September 2008
36 posts
Tea
I have started to drink tea on a regular basis. This confirms to me two things: I am old and british.
Interspersing
the new Tv On The Radio and Okkervil River albums is a nice laid back sunday soundtrack.
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Ash - Lose Control
Can’t go wrong with a song that opens with the sound of a TIE fighter
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“This special episode of the Fluxcast features nothing but string quartet versions of well-known rock and pop songs.”
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So far we have had:
- Weezer - El Scorcho
- Nine Inch Nails - Closer
- Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
- Beyonce - Crazy in Love
And still 40 mins to go!
Mother I tried please believe me. I'm doing the best that I can. I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through. I'm ashamed of the person I am. Isolation, isolation, isolation.
(via britticisms)
By Experimental Jetset. Fantastique!
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Radiohead - Meeting in the Aisle
From the Airbag / How am I driving EP. Radiohead go all Four Tet, would have felt right at home on In Rainbows. Good palette cleansing track.
$1.6million/employee @ 3000 employees
Nintendo only has 3000 employees? Some companies have way too many employees, to the point where the total is less than the sum of the parts?
Add this to the info from Daring Fireball (yes, again):
Hewlett-Packard Cuts 25,000 Jobs After E.D.S. Purchase ★Ashlee Vance, reporting for the NYT:
The computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday that it would eliminate 24,600 jobs, or 7.5 percent of its work force, as part of its plan for digesting the computer services giant Electronic Data Systems, which it acquired for $13.9 billion in August.
For comparison, Apple only has 22,000 employees total, including retail;Google: 20,000. That’s a lot of jobs.
lkm:
“It’s an odd statistic, yes, but also an interesting one! The Financial Times have looked at some of the world’s top-earning companies, and worked out how much cash each generates per capita (ie divide the total profit by the total number of employees). Each worker at money grubbers Goldman Sachs, for example, is worth $1.24 million. Google employees can “only” manage $626,000. But Nintendo employees? Every one of the 3000 workers at Nintendo Towers generates $1.6 million. Yes, even the tea lady.”
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Nintendo: Each Nintendo Employee Generates $1.6 Million In Profit
Axe Men
Just flicked to a programme called ‘Axe Men’ on Five. Disappointingly, it seems to be about men who chop down things with axes rather than awesome guitarists.
“…learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think”
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David Foster Wallace.
I’m not really familiar (yet) with David Foster Wallace, but this strikes me as being very true. In my mind, one of the problems is knowing what you want to think also, and then exercising control to think that way. via Daring Fireball
iTunes Genius
would be better if you could limit it to 7 songs.
Turkey Ham
is bad.
“You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.”
—Best line from the Dark Knight. On first viewing I thought it was good, not great. On second viewing I was more impressed, its still not great, but there’s much to admire.
Hi, I'm iTunes 8
And I’m here to ruin your day. These make it a little less lame:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
Complete Failday
I think its best to take the hedgehog approach to the rest of the evening.
