gdp's Comments

Macleans.ca : On macho posturing

Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:30:45 +0000

I'm 80 pages in, it's very good so far. Fick, you may recall, is the Lt in Generation Kill. He's now the CEO of the Centre for a new American Security.

Macleans.ca : Busting silos and transgressing the boundaries: A call for submissions

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:25:29 +0000

This is pretty much exactly where I'm coming from. Academia is the ground zero for a lot of this stuff, because it is the one place where theories of power/knowledge are most easily translated into organizational practice. So what I'm interested in looking at is how the arcane academic theories of disciplinarity that you mention have been translated into corporate theories of needing to "bust silos" in the name of innovation and creativity.

Macleans.ca : Busting silos and transgressing the boundaries: A call for submissions

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:46:52 +0000

That's interesting -- thanks a lot.

Macleans.ca : Busting silos and transgressing the boundaries: A call for submissions

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:43:08 +0000

This is kinda why I'm interested in the subject.

Macleans.ca : Busting silos and transgressing the boundaries: A call for submissions

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:41:59 +0000

That's not remotely what I was asking.

Macleans.ca : In Afghanistan, all roads lead to Pakistan

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:06:10 +0000

Nice, thanks. His last point, too, about Afghanistan and Pakistan, is right I think: "so we are destabilizing Pakistan, a country which does actually matter in terms of international security, out of some twisted perverse idea that Afghanistan matters and is somehow a threat."

Macleans.ca : In Afghanistan, all roads lead to Pakistan

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:02:36 +0000

You got any links?

Macleans.ca : In Afghanistan, all roads lead to Pakistan

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:56:52 +0000

Really? By who?

Macleans.ca : Winter Management

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:42:00 +0000

I always loved that line.

Macleans.ca : And suddenly Ottawa disappears up its own rear-end

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:48:19 +0000

I thought he was referencing that old classic Aislin cartoon.

Macleans.ca : Afghanistan: The leak isn't the story

Fri, 3 Dec 2010 05:28:41 +0000

useful comment, as always.

Macleans.ca : Who wears the big boy pants?

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:37:41 +0000

I think Canada is being Punk'd.

Macleans.ca : Chequebook journalism and covering the trapped miners

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:49:27 +0000

It's a good question Petrou asks. It's an old question for journalism, but one that has been given new life in part because of Gawker media's unabashedness about engaging in chequebook journalism. Nick Denton has made it clear he has no problem with it, and it will be interesting to see the extent to which "mainstream" media will follow along. If so, it's yet another way in which Denton is setting the terms of engagememt for all media now. http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091019/does-che...

Macleans.ca : Planet Mad Men

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:01:09 +0000

Maybe I'll give it a look. I've been looking for something else to watch, and I have no interest in Lost. Breaking Bad had me for the first season but I let it drop and never really got back into it.

Macleans.ca : Planet Mad Men

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:29:06 +0000

I never got into either show. I think I saw three episodes of both those series' combined.

Macleans.ca : The case of the Chilean miners

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:30:34 +0000

I always liked this one: "My brother Foster's penchant for finding holes in statutes reminds one of the story told by an ancient author about the man who ate a pair of shoes. Asked how he liked them, he replied that the part he liked best was the holes. That is the way my brother feels about statutes; the more holes they have in them the better he likes them. In short, he doesn't like statutes."

Macleans.ca : Great split-seconds in rock history

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:04:55 +0000

The last four bars of Richie Sambora's solo in Wanted Dead or Alive. Screaming harmonics FTW.

Macleans.ca : Great split-seconds in rock history

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:53:53 +0000

Worst split second in rock: Robert Plant squealing "Does anyone remember laughter?" during Stairway, in the live version on Song Remains the Same.

Macleans.ca : Great split-seconds in rock history

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:42:19 +0000

Roger Daltrey yelling, "They're all WASTED" during Baba O'Reily.

Macleans.ca : War: A love story

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:28:44 +0000

Amazing."I haven't read the book, but I'm not going to believe it anyway."