When I got my driver's license renewed about 15 years ago and had to go to the DMV, I took a book with me.

I nearly finished that book during the time I was waiting for my 5 minute appointment. IN-SANE.

I am in DMV hell. Waiting so CJ can get his permit.

Allyson, fantastic car! You don't need to dress better or lose weight to drive it, all you need is a tattoo and a mad gleam in your eyes.

Congrats on employment, Tom!

msbelle, better job ~ma.

I can't believe it's 1:30 already. I've accomplished almost nothing today. Motivation is nil.

My day thus far:

helping someone with 2 basic elements of doing an expense report
moving 2 meetings around on boss's calendar
getting someone's conference call code for boss
attending previously mentioned HR de-motivation meeting
going to get lunch for 2 bosses
ordering lunch for a meeting tomorrow
ordering breakfasts and lunches for meetings Wed & Thur
coding receipt charge for lunch from last Wed's lunch
answering a couple of emails, one of which was committing to cover front reception from 1-2

so hey - that is in 10 min and I haven't eaten yet, so lunch for me may not even happen today, despite my day being all foodcentric.

first call/email will be to the firm that placed me here.

Smart. If nothing else, they should know.

I just interviewed a person who just graduated from college in May! Cute.

I interview Owen about his first non-stop motion lego movie. [link]

Fun! Did you get the email I sent you with a contact for voice-over help? Or it may have been a FB message.

sending gun nuts into the 'hood would be a "Survivor" I would never stop watching. Stories like that always remind me of this story Gavin De Becker, my security boyfriend, tells in one of his books. He was in Texas, testifying against some new rule that would allow people Guns At All Times or something, so at lunch break, he asked "Why do you want this so badly?"

They said "You know...gotta be prepared."

"Statistically, given that food allergies and choking are more common than gun violence...guess that means you have an epi-pen and a tracheotomy kit with you, too, right?"

And they said "Ew...I don't want the responsibility for that."

Fun! Did you get the email I sent you with a contact for voice-over help? Or it may have been a FB message.

I did, thank you! We're working on his video skills first. I wanted him to actually get a small work done before recruiting voice talent. He's long on the ideas and short on follow through. Well, not for an 8 year old. But I think if this movie works, I'll have him write some lines and send them out via email to get recorded so he can use them.

Cool. The guy I put you in contact with actually spends his summers working with middle school kids on creating and performing their own scripts.

The Universe Could Tear Itself Apart Sooner Than Anyone Believed

Blame dark energy.

It's worth noting that, given this timescale, and assuming that the big rip will hold as theory, the Universe will never go through the much-considered heat death phase, which was scheduled to start 10100 years from now. And what's particularly disturbing about all of this is, stars and planets will very much be still in existence at the time of the big rip. It's going to be a universe-wide catastrophe, that words cannot even begin to describe.

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And the picture they paint is very strange indeed. The cosmologists suggest that dark energy's gravitational repulsion will continually increase until it overcomes all forces holding objects together, causing every structure in the Universe to be torn apart. Nothing will be immune to this cataclysmic event — including those atomic-scale objects that are more tightly bound (they'll be the last to go).

Now, it's very unlikely that our solar system will exist in its current form at that time, but it's worth considering what would happen if it did.

Zhang and Li write that the the Milky Way will be torn apart 32.9 million years before the big rip. The Earth will be ripped away from the Sun two months before the end, and we'll lose our moon with five days left. The Sun itself will be destroyed 28 minutes before the end of time, and the Earth will explode a mere 12 minutes later.

Fun times.

Only 16.7 billion years to go....