What to Do

...during that interminable and terminally boring meeting that you really have to attend.

1) Sleep. Negative - Tends to be conspicuous. Especially if you snore, or tend to fall out of your chair

2) Read Book. Neg. - Also conspicuous, not to mention overtly disrespectful.

3) Listen attentively to presentation. Take notes.

4) Derive Navier-Stokes Equations in solenoidal form (while pretending to take notes).

ma = F

Du/Dt = ? ...


5) Read interesting paper, while pretending to take notes. Neg. Excellent idea. Too bad I forgot to bring paper.

6) Write Novel:

It was a Dark and Stormy Night. The gloom was only slightly relieved by the dull red glow of lava bombs, but was sporadically abolished by lightning.

The rain and ash combined with the mud to make a crunchy ooze of black cornflake razorblades. A lightning flash revealed a girl with dirty blond hair, sprawled in the muck. She appeared to be dead.

I leaned to check her pulse, but she groaned slightly and whispered: "Is he still talking about the software delivery timeline?"

I looked up at the screen. It was maybe 20 meters on the diagonal. The words on the slide appeared to be in 3-point Voronian Gothic. I could extract semantic content neither from them nor the speaker.

I turned back to the blond, but her wide, wet, staring eyes were already filling up with tiny black cornflakes...

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