Quiche seems like a nice Easter meal; eggs and bacon and spinach and red onions baked into a pie crust. Well, that's what I had. I even tried a slice with Cholula (hot sauce) on it, which was very tasty. Other than that it has been quiet. I expected this to be the busiest of weekends but it hasn't been, strangely enough. Last night I went out of doors and waxed the truck while listening to APHC, becoming (I imagine) the first person in quite a little while to combine those two activities. Unfortunately the weather turned cold and springy so I'm pretty much confined indoors anyway, meaning there's still some preparation for presentations going on solo. With Jenelle gone, the weather dreary, and everything in the universe being closed for Easter, it is turning into a kind of surreal day.
I've been reading a bestselling business book, The World is Flat, and doing some thinking about the lessons Thomas L Friedman has for us. They aren't really lessons, per se, more like observations. In many regards, Friedman is like Seinfeld - just a series of "shallow, fairly-obvious observations" - on business. The tipping point for Friedman is his amazing access to companies and people. His (Friedman's) insights are not earth shattering or even unique and most, by his own admission, aren't even his...rather they stem from conversations with the people who have actually flattened the world. But the idea of 'flattening' as a buzzword was proposed by Friedman and it seems to have caught on. The problem with calling the world 'flat' is that flat is an inherently two dimensional descriptor. Yet so many of the myriad dimensions that make up the world (social, political, cultural, and ethereal traits) undefine virtually every person from this planar universe that Friedman proposes.
Sunday, April 16, 2006