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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/17/09

    In reply to Twittering Like a Peacock
    I would follow Ann Curry's Twitter anywhere.


    What?

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    02/16/09

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    Ann, you school marm, don't deploy to the edge of Darfur; get right in the middle of it.
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    02/16/09

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    Jim Long is too ashamed to mention Starbucks by name as the vague "global coffee chain", but willfully plugs Waffle House..
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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    There ya go, Owen. Why fiddle with CN-Buh-C when you can take on the entire General Electric hegemony?


    I mean, starting with SnL.

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    Sck Smgm
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    01/23/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Beneath you.
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    Image of NOLA girl NOLA girl
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    Sometimes I am reminded why I am lucky to be a lawyer.
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    Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    Owen, you shouldn't have to make the readers do the math.


    Six sigma = 99.9997% efficiency

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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    Certainly a safer target than Scientology.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    Yeah, Six Sigma evangelism in industries that don't benefit from an obsession with measurables makes me insane. I'm looking at you, banking. Most of the time, Six Sigma involves using pre-defined toolsets to drive business process conversations into an organized nightmare of useless groupthink.


    I'm so out of love with the stuff. Every time someone tries to "quantify" an abstract process I just play that episode of The Wire where they juxtapose a successful meeting about dropping murder stats with pictures of those kids hiding bodies in vacant homes.

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    Image of Mad Due to No More Bonnets Mad Due to No More Bonnets
    01/23/09

    @ADismalScience: Most of the time, Six Sigma involves using pre-defined toolsets to drive business process conversations into an organized nightmare of useless groupthink.


    Currently witnessing this happen, so, yes. However, I can imagine that in the wrong hands it could become fairly silly.


    Kind of feels like the difference between being a tidy person and being a person who has to touch the door knob thirty times before leaving the house to ensure that no one will break in and trash it.

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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    I always thought it was a sign of how bad-ass Toyota is that they have a production system named after them.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    01/23/09

    In reply to The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's 30 Rock
    I wouldn't have minded the laugh-counting gig for "Alf."
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    01/23/09

    @MrInBetween: You'd have to apply some kind of cat postulate.
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