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...Puritan could love. When profits began falling, out went lavish holiday parties. Company retreats retreated from Cancun to the conference room. "If, say, on Friday, you announce layoffs and no raises, but hey, next week I'm taking everyone to Hawaii--no, that you can't do," says Bob Moog, founder and CEO of University Games in San Francisco, which has bucked the trend by not emptying the employee goody bag. Economists marvel at the productivity of this new new economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in August that output per worker increased 5.7% in the second quarter. Translation...
...companies that value fun are those with enough smarts to see that a fun culture is aligned with their business. Such a fit is obvious at a company that designs games, so when Bob Moog, fresh out of Stanford Business School, started University Games in 1985, he made one of his goals to have fun every day. Over the years, he has taken employees on a cross-country Amtrak murder-mystery tour and flown employees to Los Angeles to watch tapings of TV shows and participate in game shows. When the company faced a cash-flow crisis in the early...
...however, on “Stars As Clocks” and “Table For Two,” two songs that exhibit more of an all-encompassing band. The angular guitars of “Stars As Clocks” are reminiscent of Sonic Youth, while the moog synth line that haunts “Table For Two” is equally striking...
...stereo lab. The band's sound is characteristically everywhere: their records run th aural gamut from fuzzy lounge-lizard pop to gritty reverb rock (and most often are a synth-washed mix of both). Through it all, though, they manage to give you the cold shoulder. Morgane Lhote's Moog must have a special dial for "disaffected": a breath of chilling ennui blows through all their music, a vague sense of world-weary aloofness that has its heart somewhere in songwriter Sadier's low-mixed lyrics...
...previous albums Naveed and Clumsy, Maida spent much of the set without a guitar in his hands. Instead, he stumbled around the stage with a placid stare of indifference temporarily disturbed from time to time by unconvincing posture. New keyboardist Jamie Edwards followed Maida's scales precisely on the Moog in a valiant, yet ultimately futile, attempt to hide all of the notes that his frequently sour, straining voice flagrantly missed...