common time-management mistake: rack & stack

Fri Feb 17 18:56:22 UTC 2012

> From: Mike Andrews [mailto:mikea at mikea.ath.cx] 
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 1:44 PM
> To: 'NANOG'
> Subject: Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Tony Patti wrote:
> 
> > In the context of the military scenario above, Grace Hopper comes to 
> > mind because of her nanoseconds etc "In her retirement speech, instead 
> > of dwelling on the past, she talked about moving toward the future, 
> > stressing the importance of leadership."
> > http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventors/a/Grace_Hopper_2.htm
> > I was lucky enough to have heard her speak once at an ACM event.
> 
> I still have my nanosecond. Did she hand them out to the crowd there?

Yes, of course!

I remember that she said they were borrowed from a phone closet in the
Pentagon...

Of course, she is also famous for "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than
it is to get permission"
Notable Quotation from her Wikipedia page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper 

Tony Patti
CIO
S. Walter Packaging Corp.