Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Corporations
Corporations are inherently schizophrenic. R&D always wants more money, and is constantly complaining that Marketing is ruining its products. Accounting is constantly telling R&D to quit whining and make do with what it has, or it will find its budget slashed so low it won't even be able to afford a drawing board. Legal is suing everyone in sight for patent, trademark and copyright violations. And the CEO is screaming at marketing and R&D to play nice or they'll be separated. In any institution that big, there will be contradictory viewpoints and departments working at cross-purposes.
Corporations
Corporations are inherently schizophrenic. R&D always needs cash, Accounting usually wants to fire half the workforce even when they're doing fantastic, and tells R&D to make do with what they've got, or they'll see their budget cut so far down they won't even be able to afford a drawing board.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
The United States Mint
I just saw that ad for the .999 24k gold bullion coin (the website is https://www.50dollarbuffalo.com ) so I called the 800 number to get some more info, but of course, it being almost 10 o'clock on a Saturday, I was unable to find a human to talk to at that number. So I called toll free directory assistance 1-800-555-1212 to try and find the US Mint phone number, but the damn thing misunderstood me and gave me the number to the VA office, which after calling the number, I discovered is located in Wisconsin, the cheesiest state in the Union. :) So, on the off-chance they knew the number for the Mint, I asked, and they delivered. Thanks, guys! I then found myself talking to a delightful woman, who apparently had nothing better to do at 9:30 on a Saturday night at the US Mint than shoot the breeze with a weirdo like me. I asked her "Well, what could go wrong at the Mint?" That made her laugh for a full 30 seconds. I also found out that apparently I can actually order coins from the Mint --ordinary coins, too, not just commemorative ones. Among other things, I found out that the call center I had been connected with when I called the Mint (and asked the telephone prompt for customer service) was located in Indiana, just outside of Indianapolis, and that they don't know where they get the metals that they strike the coins from.
Billy Mays, dude, you made otherwise lame products interesting. Oxy-Clean, Orange-Glo Mighty Putty, I watched them all. Never bought any of them, but that's not your fault, I just don't care.
Anyway, this is my Saturday night, thanks for reading. This has been a production of the Internet. This is Entropy signing off this Saturday night, and thats the way it is.
P.S. Walter Cronkite, Billy Mays and Michael Jackson, you will all be missed.
Walter, you gave us the news, just the news, none of this "infotainment" BS, where they play 30 minutes of actual news, spaced out over 3 hours, and played over and over all day long. My dad remembers you, he thought you were great.
Walter, you gave us the news, just the news, none of this "infotainment" BS, where they play 30 minutes of actual news, spaced out over 3 hours, and played over and over all day long. My dad remembers you, he thought you were great.
Billy Mays, dude, you made otherwise lame products interesting. Oxy-Clean, Orange-Glo Mighty Putty, I watched them all. Never bought any of them, but that's not your fault, I just don't care.
Last but not least, Michael. Dude, we all know you didn't do a damn thing except be a fantastic singer and dancer, according to my parents, and also a wonderfully eccentric human being. Thanks, for making the 5 years of news I actually watched interesting.
Well, Good night, people.
Well, Good night, people.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
More Random Thoughts
Couple of things, I voted for Obama, I apologize.
He is officially the worst president we have ever had.
Not only did hebreak every promise he made, it's like he went out of his way to break the specific promises, not just to overall issues like most politicians.
Congratulations, dude, that's got to be some kind of record.
And, since I've always sucked at transition into a new topic...
The music industry is doing fine, artists are creating, some are actually getting paid enough from their record deals to maybe start thinking about saving up to go out to dinner in a couple years or so. The recording industry is dying. The recording industry, like publishing, is the business built around the principle that, for the longest time, it was really difficult and expensive to record, edit, press, market, and distribute music to the public. As it stands now, any schmuck with a webcam and mic can record himself singing in the shower, post it to youtube, and get a million hits in a month (provided he's really good of course) then get a free domain or pay $10 to google and get a top level domain (www.example.com) with a free google account as the only prerequisite, sell the 320kbps(perfect audiophile golden-ear CD quality) MP3s of his music to anyone, anywhere for, oh, say 90 cents, or even a pay what you want model. If he's really good, he gets tons of free ( or nearly so) publicity and fans, but if not, well no big deal he's only out the time it took to record the songs, upload them, and create the (free) website plus ten bucks for the one year domain registration fee of the site he bought from google, which he can then re purpose into almost anything.
Lastly, will someone please comment, i feel like I'm ranting to myself here
He is officially the worst president we have ever had.
Not only did hebreak every promise he made, it's like he went out of his way to break the specific promises, not just to overall issues like most politicians.
Congratulations, dude, that's got to be some kind of record.
And, since I've always sucked at transition into a new topic...
The music industry is doing fine, artists are creating, some are actually getting paid enough from their record deals to maybe start thinking about saving up to go out to dinner in a couple years or so. The recording industry is dying. The recording industry, like publishing, is the business built around the principle that, for the longest time, it was really difficult and expensive to record, edit, press, market, and distribute music to the public. As it stands now, any schmuck with a webcam and mic can record himself singing in the shower, post it to youtube, and get a million hits in a month (provided he's really good of course) then get a free domain or pay $10 to google and get a top level domain (www.example.com) with a free google account as the only prerequisite, sell the 320kbps(perfect audiophile golden-ear CD quality) MP3s of his music to anyone, anywhere for, oh, say 90 cents, or even a pay what you want model. If he's really good, he gets tons of free ( or nearly so) publicity and fans, but if not, well no big deal he's only out the time it took to record the songs, upload them, and create the (free) website plus ten bucks for the one year domain registration fee of the site he bought from google, which he can then re purpose into almost anything.
Lastly, will someone please comment, i feel like I'm ranting to myself here
My Blog
I have a blog now.
Yay for me I suppose.
You know, I've noticed that we probably have more accounts on various websites than we could possibly ever close. That's the only reason I still have an aol address. I've looked, I don' think they'll let me close that account. But whatever, it's free and now I just use it to route all my spam from the hundreds of message boards I only register with to be able to view some random posting.
Yay for me I suppose.
You know, I've noticed that we probably have more accounts on various websites than we could possibly ever close. That's the only reason I still have an aol address. I've looked, I don' think they'll let me close that account. But whatever, it's free and now I just use it to route all my spam from the hundreds of message boards I only register with to be able to view some random posting.
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