Sanoman, just because you live smack dab in the middle of God's Country, don't make fun of our heat ... you could be transferred to Salt Lake City ... LOLOL. I hope Bigworld spends some time doing house shopping in the Wimberley-Canyon Lake area. Lots of very nice little bergs out there.
You hit one of our problems on the head. In his field, Malcolm is brilliant, but nobody can be brilliant in everything. Even Einstein was functionally impaired in some areas. Prior to Malcolm becoming CEO, there was some serious debate and it was not a slam dunk. There is no doubt that Malcolm is an asset ... but it is kinda like lining up Mean Joe Green or Bob Lilly at Wide Receiver or Quarterback.
We still need three positions filled (CEO-CFO) ... and we need a good vacuum cleaner salesman to head marketing also. Our only really great strength is in our back shop and as I've said many, many times, they should someday be waltzing across the stage as they pick up their Nobel's. And that is not hype. Yin, Harilyn, XX and the gang are that good. (Wonder how Paulness reconciles their brilliance and importance with the fact that most are Chinese.)
As exciting as the news is, I've been here too long to expect us to "go to the moon." Look at the jump a year ago ... up and then big time down. Hope it doesn't do that this time.
As for the PP suit, we really dodged a bullet. Before anyone jumps to too many conclusions, they need to look closely at who was representing whom and the ramifications of terminal incompetence. We'd better be glad a lot of the facts will probably fade into obscurity and not be presented in open court ... at least for the time being.
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