That would be consistent with a parsing of “anasigma” as “back to the end” (either the war or the period of human supremacy, perhaps), assuming “anasigma” actually can be parsed.
Without digging too far into subtexts that ought to be left to the reader, I will put on my wizard hat and hazard that there is a tension in the name “Project Skin Horse” whose resolution — how, I have no idea — will represent the resolution of the core arc of the entire strip.
Ha! I laugh at the buffoon who evidently forgot what the last letter of the Greek alphabet is (and interpreting sigma as the sum or average would be a stretch).
I should have thought of this a couple days ago, but I’m not as smart as Unity.
tune: “Blue Christmas,” Billy Hayes & Jay W. Johnson, 1948, famousized by Elvis Presley
I had a Brain Christmas for dinner
And all those brains make me a winner
Sure, the Mad Scis are smart, but I’m Genius Girl
I’m state of the art, at least until I hurl
I had a Brain Christmas. Delicious!
And now I grok Violet the Vicious
I’m quite certain I know
That she goes com-man-do
‘Cause I had a Brain, Brain, Brain Christmas
I was going to say, isn’t that every company’s mission statement? Then I thought about Google’s mission statement. Then I decided I was right the first time.
Don’t worry, we all have a tiny grammar nazi in us, just waiting to be unleashed. Luckily the audience of Skin Horse could care less about such things – we enjoy the comic and the company irregardless…
No one knows what do
At Anasigma …
We’re an enigma …
We “synergize”!
They don’t want us to know,
Obfuscating …
Extirpating
Anyone who tries!
They say, “Do-o-o-o
Just what you should, guys!
Propagate those paradigms!”
They say, “Trust us,
We’re the good guys!”
But with Violet,
It’s hard sometimes!
I don’t know what we do
At my work, see?
It’s all murky …
We “synergize”?
that motto pretty much means to “work together to develop and spread exploitative ideas”. Could be anything at all. Politics, weaponry, socio/political ideas, commercial ideas.
That would explain why clearance request require poetry, languages, and so forth.
Wait, is “opportunity paradigms” the direct object just of “propagate,” like you seem to be assuming here, or of both “propagate” and “synergize”? I mean, your interpretation makes perfect sense, but I can kind of see it going the other way, too, like, “Make exploitative ideas work together, and develop and spread them.”
But then, fluidity of meaning is kind of the point of mission statements to begin with, so there you go.
They’re contractors, so of course the motto is vague (although I’m slightly surprised that it doesn’t mention customers once). The real question is what are they being paid to do right now. And that’s commercially sensitive.
“Synergize and propagate opportunity paradigms”: Create world-views that would let us win The New War, and ensure their spread, allowing us victory before the first strike!
revive the old war?
That would be consistent with a parsing of “anasigma” as “back to the end” (either the war or the period of human supremacy, perhaps), assuming “anasigma” actually can be parsed.
Without digging too far into subtexts that ought to be left to the reader, I will put on my wizard hat and hazard that there is a tension in the name “Project Skin Horse” whose resolution — how, I have no idea — will represent the resolution of the core arc of the entire strip.
Ha! I laugh at the buffoon who evidently forgot what the last letter of the Greek alphabet is (and interpreting sigma as the sum or average would be a stretch).
I should have thought of this a couple days ago, but I’m not as smart as Unity.
tune: “Blue Christmas,” Billy Hayes & Jay W. Johnson, 1948, famousized by Elvis Presley
I had a Brain Christmas for dinner
And all those brains make me a winner
Sure, the Mad Scis are smart, but I’m Genius Girl
I’m state of the art, at least until I hurl
I had a Brain Christmas. Delicious!
And now I grok Violet the Vicious
I’m quite certain I know
That she goes com-man-do
‘Cause I had a Brain, Brain, Brain Christmas
Well done. Thankyuh, thankyuhverimuch.
SPOP? SAPOP? No wonder Violet wanted GODOT. A-Sig needs better acronyms.
C’mon, Sweetheart, no company ever tells its employees what the real mission statement is. Then they’d realize just how much they’re being used.
Unless of course they told their employees the mission statement, knowing that they wouldn’t actually believe it.
“Synergize and propagate opportunity paradigms”? I knew A-Sig was evil, but I hadn’t realized how evil.
(Mozilla’s spellchecker doesn’t recognize “synergize” as a word.)
I was going to say, isn’t that every company’s mission statement? Then I thought about Google’s mission statement. Then I decided I was right the first time.
……They use the word “synergise”……
…..”Synergise”…
Wait, why is THIS the thing that makes me actually *hate* A-sig, as opposed to the whole murder, torture and bad facial hair policy things?
Don’t worry, we all have a tiny grammar nazi in us, just waiting to be unleashed. Luckily the audience of Skin Horse could care less about such things – we enjoy the comic and the company irregardless…
Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. And bravo.
(TUNE: “Behind Blue Eyes”, The Who)
No one knows what do
At Anasigma …
We’re an enigma …
We “synergize”!
They don’t want us to know,
Obfuscating …
Extirpating
Anyone who tries!
They say, “Do-o-o-o
Just what you should, guys!
Propagate those paradigms!”
They say, “Trust us,
We’re the good guys!”
But with Violet,
It’s hard sometimes!
I don’t know what we do
At my work, see?
It’s all murky …
We “synergize”?
that motto pretty much means to “work together to develop and spread exploitative ideas”. Could be anything at all. Politics, weaponry, socio/political ideas, commercial ideas.
That would explain why clearance request require poetry, languages, and so forth.
Wait, is “opportunity paradigms” the direct object just of “propagate,” like you seem to be assuming here, or of both “propagate” and “synergize”? I mean, your interpretation makes perfect sense, but I can kind of see it going the other way, too, like, “Make exploitative ideas work together, and develop and spread them.”
But then, fluidity of meaning is kind of the point of mission statements to begin with, so there you go.
Of course, if they spread explotiative ideas, having something that can change the text of anything would help them become much more efficient at it.
Now that I write that down, I’m not sure if I should be more concerned or less about that.
They’re contractors, so of course the motto is vague (although I’m slightly surprised that it doesn’t mention customers once). The real question is what are they being paid to do right now. And that’s commercially sensitive.
“Synergize and propagate opportunity paradigms”: Create world-views that would let us win The New War, and ensure their spread, allowing us victory before the first strike!