jr conlin's ink stained banana

Buzz Donuts.

Donuts. With caffeine.

About two coffee cups full of it in each donut.

That you'll probably have with coffee to begin with.

Created by a scientist.

JIM? i'm looking at you, buddy-boy.

i always feel a little sorry whenever some folks give a talk at work.

Today, someone showed up to present her ideas of radically changing corporate philosophy. She was bright eyed, and since she founded a company to promote the idea, very evangelical about how this was the absolute bestest thing in the whole wide world. Although i got to the meeting late, i pretty much got the meat of the presentation.

It was good. She brought up a lot of great points, with compelling arguments and even managed to answer my question by side stepping it enough for me and everyone else to get the actual answer (and no, it wasn't that bad an answer either). Hey, i'm anti-evangelist. It's what i do.

Still, for the effort and sales pitch she was giving, i couldn't help but look around to the dozen or so individuals in the room and realize one over-riding truth.

Absolutely nobody in the room could do anything about what she was presenting.

She was talking to the wrong audience. She needed to talk to folks who most likely wouldn't be sitting on stackable chairs eating their lunch out of a white cafeteria box and wondering if they could get a few minutes out of the UED guys for a couple of ideas they had. She needed to be talking to the guys with titles that begin with a capital C. As it was, she had basically shown up in town and started telling the peasants how to best run the fiefdom. Of course we're going to agree and love the idea.

We'd also love free ice cream.