Wirt noted:

> .... And then the meeting ends, like most meetings, with no
> resolution of anything, but with deep satisfaction all around.

Ah yes;  meetings.....    Those of us who hold engineering
positions in the world's largest organization (i.e.:  we at
least try and get some technical work done once in awhile)
have come to understand that meetings have an almost
insatiable appetite for becoming their own end-product:

"The more time we spend meeting and reporting on what it
is that we need to do, the less time we have to do what it
*actually* is that we need to be doing.  The ultimate is
achieved when we spend all of our time meeting and reporting
on how we are doing nothing"....   (original author supposedly
someone in the Israeli Defense Forces)...

Ken Sletten