I'm popping into Redmond, WA today, and I'm dreading it. That's not odd. What's unusual is that I'm not going to Microsoft; I'm just seeing the new Superman movie. That's how much I hate being within Microsoft's event horizon. Even if its buildings are unseen, you can feel Microsoft sucking all soul and joy from your bone marrow from afar. Hell, thanks to a convergence zone, there's a semi-perpetual darkness to Redmond. You can see it as you approach main campus. Those dark clouds over there to the right? That's where Windows 8 was conceived.