[Info-vax] HP short of ideas - hiring dancers for inspiration

[Paul Sture]

In article <00AD2391.C055BD39 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <nospam-E6D1D7.14104623042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture 
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> >No this isn't an April Fool
> 
> I had to check my calendar! ;)
> 
> 
> 
> ><http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/23/technology/innovation/trey-mcintyre-proj
> >ect-hewlett-packard/index.html?hpt=hp_t3>
> >
> >" Lumbering tech giant Hewlett-Packard is a company that desperately 
> >needs new ideas. Von Hansen, the company's general manager of future 
> >technologies, has been working with TMP almost quarterly since 2008. He 
> >says working with the dancers "pulls our staff out of the same way we do 
> >things so that we can better design solutions and solve problems."
> >
> >TMP's dancers show up at HP's headquarters -- sometimes unannounced -- 
> >and break into a performance right by employee cubicles. Afterward, the 
> >dancers lead employees through a discussion of the creative process and 
> >how a dance is created and refined."
> 
> Un-fucking-believable! (<= a tmesis, BTW)  

That's the correct usage of a tmesis ;-)  I got my first chance to study 
this in my first student holiday job in a woollen mill. The general rule 
was that any word of 4 or more syllables had the f-word inserted.

> They could have better spent
> money on VMS instead of this Corporate Rhumba Arts Program!!!

Indeed.

-- 
Paul Sture