Surf Roots, Software Thoughts

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1. Felicia Mehl December 9th, 2008 8:27 pm

   That’s great, Alex! Thanks

2. Alex Loddengaard December 9th, 2008 10:15 pm

   Glad you enjoyed it!

3. Archie - Jim's dad December 11th, 2008 9:10 pm

   The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation
   to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead
   horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

   But in modern business (and education and government), because heavy
   investment factors are taken into consideration, other strategies are
   often tried with dead horses, including the following:

   1. Buying a stronger whip.

   2. Changing riders.

   3. Threatening the horse with termination.

   4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

   5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

   6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

   7. Reclassifying the dead horse as “living-impaired”.

   8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

   9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

   10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
   horse’s performance.

   11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
   the dead horse’s performance.

   12. Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and therefore
   contributes more to the bottom line than some other horses.

   13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

   14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

4. Alex Loddengaard December 12th, 2008 12:10 am

   Thanks for the comment, Mr. George! I’ve enjoyed your metaphor :).

5. Donald December 12th, 2008 7:10 pm

   Brilliant!

6. Alex Loddengaard December 13th, 2008 12:42 pm

   Haha. Glad you like it, Donald!

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