If you’re a fan of "The Office" — the original, of course, not the American imitation — you might want to take a look at the two "training videos" Microsoft commissioned from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. According to the WSJ, Microsoft is trying to run down who leaked these clips, which feature Gervais as nightmare boss David Brent, and were intended to be seen only by Microsoft employees.
The Gates crowd already got YouTube to take them down, but they’re still available on Google Video. Here are the links:
See David share the kind of business wisdom that got me where I am today.
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You really devote too much attention to artistic metaphors of life, especially second-rate ones.
That seems to be common among those born in households with television. Too much of their conversation is about the movies, concerts, sitcoms, soap operas and professional sports which most recently entertained them.
GOOD HEAVENS, I agree with Lee! What is the world coming too.
Yeah, Brad, what’s with this weak stuff?
Um, I uh, thought it was interesting.
I guess I’ll hold off on posting my Top Five List of "hottest actresses who are real-women types rather than major Hollywood stars."
I actually have a post like that, inspired by a comment string on an earlier "weak" post, but I’ve been holding it back.
Perhaps I’ll toss it out there as a distraction after my Sunday column posts in a few hours. It’s about immigration. We might all like a little something light after everybody sounds off on that one.
Just distract yourself. Adults don’t pay it any attention such nonsense.
The next time you feel tempted to stare at some fiction, even fairly good fiction, like “Band of Brothers”, shake it off and study the real people who built this country.
Brad,
The newspaper industry
More media, less news
The newspaper editors have been big supporters of, or at least cowardly bystanders watching, the invasion of illegal aliens who will most likely never learn to read English newspapers. When the papers convert to Spanish or whatever, these liberal useful idiots will be out of work.