Speaking of research, I recently read an amazing article attributing qualities of various Greek gods to CEOs...
Getting paid to compare CEOs to Greek Gods is one hell of a business plan.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
TomW - Dec 15, 2005 10:27:22 am PST #2352 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
DavidS - Dec 15, 2005 10:30:09 am PST #2353 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Spidra! Welcome back. Come play in the music thread.
I Tivoed all three showings of the Isaac show to make certain that I caught Jesse.
Spidra Webster - Dec 15, 2005 10:30:12 am PST #2354 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I wish I could see that Greek god thing. /mythology buff
Holiday times kinda drive folks nuts with depression and consumerism. Though I'm choosing not to go to the family celebration this year (for my own sanity), I'm definitely prone to depression. Luckily, I capitulated to my poverty a number of years ago and no longer go through the craziness of getting together lots of cards and gifts. That keeps things saner. I'm also pretty isolated from major media and malls so I don't get burned out on some things. I thought I'd enumerate the things I dig about this season:
- Lights. Holiday lights, especially candles.
- Trees, garlands, winter-blooming and fruiting plants. Some bigwigs used our office for a meeting so they decorated the back conference room with garlands of evergreens (some conifers, some not) and little mandarin oranges. It looked lovely.
- Better food in the office kitchen (as long as you're not on a diet. Which I won't attempt until Jan.)
- Holiday movies (It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Inn...)
- Baking
- The ritual of making house calls and greeting friends
Spidra Webster - Dec 15, 2005 10:31:47 am PST #2355 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Howdy, Hec! I''ll probably play tentatively at first. I'm not up-to-date with music and haven't been for years so I feel a little like I have not-so-much to contribute. Also, I turned 40 in Sept. and I think my lifestyle, etc. have finally made me have to admit it. I'M MIDDLE-AGED.
Eek!
Jesse - Dec 15, 2005 10:47:42 am PST #2356 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I take it back. It wasn't an article, it was a chapter of this book: [link]
Sophia Brooks - Dec 15, 2005 10:52:27 am PST #2357 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That actually sounds like an interesting book, but I think it may be because I am interested in religion and theatre and how they intersect.
This chapter I would like to read:
Chapter 3: Dramatizing Leadership
Theater Through the Ages
The Theater Metaphor in Organization Studies
Theater in The HBR Interviews: From Morality Play to Global Show
Dramatic Range
Putting On a Show
Emily - Dec 15, 2005 10:55:32 am PST #2358 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Question: what's the difference between ballpoint and rollerball pens? And is one considered more fancy than the other?
Also, I like the good Christmas music -- the stuff with trumpets and sopranos and lots of Latin, or the stuff in minor keys. Not a big fan of "Jingle Bell Rock" (mostly because it's a whole lot easier to get that irritatingly stuck in your head than, say, "Adeste Fidelis").
Emily - Dec 15, 2005 10:56:18 am PST #2359 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Finally, what the hell do I get my brother? I don't even know what he's planning to do with his life now, but I need to get him one nice unexpected present, to go with his wish-list stuff.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2005 10:58:26 am PST #2360 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ballpoint pens use more visc(i)ous ink (and a simpler ink feeding mechanism, I think), Emily. Rollerballs may be more fancy because they're newer, but really, they both pale in the face of a proper fountain pen.
ChiKat - Dec 15, 2005 10:58:38 am PST #2361 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Ahhh. Wikipedia, how do we love thee??
Rollerball pens use a ball point and a water-based ink. By comparison, a typical ball-point pen uses a ball point and an oil-based ink. The ink in a roller ball tends to saturate more deeply and more widely into the paper than the ink from a ball-point pen.