From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "WSFAList (E-mail)" <WSFAList at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Strong's Conjecture
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:48:57 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	My comment about it being nice to listen to a discussion among
"people with triple digit I.Q.'s" was intended as a compliment to WSFA
contrasting it favorably with various mundane institutions such as the
Federal Government in which presumably intelligent people **act** as if
their IQ's were double digits.  For example, on Monday of this week, I asked
our agency budgeteers what was the status of a certain budget action.  They
didn't know so they asked my office to tell them!  Yesterday, a separate
person asked me if I had finished writing a statement of work for a contract
to hire a contractor to perform a customer survey.  I said Naw, I just wrote
the survey myself.  She shook her head in amazement that someone could
function without a contractor to hold his hand and blow his nose.  When you
wade thru this crap week after week after week, reading the mathbugs'
discussing Goldbach's Conjecture is like suddently breathing oxygen after
surviving on carbon dioxide.
	And now, if you will excuse me, I have to go run the beta test of
the customer survey in question.  I have to hurry because the scheduled
completion date of 31 December 2002 is right around the corner.  And I guess
I'd better figure how to tell the budgeteers that we won't be spending
$250,000 of the taxpayers' money on this project after all....