shirt update, work, alternate reality

3 hours pathing out the original screen capture plus 2 hours fine tuning the image, and i have a final image of the shirt ready for printing. That link leads to a smaller version, but if you compare that smaller version to the link in the previous post, you'll see a difference in the sharpness (hair isn't filled in, i'm debating leaving it white in the final print, there are already so many colours that need to get done, and the image i'm working off of is about 5 times as big). I don't have enough materials to make the screens just yet, though, and i might have to order them, so it might be another week before i begin the laborious process of transfering ink onto shirt, but it'll be so worth it...

Last night i gave a tour of the server room for one of the compsec classes, kept me here a bit late. This morning got to do it again for the unix admin class. Kind of hoarse now, having to talk for hours over the roar of the HVAC and servers is something i'm not so used to.

Spent too much work time looking through the CIA World Factbook , one of my favourite pasttimes. If i could write, i'd write a book in which UofM (approx 50k students, $3.8 billion total revenue) invades Belize (68k available military manpower, $18 million military expenditure) and forms the Republic of the University of Michigan, or in which Bill Gates (net worth: $48 billion) hires 6 million Chinese men for one year (GDP per capita: $5k, total cost of $30 billion), spends $10 billion to equip them, invades North Korea (~6 million available manpower, $5 billion military expenditure), uses his remaining $8 billion to rebuild the country afterwards, and is hailed as the greatest US patriot ever for taking out one of the Axis of Evil countries- i'm sure either would be a best seller.
Thinking about war in terms of raw numbers reminds me of The Fog of War : in one part Robert McNamara describes more efficiently bombing Japan during WWII while numbers fall from planes in vintage footage - quite a disturbing scene.