OMG I SAW AN INSTORE OF DOUG MARTSCH AND MY BY BUD JOHNNY TOTALLY GOT IT ON TAPE!!!! YO THATS ME IN THE BAKGROUND WITH THE CAP KEEPIN IT REAL AND ROCKIN OUT!!!

The creators of the awesome Homestar Runner make a tepid knock-off style creative entry in the commercial world with this cartoon for The Mellow Mushroom. It’s so bad it seems like an intentional “fuck you” to the restaurant chain.

Get that horrible taste from your mouth with this latest by Brad Neely.

You want more? The ATHF trailer.

Modern encryption, namely the RSA algorithm, employs the strategy that it wraps up your messages in a big ball of numeric yarn and it would take computers till the end of time to unwind that yarn. That is, today’s computers have to unwrap that yarn one thread at a time, but quantum computers can unwrap many threads at a time. If the first commercial 16 qbit computer is going to be released, think of the kind of quantum computing power the NSA must have.

It’s becoming clear to me how hard it is to put yourself in the shoes of someone for whom being an hour late to work could lead to life-wrecking consequences, or that when I see someone pissed because the bus ate their $1.75, it may be because they won’t be having lunch now. I think its hard to think that way, but it’s absolutely essential that people learn to do so, because the gap continues to widen and the middle continues to thin.

The wealth distribution of a population is measured by the “Gini” coefficient, and this factor is growing in America. Classes are becoming increasingly disparate and this is a bad thing for our country. Nations with higher Gini indices typically have much higher crime rates (Brazil being the classic example).

I don’t know what the exact point is, but at a certain point a person’s salary has nothing to do with their standard of living. How much better off is the guy who makes 1mil a year compared to the poor schmuck punching in for 500k? I don’t know much about economics, but I’ve gathered a healthy economy is not judged by how much money is in the system, but by how well it flows. Like blood, it can’t all go to one place or the body dies. These rapidly inflating salaries on the high end are serving as tourniquets on our nation’s economic health.

Our expectations from life tend to stay just one step ahead of our income, no matter what we earn: nobody but Dick Cheney and 50 cent actually believes that he is rich.

Potential employers search on job applicants all the time. It makes sense — the internet may tell an entirely different story from your resume. Seven out of the top ten Google search results on “Brian Risk” are about me, but there’s a new player in the field. The Brian Risk Band (homepage).

I had a meeting with HR to discuss the benefits of going permanent. One such perk is that they will pay for one class a week as long as it relates to my profession.

“Does anger management count?”

“Uh… no… no, I don’t think so.”

“Well it had better!”

This story isn’t that funny but I’ve wanted to tell it to a lot of people and haven’t because I felt like this would be lording over them such amenities. To most of my friends the concept of company-provided benefits are alien. E.g. once a friend of mine fell through the stairs where we work and when he told the boss the response was, “well, can you fix them?”