YES! The full thread is back up!

Remember the thread at Internet Infidels that took the warning and security icons from ready.gov and made captions for them? And it went on and on for like, twenty pages, and included a fully illustrated version of Talking Heads' song "Once in a Lifetime", among other works of genius? And it got so many hits that they had to close the thread and only make one page of it available?

IT'S BACK UP!

Just because

I just love this one so much...


In the event of a nuclear explosion, drive around it.

Again, the full thread is here.

Note to those who don't understand what stealing bandwidth is - I have not linked to Internet Infidels' host to display this graphic; that would be stealing bandwidth. Rather, I grabbed the graphic from ready.gov, uploaded it to my own server at thechicagoloop.net, and am linking to the source there. (Since ready.gov has made the icons publically available, I did not need to ask permission.) That's how you do it properly. Otherwise, every time anyone accessed my lj, or their friends list with me on it, or their friendsfriends list with me on it, Internet Infidels would take the hit. End of aside.

Uh... woo?

I just got a raise. I mean, a good, serious raise.

This baffles me to no end. The company was told there would be no raises. And, for the most part, there *were* no raises. Except for me, and M, and J, and five producers.

I mean, seriously. The company has... close to 200 employees, and eight of us got raises.

And PBS is losing money. I mean, hemorrhaging money. We've cut close to a third of our employees in Chicago alone in the two-and-a-half years I've been here. After the last round of lay-offs (where I feared I might be next, as I spoke out rather angrily at a companywide meeting about them), they swore we'd have no more lay-offs, and we just did last week - two major VPs were let go for monetary reasons.

I mean... buh?