As the deadline for my project approaches (in the same manner that the iceberg approached the Titanic), I thought this quip appropriate for the white board this week.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. – E.V. Lucas

I hate it when I have two WBQotW posts back to back. It can only mean that I’ve been so busy at work that my blog has gone yet another week (or three) without proper attention. And the way things are looking, it will be another week (or three) before the job slows down enough that I can get back to blogging regularly.

Election day is coming. No matter how stupid the process seems, get out there and vote!

Sign at a polling place: If you are blind or cannot read, ask for assistance.

According to Einstein, the faster you go the less time you experience. So if you’re sitting in a boring lecture, that really is the longest hour of your life. And the faster you rush around trying to meet a deadline, the less time you’ll have to meet it. Just thought I’d start your week of with some very depressing science. You’re welcome.

A seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago.

The way this web project is going, I feel like just such a duck.

If a duck only has one leg, does he swim in circles?

Having just worked 16+ hours a day for the last week and a half (including Saturdays) to meet a very unrealistic deadline and then having that deadline pushed back a month, this quote seemed appropriate.

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.

You may know that I have now entered “crunch time” at work. I have roughly four weeks to complete a ground-up redesign of a web site that currently contains several hundred pages. To help myself remember to look on the bright side during these next few weeks, I’ve given myself the following WBQotW.

The more you cry, the less you have to pee.

If the stress becomes too much and I break down in tears at my desk, great! I just saved about three minutes worth of bathroom break for the day!

I love math. In college, I graduated with somewhere around 24 hours of math credit. (Don’t get me wrong. Differential Equations is strictly the realm of masochists, but I did manage a B.) So it always intrigues me when I talk to people who genuinely hate math. How could you hate numbers. Of all the things in the universe, numbers are the most honest. 2 + 2 always equals 4. Well… unless your dealing with a number system with a base less than 5. Or… if you’re doing integer addition with non-integer values. Or… Oh, never mind. Here is WBQotW #74 (base ten).

If all good things must come to an end, then numbers are not our friend!

Man, has it been crazy around here. The dinner theater is over. I went to a Promise Keeper’s event last weekend. Deadlines at work are looming large, and I’ve got three website proposals to write. (Yeah, I’m moonlighting as someone who knows how to make web pages.)

But life is good so I’m not complaining. I was just letting you know why this week’s white board quip is about two weeks late.

The problem with the rat race is even if you win you’re still a rat. – Lily Tomlin

The politicians will be warming up soon and we’ll be hearing all about what this country really needs. In that spirit, I present this week’s white board quip.

What this country really needs is someone who knows what this country really needs.

I was going to come up with something witty to say about this weeks White Board Quip, but I’ll do it later.

The best thing about procrastination is that you are never bored, because you have all kinds of things that you should be doing.