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What the hell is wrong with people? Here’s the mission statement from the website of a green consultancy in the States:
We leverage our core competencies in business strategy, environmental science, and marketing to design and deliver comprehensive, customized solutions for each client. Whether your company is a sustainability pioneer looking to extend and leverage its leadership or a newcomer just thinking about how to integrate sustainability, our disciplined, proven approach enables us to design a solution specifically tailored to blah blah blah.
Reading that, you can’t help but flashback to the early days of the dotcom boom where a new kind of bullshit was rife. It’s spooky how similar the nonsense from a bullshit generator sounds to these corporate mission statements. I had a look around for other generators and found a corporate one here and even a landscape urbanism one here. If your corporate blurb sounds like the paragraph above, it may be time for a rethink. Maybe something like this?
We provide expert consultancy in business strategy, environmental science, and marketing to a wide range of clients. Our services are individually tailored to our clients’ needs, whether they are new to sustainability or already have extensive experience with sustainability issues.
Too radical?
Lately the rate of new posts on this blog has dropped off – only two in the last two weeks. For some reason, I have very little to say (and so here I am writing about having nothing to write about – how post modern). I think it might be London: having lived here for seven years I’m not curious about the place anymore and don’t have the urge to explore it. Sure there’s plenty you could explore in London but I don’t feel there’s anything new, whereas in Le Marche I feel like I’m breaking new ground all the time.
I’m not unhappy here. In fact, everything is comfortable and easy at Tessa’s parents’ place and working part time means the commute is doable. But there’s no thrill in it.
Alright, enough bitching. Random antipodean barman, mine’s a Guinness.
Blog stats are wonderful. Among other things, they tell you how many people visit each blog entry, which links get clicked, and what search terms people used to find you. I just saw on the stats page that someone came to this site having googled for “food caught in esophagus”. Whoever you are, mate, I hope you’re still with us.
Maybe I better add a disclaimer.
I came across two good videos spotted by Rob at no2self. The first one is a rap from 3-2-1 Contact (a key ingredient of my childhood) about architecture and I-beams with some incisive criticism for Richard Rogers from the man in the street. The second one is a musical tribute to Mies.
Slip on your best black turtleneck, settle back on your Barcelona chair, and roast in your all glass house. Happy viewing.
Yesterday’s trek with the alpine club was hard work but worth it. When we got to the top we found a fireworks display of wild flowers that stretched for acres all around. I’ve never seen anything like it.
As an experiment, I’ve included a Google Earth .kml file that lets you see the route of the trek in 3-d. Just download and open it in Google Earth (file -> open). Make sure you’ve got 3-d topography turned on.
I’ve also posted a couple of videos. Let me know if all this is enjoyable to look at. It takes a while to get everything organised and uploaded.
When I told one of my friends the title of this blog, she said and the domain name wasn’t taken? Amazing! Alright fine. It’s odd and maybe not memorable but it was the best thing I came up with. Picenum (pee-CHAY-num) is the ancient Roman name for our part of Italy, and is named after the pre-Roman Piceni people who lived around here. You hear it in the placenames like Loro Piceno, our village, so it seemed appropriate. But as everyone is having trouble remembering it (nevermind pronouncing it) we might need a rethink. Any suggestions?
On his recent visit, Dave confessed that he and Katheryn read this blog in bed on his mobile phone. When you start one of these things you have no idea of where you’ll end up – like Dave’s bed. Didn’t see that one coming.
Goodnight guys. Sleep well.
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