AAAAAAAGH

In ref. Microsoft's "Zune" announcement: AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH HOW DOES A 71,000 PERSON COMPANY NOT HAVE "THE RIGHT TALENT CAPACITY" AT ANY TIME?! I mean, for the love of god!

"Frankly, we took some of the top folks out of the Xbox 360 effort, and right after 360 shipped that became the Zune team," Ballmer said. "I wish we would have done it earlier. We just didn't have the right talent capacity at the time."

Kheeeeee-rhist, what's wrong with those guys? MiniMicrosoft is right, there needs to be a serious bloodletting at that company.

At least they grabbed people from the right group. XBOX is a good platform. XBOX360 has not disappointed. Zune at first glance looks nicely not-screwed-up, tho' I'd need to play with one to really know. But it's a start and the XBOX group is good. But kheeee-rhist what that says about the rest of the company. God.

some links to enrage you, then blah blah blah about walking around

A couple of links:

st_rev finds a Quote of the Day that absolutely nails one of the biggest problems in America today:

Even worse, as mathematician John Allen Paulos is fond of pointing out, Americans are often too innumerate to analyze statistics printed in the newspaper. America’s schools haven’t given its citizens any more ability than its journalists to analyze the information that floods our lives. We would call it a case of the blind leading the blind, but the comparison is inappropriate. Blind people know they can’t see.

Sources and article links on st_rev's journal here.

And on the same theme, the author of this has no concept of the idea of social mobility and the 1. fact that it's vital in anything pretending to be a meritocracy, 2. the things you need to do on a system-wide level to make it continue to be possible, and 3. the stability it adds to a non-oppressive social system, or is in favour of high degrees of social stratification as long as they are in a layer they like. Either way, it's deserving of the rampaging idiocy tag. (Article link courtesy kathrynt and llachglin. Also, see an earlier commentary of mine for other comments on why this is such a disastrously wretched idea.)

Today's (Thursday's) miles: 1.1 (whoo boy. should not be so tired.)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1315.1
Miles out of Rivendell: 850.1
Miles out of Lothlórien: 395.1
Miles to Rauros Falls: 13.9

Vacuumed the main floor today, which, annoyingly, wore me out enough to take a short nap. This is stupid. But despite that, I did the now-p.t.-ordered walk up and down the hill, so that's good. Tomorrow I think I will try the walk to the shops for physical therapy. (It should be easier. It's no further and it's mostly downhill.) Still feel awfully useless, tho'. But in better news, I have the last homework assignment problem set from Chem 142 - the problem set I missed - so I can try to work on them despite the anti-seizure meds making me dumb. (I have noticed that I do seem to build up a little bit of a tolerance to them over a few days, so I think I'm less dumb than I was the day back on them after having missed. So that's good.) Still sleepy tho'.

kitties!

Hey, Puget Sound-area people! lazarwolfe rescued some feral kittens and has been hand-training them to socialise with people. Go here for details, particularly if you're interested in adopting a no-longer-so-feral kitten.