Back to the Department of Diplomacy and Propaganda

I am back--perhaps temporarily--in the Diplomacy and Propaganda department. I design the pretty pictures that tell other agents about their success or failure in the endless war against walking, talking sentient numbers. 

This time, I have to do a lot of elementary school level math. (Granted, we have to use that elementary school math to track the numbers' movements in many different dimensions.) My commanders told me that I had to do the elementary school level math on an ancient magical machine. It supposedly simplifies the "elementary school math" for the lay person.

In reality, the machine unnecessarily complicates the whole project it. My team takes more time to patch and extend the machine than to programming it to make the pretty pictures.

The other thing that complicates this project? Someone had the bright idea to take photos of the walking, talking numbers and store them forever. Those photos take up a lot of room.

Once the ancient machine produces the pretty pictures, I have to compare them to the photos in our archives. In fact, I spend about 80% of my time comparing the pretty pictures to the raw data that we have in photos.

Consequently, I spend about 80% of my time in the photo archives.



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It gets kinda lonely down here. I sometimes take breaks and try to hit ping pong balls into awkwardly positioned trash cans.
 

(Most depressingly, someone has stolen most of the ping pong balls.)