These are the frog pops that I mentioned a couple of entries ago. They looked interesting. I wonder how they tasted.

Tuesday didn’t have that much that was interesting at work. Well, the big meeting had news of a ham-handed and fairly stupid decision by people far at the top of the food chain. I also quoted Dilbert, saying, “To solve our problems, we must first defeat our own company,” and got far too much laughter from that. I wonder what it is about our organizations and systems that tends to impede useful work. It could be that “the ground state of humans is not to work together to achieve a goal, but to fight with each other over scarce resources,” as one of the Grumpy Old Sysadmins said once. That’s certainly borne out by example—Microsoft had a working tablet computer in the early 2000s, years before the iPad, but internal politics and fights between different groups caused their tablet to tank horribly. I’d guess that the larger an organization gets, the more resources it spends in interdepartmental wars. I wonder if this tendency can be mitigated in any way, or if it’s one of those things that just emerges from the way people are.

Trivia: We had Trevor, but no Nathan. Hard questions left us in 3rd place. Ah well. Zach wants to go see “Sucker Punch” this weekend, and possibly go to the rifle range next weekend. I don’t know about next weekend, because Desert Code Camp is next Saturday, but we’ll see. Lots of other stuff going on.