Good PR is Better Than Sex

Sure, sex is a great way to kick back and create a grin but there's nothing like the feeling of knowing that something I did stands a good chance of getting my company coverage in the Wall Street Journal. Yeah, its kind of like free solo-ing Everest or something. And damned if I'm not a pleased camper because of it. Made me almost forget my irritation at forgetting my Palm at home this morning (oh yes, I went back home and got it, can't live without my numbers).

And there was an excellent quote on My Excite too.
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

Which begs the inverse, the sign of stupid people is their inability to control their emotional state by the application of reason. Sure, its nicer to look at it from the positive perspective but sometimes the negative's just as illuminating.

Lots of good stuff to chat about this morning though I shouldn't because there really is a ton of work to get done. Got my new digi-cam, a Canon Elph S200 that rocks and then slips into a pocket easily. I've only just begun to play around with it but its a very nice little unit, works smoothly and cleanly. Makes my old Ricoh look and feel like the digital dinosaur that it is.

Also, added clip in pedals to my Ibis last night. Bought some decent cycling shoes and can now attach myself to my bike. Makes jumping over things easier but sometimes its kind of easy to forget about the clips until you come to a stop and then there's a moment of panic until a foot goes down, hopefully before the rest of the bike and me with it. But no problems as of yet. Couldn't ride the bike in this morning though, got errands to run at lunch so I'm riding Therapy today. Damn but I love that throttle!

Yet Another White Collar Corporate Conspiracy

WorldCom is now saying that if they are allowed to fold then the national internet infrastructure could be compromised so we should, instead, give them a huge pile of money. Um, I'm sorry but I took the blue (the not make me stupid) pill today.
You know, until these fat white bastards who run companies start getting sentenced to hard time in real prison, they will continue to belly up companies while paying themselves huge bonuses and leaving myriad employees high and dry without any security at all. And for what? So these idiot multi-jowled fat fools can add another lump to their bankroll? There's nothing more descipable to me than a thief who wears a suit and tie and hides behind expensive lawyers and the Fifth Amendment. Fuck the Fifth Amendment! These stinking theiving bastards are ruining American business just as thoroughly as the Catholic church is screwing itself by allowing its priests to sodomise altar boys. The only difference is that the businessmen are getting away with it alot more easily because the people assigned to prosecute them are part of the old boy network too. Its all an incestual cluster bump really.

There are only victims (who stretch their 15 minutes out a little longer by posing naked for Playboy) and those less attractive employees who are tearfully interviewed upon finding out their life savings is gone, stolen by their former CEO and his cronies. Real jail with real criminals is where these scum bags need to go. Now that would be a real deterrent to high level white collar crime! "Uh, what happened to Bob? He was raped and stabbed in jail for embezzlement! Well shit, I'm not going to something as stupid as embezzle money." Though the cynical bastard in me thinks it would be more like, "Bob's a moron who got caught but I'm so much better than Bob that I'll never get caught. Besides, Bob's a bitch anyway." Maybe not but its certainly more likely than the former example. Who was it that said that people always tend to think they're slightly better than everyone else? I want to say it was Hume but it could have also been Kant. Regardless, the white collar criminal is a criminal and shouldn't be allowed to hide behind the 5th Amendment to save their own stinking carcasses.

Its just wrong for so many reasons. Like wearing socks with sandals. Or belly shirts that do nothing but show off the sad flab of inactivity.