pop-culture-applicable might have tipped me off that maybe the source text was not SPINOZA, for crying out loud. Maybe I really am as dumb as I look.

Oh dear.

Tron cat

What possible secrets could Fluffy's memory disc contain? Probably some choice thoughts on its owner's choice of light-up apparel.