This Is The Reason We All Need A Porch.
1 comments Posted by Thinking In Vain at 5/21/2010 09:35:00 AMOr our own town. I feel ya buddy:
I find myself being greeted with cutouts of articles talking about procrastination while supervisors and people with some leverage in the decision making business of the department are constantly rendezvousing to chat it up while I have my headphones on and I’m sending the twelfth job for the day. I’m handing things early and the thanks I get are the ones that are already embedded into the signature of an email. That and finger wagging emails highlighting trivial “mistakes” that are more style than substance and which on a rush day wouldn’t make any difference.
Misery loves company, so read the whole post.
The purchase of a ceramic mustache coffee mug, with a silicone top.
I'll get to important things later. If I think of them. ;)
So brandflakesforbreakfast pointed me to the creepy robot site.
Which makes this German study extremely... creepy. (Thanks Grant.)
German researchers studied what happens in accidents involving robots using sharp tools alongside humans.
They used a robot arm holding a variety of bladed tools programmed to strike test substances that mimic soft tissue.
In some cases, the researchers found, the robots managed to accidentally inflict wounds that would prove "lethal".
The tests were conducted to see if a prototype safety system could limit the damage done.
via gizmodo
15,552,000 seconds (6 months). The image was captured by photographer Justin Quinnell, on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.
More on 22GL, via brandflakesforbreakfast
As it turns out, the Obama administration put $13.4 billion of the aid money as “working capital” in an escrow account when the company was in bankruptcy. The company is using this escrow money–government money–to pay back the government loan…
Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Ann Arbor-based Center for Automotive Research, points out that the company has applied to the Department of Energy for $10 billion in low (5%) interest loan to retool its plants to meet the government’s tougher new CAFÉ (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards. However, giving GM more taxpayer money on top of the existing bailout would have been a political disaster for the Obama administration and a PR debacle for the company. Paying back the small bailout loan makes the new–and bigger–DOE loan much more feasible.
In short, GM is using government money to pay back government money to get more government money. And at a 2% lower interest rate at that. This is a nifty scheme to refinance GM’s government debt–not pay it back!
GM boasts that, because it is doing so well, it is paying the $6.7 billion five years ahead of schedule since it was not due until 2015. So will there be an accelerated payback of the rest of the $49.6 billion investment? No. That goal has been pushed back, as it turns out.
Full article on Forbes... (I'm sorry if you get the AWFUL Northwestern Mutual expanding ad on the article – I hope you don't...)
OK, so this is amazing. Pencil... sure, but a plain, old Bic pen?
via More Intelligent Life.
I love these.
I've got so little to do after being so busy for so many weeks, I don't know what to do with myself.
And Lost is a rerun. :p
This has been going around though... I heart charts.
You've probably seen this. But this is pretty much the only one I've LOLed at...
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