Back in the box: Holiday roundup.

Christmas comes but once a year, thankfully.

Most holiday seasons have me being ill, working or not getting to do what was originally planned.  This year I was going to sit in the house with a set of cans on ( one of the gifts I did get) and make silly electronic noises into the PC for use on my , will get out there one day, podcast.  

The power supply that came with the Shark Dsp was the wrong one: result: Non standard mini-din with  that I can't work around until the real one gets here.

The Korg  ES-1  didn't show up at all.  It's really a silent night:  and that makes Ebay 2 for 2.  Erin did make me a rather interesting table which I should get a picture off to put up here.

This left me  Dobhran to look after, Mom's at work, and Douglas Rushkoff's book "Get back in the Box" to read. While it may fall under the category of business book  It's not for those that want to proceed with "business as usual"  Many companies are chasing the " next big thing",  hiring third parties to tell them what kind of business they are in and then  wondering why the public are alienated from a product the "manufacturers" aren't even invested in other than in a financial sense.   One of the interesting parts so far is the  homogenization of management  as a class in our society.  The mobility between companies  of people between,  what looks like on paper the same title, widely varying industries  is surprising.  Seemingly a car company  exec is as useful at a pharmaceutical company as at a broadcaster.  

Assuming that a business is a machine with a set of instructions for making money, with interchangable parts what includes the consumer,  may have outlived its usefulness.  


 
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