Life and stuff

Taken during volunteer downtime at the UCLA Engineering Open House:

I hadn’t given one whit of thought on the matter until I got sucked into an article at the LA Times:

Fees Eat Away at Employees’ 401(k) Nest Eggs

Now to find out how much money is being skimmed from my own account :\

I was talking with some coworkers about investing and mutual funds, and one of them mentioned there’s the Vice Fund which invests in peoples’ vices: alcohol, tobacco, casinos, and defense. Yep, that’s right, defense. I’ll admit, some of the stuff we make is really cool, but we don’t exactly make things that people will blow their grocery money on.

I still can’t get over the idea that Pr0n should be the 4th pillar, though that might too socially stigmatizing for people to stomach.

“Yeah, the S&P tanked, but my p0rn stocks are doing great!”
” … “

Seriously. I was browsing Last.fm to see what it would recommend based off of what I’ve been listening to lately:

I’m speechless.