I just went through a crazy 4 weeks when my bosses realised we had not spent nearly half of our allocated £30,000 (there was money put aside for a lot of different things that ended up not happening, which is why there was such a huge underspend). So I spent the first half of July getting everyone in our division to…

Sadly, I’ve seen the same exact mentality in the private sector as well.

My mom works for the State Government here and I can attest to this. They have a closet with boxes of $150 staplers that they didn’t need, but had to buy to maintain the budget for when they didn’t need to overspend.

I was actually referring to this: Malaysia’s government has ‘misplaced’ about US$600 Million. The paper trail of the ‘misplaced’ money is loosely leading to the Prime Minister’s personal bank accounts. If only there were proper accounting so that money spent by the government was accounted for so that it can be traced…

I’m more a Howard Shore sort of person. Everyone knows his LotR scores, which are wonderful, but I really love the more subtle stuff he’s done for David Cronenberg.

Oh, you needn’t apologize for giving me a chance to knock my dad, I assure you.

My only purpose, such as it was, was to express the surprise I felt as a teenager upon reading that the guy who broke the sound barrier and the guys who went to the moon made less than my dad did allocating pens and desks and paperclips for the General Services Administration.

Well, obviously.

You’re right. And since he took a GOV, no transportation costs associated either!

I JUST WANT HIM TO PARTICIPATE IN DEBATES THAT IS ALL I WANT<33333 UNCLE JOOOOOEE!

When you have a brain tumor, it is.

That’s part of the reason I love it so. It’s a little ray of sunshine on a gloomily cloudy day.

Technically, Luna, Terra, and Sol are proper names for the Moon, Earth, and the Sun, given that the latter are terms applicable to non-proper terms.

It’s amazing that they weren’t paid even half that in a year. That’s one of the things that blew me away reading The Right Stuff as a teenager, just how little they were paid.

A government that has a paper trail of where money was spent is better for a govt that does not have it. Not having a paper trail allows mismanagement to sneak in and meddle with finances.

This poor girl :( Seeing this girl broke my heart this morning. As someone who’s spent some time in a children’s hospital with a sick kid I can say that visits like these from anyone, from friends, family, athletes, celebrities, really is a beautiful gesture. We got to watch the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Movie…

People complain about massive amounts of government paperwork, but it is that same paperwork which helps inform things like congressional legislation and major supreme court decisions decades later. Sure, some of it, like this, sounds pointless, but documenting everything that goes on in the government is a good thing.

And no tomatoes, please. I’m allergic to red.

I used to work with an asshole that would regularly go to chipotle during the lunch rush and order the quesorito (because eating something the size of a baby for lunch is a good idea?), which would then slow down the entire line. Still wished they would have simply told him no, just to see his reaction.