Nanowrimo: The Return!

I've been thinking about the story of my unfinished Nanowrimo thing. And I think I know what a couple of the problems were, like trying too hard to keep it about one style of music, something novel length needs to have changes of tone. And trying too hard to keep it a specific kind of awesome and not letting things shift around. But anyways, I'm thinking of going back over it and rewriting it. And if I do, I think I'll start posting segments of it in a new friends locked LJ for daily reader type peoples, so if anybody wants to volunteer, say so in the comments and I'll let you know where it is when I make it.

Also, I'm thinking of restarting daily drabbles, but to do that, I'll need ideas and suggestions. I had an idea for today, but forgot to write it down earlier so now I don't remember. Such is life.

For carp

Hey carp, have you seen Biozic yet? It's a silent comic about weirdass alien animals eating each other. Seriously. And it's awesome, even if it is on hiatus right now.

Yeah, other people should like it too, but it seemed like particularly the kind of thing carp would like.

Corporate Culture Does You In

At work, they've started up a new things where the CEO basically has a blog on the company intranet, and people can post comments which he may or may not reply to.

I'm wondering how long until somebody gets fired for something they post there. But that's not what struck me the most. What strikes me the most is how some of the replies sound like they're written by a regular human being, and then some of the replies are blatantly crazy corporate speak. Like when someone asked about putting solar panels on the roofs, for the tax breaks in California, the answer was that the buildings are owned by the malls or whatever (true) and that when something like that was cost-effective, Wal-Mart would lead the way. THAT was what made me laugh my ass off. Yeah. Wal-Mart leading the way. Uh huh. Sure. Right. And if the malls or wherever are going to do it, they're going to need pushes from the companies renting the space to make them want to do it. Most malls shift the costs for heating and electricity etc onto the renters, so they really don't give a crap how much it costs. These are simple basic facts of economics. But the environment of corporate culture has its expectations, and certain things aren't possible in there.