Skip to content

Monthly Archives: February 2010

Sincerity, gravity - and don’t forget the levity

27-Feb-10

This amusing 5-minute video stars Brian Rosenberg, President of Macalester College, a private liberal arts college in Minnesota, USA:

I sent that video’s URL to the head of the university where I work. He has a sense of humor, so might appreciate it, but he’s not the type of performer Rosenberg is.
Our vice-chancellor is known for [...]

Naming and framing

20-Feb-10

The Onion reports on a forgotten Assyrian god revived to name a sports drink. Go Nisroch!
Perhaps the Nisroch article caught my eye because I work at an organisation whose:

corporate logo features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory (and was created long before the sports-shoe company)
HR/finance enterprise system is called Themis, after the Greek goddess associated [...]