Darn semester system schools. First week of class at USC has already come and gone, and I’m already behind on watching the lectures. I haven’t been able to pin it down exactly, but my motivation level is in the pits — not quite enough to reconsider grad school, but its certainly getting there.
I almost think I need to find something that can kick me in the shins and scream “GET TO WORK YOU LAZY BASTARD!”
I was browsing through some posts from a mailing list I subscribe to, and came across this tidbit:
Back in 1980 the average American chief executive earned forty times the average manufacturing employee. For the top tier of American CEOs, the ratio is now 475:1 and would be vastly greater if assets, not income, were taken into account. By way of comparison, the ratio in Britain is 24:1, in France 15:1, in Sweden 13:1.
475:1? Is the work of an American CEO really worth 475 times more than that of the average worker bee? Especially the Carly Fiorinas of the world? It really seems like every time they do something to gut the company, they give themselves a fat raise.
Sadly enough, I doubt thats far from the truth.
Stumbled upon Flash Earth yesterday and I’m quite impressed. The interface is better than Google Maps, and when you set it to use the MSN Virtual Earth with labels data set, its pretty close to a Google Earth lite sans neato 3D overlays. The only real show-stoppers for me are the high CPU load (66% of an Athlon64 3200!) and a semi-broken interface when I run on my G5.
Also, some baby hedgehogs
