Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Problem Solving!

I had quite the predicament to solve for someone today. But in order to make it a little more interesting, let me drop an analogy on your collective ass.

Okay. Imagine you have a kite. Your kite's flying along, doing what kites are designed to do. Suddenly, a gust of wind takes your kite right into a tree. Oh no! Trouble! Your kite and string are tangled! What do you do? I know. You yank as hard as you can. Ooh, that didn't help - now it's really wound tight. Perhaps tossing the handle end up into the branches, to make gravity unravel things. That didn't work? Okay. Then crash a car into the tree and set the car on fire.

"What happened here?"

"I got my kite caught in a tree."

"I see. And why is everything, including a Toyota Celica, on fire?"

"Nobody told me not to crash my car into a tree."

"And set it on fire?"

"I don't see the problem. Can you get my kite? I can't figure out how to get it. And now everything's on fire, so you'll have to hurry."

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