that xkcd was awesome.

I haven't finished it yet, I don't have time.

go to today's xkcd and obey the alt text.

Wow. There goes my afternoon.

Aw, I am less cynical than you guys for a change! I assumed the Chik-fil-a people found their inner true Christians.

I haven't finished it yet, I don't have time.

A link to a zoomable version: [link]

Looks like the server is having trouble with the load, but it worked for me the second time I tried.

eta: Ooh, a Saturn V!

I am maybe as cynical as possible, because I'm just glad this happened now, when my org's partnership with them will be especially public next week.

Did y'all hear about Jesus's wife? There's a fragment of papyrus from 400 AD that says so.

Did Jesus Have a Wife?

The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”

The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at the International Congress of Coptic Studies by Karen L. King, a historian who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation’s oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.

The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, Dr. King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery.

I don't expect this will affect Christianity much.

I don't expect this will affect Christianity much.

Nah, neither will Chik-Fil-A stopping the hate.

A link to a zoomable version:

Even that just took me 5 minutes to get through. Wow.

Catching up on work email is taking forever. I'm working bottom up and top down, and then keep getting shot to the middle by calls or "have you heard from XYZ?" emails at the top, or just boss-needing-stuff.

We fucked up on something, and it really truly was my manager's fuckup, and I have no idea if I'm to step back and let her get run over, or what. I suggested what I thought was a solution that met every requirement, and she shot me down without telling me why it wasn't a good idea, and when push came to shove, she didn't implement the other idea anyway.

And boss got reamed for that. But once she said no, pressing her further was impolitic (I would have said unpolitic--thank you Opera, for saving my face), so how much blame should the rest of us shoulder? The only person that could have overridden her didn't know what was going on. Which, again, was not anything we could do anything about. But she took a call on her off day when I was in the shower (it was before 8), so it's all very confusing--it could have been me in her shoes--it should have been me. And what would I have done?

Actually, probably caved to the business request she denied--because that's my failing. But we wouldn't be in trouble then. Well, not for this. But we're not allowed to pal around with the business anymore, because their boss is mad at our boss.