A lot of people don't realize that Erector sets are still in production, that was one of my favorite toys I got for Christmas when I was around age 10, though I wouldn't recommend them for ages much younger than that. I always loved it because they forced you to do a little more pre-planning and design before getting creative because you couldn't just pull the blocks apart when you wanted to make structural changes, you had to unfasten all of the hardware.

Nobody ever read the book Sunstorm by Stephen Baxter? The idea was to build a massive reflector the diameter of the Earth to block out the massive flare headed for us. It worked pretty well in the book, considering the oceans didn't boil away.

Put a bluetooth in your ear and loudly talk about how you're going to "Fire his ass as soon as you get back in the office". You can also add something about how you "don't pay him (whatever exorbitant amount) to make screw-ups like that on multi-million dollar projects". Make them think you're so important that you couldn't be expected to expend the calories necessary to tote around a larger one.

I don't need a fuckin' implant. Give me a credit-card sized ID, like my old apartment complex had Keep it in a lead wallet... Then nobody could scan it from a distance.