A personal favorite: a Calvin and Hobbs strip has Calvin complaining
about having to take a bath, and how he wastes four days a year in the
tub. What could be a bigger waste of time? Hobbs asks him how long it
took him to add all that up. Implications for project management, here.
Although I bet some part of those factoids were by-products of other
legitimate efforts.

I did see a marker at a lookout that listed the department secretary's
address in Washington D.C. to send a postcard to in order to get the
elevation of the marker... I guess they wanted to save a trip, and just
brought the marker with the survey team. Wish they had given an email
address or web site instead.

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>From:  Wirt Atmar[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Friday, March 21, 1997 1:35 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] a waste of bandwith (but interesting)
>
>Gary Jackson plaintively asks:
>
>> Who has all the time time figure these things out??
>>
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