Monday 21 July 2025 21:53:50 1753152830
I took some time off and didn't want to come back but it's too hot to do much outside so I'll get back to writing. Not that I don't have
plenty of material. Before I get around to serious matters I'll comment on the Coldplay concert incident. The common joke was that
having it known that you were at a Coldplay concert would be more embarrassing to a lot of people than getting caught fooling around on
one's wife. Or husband since it seems both were married.
I didn't know anything about Astronomer before and only a little now but looked to see what the CEO did to become CEO - in a lot of tech
companies the CEO is at least for a while the founder or one of the founders. Those aren't immune to being fired as the Mozilla guy found
out when he failed be have in a politically correct manner and Steve Jobs effectively booted from Apple once. So I checked Wikipedia as it
probably isn't lying about such things yet and find that he had a degree in political science - not a good sign - but played baseball in
college so is probably not that bad. It doesn't say what he did in the eighteen or so years between college and his first apparently
important job as a COO of a cloud computing company and then had a job as chief revenue officer at another company. Then a few years as
apparently a non-C-suite type before becoming a CEO at Astronomer. So no tech knowledge but an ability to get management jobs.
The objective is to get a CXO job as soon as possible and start moving up the latter. CIO or CFO or any other of several at the lower
levels and work your way up. As a COO you're in pretty good shape for a CEO on your next job hop. There's a chance that you won't
have to try many before you find a board of directors as clueless as you and if you make a good impression you got the job. Most companies
are on autopilot and as long as you don't bump the wrong control and crash the thing you're good. If you can get a three year contract
with pay for the first and last and any partial years guaranteed if you do get fired - and I've seen more than one of those - and you're
set.
Alex@MyndCryme
That guy definitely hit the wrong switch or whatever. Reports were that he was negotiating a severance package so whether he was already
set up that well or was just seeing how much extra he could get is unknown. At that stage in the game he's probably pretty well off and a
million or two more or less won't hurt.
That discussion got into people with lucrative jobs that don't know much more than how to get one and move on to a better one. Enak's
favorite... well second favorite after politicians... is television reporters.
They look good courtesy of a makeup crew that probably
makes a twentieth of what they do if they're lucky - and read stuff on a screen for a few minutes and how many of the few people that
still watch TV are impressed I don't know and don't care but every time I hear one say tarmac...
Don't get me started. And the fact that I witnessed the beginning of this particular intellectual virus. There was a hijacking and
the plane landed at some second if not third world airport and was parked away from the terminal. The reporter kept saying "the
tarmac" when referring to the surface. He was a Brit or talked like one and that word was used in Britain. I had never heard it
said on TV before in 1970-something but before long every news reader everywhere was saying "the tarmac" like it was a place. I suspect
they say it because they heard other say it and it sounded smart.
Like the weather news readers on one of the stations here - the weather reports are in the stream so I can't avoid them - and they'll
say they're tracking this or that and say track or tracking two or three times in two minute piece. Like they're sitting at a weather
radar console somewhere seeing what's gonna happen. Only thing they're tracking is leftover donuts in the breakroom
Enak@MyndCryme
OK, I went a little long there. For the record I would be embarrassed to have it know that I attended a Coldplay concert. Or a Nickelback one.
Actually I don't care for about any thing that's popular these days. A couple of guys around here have huge libraries going back to the seventies
and I'm exposed to lot of stuff. Some of the classic rock up until the late 1980s, country from the old times up to about the 1980s, my older
metalhead pals are always getting me to try new stuff. There's such a huge number of sub-genres and they overlap a lot. So neoclassical and
symphonic and prog and the straight metal - Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Some of those bands have been going for fifty years now and have
multi-generational audiences. You see people commenting on Youtube or message boards about music about how they were introduced to Uriah Heep
of Blue Oyster Cult by a grandparent.
As Columbo would say one more thing. Yesterday we got the news that Ozzy Osbourne had passed away. I was a kid in his heyday but was aware of
him as he was on MTV a lot. I didn't watch the "reality show" more than a couple of times it made me uncomfortable, like he didn't want to be
there and sometimes didn't know he way.
Ozzy had a rather chaotic life to say the least. Talented but sometimes troubled, probably D&A had a lot to do with it. I heard a lot
of interviews with him over thirty or so years and he always seemed to be a gentle person who was manipulated a lot. I noticed that Adam
Wakeman was still with the band to the end. He's Rick's son and his brother is also a prog musician. I need to check out Adam's band.
RIP Ozzy, you were one of kind.
Alex@MyndCryme
In other news the Trump Train rolled on. People but obstructions on the tracks but none have stopped it. In the movies they sometimes stop a train
by blowing up the tracks. Are they trying that now? I would say they are as assassination attempts are about as close to dynamiting the tracks as
they can go. Recently they're using the Epstein affair to try to bring down his ratings. To be sure President Trump handled it badly and while it
hasn't seriously damaged him it remains something that should be dealt with decisively and soon. Most of the people I know around here believe
he should do something like appointing a special prosecutor or something similar and effectively putting it on the back burner. Regular reports - as
in frequent as practical - would keep the few die-hards calm. Actually most of the activity is Trump enemies keeping it stirred up because it's about
all they have.
I'm one of those who always figured the "Epstein list" or "black book" were non-existent but represented the hidden knowledge. It could be
stuff either destroyed or hidden somewhere or actually in custody. I suspect hidden for some of it - the people who could be damaged
by it can't resist holding onto it in case it is someday useful - but they should be making an effort to find it and reveal it. Anyone with a grain
of intelligence figures there will be some Republicans in there and they might want to delay revelations until after the midterm elections so that
could be a factor. Whatever the case President Trump needs to get it on the back burner for a while.
MAGAHurtz@MyndCryme
Probably the other big thing just now is the revelation of the Obama administration setting up the attempts to derail the first Trump administration.
We knew a lot - the Russian dossier was pure unadulterated BS, same with the Hunter Biden laptop-from-Hell and the rest of it. Now we have inconvertible
facts and if the administration has the guts to do it at least some of the majore players can be taken down and sent to prison. Not Obama obviously -
satisfying as that would be - but some big fish gutted and fried might discourate such acts in the future. Not that some won't be deterred but anything
helps.
I believe as I have for quite some time now - since Butler - that President Trump is destined to do great things for the Republic and humanity in general.
That the Enemy has seen the same things I saw - President Trump prosecuted, sued, every possible attempt to put him in prison and impoverish him and then
multiple assassination attempts and he prevailed. His enemies seem to be in the same frame of mind as Satan:
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath,
having but a short time."
Revelation 12:12
We see his work crumbling - revolt against the transgender/pervert activity, DEI, taxpayer funding of college indoctrination, corporate disasters caused
by "going woke", aggressive deportations.... but Satan doesn't give up. Will he fail this time around? I'm not into eschatology so won't make any predictions
but have reason to believe that an American Renaissance (or Golden Age) may be in our future. How long it will last is anyone's guess but when was that not
ever the case?
OK guys and gals. Good to be back even if being hot in Arkansas isn't as much fun as being hot on a Florida beach but all good things have to end. Seeya
in a few.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
Frederick Bastiat
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be
otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty
lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and
talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson
